Olivier Bourgeois @olivi_eh Twitter profile

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Olivier Bourgeois

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Really impressed with this new protected bike lane that honks if you come too close to it -- would love to see more of these! @RegionWaterloo @citywaterloo @DorothyMcCabe

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Olivier Bourgeois

@olivi_eh

20 days

If you own "a 2nd property" you are rich Hope that helps

Chuck ʎǝʞuoW

@chuckmonkey2010

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@Fiat_iceberg If it's just for the rich, then why is the cut-off at $250K? That's going to affect everyone with a 2nd property.

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We don't expect hospitals to make money. We don't expect highways to make money. We don't expect public schools to make money. We don't expect waste removal to make money. So why do we constantly have that expectation of public transit?

Thomas Gerbet

@ThomasGerbet

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Voici les déficits totaux des services de transport en commun de la grande région de Montréal : STM (autobus) : 618 millions $ Métro : 216 M$ RTL (autobus) : 115 M$ STL (autobus) : 115 M$ Ligne train Blainville-Saint-Jérôme : 75 M$ (…) REM : 27 M$

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This is something I've never been able to wrap my head around. Why is employment income taxed significantly more than capital gains income? Employment is productive and helps our GDP. Sitting on assets to sell them at inflated prices is parasitical.

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@pr_tanner

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@Tablesalt13 Why should someone who makes income from working a job pay a higher tax rate than someone who sits on an asset?

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Hwy 401 in ON is North America's busiest stretch of roadway, with up to 18 lanes and a throughput of up to ~500k vehicles daily at its peak In comparison, the relatively small Toronto subway system (only 3 lines as of 2023) boasts an average throughput of ~970k riders daily

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4 months

20cm+ of snowfall, very low visibility, cars snowed in, streets not fully plowed, Uber / Lyft difficult to hail-- but you know what still runs just fine despite all this? Traaiiiiiins, tchoo tchoo! 🚈 @GRT_ROW great job!!

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@ABMarkThomas1 Ha ha you got me! I'm a software developer! Nice sleuthing. It's literally in my Twitter bio, though, so you didn't have to spend so much time.

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Olivier Bourgeois

@olivi_eh

19 days

@n050up4u1 When people say they have "a 2nd property" they typically mean a real estate property.

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@olivi_eh

19 days

Sounds like this bears repeating.

Olivier Bourgeois

@olivi_eh

23 days

Housing is shelter. For people to live in. Not an investment. Not a retirement plan.

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@olivi_eh

3 months

City: Builds thousands of kilometers of car-only roadways Comments: City: Proposes one small rail line or protected bike lane Comments: "This is an unjust war on motorists! Next thing you know cars will be banned, and also you'll need a passport to leave your neighborhood!!"

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@olivi_eh

19 days

@CadeousRex My generation literally cannot afford starter homes. If you own a second plot of land literally just "for your garden", you are absolutely rich, yes.

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@olivi_eh

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@djtechchicago @ABMarkThomas1 I work in a team that does primarily open source work, actually! My day-to-day is spent contributing to open and free to use software. Here's my GitHub profile, with 2k+ contributions a year: Hope you have a lovely day too! ☀️

bourgeoisor - Overview

Software developer with a focus on cloud, back-end development, and developer experience. - bourgeoisor

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@olivi_eh

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Housing is shelter. For people to live in. Not an investment. Not a retirement plan.

Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸

@Tablesalt13

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CAPITAL GAINS TAX BILL on an investment property (or cottage) in Ontario with a $600,000 gain, as of July 2024: $206,000 RIP. ⚰☠ This is no longer a retirement plan. (assumes you made a normal 100k income before selling)

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2 months

Bramalea GO gets a state-of-the-art multi-million-$ parking garage but all we could put inside the actual station is 2 vending machines and 3 benches. @Metrolinx should seriously look at Hong Kong's strategy of leasing retail / food & drinks spaces in stations.

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@olivi_eh

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@GOtransit @tcardinalsirois Hi @GOtransit ! Quick question: how did you have enough budget for a state-of-the-art protected 2,059 vehicles parking, but not for one (1) water fountain? Maybe next time we could have "only" 2,058 vehicles parking, but 1 water fountain in exchange?

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@olivi_eh

19 days

@starspunstudios Small businesses have a lifetime capital gains exemptions of ~$1mil in capital gains which helps a lot for that.

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Olivier Bourgeois

@olivi_eh

4 months

You know I was thinking... A land value tax would make really quick work of these gigantic private golf / country clubs that have no reason being in the middle of cities. 😄

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Olivier Bourgeois

@olivi_eh

6 months

I use @googlemaps as much as anyone else, but what is going on with the transit view in Toronto and why is it so needlessly difficult to parse at a glance? It even looks like some lines are doubled-- (Apple Maps on the right, for comparison)

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Olivier Bourgeois

@olivi_eh

4 months

@dmah 4 more should do the trick!

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Olivier Bourgeois

@olivi_eh

10 months

imo cities should not even have the right to consider any further sprawl while there is still severely under-utilized land in their core. This is in downtown Kitchener, photo taken in the middle of a weekday. 5 minutes walk from King St. 2 minutes walk from an LRT station.

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@olivi_eh

19 days

@Theo47102867 Only the top ~10% of Canadians own more than one property. Is "top 10%" not considered rich anymore? What are they, middle-class?

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@olivi_eh

2 years

@rakyll You think a 100k employee company is overstaffed until you realize one of their core / critical products is staffed by one and a half headcount 🫠

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@olivi_eh

19 days

@BowTiedTurismo @Theo47102867 Good thing I'm talking about Canada and not another completely irrelevant country to this discussion.

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@olivi_eh

19 days

@CadeousRex Care to share where these $120k homes are, and if there are any jobs in those villages of 2,000 people?

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Olivier Bourgeois

@olivi_eh

3 months

Willis Way station at 10:45am on a Wednesday is bumpin'! And that's with 10-minute headways! Is it time for double-length trains maybe? The platforms are already built for them ☺️ Happy to see ION ridership keeps going up every month! 🙌 @GRT_ROW @region

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@olivi_eh

3 months

"We need cars. We just can't live without. We're not the Netherlands." You would be surprised to see what Amsterdam looked like 50 years ago. We can make our streets safer and more inclusive too!

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@olivi_eh

4 months

@doonboy Of 18 lanes? I'm not sure, I'll be honest... 😮‍💨

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@olivi_eh

4 months

@0x_jefuture Two more rail lines are opening this year, actually! 🙌 With 3 more currently under construction with planned opening ~2031.

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Olivier Bourgeois

@olivi_eh

4 months

@sturmovikdragon 🤷 the widest highway passing anywhere near New York City is 12 lanes and they've got more than 4x our population

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Olivier Bourgeois

@olivi_eh

4 months

Currently in my 4min headways ION era ✌️ @GRT_ROW can we keep this year-round? ✨

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Olivier Bourgeois

@olivi_eh

6 months

@IlliniJen @jakeonrails @MilwaukeeAvBike I mean the study is literally linked in that article? It was conducted and authored by the State of Florida's Department of Transportation. Whether you think the DOT is a reputable authoritative source or not on transportation is up to you.

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@olivi_eh

4 months

@DerrickSimpson_ And no one talks about the fact that that $1 million home was purchased 5 years prior for $600k. Or that primary residences are capgains exempt. Homeowners are making bank; They don't need pity because of a few extra dollars in much-needed property taxes.

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@olivi_eh

15 days

@sival84 Agreed. I was mostly focusing on the truthfully exhausting double-standard. If only we put as much energy decrying taxpayer-funded multi-million-dollar highway interchanges and free parking garages. But those are public services. Transit on the other hand... 🤷

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@olivi_eh

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@olivi_eh

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@chuckmonkey2010 The figure given was: "in any given year, ~0.13% of Canadians incur >250k in cap gains". That's not false. Although ~10% of Canadians own 2+ homes, a much smaller proportion of them actually _sell_ said homes in any given year. Cap gains don't apply if you don't sell.

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@olivi_eh

11 months

@FuckCarsReddit I count 13 cars total in the four lanes, and about 48 people on the small meter-wide sidewalks. That's a ridiculous discrepancy of space usage.

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@olivi_eh

21 days

@IanColdwater oof, I wish $300k could get you even just a teeny-tiny bachelor's condo (it doesn't). Signed, the Greater Toronto Area. 🫠

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@olivi_eh

6 months

@bmdoucet @RegionWaterloo A few evenings ago I took this photo. I did a quick tallying that there were about 80 people onboard. That's with 15 minutes headways. Reducing this to 30 minutes is incredibly shortsighted and shows that the decision makers don't actually use transit.

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@olivi_eh

2 months

Just passed by a @GRT_ROW bus with a @ONgov ad wrapped: "Building more highways. To get people moving". On the side of an underfunded public transit system. Yikes. How tone deaf can you get.

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@olivi_eh

3 months

We're now at over 50 injuries & fatalities or pedestrians & cyclists attributed to motor-vehicles in the past few months alone in our region. People are literally dying because of bad road designs optimizing vehicle speed at the expense of everyone not in cars.

Waterloo Regional Police

@WRPSToday

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UPDATE: The 23-year-old pedestrian has succumb to her injuries after being transported to an out-of-region hospital. WRPS' Traffic Service Unit is continuing the investigation. Anyone who witnessed the collision or has dash-camera footage is asked to call police at…

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@olivi_eh

2 months

STOP. CRASHING. INTO. TRAINS. Signed, someone just trying to get to work.

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@AlertsGRT

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9:05 AM : ION trains are not running between Willis Way/Waterloo Public Square Station and Kitchener Market Station due to a collision.Service between Laurier-Waterloo Park and Willis Way is using only one track in both directio... (see for details)

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@olivi_eh

3 months

@SmoochiBets @foxyjewishmama Kids are at a much, much higher likelihood to die from a simple "happens multiple times a day" motor-vehicle incident than by "being pushed in front of a train". How often do you really think that latter one really happens...?

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@olivi_eh

2 months

At a minimum can we get a water fountain / refilling station and maybe some heating (I have a jacket & hat and I'm freezing inside)? Seems like the bare minimum human friendliness we should strive for when we throw billions or $ at transit expansion projects.

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@olivi_eh

7 months

@the_transit_guy @BennetCornelius And it's far from the last time. This is going to keep happening, at increasing frequency.

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@olivi_eh

2 months

Got this lovely ad from @ONgov this morning: "$40mil saved by eliminating emissions test requirements for most vehicles" That's $4 per Ontarian. We're getting back four dollars in exchange for poisoned air-- And then spending it back on ads anyway.

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@olivi_eh

19 days

@mrfrttv If they own a business they likely qualify for the lifetime capital gains exemption of ~$1mil.

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@olivi_eh

1 year

@RentSafeTO @FuckCarsReddit It's true that the average rent has ~2x since 2011. A detail you're missing is that in 2011 the average property value was $388k. Today it is over $1mil (~2.6x increase). So rent is lagging behind housing inflation significantly. New units helped.

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@olivi_eh

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@philmarfisi I friendly disagree. 😄 yyyy/mm/dd (ISO 8601) since if you sort it alphabetically it stays in ascending order. Try naming files that relates to dates (like pay stub PDFs) with the mm-dd-yyy prefix and see what happens. It won't be pretty. 🙂

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@olivi_eh

7 months

@FuckCarsReddit My favourite is "you're more likely to die from a car crash on the way to skydiving, than from the skydiving itself".

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@olivi_eh

2 years

@rakyll Even overlooking the fact that both a $4m house and $100k of yearly upkeep are ridiculous numbers, that $56k net is both -after housing- and -without working-. Meanwhile, more than half of the American population live on less than $56k which needs to include shelter...

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@olivi_eh

2 months

My 4 contenders, all in prime locations: - The always-empty lot by the old Manulife building - The enormous mostly-empty lot by Sunlife - The almost always empty UWaterloo lots A and C - The Kaufman buildings lot

Michael Druker 💙💛

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2 months

Quote this with something that a land value tax would fix

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@olivi_eh

3 months

@foxyjewishmama @PlexDoll Do suburban people just like... Go to work and then stay home the rest of the time? Until they retire? That sounds incredibly depressing...

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@olivi_eh

4 months

@the_transit_guy The Canadian mind (me) cannot comprehend this

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@olivi_eh

2 months

Yearly reminder that since 2019, a majority stake of the National Post is owned by an American tabloid media conglomerate with close ties to the Republican party, and they've had anti-urban biased for even longer.

National Post

@nationalpost

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Joel Kotkin: Toronto falls into the pit of urban decline that's plagued U.S. cities

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I'm so exhausted of the "taxation is theft" discourse, especially when exaggerated numbers are thrown around. In QC (one of the highest taxed prov.) on a 300k income (which is a top 5p income), with full RSP contributions, you only pay ~34% in income taxes + pension.

Gad Saad

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Quebec and Federal income taxes if you are a "filthy successful" person: 33% federal and 25.75% provincial. The remaining money that you are "allowed" to keep has combined provincial and federal sales taxes of roughly 15%. Once you add property tax, school tax, gas tax, carbon…

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@majam1994 😭

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@olivi_eh

10 months

@FuckCarsReddit You know what's large and heavy that more people should be using? Traaaaaaains, choo chooooo!

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@Theo47102867 Only the top ~10% of Canadians own more than one property. Is "top 10%" not considered rich anymore? What are they, middle-class?

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@nishantak Instead of guessing we can just look at statistics. As of the 2021 Census 91% of Ontario commuters did so primarily as a driver in their vehicle, with 9% primarily as a passenger. The average occupancy of a car is usually somewhere between 1.3 and 1.5 occupants, not close to 4.

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@olivi_eh

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@davidsmi I do!? That's news to me! When did that happen?

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@olivi_eh

9 months

If a transit authority leaves people stranded once, it's an unfortunate situation. If a transit authority leaves people stranded every weekend, like clockwork, it's intentional mismanagement of funds and assets. cc: @GOtransit @GOtransitKT @GOtransitBus

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Total chaos on the @GOtransit @GOtransitKT @GOtransitBus 30 this morning. We’ve left at least 25 people stranded. It’s like they don’t even care! Full buses: great! Optimization. Leaving people behind (weekly): thanks for your comment, we will pass this along to our team!

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Just had a realization-- Is there seriously no other regional rail offerings besides GO Transit (ON) in all of Canada? BC? AB? QC? There's no non-VIA passenger rails between cities outside of Ontario? Why? You'd think Calgary-Edmonton or Vancouver-Whistler would be easy wins.

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@olivi_eh

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@chuckmonkey2010 The figure given was: "in any given year, ~0.13% of Canadians incur >250k in cap gains". That's not false. Although ~10% of Canadians own 2+ homes, a much smaller proportion of them actually _sell_ said homes in any given year. Cap gains don't apply if you don't sell.

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@olivi_eh

6 months

@RM_Transit I love public transit. I want to support public transit. But I admit I take Uber quite often in Toronto because transit just hasn't worked out for me there I never know if my streetcar is going to be on-time, or if I'll have to wait 30+ minutes for six of them to show up at once

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@olivi_eh

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"Annual increases would be $110 this year, $116 in 2025 and $110 in 2026 for an average home" We're talking about less than $10/mo increases per year. A trip to the Starbucks for a coffee and a cookie.

Waterloo residents take aim at bicycle lanes, climate funding in budget survey

Residents sound off in city hall survey after Waterloo floats tax increase at 23 per cent over three years.

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@olivi_eh

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@EvanRoden5 @ABMarkThomas1 @128GLLM Aw he blocked me. Not sure what I did wrong. 😕

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@olivi_eh

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@chuckmonkey2010 Agreed that owning a second property doesn't make you a 1%er (I'm not claiming that), but it makes you a 10%er, which is definitely considered "rich" when compared to the other 90% of Canadians.

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@foxyjewishmama

Tom Flood

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4 months

Incredible how “maybe we could make it safer to bike” is somehow translated into Every trip across the planet must be made by bike by everyone.

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1 year

@m_druker I love how you can clearly see the "yield" sign in the video, too.

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@olivi_eh

22 days

C incurs cap gains, but how did they contribute to the company / "created jobs", exactly? They gave some money to Person B, and received some more money from D later on, but Company A received nothing from either of these transactions. [2/3]

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4 months

@AmericanFietser Every time I rewatch I notice one more person slipping that I hadn't noticed before 😄

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@olivi_eh

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I don't have anything to promote, but reminder to check-in on your queer friends and family and let them know you appreciate them. 🌈💕

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@olivi_eh

2 months

5 in 5 days... we got a bingo! 😶‍🌫️ I'm almost convinced it's intentional at this point. If you managed to ignore the flashing red lights and ringing bells, and hit a slow-moving train, perhaps you're not fit to drive a motor-vehicle and should have your license suspended? 😮‍💨

GRT Service Alerts

@AlertsGRT

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9:03 AM : ION trains are not running between Grand River Hospital Station and Mill Station due to a collision.Service between Block Line and Mill is using only one track in both directions. You may need to board on the opposite p... (see for details)

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One of the worst rhetorical I notice in reply to urban advocacy ideas is "we're not <country>" (e.g. "We're not the Netherlands" / "We're not Singapore") It's never followed with any justifications to back up the statement, it's a cop-out, and truthfully it's lazy and unoriginal

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@olivi_eh

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@Canardiain @Metrolinx It truly shows where the priority lies, doesn't it? 2,500+ car spots in a beautiful modern garage, but the station lacks the most basic of amenities like water fountains or 24/7 washrooms.

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@olivi_eh

2 years

@sethvargo @rakyll I feel like point 2 likely explains point 3 🙂

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@olivi_eh

4 months

The vehicle did not act or move on its own. Journalists: stop shifting blame away from motorists. Imagine if we did the same thing for homicides, for example, it would be horrifying-- 😰 "16-year-old struck and killed by a bullet"

Canada Ministry of Pedestrians

@MinPedCA

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"20-year-old pedestrian struck and killed by a vehicle" We don't like to mention the driver. A ghastly way to report the death of a young person. RIP.

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Now replace "Company A" with cryptocurrency, or a lakeside cottage. The cap gains from Person B doesn't create anything tangible. It's simply a transfer of wealth + assets. [3/3]

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@RealLuckless 15-minute conspiracy theorists think the end goal is to control people's movement. When the reality is that movement is already controlled in the current status quo (a driver's licence that can be revoked at any time).

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@winkyj Oh man, I missed the memo! Who do I call to get all the taxes I paid back, since I don't own a car??

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@rakyll sorry

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@0x_jefuture Yep, and Toronto used to be able to do so as well! Line 1 was built in under 5 years, for example. I'm hoping we can go back to rival other world class cities in terms of building quickly and efficiently.

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@olivi_eh

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@RM_Transit Is the "issue" that lots of non-YYZ-bound folks are taking the UP to go exclusively between Union and Bloor, because it's significantly faster than taking the 1 and the 2?

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@olivi_eh

1 year

@RM_Transit Phew-- We wouldn't want to get rid of this road's "character" 🫠

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@olivi_eh

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@scottbuzzer The 50% is how much of your cap gains are taxed. It's not the actual tax rate. So if your marginal tax rate is 40%, the tax rate on cap gains incurred is only 20% (half of the 40%).

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@olivi_eh

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I published another piece of content! 🪶 Another week, another handful of reasons why moving from monolithic workloads to lightweight containers can help speed up development. The best part? You can leverage @googlecloud 's tooling to do it for you!

Learn why and how to migrate monolithic workloads to containers | Google Cloud Blog

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@RM_Transit Beyond the fact that this is false (plenty of rail services generate profits) the point of rail services is to move people around -- not necessarily generate profits. How much direct profit does the multi-billion-$ HW401 generates, for example?

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@olivi_eh

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@RM_Transit This also relates to ad wraps on transit, in a way. Yeah going away from those hurts revenue by a % point or two, but it does some real good on perception. Similarly: frequent washing and cleaning. This is incredibly important in places where transit is not "the default" yet.

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@Jess3Livermore @FuckCarsReddit @Parking_Reform They literally just got 288 new household families (I mean, customers) within a 5-minutes walk 😅

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@olivi_eh

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@the_transit_guy Less convenient for drivers in what way? If drivership decreases due to friendlier (to pedestrians & cyclists) intersections and roads (esp. if reliable transit is added to this equation), it means less cars on the road -> less traffic -> you get where you want to go faster

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@perreaux "But... But you can just put in $36k a year :(" Like, do they realize how little disposable income the average Canadian actually has to save up for retirement...? Spoilers: it's significantly less than $36k.

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Olivier Bourgeois

@olivi_eh

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380+ comments later, the common theme seems to be "investments create jobs". Still not certain. Let's try with an example: Company A does an IPO. Person B purchases shares from IPO. Person C later buys the shares from B, and then later on sells them (for more) to person D. [1/3]

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Olivier Bourgeois

@olivi_eh

2 years

@rakyll Docker will build ARM containers by default, which are not fully supported everywhere quite yet. There are some methods for building cross-arch containers but it feels bleh :(

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Olivier Bourgeois

@olivi_eh

7 months

@kepano Reminds me a lot of the Boots theory~

Boots theory - Wikipedia

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Olivier Bourgeois

@olivi_eh

6 months

@A_i @Mobius_Games @iam8bit Hopefully restocks of the physical PS4 version soon too 🙏

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Olivier Bourgeois

@olivi_eh

4 months

@nishantak Capacity is irrelevant if it's not actually what's happening in reality. If we want to compare capacity than we'd have to also look at how many people we could move on the TTC Subway if it'd hypothetically run at full capacity (it's many times more than this).

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Olivier Bourgeois

@olivi_eh

1 year

Can't believe it's been two (2) years already at Google. Feels like I started yesterday; what an adventure it's been so far! Very grateful for all the wonderful people I've had the opportunity to meet & learn from.

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Olivier Bourgeois

@olivi_eh

19 days

@BillySullivan7 Yes. I'd prefer we implement a land value tax and scrap property taxes in favor of it.

Land value tax - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Olivier Bourgeois

@olivi_eh

9 months

@GOtransit Would make sense if GO Stations were built near housing, and not... In the middle of seas of parking lots and industrial plants.

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Olivier Bourgeois

@olivi_eh

6 months

Hey @GRT_ROW @RegionWaterloo 👋 Is there any possibility we can figure out a solution to the ION so we don't have to shut it down every time there's a smidge of freezing rain or cold weather? It's not even December yet...

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Olivier Bourgeois

@olivi_eh

7 months

@not_taylorx This looks uncannily like that one infamous tweet; you know the one--

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