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Credit where it is due. My parents are willing to question things. And that is half the battle.

My parents actually went the other way. They were very conservative while I was growing up until my mid twenties, and nowadays they are the complete opposite.

When they were conservative, I generally didn’t bring up politics, but if it came up I didn’t argue. I would just say I thought something was mean spirited and just shrug if they tried to argue. I think I accidentally psychologically fucked with them. I think being mean was against a core value of theirs and me repeating that idea slightly tweaked their thought process.

Eventually I started hearing the “mean spirited” comment from them as a reason they disliked a policy or conservative person. And they now vote for liberal or labour parties.

Bold choice to show my age by dressing as a rage comic

BC has put a big effort to lower barriers to US and other foreign doctors. Also increase doctor pay. Apparently there has been a decent uptick.

There is/was a lawyer in Vancouver that was a Sovcit. She was in the news a few years ago. Truly wild combination.

The squirrels in my area like to eat pine cones…

I enjoyed the light hearted narrator in a dark world aspect of Black Tongue Thief. And I would recommend it, if that is appealing.

I think I’d caution some people on Leiber. He’s a good writer, and important in fantasy Canon. And I am enjoying him.

But he is writing during the 1950s to 80s, so there is some inherent misogyny. He tries to make powerful women characters, but it doesn’t quite work. I think he was pushing boundaries in the 60s, but a modern reader with modern conceptions may not enjoy his work.

The Mosaic Effect is about the CCP setting up an underground and parallel state in Vancouver/Canada. So if that’s your thing, yeah read it.

I finished The Black Tongue Thief a few days ago so I’ve bounced around a few books. But I seem to have settled on Swords & Deviltry by Fritz Leiber and The Mosaic Effect by McGregor and Mitchell

I like Canada’s version of Monarchy. The royals? Oh they are over there.

Oh you want to usurp executive powers? Al la Putin or Erdogan. Well that would require the executives signature. And you cant coerce them because, once again, they’re over there.

What the hell were those doors for anyway? And who has a giant open pit. Also why the hell were they in an industrial site?

Where’s NRA? Is this not an erosion of what they are fighting for?

We care about the environment, but if you could commute an hour and a half to go on MS Teams that’d be greeeat.

Ah, Gender neutral douchebaggery, we live in an enlightened society

Right! I was looking for a brief distraction from an awkward work moment. Not a mix of sadness and wholesomeness

It was all over the BC online forums when the province banned short term rentals outside primary residence.

There were op eds, bad studies, lying companies etc. Here a few from quick internet search

A crappy study trying to gaslight people. This was all over. https://www.biv.com/news/real-estate/airbnbs-dont-cause-residential-rent-increases-conference-board-8273746

Air bnb makes the argument they aren’t responsible https://www.airbnb.ca/e/closerlook

Arguing it lowers costs https://news.ncsu.edu/2024/10/airbnb-and-housing-costs/

But the land lords told us Airbnb doesn’t effect rental prices and actually let’s people afford homes!

Y’all are speedrunning that antifreedom thing eh?

It’d be the department if peace if he was leaning into the 1984 thing

Beware the chuck wagon racing girl!

I’ve never thought of making stock with the tips. Good tip!