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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 02/02/2025

Am I blocked by this person or does bluesky protect posts when the poster blocks their quoter?

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 06/01/2025

Especially in market or supply-adequacy contexts where prices / costs can tell you the story more clearly.

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Jimmy Scrambles 🐞🤠🪩🚈 @razzberryyams.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Collectivism is so dead that people think giving every individual a veto is the most collectivist you can be

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 06/01/2025

Just seems like local initiative/energy is really compatible and complimentary (non econ meaning) to the social value of pro sports more generally

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 06/01/2025

Doesn’t solve the supply issue you bring up, necessarily. But you could also say something like a Canada/US league should have 50 states + 10 provinces (3 territories) = 60 (63) spots in every league. Or multiply that by some factor > 1. But then still use relegation to filter quality.

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 06/01/2025

I’ve always wished pro sports teams were socialized in some way. Owned by local government or at least local (recreational) sports orgs. Some sort of quota % of players being from the same state / province. Any city can sponsor its own team, and then use euro soccer style relegation/promotion.

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 06/01/2025

Because that’s basically leaving the “character” up to the local governments, while using a very simple policy lever to ensure local aesthetics aren’t entirely trumping basic regional supply elasticity/ welfare/ needs.

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 06/01/2025

I also think provinces regulating [FAR-maximum]-minimums (“can’t zone lower than 2FAR” for ex.), while giving municipalities the flexibility to set the coverage and setbacks to determine how that density looks / interacts with the surroundings… is a good compromise.

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 03/01/2025

This is better imo, though, than having Oak St and Renfrew stations be on Broadway, Burrard and Granville station being downtown (on different crossstreets!), and, say, Dunbar being on 41st. Burrard-Hastings, Burrard-Broadway, Burrard-41st is unambiguous.

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 03/01/2025

You also get the issue of having a dozen+ stations with the same starting noun, running along whichever street axis you name first. Eg, either: Broadway-Main, Broadway-Cambie, Broadway-Oak; or Cambie-Broadway, Cambie-King Ed.

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 03/01/2025

broadway line flips that); and some lines don’t follow the grid (Expo in Vancouver); not so bad for Fraser Hwy line or a hypothetical Kingsway line where the grid intersects clearly despite the diagonal.

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 03/01/2025

Part of me thinks you should order the cross streets to be [Direction of Line] -[Cross street] so the name communicates direction of travel as well as point info. Eg, should be Cambie-Broadway, not Broadway-Cambie. But then you run into issues at transfers (eg future

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 03/01/2025

lines/stations in the future that might end up with confusing disambiguations. This might be long in some cases, but it will be entirely clear. “Cambie-41st”. No doubt about where that is, even if it’s not as cool as “Oakridge”. People can learn the damn grid.

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 03/01/2025

imo, stations should default to the cross streets wherever possible, seconding to historic neighborhood or riverway names when crossstreets don’t make sense. Streetname order should be consistent: NS-EW or vice versa. That way you future proof the name in case of nearby

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Yup. City planners literally printed this in an apartment open house I went to in Vancouver. An apartment as a “shield” for rich homeowners, from arterial noise and pollution. Hundreds of apartment renters used as human shields.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 28/12/2024

Every news story about “San Francisco’s ‘war on cars’” is about drivers who are absolutely furious that they live in a city.

Venn diagram

One side: I want the kinds of amenities that are only feasible with urban density.

Other side: I want to drive everywhere without traffic and park for free

Overlap: does not exist

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 28/12/2024

What’s the redesign? I would have thought this was on the better end of things. Raised crossings across 10th? &?

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 28/12/2024

Trying to go back to my reply guy roots on this site, compared to my snarky quote tweet mode-of-late on X

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 28/12/2024

I think their relative rarity compared to here is why the “libraries should have xyz too” posts always get popular. Libraries are many Americans main/sole referent for public, casual, indoor spaces. Prob varies a lot by local government, tho.

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 28/12/2024

IIRC, the rolling stock qualifies as light rail, but most people use the word to mean the general form/aesthetic of rail transit that’s mostly not-grade-separated, so it’s also kind of wrong to call it LRT

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 25/12/2024

the majority of Canada (say, more than 3 provinces) seems incredibly unlikely to me — far, far from inevitable. Several independent state/ province clusters in an EU like structure seems more likely, even, as far as unlikely scenarios of an entire NA political body go.

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 25/12/2024

It seems inevitable that sometime in future human history the current Canada / US border changes. A province or two joining the union; a state or two joining confederation; a few border states + provinces going out on their own. But all 50 US states being in the same country as

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 24/12/2024

I think that intermediate intervention between shelter and social housing (plus low social housing capacity) is where BC has failed / is failing. We have lots of groups working on these interventions/ aids, so it’s clearly a lot harder than just wanting to do it.

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 24/12/2024

finding/building a purpose and then engaging in it with a team/ peers every week. Cash transfers are essential for the freedom/flexibility that makes it not feel like you’re being railroaded into a ‘proper’ life just b/c someone else needs employment numbers in excel to go up.

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 24/12/2024

My assumption is programs that help people build a basic, healthy social network (eg group midway/transition meetings) and to start making proactive choices (eg cash transfers) are most important. Seems like career/education development programs do both those things simultaneously, by

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 24/12/2024

Will be very interesting to see the results of this in ~5 years. I imagine the success/failure will have a lot to do with the social programs between the shelter rung and the social housing rung.

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 24/12/2024

Oversight as well as deescalation and physical restraint techniques, I think. We never got to any of the practical questions.

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 24/12/2024

Great graphs here: oec.world/en/profile/c... Select a good and it brings up share by country. Select a country and it brings up goods as share of the country. Switch between imports/exports on the left. Only 2022 data only, for free, right now, tho

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 24/12/2024

Using domains / dns verification as an open identity verification system is very clever.

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 24/12/2024

Oh awesome, thank you! Was just starting to find the search really poor and training the Discover with nothing good in the feed to go on really difficult

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Josh Messmer 🐝☀️🇨🇦 @joshmessmer.com · 24/12/2024

Hello to old mutuals! I'm slightly concerned I've joined the lefty echo chamber app, here, but at this point I'm thinking that's better than whatever the hell's going on on the other site. My main use case has always been article filtering/sharing, so I'm hoping that works just as well. Tips?

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