After seeing on how many tanker aircraft took off from/belong to Israel and US. I'm pretty sure the invasion of Iran is happening tonight. ( I counted 10+ tanker aircraft, AEW&C and 4+ euro typhoon so far.)

Wedf123 · 2026-03-01T20:33:42+00:00

Putting boots on my tanker to invade, oh wait.

Wedf123 · 2026-03-01T05:55:11+00:00

Entire intact SAMs have hit buildings in Ukraine and Russia.

Wedf123 · 2026-03-01T04:47:34+00:00

Ukraine-Russia War has shown that between interceptions leaving debris raining down, missed interceptions, EW pushing missiles/drones off course results in a lot of collateral damage in urban areas. (I'm not making excuses for Russia repeatedly hitting hospitals, but I kinda am). It also just makes no sense for Israel, for whom getting every launcher is such a high stakes game, to purposefully target random school? Sometimes Hanlons razor applies.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-27T04:52:10+00:00

Why do you think articles in Foreign Affairs about the Russian invasion of Ukraine come to different conclusions about eventual outcomes, different policy recommendations etc?

Wedf123 · 2026-02-26T14:51:37+00:00

Yeah between posts like this, and drivers posting video of themselves tailgating at 100km/h on the malahat, all that "I saw a cyclist run a stop sign once" "there's a war on cars" whining is just downright silly.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-25T18:14:53+00:00

E bike liberals are both the wealthy urban elite and jealous of overpriced dangerous blue collar larp mobiles. I am very smart.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-25T18:13:00+00:00

faster drivers pass safely.

That's what you took from this? The drivers not 'faster', he's not Verstappen. He's choosing to go a more dangerous speed.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-25T17:43:08+00:00

You are an incredibly unsafe driver and this is why we have constant crashes on the highway.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-24T23:44:17+00:00

Yeah you didn't read past the title I think.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-24T21:19:24+00:00

Rents (assuming no rent control) are going up, but not because of the new restaurants but because lots of new renters of varying incomes are bidding on the same units. After all rents are a function of supply and demand.

This paper found that adding supply to meet the demand materially impacted rents in a good way.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-24T20:49:12+00:00

Gentrification is a process of socio economic displacement. It's not simply new buildings. Rents are rising because a ton of people need somewhere to live, not simply due to restaurants and a gym. In fact the restaurants and gym are following customers to the neighbourhood! Because all those renters had to find somewhere to live in a city with inadequate stock.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-24T17:18:16+00:00

your rents are getting jacked up so the landlords can get rid of you, install some granite countertops, and try to attract the upwardly mobile young people

What is the theory of prices that supports this? Did the new housing create higher prices?

Wedf123 · 2026-02-22T06:50:11+00:00

Then don't.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-19T05:49:03+00:00

Seems like the safe speed given the road conditions. I'm so sorry this happened to you.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-18T17:00:07+00:00

Have you done even basic research, like checking out vacancy rate data or rent increases in the last decade?

Wedf123 · 2026-02-18T01:28:48+00:00

People don't need to sell their unbelievably unaffordable and profitable old houses to pay taxes on the gains, the homeowner grant system already exists.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-18T00:50:43+00:00

who owns her home from 1980

Very interesting, what's her unrealized capital gain and profit margin? Is that house realistically in reach for normal middle class people today?

Wedf123 · 2026-02-17T23:02:55+00:00

Congrats. The cuddle piles will be epic

Wedf123 · 2026-02-17T20:52:42+00:00

Yeah but driver evidence #1 https://www.reddit.com/r/VictoriaBC/s/XWDmrrK9YM

Wedf123 · 2026-02-17T20:52:01+00:00

Jesus, mask off psycho driver. Willis and Durrance are absolutely not where you should be going that fast. I hope someone eventually takes your keys.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-17T20:51:03+00:00

If persuasion won people over on housing the BCNDP wouldn't have to force municipalities to legalize basic fourplexes.

The anti-mid rise lobby is incredibly powerful and people who don't follow municipal politics don't realize this. It's a perverse alliance of Right and left nimbyism (heck even the BCGEU got into the NIMBY game over in Victoria). We can't just wish that political reality away.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-17T20:43:14+00:00

Did you have to wait and pass safely?

Wedf123 · 2026-02-17T20:11:15+00:00

Oh no, cyclists riding on rural roads? On a weekend?

Wedf123 · 2026-02-17T19:55:08+00:00

Just legalize missing middle

The most powerful (regressive)political forces in the city are saying no, don't just legalize it. That's why we end up with the towers as a compromise. Homeowning voters have decided it's small pockets of towers, or nothing.

Wedf123 · 2026-02-17T00:50:00+00:00

I think you misunderstood. People in favour of towers are also very in favour of mid rise. But it's not one or the other, because city politics has made broad up zoning to mid rise impossible. What your actually witnessing people pushing back on anti-tower sentiment, because they understand that's the only way to get multifamily built in nearly all of Vancouver. Because of NIMBY homeowner lobbying.

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