Josh "Tax+Spend" Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦
@JoshMessmer
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Former Video & Web guy (ThisHereVancouver), Current Econ & Data guy advocating for better social infrastructure (CoFounder @VisThinkCo), Future Coureur des bois
Langley, Metro Vancouver 🇨🇦
Joined January 2010
New pinned tweet to link to some projects all together Currently: -🗺️Interactive Map for BC's New Transit Oriented Upzonings -🧮2021 Census Resources for the 🇨🇦New Federal Ridings -More Soon + Alt Links in this thread https://t.co/SzugJFhuyO
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Maduro, bad. Living next to a superpower that thinks it can just decide to do whatever it wants to other countries, bad. Canadian policy should focus more on the second bad, and less on explaining, "we've thought the first bad was bad since 2018"
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It's very Lib Dem that 'red' is the only quadrant where the inner quarter is greater than the extreme quarter
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This format remains the greatest public opinion polling data visualization ever made
Finally, the smallest segment, about 6%, blends economic conservatism with cultural progressivism – the fiscally conservative and socially progressive Canadians. Picture a younger professional who went to university, perhaps majored in business, and now works in the tech sector
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We actually have historical precedent for this. When guilds collapsed, so did apprenticeships. Young craftsmen defected to factories, and societies lost the slow, embodied skill transmission that produced things like the stonework of Notre Dame. Productivity rose—but
One of the best engineers I ever hired failed the technical interviews. We told him he didn't make it. He was crushed. But there was something about him that impressed us, so we called him back and offered him an entry-level QA analyst job. To his credit, he swallowed his
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Does this count as non-human domestication and breeding? She's effectively culling the most aggressive males from a herd she shepherds
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I think every premier should actually require higher density zoning laws to be implemented at the municipal level And then tell every mayor and city councillor who disagrees to pound sand
Mayors rise up against BC NDP's mass densification of single-family neighbourhoods: "One of the most ill-conceived, poorly thought out policy initiatives that this province has ever suffered under"
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Then council can weigh the obligations of their conscience vs representing the average citizen (as simulated by the representative sample with assenting and dissenting ratios), and make the final vote.
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Once again calling for sortition/juries/citizen assemblies to be used more often. You can still have the lobbyists and activists attend public consultations to make their case, but let an actually representative sample of the public state to council what they think of all that.
Remember, if you collect your public input at physical meetings during the day, you will hear from retired people and people who are being paid by others to be there. Is that really a good sample of the public?
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I'd like to think consumers would be more discerning about quality but the ppl demand more slop
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Lower costs AND lower barrier to entry? Yes. (arrows are opposite case)
Do you really think studios and streamers are going to “pass the cost savings onto the customer”? C’mon.
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Still dreaming
If I had a couple billion to throw around, I'd buy up Sumas Prairie and flood it to recreate the Sumas Lake wetlands.
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The argument for jobs seems weak. If anything construction projects are in need of more labour; not the reverse; and these events already happen and employ people in the city -- it's not a new team.
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Also interesting that the fact sheet and news releases from the city don't appeal to history/nostalgia of Hastings for the Whitecaps.
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If this goes forward, I hope it at least causes a massive timescale/urgency rush for a North Shore line. The resulting TOA would have the potential to fix some of the surrounding amenity (food, pubs) issues -- much better than the Disneyland lite shining in Sims' eyes.
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PavCo + WCFC Just need a better concession deal; and if grass is the barrier, surely the logistics of bringing in natural pitch every other week is cheaper than building an entire stadium, even on the scale of decades. So long as PavCo wants to play ball.
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even all the way from Langley. Hastings would currently require an extra transfer to a surely hell-ish bus connection. Expo + Canada Line stations combined barely handle the outflow after games, with 3min headways. And there are fewer places to wait out the rush out at Hastings.
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Kind of hoping the CoV and Whitecaps negotiation memorandum is just a way to hardball PavCo into a more reasonable deal with their most important tenant. BC Place is beautiful, nice to be in, nice to be *around* for other amenities on game nights, easy to access by transit --
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