There is/was a lawyer in Vancouver that was a Sovcit. She was in the news a few years ago. Truly wild combination.
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I've never seen a sovcit screw themselves this badly before. This is fake your own death sovcittery.
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
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?
Washington, Oregon and California governors form a health alliance in rebuke of Trump administration
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.
Ah, Gender neutral douchebaggery, we live in an enlightened society
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!
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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.