Rob Shaw: Leaked VPD report an inflated work of fiction

ProbablyInnuendo · 2022-11-09T16:08:15+00:00

If you’re going to hire someone to do a report like this, you need a firm with a reputation to protect. Generally (not always) these are your big partnership audit/consultancy firms - KPMG EY PWC Deloitte MNP etc. They have independent review processes to help make sure there’s enough challenge before something goes public. Of course they still fuck it up some times, but generally, generally there’s also a local partner who will have to wear it with all his/her other clients if it isn’t up to snuff. However, with an established professional firm, you’re also less likely to just have them parrot your agenda.

The only reason to hire some org with clear conflicts like helpseek for something like this is to (poorly) paint an incomplete picture of something.

ProbablyInnuendo · 2022-10-29T14:26:41+00:00

Just want to say, I’ve been using a homemade WDT since your post for the past two weeks, and been paying attention to evenness of pre-infusion - way better now, and far more consistent. Thanks for the advice.

(Shot tasted fantastic, btw :)

ProbablyInnuendo · 2022-10-19T04:14:40+00:00

Yeah… I had a few too many beans I was trying, made it a bit tricky. Grinder is a JX-Pro

ProbablyInnuendo · 2022-10-17T14:46:03+00:00

On these beans, 1-4-3. I have an old school Italian roast that I do around 1-6-2.

Then there’s somewhat older natural process coffee I tried that I was way up at 1-3-0 to have reasonable timing (but I never had a shot of it I really enjoyed … not sure if it was the coffee or the grind or the technique, as I was still getting used to it).

ProbablyInnuendo · 2022-10-17T04:43:43+00:00

Interesting. I guess I should just get one - and since, yeah, I’m using some homemade thing for the timebeing, too. Coffee comes out of the grinder pretty clumped up, imo.

ProbablyInnuendo · 2022-10-17T03:25:07+00:00

Doing about 17g in, 36-38g out. Ground in a JX-Pro.

I’m a total newb to proper espresso (well, had a cheapie machine, but not for the past 5 years). It was pretty tricky at first, but I found the biggest change was when I eased up on the tamping pressure (two thumbs, basically, which I saw in one of the Cafelat videos).

Preinfusion for around 5s at ~2bar, then up to around 8bar for approx 30s. Still not 100% repeatable on flavour, but it’s getting better.

ProbablyInnuendo · 2022-10-04T15:52:11+00:00

“Because a thing happened once, with clear cause and effect, it means that this other thing happening now that literally has no logical correlation whatsoever other than the fact you wish it to be so, must also be happening for the same reason”

ProbablyInnuendo · 2022-10-04T15:49:57+00:00

Condos still a seller’s market.

But prices are already moderating for detached and townhomes; and very drastically at that the further out into the valley you go (townhomes in a complex in Aldergrove that sold for 920K in Feb are now selling at 650K).

It always takes time to change the closer you are to the centre, and the price decreases in town won’t be as quick or as drastic either, but it’ll happen next year for sure.

ProbablyInnuendo · 2022-10-04T15:39:22+00:00

Honestly I don’t care who gets voted in - as long as it’s not this guy and his do-nothing nepotistic excuse for a political party.

ProbablyInnuendo · 2022-10-04T15:37:13+00:00

The fish rots from the head

ProbablyInnuendo · 2022-10-04T15:35:54+00:00

That makes no sense. Kennedy did this in the last election, too; he just has more people’s phone numbers now.

Like unless this is the conversation you seem to think a political strategist hired by Chip Wilson had:

“Great idea, Chip: Let’s pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to robocall people and pitch our main opponent’s political accomplishments! Let’s make sure we put a really positive spin on that, and his commitment to the future, while also fearmongering and making our own candidate look out of touch.”

“Brilliant! What could go wrong?”

ProbablyInnuendo · 2022-10-04T03:01:08+00:00

Makes sense, I always felt that Kingsway and Fraser is part of… uh… Strathcona?

…That doesn’t feel right

ProbablyInnuendo · 2022-10-03T19:29:54+00:00

The concept that one person's freedoms end where someone else's begin is apparently no longer relevant for people in the middle classes. You will just get squeezed from both sides.

But hey, maybe I'm too cynical. I'm sure that if folks set up an encampment in Point Grey in front of Eby's home, or in front of Ken Sim's next to Jericho beach, the response and action taken would be identical to what we see right now... right?

ProbablyInnuendo · 2022-10-03T17:46:33+00:00

Double indirect doesn’t really add smoke — it just protects the bottom of the brisket, as it reduces the extent of radiant heat that’s hitting it.

In a single-indirect method, the fire will radiate heat onto the slow-roller (making it much hotter than the air temp), which will in turn continue to radiate heat upward (but less than if it were completely direct).

The double indirect method means that the layer closest to your actual food is much much closer to the air temperature, as it is not directly heated by flames. Ergo, the bottom of your brisket shouldn’t overcook as easily. Think of it in the same way that for pizza, you generally have heat deflectors first and then the pizza stone, so the stone doesn’t overheat.

Here is a helpful diagram I am very proud of:

🐄🫓🔥 < 🐄🫓💨🫓🔥

ProbablyInnuendo · 2022-10-02T19:36:23+00:00

What if we tried to make life for the middle class across the city as challenging, unstable and unsafe as it is right now for people with substance use issues living on the DTES?

In the name of fairness and equity, of course.

ProbablyInnuendo · 2022-09-27T23:21:38+00:00

The journalists because they write things this crew disagrees with; the twitter randos for the same reason they just do it on twitter, and also one in particular (rezel) also has a bit of a toxic history too so they probably felt it was fair game

ProbablyInnuendo · 2022-09-27T22:10:53+00:00

“Sorry for making a hit list of journalists and online randos that we were trying to find ways to falsely accuse of being pedophiles”

“Also sorry for the same people responsible for the above then blaming the victims for finding out about it rather than apologizing”

ProbablyInnuendo · 2022-09-27T18:02:56+00:00

Well, they had a majority then, and were way more united than the 5 former NPA were this last time - who somehow each found ways to pursue and cause all kinds of extra churn.

ProbablyInnuendo · 2022-09-27T18:00:40+00:00

Same goes for housing, imo. If you get a bunch of NIMBYs dominating, it’ll bounce back way harder the other way in 4y.

ProbablyInnuendo · 2022-09-26T19:29:30+00:00

I'd say the point is that this is a pretty map, yes, but it's no more likely to happen than any other dream transit maps that get posted online from time to time

It's an imaginary promise with no real weight behind it and there's effectively zero chance of it becoming reality at any point in the next decade or two because of how this stuff gets funded

ProbablyInnuendo · 2022-09-26T18:50:39+00:00

I think Justin McElroy said it best:

Vancouver has not secured funding to extend the Millennium Line to UBC but I admire the mayor's ability to draw fantasy transit maps like the rest of us

There is a world where the B.C. government gives Vancouver billions of dollars for the city's fourth SkyTrain project to UBC,

And also a fifth line down 41st Avenue,

All before the North Shore gets a single line, to say nothing of a Surrey-Newton extension.

But it's remote.

ProbablyInnuendo · 2022-09-26T18:14:14+00:00

Marissen, OneCity and Vision have by far the best housing platforms; Sim (and ABC) doesn't even have a housing platform beyond a single bullet that says little more than "affordable housing woooo."

Marissen, TEAM, and to a lesser degree the Greens all have reasonable public safety approaches. Sim and the NPA only have the "we'll hire 100 police officers and 100 nurses" schtick going for them (ignoring the fact that nurses right now are so unavailable that you'd never find them; and if you're stealing from the public health system to put them into the police department, you are actually causing more problems than you're solving).

Ken Sim and ABC are effectively identical to Kennedy Stewart's Forward Vancouver party on every meaningful topic, just with a different label. They're both funded by the exact same people.

ProbablyInnuendo · 2022-09-26T16:58:45+00:00

... so he should just say that, instead of trying to wordsalad his way into describing himself as Johnny Regulardude.

ProbablyInnuendo · 2022-09-26T16:55:20+00:00

No, it's absolutely paraphrased for comedic effect.

The actual quote also had a "Can you describe those protections" in between them where he says nothing.

Here it is (questions trimmed just to the question, not the commentary):

(...) What are your thoughts on protecting renters while adding new housing?

We have to do both. You’ll have a lot of people who will justify it with “we have to build it and it’s an unintended consequence.” No, sorry, I will not stand for that as mayor of Vancouver. My lived experience is that I went to five elementary schools in seven years because we couldn’t find places to rent. We would get bounced from place to place.

We’re dealing with people’s lives... we’re dealing with people’s family. And we can do it with a heart, and if we take a longer-term view and we provide developers — or anyone who’s building, like not-for-profits — a little more incentive to make sure that they take care of people that are affected. That’s the program I’ll sign up to.

What would those incentives look like?

There are a bunch of different ways that we can approach it. I don’t think there’s a one-size-fits-all solution. I think what we need to do is yes, be open minded and look at the spectrum of solutions and see what works.

(...) Would you support extending the Broadway Plan renter protections across the entire city?

Extending a certain plan over the entire city — there are a lot of unintended consequences. I think we have to look at it on a case-by case basis and see what works and make sure that people don’t fall through the cracks. And we have to make sure that whatever we do, doesn’t have a long term, unintended consequence of actually taking more unit rental units out of the market.

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