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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • I’m excited for this. I just got my wife a Deck used to play Escape Simulator together, but this will make it a lot easier for her to play most of my other games, now, too.

    Sadly Dragon Age 3 can’t be shared, which I should have added to her account, not mine… But we only had 1 Deck at the time! (On the other hand, I’ll be able to play most of my library on her device while she’s playing, so not a big deal!)





  • If you look at the actual seat-by-seat projections, current polls give a near mathematical certainty of a CCP majority.

    Trudeau needs to take a page from Biden’s book and step down in time for there to be a leadership race. I don’t think it’s fair (he’s done fine as Prime Minister, imho) but he’s unelectable. A PP-led majority government could do a lot of damage.


  • They aren’t suggesting dropping the “British”, rather they are asking about changing the name to something more representative of the Indigenous Peoples of BC who have been keepers of the land since time immemorial.

    Not sure how that would work, though, as there are so many Nations and languages in the province.

    Like, “Powell River School District” is now “qathet School District”. They didn’t just drop “Powell” to call it “River”, lol.




  • lol, of course the NIMBYs in West Vancouver are the only municipality to outright reject it. What a joke.

    So glad to see this coming; we need to fill the missing middle in housing.

    That said, I am worried about infrastructure keeping up with rising population. Swimming lessons fill up within minutes of it opening, schools are at capacity, there are no doctors for most, hospital wait times are increasingly becoming a problem, etc.

    We need more investment in everything, not just housing!






  • I’m surprised it’s as high as 6%. I would have expected anti-vaxxers to flood programs like this with bogus claims well more than 94% of all claims.

    Major complications from vaccines are exceptionally rare. It’s not at all surprising that there are very few successful claims that it’s happened. It doesn’t happen much.

    Compared with the loss of life and livelihood from acute and long COVID, a tiny chance of vaccine side effects are an easy price to pay. For every 1 person injured by a vaccine, hundreds or thousands are prevented from catching disease with long-term symptoms.

    Smallpox is extinct because of vaccines, and polio was on the brink of extinction before COVID messed up vaccine distribution programs.