theros.ca
they/them - Occasional convention-goer and Metro Vancouverite.
AKA:
https://theros.ca
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A very muddled take on intersectionality and respecting other cultures. I muted them.
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That sounds like it would produce something roughly equivalent to charcoal briquettes š§
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Not so much no.
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Why all the noise if they werenāt going to put it on the record?! Argh!
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When I registered I thought āmy current doctor is in a different cityā was valid. Apparently itās not.
It also takes at least two hours out of a day for me to see my current GP in person because they are in Richmond.
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Sometimes I wish I was a time traveler from 1995 watching all this!
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I am having trouble seeing the strategic value of such a move at the moment. It seems to be all downside. :/
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Thereās the usual price fixing of course but it was along these lines:
- contract/bundle price: $119
- month to month price: $240
I had to tell an AI chatbot I was calling to cancel for each service before it would let me through to a humanā¦
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If you find yourself in Vancouver for whatever reason I live right next to Koreatown and an H-Mart š
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That said my apartment is visible peeking out from behind one of the towers in the first photo!
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My immediate gripe with City of Lougheed is how wide that street is at the moment - but hopefully the next phases will revise it.
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If I can keep my job through the hatchet man period at work Iāll be good, but if not there will at least be severance. The job I had before I would have to get a lawyer for thatā¦
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Iām at BSides Vancouver 2025! What hashtag is there for this? I donāt know yet š
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I am pondering switching to Jellyfin but thereās a lot of socialization to do if I go that route
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Even Plex has already tried a thing where if you have media they also have, they would divert you to their version with ads.
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This moment brought to you by someone asking why Alberta separatism is such a big deal in tutorial
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I still donāt answer calls from the last two because they read as scams.
This is problematic given my home phone is a 236 numberā¦
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The last time I took this it gave me Odo. This time it was a character from The Room and I took that personally
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This reminded me of the totally incongruous experience that was a direct dial pulse dialing phone we had in my childhood. Youād expect the tones, but no, youād get a series of bass āticksā and it was somehow slower than a rotary phone to use
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I did wind up with a Hotmail account by way of middle school though. I couldnāt check it unless I went to the city library for a few years.
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Thinking back it is _wild_ that my middle school even had an internet connection. It took until high school before my household even got a dial-up modem (and by that time cable internet was a thing)
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The āplaneā I thought that was at first:
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It was bad enough when I put down Jedi Survivor. Inaccessibility masquerading as game design sucks
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I hate that inaccessibility as a game mechanic continues to be so āpopularā
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Dyson Sphere Program used AI voices to redub the English. It got uninstalled after it exhorted me to start building Tourettes. >_>
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Or when something from Seattle makes a detour to Anchorage on its way to Vancouver BCā¦
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I find myself wondering if the CPC will fracture back into Reform and the PCs somewhat more often with news like this
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The new bike. When I saw they had donut themed bells I had to get one. Fenders are in transit and I am researching hitch mount bike racks because it barely fit in the car.
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If ever there was an example as to why every vote matters!
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I had to take a break after episode 8, that was brutal.
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Clip is missing some context for me to figure out where the hell that came from but the greens stay weird, huh.
Not to say I oppose being composted but huh. Weird look.