Canada's Housing Market
Which I've known for any length of time, but - despite "knowing" the bubble merely gets bigger and bigger and one simply watches in disbelief.
Link: https://jacobinmag.com/2022/01/canada-housing-market-real-estate
Even if he's wrong, at least there's someone out there thinking a bit like me.
Another Point of View: https://betterdwelling.com/canadas-real-estate-bubble-is-so-big-even-the-mother-of-all-crashes-cant-fix-it/amp/
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Soylent Green
And everything I eat here, everything within a 10 block radius of the hostel, the Subway, the Donair, Pizza, Tacos, Pub-grub, it's all the fucking same, taste, texture, Soylent Green, and I find myself staring down the countless rats that run down the alleys, big ones, juicy, is this the reason everything here is so bland, food flavored like the weather, is this what they're serving? Who knows, it wouldn't be a surprise, really, at this the end of days.
I've come to the conclusion I hate Vancouver. I don't know why, the weather, buildings, slums or wealth, there's no single thing I can put my finger on, only that I hate it. I try to imagine improving it - maybe if I found a permanent place to live here, or a job I enjoyed more, but even if I were independently wealthy, a gentleman of leisure, nothing would improve it. Nothing would make it better. And I don't know why that is.
So get to work, make the best of a bad situation, set the target on the end of May, I need a jeep, a great metal detector, $10,000 Fisher or Minelab, a pocket full of cash and an off-road map to the Yukon, this city has been it's own adventure of sorts, only one I rather haven't enjoyed and I need to find some new adventures more to my taste...
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The Owner's Son
I mean, this has to be a joke, doesn't it?
I'd been warned.
The Chef's son, a server, perhaps mid 30's, coming in to work, first off telling me he's still drunk, been doing Ketamine, so drunk AND high, and the rest of the night goes as you might expect. He's not concealing it well, garrulous with the tables, forgetting things, he's going on about a little tattoo he got with a couple at the bar, a small one, his dad thinks it makes him look like a prisoner or felon, it's just like a SMALL tattoo, why can't his father approve anything, and now he's going off "IT's NOT LIKE I'M A HOLOCAUST DENIER"...
In his addled state he finds this hilarious, repeats it ad nauseum, the night passes.
Fuck I hate my life at the moment.
There's a book in there some where, "The responsible, articulate and reasoned child of wealth and privilege", fiction, nobody would believe it...
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Wuhan Leak
This appeared on my "Yahoo News" feed today - admittedly a dubious source, but the Telegraph, from which it's reprinted, is less so.
Anyways - link via the Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/11/scientists-believed-covid-leaked-wuhan-lab-feared-debate-could/
Now, searching for the full article (sans-paywall) I'm unable to find it, and a surprisingly low number of results for the search. Already the "leak" is being scrubbed from the internet.
The fact that as soon as it's reported it disappears in my mind - at least - in a large part substantiates it. The fact that bad information (think "Ivermectin" and "Drink Urine") is always readily available is a testament to Big Brother's rewriting of the past.
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