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Jeff Schrader 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 @jeffbhamnz.bsky.social · 16h

In other words, the myth of the rugged individual who never needed help from governments or other people to succeed. That ultimately led to the (unfounded) fear of others not like them.

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Jeff Schrader 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 @jeffbhamnz.bsky.social · 16h

Always liked using the Sky Train and busses when I've visited Vancouver. As mentioned, high frequency so that you don't need to rely on a schedule is key.

David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 20h

Vancouver's TransLink is a rare success story in North American transit, with ridership almost matching pre-Covid levels. It might be the only big 🇺🇸/🇨🇦 agency that has *expanded* total bus service since 2019.

I spoke w/CEO Kevin Quinn about lessons from TransLink's rapid recovery. 🧵

The Secret to Vancouver’s Public Transit Ridership Recovery

The Canadian city’s transit agency, TransLink, bounced back from Covid even as other North American systems have struggled. Its leader explains why riders returned.

www.bloomberg.com

Jeff Schrader 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 @jeffbhamnz.bsky.social · 1d

Also his "I'm an anime fan" album before that was popular.

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Jeff Schrader 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 @jeffbhamnz.bsky.social · 1d

The Go Betweens' album 16 Lovers Lane is also both, with inter-band romance at its core. Grant McLennan had fallen in love with the band's violinist Amanda Brown, while the other songwriter Robert Forster had broken with drummer Lindy Morrison.

Jeff Schrader 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 @jeffbhamnz.bsky.social · 3d

Wonder if she'd ever do a collaboration with Clint Mansell.

Jeff Schrader 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 @jeffbhamnz.bsky.social · 3d

He's both a horrible person, and the dementia and senility have rapidly accelerated.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s what I think the political pundits in Canadian media are getting wrong, in the conversation around how to get “wins“ from Trump in the illegal tariff war he manufactured.

I think he’s convinced himself that if he makes things terrible enough for Canada, we’ll want to join the US willingly.

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Jeff Schrader 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 @jeffbhamnz.bsky.social · 3d

Whenever you see anyone on social media praising Old Seattle and how it was so much better than today, the car infested city of the 70's and 80's, with a steadily declining population to match, is what they're talking about.

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Jeff Schrader 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 @jeffbhamnz.bsky.social · 3d

I know every time the Jays play in Seattle against the Mariners, a large contingent from Vancouver comes down to give their support - maybe the only time they root for anything from Toronto.

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Jeff Schrader 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 @jeffbhamnz.bsky.social · 4d

It was more a matter of getting fresh recruits instead of any particular military superiority the US, which at the time was none.

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Jeff Schrader 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 @jeffbhamnz.bsky.social · 4d

Not quite true. WWI was in a stalemate in 1917, and both sides were lobbying behind the scenes to get the US to join their side, knowing whichever one prevailed would tip the scales in their favor. It just happened the Zimmerman telegram pushed us to the Allies.

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Jeff Schrader 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 @jeffbhamnz.bsky.social · 5d

Wasn't expecting that combo of Huskies comeback and Maryland collapse. Now we just need the Mariners, Seahawks, and Sounders to also win.

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Jeff Schrader 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 @jeffbhamnz.bsky.social · 5d

I'm an American, though not proud of it, and I wholeheartedly agree. The world needs to either put pressure on or completely isolate us if any real change is to happen.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 6d

I’m a proud Canadian, so some will say this is “none of my business” (they’re wrong), but the entire world badly needs a hell of a lot better USA than this.

Jeff Schrader 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 @jeffbhamnz.bsky.social · 8d

That would be understandable coming from an average user on here, but it's completely wrong for a mayor of a big city. Why does he think that's a winning strategy?

Jeff Schrader 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 @jeffbhamnz.bsky.social · 8d

Clever one.

Medusa’s Wink😉 @medusaswink.bsky.social · Jul 11

Me: i’m Autistic

Them: Oh you take things literally

Me: No that’s kleptomania

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Jeff Schrader 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 @jeffbhamnz.bsky.social · 14d

Car alarms that go off when all you did is walk too close are the worst. No one takes them seriously anymore.

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Jeff Schrader 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 @jeffbhamnz.bsky.social · 16d

This pretty much sums up their way of thinking.

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 16d

Some people are desperate for the Rapture as a way to escape the consequences for what they've done to this world. They have a mindset that is permanently stuck in the mode of a guy who knows he's getting fired soon so why not trash the place before you go.

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Jeff Schrader 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 @jeffbhamnz.bsky.social · 17d

Seems like they have an embedded self-destruct button that they can't help but push at the most inopportune (for them) moment.

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Jeff Schrader 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 @jeffbhamnz.bsky.social · 17d

At this point the people predicting a rapture are relying on the law of averages to eventually baill them out (they don't know when, but trust them...)

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Jeff Schrader 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 @jeffbhamnz.bsky.social · 17d

Which means it's a lock that the rapture isn't happening.

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Peter Kelly @thepeterkelly.bsky.social · 20d

The single biggest take away is to stop spending energy pointing out the hypocrisy.
That's just wasted effort.

From there you have to channel your energy into something effective. Can't give you a tangible suggestion though, that depends on way too many variables at this point.

Good luck!

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Jeff Schrader 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 @jeffbhamnz.bsky.social · 20d

It's not that great and has a bad reputation, but in the 60s, it was the epicenter of the earliest reaction to the sanitized country music coming out of Nashville. This was a decade before the outlaw movement and 30 years before alt-country.

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Jeff Schrader 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 @jeffbhamnz.bsky.social · 21d

I see the doomerists are out in full force in the comments.

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Jeff Schrader 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 @jeffbhamnz.bsky.social · 21d

Doomerism is taking the easy way out. By figuratively throwing your hands in the air and saying the sky is falling, you don't have to take any action, thus no responsibility for the outcome.

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Jeff Schrader 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 @jeffbhamnz.bsky.social · 23d

Reminds me too much of the Embarcadero in SF and the Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle, both long since torn down. This is a huge eyesore.

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