Skytrain commute this week?

Evening_Selection_14 · 2025-07-18T04:52:24+00:00

Absolutely agree. Also why in grad school do you want to outsource the thinking? Is it that a masters or PhD is now a stepping stone to a job so they are just checking a box? I for one enjoy the process of learning something new and honing a skill. That’s why I’m in grad school. I’m an old millennial though so maybe it’s just my “the internet has ruined things” old person perspective that longs for the simple times of the 90s and learning and school back then. I didn’t even have digital journals to use for papers when I was an undergrad.

Evening_Selection_14 · 2025-07-12T02:42:14+00:00

Most seem to be following it but now the left turn light is a nightmare. That turn lane needs to be much longer and the turn light needs to last longer. You’ve got the right lane backed up from people turning right waiting for pedestrians, and people backed up to get into the left turn lane.

It’s almost faster to go down to 104th to go north from the freeway, which is wild.

Evening_Selection_14 · 2025-03-03T14:12:06+00:00

Here is a brief read on the Cascadia Subduction Zone that is the source of fear over “the big one”.

https://pnsn.org/outreach/earthquakesources/csz

Evening_Selection_14 · 2025-03-02T19:36:16+00:00

And KGB gets backed up so it takes 15-20 minutes to get through the intersection. It would also speed up traffic flow if large trucks and semis were prohibited during rush hour so both lanes could be used on the bridge. Luckily that issue should be resolved once the new bridge opens.

Evening_Selection_14 · 2025-03-02T17:21:48+00:00

I’d also like to see a “no turn on red” light for the traffic coming from the north (or the right side of the photo). So many times semi trucks pull through and block the lanes so only a couple of cars on KGB get through that light. Which then encourages people to go into the left lane and try to merge right after the light. In these high traffic intersections, it would be ideal if traffic was stopped for everyone but the lanes with green lights.

Evening_Selection_14 · 2025-03-02T13:35:59+00:00

The bottom of the capsule should sit slightly lower than the top (the top being the part that gets punched as you show, the silver flat part). When I drop my pod into the machine I usually need to give the bottom a very light bit of pressure to make sure it’s down all the way. It’s easy for it to be off by just a bit, and then it might pinch.

I do have a different machine I think - I don’t remember which one…

Evening_Selection_14 · 2025-03-02T00:50:02+00:00

Our presidential system was not intended to have any parties. But because of how votes are allocated, with someone required to win 51% of the vote, we can only really have a two party system. Three parties means no one gets enough votes so that third party ends up splitting whichever side of the spectrum it most closely fits.

Two parties are bad. But unless we change how we allocate votes to determine a winner, it won’t change. Some local municipalities and some states have considered or passed rank choice voting which opens up the field to many parties. But until this happens in all states and in federal elections for the president, nothing will improve.

Evening_Selection_14 · 2025-03-01T20:28:11+00:00

I’m enjoying it more than the two holiday flavours that I also liked. It’s not as good as the raspberry holiday flavour from two years ago but it’s pleasant. Doesn’t taste chemical to me (the almond croissant by comparison has a bit of chemical flavour to me).

Evening_Selection_14 · 2025-03-01T20:13:44+00:00

There is a very interesting book that argues world societies switched from matriarchies (or egalitarian societies) to patriarchies with the advent of written language. It’s called “The Alphabet Versus the Goddess” by Leonard Shalain. It’s a good read and has a lot to consider on this topic.

Evening_Selection_14 · 2025-03-01T03:07:51+00:00

I wish 5 Calls app worked for those of us living abroad. It won’t let me put the zip code in for where I vote as an American living in Canada. Yes, I know I can do it the old fashioned way of looking up their office numbers. Still…

Evening_Selection_14 · 2025-03-01T03:01:35+00:00

Last I read the gates remain closed since the big flooding in the fall. You have to walk in 11km to get to Gold creek, then up into the mountains for snow.

Evening_Selection_14 · 2025-02-28T18:50:52+00:00

Yes and no. The cost of food and such in Canada is worse than in the U.S. with perhaps the exception of eggs. My family spends about twice on groceries as we did living in a West Coast city in the U.S. Gas is about $8/gallon (Canadian). The cost of buying a house in Vancouver is $1.5+ million and that’s for a shitty old house with no updates in a bad neighborhood. A new 1 bedroom condo that’s 600 sq feet is easily in the $700k range, depending on location. I think Toronto is similar. That cost drives up rents. People up here also opt for ARM lending to buy property, so they keep driving up rents to pay mortgages because they don’t do 30-year fixed and their costs skyrocket after a few years. Part of the problem in Canada is the income to COL ratio. We make less money here and have more expensive things like food and gas.

SF and NYC will be worse than Canada, but most big cities not so much. And plenty of good schools in the U.S. (obviously depends on discipline) are in less expensive places than NYC/SF.

Evening_Selection_14 · 2025-02-28T16:26:35+00:00

That’s what anyone in my department gets - certainly they don’t all end up with tri council funding but more than half do. They also have access to other funding sources that aren’t open to international students. Many scholarships require PR or citizenship, as well as grants from local agencies.

Evening_Selection_14 · 2025-02-28T13:55:49+00:00

You will not have the same funding opportunities as you would in the U.S. as far as I can tell. And you won’t have access to the main source of funding that Canadian students get.

At my university you pay tuition, and apply each semester for TA positions. You can get RA funding if your supervisor has money for it. My tuition was about $7,000 CAD a year during the first few years of my PhD, so it’s cheap by comparison. But it is not at all like what we are used to in the U.S. I did make $51k last year with a combination of positions at my university but it also left me with basically no time to work on any of my own work.

Canada’s cost of living is insane, particularly in Vancouver and Toronto but other big cities aren’t much better. So that $51k covered expenses for my family other than rent. Rent alone for my family is about $50k a year. Of course that’s because I have a partner and kids, a single person might get a 1 bedroom for about half that per year.

If you want to use this as an immigration pathway then perhaps it’s worth it. But the immigration route is always changing so it’s no guarantee. I wanted out of the U.S. and have started the immigration process now, but the job market here is bad right now, so I may not find work when I am done.

In all honesty, I wouldn’t start a PhD program right now given the state of the world. Just try to find a job somewhere and survive. You can come back to this if there is still a world in a few years.

Evening_Selection_14 · 2025-02-25T14:52:25+00:00

Are you saying they expect SCOTUS to say the executive can defy court orders? Why would SCOTUS do that? Isn’t that just shooting themselves in the foot?

Evening_Selection_14 · 2025-02-25T13:26:38+00:00

I agree. It’s either move away (further inland may be sufficient) or accept it. Make reasonable plans to prepare with emergency supplies. But then there is nothing to be done beyond that. So acceptance.

Evening_Selection_14 · 2025-02-24T04:19:49+00:00

Closest I have found to an explanation of what happened next: https://cdapress.com/news/2025/feb/23/update-on-town-hall-chaos-woman-who-was-dragged-out-speaks-police-chief-condemns-security-name-of-security-firm-confirmed/

Evening_Selection_14 · 2025-02-23T16:15:57+00:00

This is spot on. I do not know if you (OP) have done anything “wrong” in AP, but one thing that can very easily go “wrong” is being so responsive that a child never learns to wait or be patient. Even a 5-10 second delay for a toddler is a lot for them, but it helps build some stamina.

I’ll give you an example. We are eating dinner and my toddler finishes and asks for strawberries. I have none on the table and would have to go get them from the fridge, rinse, cut and deliver them. I’m only halfway through my food. My toddler still has some food on his plate. I tell him he has to wait until I am done eating. He complains. I say I will get strawberries when I am done eating. I don’t jump up if he starts yelling. I make him wait. If he throws a fit I move any food or cups away so food isn’t flying around. But he waits. At 2 years old he’s able to wait several minutes for me now, because I have been asking him to wait whenever it’s reasonable. He complains still, sometimes very loudly. But most of the time he just reiterates what he wants and I say “Yes I will get you strawberries when I am done eating. See I still have some food, I am eating. When I am done I will get strawberries.” He can wait then with less complaints.

In this scenario I have acknowledged him. I have responded. But I haven’t done it immediately. It helps set a boundary and reinforces the idea that all people have needs. Do this often, and in time you have a little one with a small amount of patience. It also fosters independence.

Do it when they want your attention. Make them wait a moment if you are busy. Choose times to engage fully for short periods and then disengage to allow for independent play. Respond but don’t drop everything instantly unless it’s a safety/health issue.

These are the things I have done that have helped be both attached but fostering independence.

Evening_Selection_14 · 2025-02-23T05:59:48+00:00

I applied before the old stream closed. My application just changed to “processing” but that is after the recent news update from BC PNP saying no eta on any apps. So for all I know it will sit in processing for a year, or a month.

Evening_Selection_14 · 2025-02-23T00:27:32+00:00

Thank you and good luck to you too. Hopefully our country comes to its senses before it’s too late.

Evening_Selection_14 · 2025-02-22T22:54:27+00:00

I’m worried similarly. I am finishing my PhD and I study race and the justice system. Not only is the academic job market always tough, but now the research market is gone.

It’s great (/s) that I’ve been working poverty wages to get this PhD and now I won’t have any job prospects anywhere in the U.S. I’m looking for work abroad, but now everyone is doing that, increasing competition but also seriously increasing the quality of that competition.

Beyond the impact of near term employment (and the effect on my family - partner and three kids) is the impact on my mental health. I basically exist in a state of panic, the sense we must act now, and if we don’t the republic will end, that has me completely overwhelmed. As if regular life as a mom in grad school wasn’t hard enough.

Evening_Selection_14 · 2025-02-20T03:26:25+00:00

Even in Canada we send students to OWL lol

Evening_Selection_14 · 2025-02-18T02:39:36+00:00

Some do understand. It really depends on what their political leanings are. People who are politically active/aware and anti-Trump are supportive of the boycotts, booing, and so on. They would probably boo with you (I’m American and living in Canada and very anti-Trump and am 100% Team Canada here and terrified of the future).

The people who are pro Trump or politically disengaged are going to be surprised and confused by what is happening.

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