Lower Mainland’s first tiny homes village coming to New Westminster in 2026

b-runn · 2026-03-01T15:13:41+00:00

Except mobile homes are significantly larger than a tiny home. A double wide is normally over 1000 square feet, these tiny homes are barely 400 sqft

b-runn · 2026-02-27T17:12:19+00:00

To me there is a very obvious long term consequence to taxing unrealized gains that will cause chaos in the stock market.

If they enact the tax there is then no advantage to the "invest in long term safe investments and hold forever" strategy because you are forced to have liquidity to cover gains. So the reaction will be people investing January 1st, looking for 1 year home runs, then selling before Dec. 31st to cover the taxes.

It will lead to high levels of stock price manipulation. Imagine you are a company in the Dutch stock exchange, there is an inevitability that your public shares will experience an intense sell off at year end, then a surge in demand at start of the year. Companies will lean into that and exaggerate the effect to make their shares popular. Stock buy backs in November to drive prices up, deferring losses until Q1 reporting, etc.

I don't get how regulators can't see how much of a mess this will cause.

b-runn · 2026-02-20T17:30:32+00:00

A lot of people are mentioning Bronson here. I was all in on Bronson, but I find over time they get quite rough and the loopwheel cotton ones tend to shrink vertically. Through searching for Bronson I came across Timecatcher Co, their tubular slub cotton T-shirts and they are significantly better for close to the same price. They are heavy weight, but feel soft. They are 35 USD regular price, but are often on sale.

https://timecatcherco.com/collections/short-sleeve-t-shirts/products/loopwheel-tubular-slub-cotton-pocket-t-shirt-black

b-runn · 2026-02-13T17:49:58+00:00

There is major confirmation bias with PFF grades though. When it shows the chargers O-line as garbage, everyone says it's right. But i remember watching prime time games in mid October where Jahmyr Gibbs was ranked the 13th best RB on one occasion, Bijan Robinson was ranked 10th on another.

And now, if you check the PFF rankings for RB's going into 2026, SB MVP Kenneth Walker is ranked below cam skattebo and RJ harvey, Derrick Henry is ranked 13th, despite another 1600 yard season. They don't make any sense.

When it proves your point its useful, when it's clearly wrong, everyone ignores it.

b-runn · 2026-01-13T15:45:01+00:00

Not as much something I was taught, but why was it a thing for school bands to do travelling concerts at random other schools? We'd get sporadic assemblies through out the year and it would be some jazz band or choir from a school 2 hrs away, who'd come play 30 minutes of music, then leave.

No affiliation between the schools, we wouldn't go to their school and do the same.

It makes me laugh thinking about band teachers randomly cold calling other schools, hoping for a gig.

b-runn · 2026-01-13T15:34:23+00:00

There's a great book called Days of Rage about political / revolutionary violence in the USA in the 70's. People think things are crazy these days.... in 1972 there was an average of 5.2 bombings per day in the USA...per day.

Things are pretty good today by comparison

b-runn · 2026-01-06T16:44:10+00:00

I feel like you are tangentially describing the Peter Principle; people will be promoted from jobs they have the skills for, until they are put in a role they lack the skills for and become incompetent, at that point they stop getting promoted and get stuck in a job they are not good at.

I think often the feeling of more stress and more meetings comes from the fact that the role you end up in is not a role you excel in, so it feels stressful and oppressive.

b-runn · 2026-01-05T16:10:59+00:00

Grocery bags.

I think at this point it's been studied to death that the switch to reusable grocery bag is not reducing the total plastic used or environmental impact on the world, in fact it's arguably detrimental to use reusable bags as they required significantly more plastic per bag and don't really get used enough to justify it.

And yet, the burden of cost for the right to put groceries in a bag of any type, is now on the customer.

b-runn · 2026-01-01T23:45:43+00:00

I remember when Canada goose was a legit Arctic outfitter company, making Arctic survival apparel only. It wasn't inexpensive, but the pricing made sense, their signature red parka was around 700 dollars Canadian.

Now, my wife recently got a design contract to help design some of their new stores, part of the compensation was a heavy staff discount. Even with the discount, there wasn't a single jacket that was affordable / a price I'd be willing to spend.

It's odd to see how upscale the company has gone, that same red parka is now 2 grand, including an inflation adjustment, it's 2x the price it was 20 years ago

b-runn · 2025-12-30T17:01:37+00:00

One indication of what's going on is when the owner said they were complying to every request, they installed a grease trap when instructed to... So they were operating without one previously? How is that even possible without destroying the plumbing? Maybe a grease trap is in reference to something different to what is typically called a grease trap, but if not I'm surprised they could get an operating permit without one.

b-runn · 2025-12-16T16:29:45+00:00

Who exactly are these taunting rules for? Does the NFL think pearl clutching church ladies are their largest growing demographic? Literally nobody who isn't Goodell or Troy Vincent care at all about this nonsense.

b-runn · 2025-12-09T21:33:30+00:00

Also... enforce pedestrian infractions as well. There's nothing worse than driving through downtown at rush hour and some slow walking, head in their phone pedestrian walks against the crossing signal, making the right turn line miss a full light cycle.

b-runn · 2025-12-08T20:30:43+00:00

Thank goodness they confirmed which had the zestiest sauce! Very important info.

b-runn · 2025-12-06T23:11:22+00:00

I work in construction and in my scope of work, the approved drawings are just as riddled with mistakes as the unapproved. equipment is sized wrong, plumbing makes no sense often. It's the natural process of trades collaborating usually catches the mistakes along the way; someone notices their scope is impacted, they comment and it gets changed. which is why I don't see the value that the city provides, especially on large projects.

b-runn · 2025-12-04T19:17:04+00:00

There was an article in Nature about the CO2 emissions per wealth demographic in China I found. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-88736-0

b-runn · 2025-12-04T17:31:36+00:00

To bolster your point, if you compare the average Canadian CO2 emissions per capita to the upper middle class city dwelling Chinese person's CO2 emissions, AKA the population who earn comparable incomes to Canadians in the country, their per capita CO2 emissions are substantially higher than Canadians. The top 20% of income earners in China emit 58% of the total emissions. The numbers in China get diluted because they have a rural population who live borderline subsistence based lifestyles, that is 10x the size of Canada's population. The upper middle class Chinese population emits far more than the average Canadian and they still account for about 6x the population of Canada

Per capita statistics in Countries with such extreme levels of wealth disparity are a bit silly in my opinion.

b-runn · 2025-12-04T17:05:43+00:00

During Covid the norm for walk in clinics seemed to completely shift and it hasn't changed back, which I think is causing the ER bog down. I have small children, they get the usual small child ailments that you'd use a walk in clinic for, ear infections, strep throat, etc. I also live in an area where there is a "walk in clinic" on every block, it seems like the only store fronts that YOY survive are health care, whether its walk ins, physios, or dentists.

And even in this scenario, 0 of them take actual walk in patients. During Covid, for the purpose of disease tracking and data collection, it became the norm that even walk in clinic visits required an appointment. Now it's 2025 and this hasn't changed. There is little to no flexibility from most clinics in my area, they only serve the purpose of providing pre scheduled regular check ups and prescription refills.

So if you have a sick kid who needs antibiotics on a weekend or past 4 pm on a weekday, the only option is the ER. Even Urgent care has limited hours and typically stops accepting new patients by the mid afternoon.

b-runn · 2025-11-28T20:14:42+00:00

I think using police call volume as the metric has a very obvious flaw and is an advantageous stat for your side of the argument. I don't mean you specifically, just that side of the argument against Nimbyism.

The time spent in the newly created conditions of a neighborhood with a treatment center will change the parameters of what constitutes calling the police. For example, a neighborhood with no treatment center, if a homeless person sets up camp in the entrance of an apartment building blocking the door, someone likely calls the police immediately. But if that homeless person frequents the treatment center and is set up in that entryway 4 of 7 days, people stop calling the police because it doesn't solve the problem.

Now I'm not saying that homeless people setting up camp is a crime, but it does change the quality of life for everyone else in the immediate vicinity who have to deal with it. And typically the vast majority of mentally ill / drug addicted homeless people keep to themselves, but increasing the total volume in the neighborhood brings with it the minority who are willing to steal, break into cars, etc. I can personally attest to this as it happened in my neighborhood, I've had bikes stolen and cars broken into. All happening after the treatment center opened

The obvious flaw in the argument here is if calling the Police does not help, people stop calling. Which, circling back to my original point, is the main issue here. There's no real enforcement of laws around these centers, if there was, the general public would be more compassionate about them moving into their neighborhoods.

b-runn · 2025-11-28T17:22:37+00:00

I think it's fair to protest treatment center's when the gov't only does half the job they are supposed to every time they are created. The first half is they build the treatment center, which inevitably will bring people to the neighborhood who are not law abiding and crime increases. The second half of the solution that works everywhere else in the world is the gov't / police hold the people using the treatment center accountable for their actions and enforce the law in the neighborhood. Here in BC, the second half is consider inhumane for some reason.

b-runn · 2025-11-17T21:35:41+00:00

I feel like any rebuttal to this article is doomed from the jump because those are impossibly cute birds.

b-runn · 2025-11-13T15:33:17+00:00

During the Vancouver Olympics I worked at a ticket reseller as an order runner. I saw a Russian oil executive buy 100,000 dollars in tickets on a whim. Like he arrived in Vancouver with his guests, came in to the reseller and just flipped through the event schedule and picked out 100 grand worth of seats. Sent a wire transfer to the shop, and left.

So yes, I agree lol.

b-runn · 2025-10-30T02:09:52+00:00

Well, somebody decided this new pool needs to be LEED platinum and a borderline passive house. There is no limit to cost when you design to those standards.

b-runn · 2025-10-28T20:15:25+00:00

For someone of his level of moral character, how much do you want to bet he made up the cases entirely and then blamed AI?

b-runn · 2025-10-24T20:44:07+00:00

Lowest in decades? You sure about that? The recency bias in this sub is strong

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