Bo7a

Check out who runs CNN now and all will become apparent.

Taking weed to BC (Canada)

I'm seeing a lot of "ai" generated trash in the paper now :(

Folk makes you feel things. Mostly rage at the capital holding class, but that’s a thing you ~~can~~ should feel.

The periphery of small towns covered in makeshift tents and shanty style campers would disagree with your statement.

These encampments used to be for seasonal workers passing through. But more and more become year-round all the time.

You are certainly correct about the bulk of homeless making their way towards the cities, but there are a growing number of those who don't.

There is still some nice, decently priced, forest land in Canada if you are OK with no services and 4 months of wet snow!

-Source: Living in the forest for the last few years. Mainly off-grid, but with a net connection to keep my job.

Everything you say is misconstrued through some lens over which you have no control.

example:

Me: Hey do you want to go for a walk when you are done what you are working on?

Them: Why are you always so critical of how long things take?

Me: What. The. Fuck?

I grok what you are saying. I just don't feel that way. To me, music is too subjective to expect anyone to like anything, even if I think it is the bee's knees.

Maybe it helps that I have always had fairly 'out there' musical tastes so I am never shocked when someone doesn't like something that I do.

Nah. I'm 46 and have never liked them.

You can appreciate and respect that somebody did something innovative while still not liking that innovative thing.

I know a single data point is pretty worthless. But here is our most recent experience.

When we suddenly lost one of our 5 year old brother cats, the one who was still with us got lethargic and very obviously wasn't himself. We waited about 2 months then brought two rescue kittens home about a week apart, and did a fairly relaxed intro for each before bringing in the next.

He hissed at both of them for the first 5 minutes when physical contact was allowed but otherwise he left them alone for a few days each.

Within a week they were sleeping together. Now they can often all three be found in a big furpile licking each other and he is back to his playful self. We considered not getting another friend for him. But we are so very happy we did.

Cat Tax: Batman (The older brother) is on the bottom left, Eddie Vedder Allen Poe is the one sitting up, and Skeeter can be seen squinting on the right as she always does when she is in her happy place.

I started saying 'thank ya kindly' in the same ironic way in work meetings. And now it is my default phrase for saying thank you...

Can you explain this a bit? I am having a hard time understanding how living in different places would make someone less informed. I would assume the opposite by default, but I'm interested in your thought process.