I lived in Abbotsford for a while. They have a KKK problem and the churches on every corner throw book burnings. Plus, organized crime drug wars! For a time it was the murder capital in Canada. It looks like a small, boring suburban town but it is a horrible place. The Christian right have all the political power and this is the result.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kkk-pamphlets-abbotsford-1.3937850

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/abbotsford-b-c-is-canada-s-murder-capital-again-1.567976

As would FFXIV.

Pixel Dungeon: Roguelike, infinitely replayable. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.watabou.pixeldungeon

Auralux: A simple real time strategy game. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wardrumstudios.auralux

2048: Simple to learn, difficult to master puzzle. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androbros.puzzle2048eng

I remember exploring the Road Rash files as a kid and each bike sound was a single short click that just repeated rapidly. Times have changed.

There’s the odd rumour here and there of a TV series, which is where this series would be better than films if done right. But alas, these these rumours stay rumours.

It’s more than acceptance, its saying its the little imperfections that make something even more endearing than if they were perfect. A bit of wabi-sabi gives character, or makes things feel less sterile, or more natural. Perfection can be less pleasant than imperfection. Not always, I want my airplane engines made perfectly. But something like handmade clay plates and bowls with wabi-sabi are great.

Huh, it’s got some similarities to the Persian flaw, thinking about it. The intentional inclusion of an error in Persian rugs as perfection is for God alone. Imperfection is human.

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Strange women in unimatrices distributing nanoprobes is no system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not some farcical technological indoctrination.

I’m not a comic book guy, but I like superman movies. Who’s Mr. Terrific?

Triops: tiny freshwater horseshoe crab looking guys. You can buy their eggs for cheap online and raise and breed your own. Easier and cheaper than SeaMonkeys.

I just upgraded my cpu in a long time too! Everything that could go wrong, did. I had to flash my bios a few times, straighten some pins, clean out some thermal paste from the socket, but after 3 days I figured it all out and got it working. Getting a build working after lots of problems is so fulfilling, it’s almost worth the years of life I lost from stress.

The Spectres

The show had been around long enough that most of the original writers had moved on and the tone of the show and its humor had changed. They would ruin long established elements and characters just for a cheap laugh. It was less satirical and more zany. They were drowning in Emmys for their clever writing in previous seasons and now they tell the kind of jokes you’d hear in two broke girls.

Fun fact:

In Dutch, two o’s make a long o sound. Dode. “oe” makes the “oo” sound.

I am a Canadian living on disability assistance. I’m in a dilapidated house full of cocaine addicts who party several times a week. I feel lucky to have found a place I can afford, many other disabled Canadians are less fortunate. The Liberal government promised to end disabled poverty with new legislation. It ended up being a fifth of what’s required to actually let us live at the poverty line and will reach only half of those who need it. Typical Liberal checkbox politics.

Officials in Prague, too.

22 minutes and air farce in the late 90s was a level of satire I fear we’ll never see again. Truly a golden age of Canadian political satire.

… did it work?

If you wanna see the fault area up close, including the Endeavour thermal vents, the Nautilus team is currently there, livestreaming their deep sea ROV advertures: https://nautiluslive.org/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endeavour_Hydrothermal_Vents

I worked in home insurance. Because of the big one, we were trying to dump our south island customers by raising premiums to non competitive levels. But it turns out so was everyone else. So you have to pay through the nose to insure a house in greater Victoria, but up island is more earthquake resilient- the insurance rates are way more reasonable.