Absurdity

Just some notes.

Telling people not to consume publicly without providing accessible safe consumption sites throughout the city is an attack on the unhoused.

Some really weird dreams myself lately, just woke up and lost most of it now but was something about Spin City and drones and elections and politics. But nightmare ish, going to a stadium and the floor was wobbly, caving in some places, and someone fell by some stairs, not because of the water damage but the design, and on purpose to help the politician look good, and we couldn't help because of the wobbly floor that was getting harder to stand on.

Love this, not everything needs to grow, you can be happy staying steady year to year, don't always need more.

He's (JT) not that bad, just con media (which has become the majority in Canada, why they keep attacking the CBC now) would not let up on him because he refused to hate who they wanted him to hate.

Because love and sex aren't the same thing. A relationship is usually about more about sex and if you feel same sex couples being public is throwing sex in your face and not love in your face I have concern for your relationship.

Normalize being friends with exes when possible, just because you don't work romantically doesn't mean you can't still be friends, that to me feels toxic that a relationship can only work 1 way instead of being more fluid and open to change. Yes some exes are exes for a good reason, but also sometimes the relationship just asks for something different.

Exactly, biggest case of profit over people and when we need to government to step in and say we can't let a house sit vacant in the city this long. Perhaps a sliding vacancy tax, every year the house sits vacant the property tax percentage increases. Like how we get a discount on our license for being a good driver, but the opposite, the longer it is vacant the more they need to pay to the city, failure to pay means the city seizes it and turns it into housing.

There have been so many houses sitting empty, boarded up just in Elmwood that I go by, while in the middle of a housing crisis is just frustrating wishing we could act so much faster. One we saw last year reported to 311 got the boards fixed up after they tracked down the owner, but so many the owner is hard to reach and nothing happens. One on Nairn people were saying for months it was a fire hazard, various reports to 311 and nothing happened until it all went up, when if they dealt with it when it became abandoned maybe it could have been renovated into a home for somebody. But there is such a focus on profit that no one will do it to just break even or make a few bucks, they need to make a lot, so it's nice to see the city stepping in, and wish they could do it quicker and more ease to get those houses turned back into homes.

There's a lot of "independent" journalism, mostly owned by foreign interests currently in Canada. Nothing wrong with one that is wholly Canadian owned and operated that is publicly funded instead of chasing profits or a mouthpiece for yet another billionaire.