Max
@fixie.bsky.social
Urbanist | Progressive |
📍 Victoria BC
🌽 Corn lover
If your crayon isn't a little unhinged you're not ready to poast it
📍 Victoria BC
🌽 Corn lover
If your crayon isn't a little unhinged you're not ready to poast it
Yeah idk I’m trusting that one.
Asking people this question uncarefully seems to get a lot of dishonest answers, which just don’t align with the hard data on Americans’ growing savings accounts.
If you’re putting money away every month you’re not paycheque to paycheque, but people say they are.
Asking people this question uncarefully seems to get a lot of dishonest answers, which just don’t align with the hard data on Americans’ growing savings accounts.
If you’re putting money away every month you’re not paycheque to paycheque, but people say they are.
October 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Yeah idk I’m trusting that one.
Asking people this question uncarefully seems to get a lot of dishonest answers, which just don’t align with the hard data on Americans’ growing savings accounts.
If you’re putting money away every month you’re not paycheque to paycheque, but people say they are.
Asking people this question uncarefully seems to get a lot of dishonest answers, which just don’t align with the hard data on Americans’ growing savings accounts.
If you’re putting money away every month you’re not paycheque to paycheque, but people say they are.
Like I found these in 2 minutes:
None of these require me to lose my apartment and my lease. None of these require me to leave the city I live in. None have relocation costs. They pay the same as he does.
If he was paying a barista far more than they make in the city I’m sure he’d have some bites.
None of these require me to lose my apartment and my lease. None of these require me to leave the city I live in. None have relocation costs. They pay the same as he does.
If he was paying a barista far more than they make in the city I’m sure he’d have some bites.
October 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Like I found these in 2 minutes:
None of these require me to lose my apartment and my lease. None of these require me to leave the city I live in. None have relocation costs. They pay the same as he does.
If he was paying a barista far more than they make in the city I’m sure he’d have some bites.
None of these require me to lose my apartment and my lease. None of these require me to leave the city I live in. None have relocation costs. They pay the same as he does.
If he was paying a barista far more than they make in the city I’m sure he’d have some bites.
I want to tell everyone falling for this business owner’s bullshit that $0.25 above minimum wage isn’t going to get any free Canadian to relocate to Tofino to work as a barista.
This is just being used to undermine wages. He would be forced to raise them to something competitive without TFWs.
This is just being used to undermine wages. He would be forced to raise them to something competitive without TFWs.
October 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I want to tell everyone falling for this business owner’s bullshit that $0.25 above minimum wage isn’t going to get any free Canadian to relocate to Tofino to work as a barista.
This is just being used to undermine wages. He would be forced to raise them to something competitive without TFWs.
This is just being used to undermine wages. He would be forced to raise them to something competitive without TFWs.
www.wickinn.com/careers/the-...
They’re currently trying to hire someone (have someone pick up their life and relocate) for $0.25 above minimum wage.
They’re just using TFWs to avoid paying their workers more. It’s not that deep.
They’re currently trying to hire someone (have someone pick up their life and relocate) for $0.25 above minimum wage.
They’re just using TFWs to avoid paying their workers more. It’s not that deep.
October 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
www.wickinn.com/careers/the-...
They’re currently trying to hire someone (have someone pick up their life and relocate) for $0.25 above minimum wage.
They’re just using TFWs to avoid paying their workers more. It’s not that deep.
They’re currently trying to hire someone (have someone pick up their life and relocate) for $0.25 above minimum wage.
They’re just using TFWs to avoid paying their workers more. It’s not that deep.
I’m with you that the first few years of this government they weren’t making anywhere near the necessary investments. A lot that’s happening now should have happened in Horgan’s first term.
I also don’t think it’s possible to have a long term plan that could have dealt with the truly huge spikes-
I also don’t think it’s possible to have a long term plan that could have dealt with the truly huge spikes-
September 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I’m with you that the first few years of this government they weren’t making anywhere near the necessary investments. A lot that’s happening now should have happened in Horgan’s first term.
I also don’t think it’s possible to have a long term plan that could have dealt with the truly huge spikes-
I also don’t think it’s possible to have a long term plan that could have dealt with the truly huge spikes-
No they very much are not, and that is not an actual dictionary page.
The term is broad, but that is an extremely narrow definition. Many other sources take a wider one:
The term is broad, but that is an extremely narrow definition. Many other sources take a wider one:
August 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
No they very much are not, and that is not an actual dictionary page.
The term is broad, but that is an extremely narrow definition. Many other sources take a wider one:
The term is broad, but that is an extremely narrow definition. Many other sources take a wider one:
Did you just make this up lol
August 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Did you just make this up lol
Ahh okay right this is assuming a few things are being deducted that everybody does use/should. I was going off just the straight tax rates
August 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Ahh okay right this is assuming a few things are being deducted that everybody does use/should. I was going off just the straight tax rates
SD61, the Victoria BC school district, is considering using wards, and the way the trustees are to be divided up is super un-proportional.
The proposal is:
- View royal/ Highlands: ~15k ppl
- Oak Bay: 18k ppl
- Esquimalt: 19k ppl
- Saanich: ~125k ppl, 2 trustees
- Victoria: ~102k ppl, 2 trustees
The proposal is:
- View royal/ Highlands: ~15k ppl
- Oak Bay: 18k ppl
- Esquimalt: 19k ppl
- Saanich: ~125k ppl, 2 trustees
- Victoria: ~102k ppl, 2 trustees
August 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
SD61, the Victoria BC school district, is considering using wards, and the way the trustees are to be divided up is super un-proportional.
The proposal is:
- View royal/ Highlands: ~15k ppl
- Oak Bay: 18k ppl
- Esquimalt: 19k ppl
- Saanich: ~125k ppl, 2 trustees
- Victoria: ~102k ppl, 2 trustees
The proposal is:
- View royal/ Highlands: ~15k ppl
- Oak Bay: 18k ppl
- Esquimalt: 19k ppl
- Saanich: ~125k ppl, 2 trustees
- Victoria: ~102k ppl, 2 trustees
I love how normal the discussion around housing development gets. Gotta really hear these concerns
July 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I love how normal the discussion around housing development gets. Gotta really hear these concerns
- vacancy rate (% of units on the market that didn’t rent in a month). In Canada the tipping point for vacancy rate is about 3-4%, when it gets higher than that rents start to decline.
This isn’t just theory, it’s fact, and tbh I didn’t really believe it till I saw these charts and the data:
This isn’t just theory, it’s fact, and tbh I didn’t really believe it till I saw these charts and the data:
July 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
- vacancy rate (% of units on the market that didn’t rent in a month). In Canada the tipping point for vacancy rate is about 3-4%, when it gets higher than that rents start to decline.
This isn’t just theory, it’s fact, and tbh I didn’t really believe it till I saw these charts and the data:
This isn’t just theory, it’s fact, and tbh I didn’t really believe it till I saw these charts and the data:
I’ve been visiting Vancouver over the weekend, and this city’s government (really the park board) has a real problem with coming up with rules for things that are nonsense.
Like what do you mean the beach “closes at 10”? This is a statement dreamt up by the utterly deranged.
Like what do you mean the beach “closes at 10”? This is a statement dreamt up by the utterly deranged.
July 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I’ve been visiting Vancouver over the weekend, and this city’s government (really the park board) has a real problem with coming up with rules for things that are nonsense.
Like what do you mean the beach “closes at 10”? This is a statement dreamt up by the utterly deranged.
Like what do you mean the beach “closes at 10”? This is a statement dreamt up by the utterly deranged.
Winnipeg’s 2022 Mayoral election was so cursed
You’ve got:
Gillingham, conservative, 27%
Murray, Green/Liberal, 25%
Klein, also a conservative, 15%
Loney, Social enterprise guy, 15%
Ouellette, also a Liberal, 8%
Like 4/5 of you are ostensibly in the same parties! What are you doing?!
You’ve got:
Gillingham, conservative, 27%
Murray, Green/Liberal, 25%
Klein, also a conservative, 15%
Loney, Social enterprise guy, 15%
Ouellette, also a Liberal, 8%
Like 4/5 of you are ostensibly in the same parties! What are you doing?!
July 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Winnipeg’s 2022 Mayoral election was so cursed
You’ve got:
Gillingham, conservative, 27%
Murray, Green/Liberal, 25%
Klein, also a conservative, 15%
Loney, Social enterprise guy, 15%
Ouellette, also a Liberal, 8%
Like 4/5 of you are ostensibly in the same parties! What are you doing?!
You’ve got:
Gillingham, conservative, 27%
Murray, Green/Liberal, 25%
Klein, also a conservative, 15%
Loney, Social enterprise guy, 15%
Ouellette, also a Liberal, 8%
Like 4/5 of you are ostensibly in the same parties! What are you doing?!
I don’t think that this chart (which doesn’t show the return to the previous rate of the following year) shows a super anti-immigration PM.
I’m not a big Trudeau fan but this is just a weird criticism to me.
I’m not a big Trudeau fan but this is just a weird criticism to me.
July 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I don’t think that this chart (which doesn’t show the return to the previous rate of the following year) shows a super anti-immigration PM.
I’m not a big Trudeau fan but this is just a weird criticism to me.
I’m not a big Trudeau fan but this is just a weird criticism to me.
This Saanich News article by Olivier Laurin is both-sides-ing nonsense. It was not “the entire room”, it was the “Save our Saanich Group” doing this.
insults did not “fly from one audience member to another”, the misogynistic and homophobic comments-
www.saanichnews.com/local-news/a...
insults did not “fly from one audience member to another”, the misogynistic and homophobic comments-
www.saanichnews.com/local-news/a...
July 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This Saanich News article by Olivier Laurin is both-sides-ing nonsense. It was not “the entire room”, it was the “Save our Saanich Group” doing this.
insults did not “fly from one audience member to another”, the misogynistic and homophobic comments-
www.saanichnews.com/local-news/a...
insults did not “fly from one audience member to another”, the misogynistic and homophobic comments-
www.saanichnews.com/local-news/a...
If you’re curious for more about how rental markets work, this post gets into the math: doodles.mountainmath.ca/posts/2022-0...
But this chart is the core of it. When vacancy rates get high enough, rents start dropping. This isn’t really controversial in economics, it’s the core of the market
But this chart is the core of it. When vacancy rates get high enough, rents start dropping. This isn’t really controversial in economics, it’s the core of the market
May 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If you’re curious for more about how rental markets work, this post gets into the math: doodles.mountainmath.ca/posts/2022-0...
But this chart is the core of it. When vacancy rates get high enough, rents start dropping. This isn’t really controversial in economics, it’s the core of the market
But this chart is the core of it. When vacancy rates get high enough, rents start dropping. This isn’t really controversial in economics, it’s the core of the market
This chart by @jensvb.bsky.social is the one that does it for me.
May 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
This chart by @jensvb.bsky.social is the one that does it for me.
Do you really not understand the difference here? I’m kind of shocked because I feel like I explained it well and you claim to be a political scientist.
I am not disputing any data here, I am disputing the conclusion that strategic voting is necessary or productive in many riding. What does -
I am not disputing any data here, I am disputing the conclusion that strategic voting is necessary or productive in many riding. What does -
April 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Do you really not understand the difference here? I’m kind of shocked because I feel like I explained it well and you claim to be a political scientist.
I am not disputing any data here, I am disputing the conclusion that strategic voting is necessary or productive in many riding. What does -
I am not disputing any data here, I am disputing the conclusion that strategic voting is necessary or productive in many riding. What does -
This one is even worse:
The contempt they treat people with who aren’t zealous liberals is kinda telling
The contempt they treat people with who aren’t zealous liberals is kinda telling
April 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM
This one is even worse:
The contempt they treat people with who aren’t zealous liberals is kinda telling
The contempt they treat people with who aren’t zealous liberals is kinda telling
Why do you suggest people “vote strategically” for the Liberals in ridings that the cons have no chance in, with Bloc/NDP incumbents?
This isn’t strategic, it’s just promoting who you already think will win
This isn’t strategic, it’s just promoting who you already think will win
April 16, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Why do you suggest people “vote strategically” for the Liberals in ridings that the cons have no chance in, with Bloc/NDP incumbents?
This isn’t strategic, it’s just promoting who you already think will win
This isn’t strategic, it’s just promoting who you already think will win
The issue with smartVoting is that is promotes “strategic voting” by which they mean “vote liberal in ridings where the cons are at 12% and you have a bloc/ndp incumbent”
Which is just not what anybody has ever meant by strategic voting, unless you just want the libs to win
Exhibit A:
Which is just not what anybody has ever meant by strategic voting, unless you just want the libs to win
Exhibit A:
April 16, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The issue with smartVoting is that is promotes “strategic voting” by which they mean “vote liberal in ridings where the cons are at 12% and you have a bloc/ndp incumbent”
Which is just not what anybody has ever meant by strategic voting, unless you just want the libs to win
Exhibit A:
Which is just not what anybody has ever meant by strategic voting, unless you just want the libs to win
Exhibit A:
In a riding like that it makes sense, but this site gives absolute bullshit suggestions for others
It doesn’t promote strategic voting, it just promotes whichever party it thinks has the most “momentum” (almost always the liberals even if they’re in third), regardless of if the cons have any chance
It doesn’t promote strategic voting, it just promotes whichever party it thinks has the most “momentum” (almost always the liberals even if they’re in third), regardless of if the cons have any chance
April 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
In a riding like that it makes sense, but this site gives absolute bullshit suggestions for others
It doesn’t promote strategic voting, it just promotes whichever party it thinks has the most “momentum” (almost always the liberals even if they’re in third), regardless of if the cons have any chance
It doesn’t promote strategic voting, it just promotes whichever party it thinks has the most “momentum” (almost always the liberals even if they’re in third), regardless of if the cons have any chance
These are the tweets of Orr's they're taking issue with. He is clearly mocking someone using the term "globalist", an antisemitic dogwhistle. This is absolute bad faith BS from CIJA and the Vancouver fed.
Doing this kind of thing hugely weakens the fed's ability to call out real antisemitism
Doing this kind of thing hugely weakens the fed's ability to call out real antisemitism
April 9, 2025 at 6:42 AM
These are the tweets of Orr's they're taking issue with. He is clearly mocking someone using the term "globalist", an antisemitic dogwhistle. This is absolute bad faith BS from CIJA and the Vancouver fed.
Doing this kind of thing hugely weakens the fed's ability to call out real antisemitism
Doing this kind of thing hugely weakens the fed's ability to call out real antisemitism
Hey @kguiry.bsky.social @marywagnerlangford.bsky.social , I was looking at Langford’s property tax scheme and the rates for “Utilities” zoned land stuck out to me as really high.
I’m curious what the reasoning behind this is? And is it just BC Hydro or Fortis paying it?
I’m curious what the reasoning behind this is? And is it just BC Hydro or Fortis paying it?
April 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Hey @kguiry.bsky.social @marywagnerlangford.bsky.social , I was looking at Langford’s property tax scheme and the rates for “Utilities” zoned land stuck out to me as really high.
I’m curious what the reasoning behind this is? And is it just BC Hydro or Fortis paying it?
I’m curious what the reasoning behind this is? And is it just BC Hydro or Fortis paying it?
Hey do you think the liberals are the safe bet to beat the cons in this riding? Real easy yes/no question.
April 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Hey do you think the liberals are the safe bet to beat the cons in this riding? Real easy yes/no question.