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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.

Why is no one else laughing at my childhood story?

Why are you trying to hug me?

The squirrels in my area like to eat pine cones…

Damn! If only I had one of those services than I could boycott Disney too.

Treat it like Guy Fawkes day. Burn an effigy

Hey! Me too!

Permanently Banned for inciting violence.

I said the Trump government was going to put LGBT people in camps and this was a bad thing.

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.

Zoolander, too, could only turn right.

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?

Imagine an adult having to do everything because their spouse is incapable of contributing.

Dunno man I just roasted a couple sausages, yorkies, sauted mushrooms, butter peas, and gravy. It’s pretty damn good.

The Westcoast shoukdnjust break off and do their own thing.

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

The first batch of peaches I bought were divine. The second have just been okay. But I’ve got some nectarines and I’m excited to see how they are.

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!