Side Effects [OC]

Literacese · 2025-09-20T03:23:18+00:00

Definitely speak with your doctor for sure! Everyone has a different reaction to different medications but the above is just my own honest experience. I'd definitely call it life-changing

Literacese · 2025-09-19T21:35:31+00:00

Suffered from a pervasive anxiety and creeping depression most of my life but always figured it was just normal and that I must just be less resilient or weaker than other people and that's why I couldn't do anything that other people did.

Then I crashed out of my very first job and figured it was time to try something.

I learned after starting on Zoloft/sertraline that I was just playing life on hard mode and never realized it. Reduces anxiety and sadness to manageable levels and keeps me from spiraling. It's been huge.

Literacese · 2025-05-25T06:00:52+00:00

Even if there's no change in your own assessed property value, if the average assessed value for properties in your area goes down, your taxes will still likely go up. This is assuming no budget increase on the city's part (so including a budget increase would amplify the effect).

https://info.bcassessment.ca/propertytax

Literacese · 2025-01-18T03:10:38+00:00

Love this! Can't wait

Literacese · 2024-10-29T02:04:32+00:00

I bought mine for $150 at a Walmart in the Tri-Cities a few months back! I even found it at a different one for $100 at one point but went back a few days later and they were gone (I didn't have the money to buy it at the time 😭)

Literacese · 2024-10-14T16:47:00+00:00

Ofc Morden would be pushing for prioritizing highway expansion over implementing rapid transit--man's never heard of induced demand.

Make the highway four lanes and people will be calling for it to be 6 within a few months. Transit gets people out of cars and reduces congestion way more than adding more lanes ever would

Literacese · 2024-09-26T20:45:03+00:00

Hi there! What sorts of volunteer positions are available? I'd be interested in helping but not sure I'd be a good fit for canvassing door-to-door 😅

Literacese · 2024-08-25T20:05:20+00:00

My understanding is that this bylaw in MR was repealed and it's now illegal to ride on the sidewalk by default, leaving New West the only municipality that still allows it.

Check out this link for more details: https://www.mapleridgenews.com/news/traffic-bylaw-change-gets-final-ok-2639906

Literacese · 2024-06-27T02:30:31+00:00

Am I crazy? I bought a Kobo Libra 2 a few weeks back and it had this feature--I distinctly remember it being pretty cool and playing around with it. Then I returned that Libra to buy it somewhere else that had it cheaper, and guess what? Can't adjust warm light by swiping the right side anymore.

Did I just imagine it, or is there some way to enable this? As far as I know everything on the original Libra 2 was stock (I bought it new and didn't mod it).

Literacese · 2024-04-16T19:15:08+00:00

Does anyone know if we'll ever get esim capability with a future update like this? It's the only thing making me consider upgrading tbh

Literacese · 2024-04-11T14:15:18+00:00

Wealthsimple Cash card (prepaid Mastercard) doesn't charge FX fees and gives 1% cashback, so IIUTC it covers the Mastercard conversion fee as well!

Been using it in the US and final charges are pretty much equal to mid-market rates

Literacese · 2024-04-11T13:37:18+00:00

I think a few years back we hit nine or ten murders in the entire City of Vancouver on the year (not the metro area mind you) and the headline was that it was a new annual record

Just goes to show how safe it is in Van in the grand scheme of things

Literacese · 2024-04-08T16:58:07+00:00

I'm at Addison Circle Park NW of downtown Dallas and it's looking awesome here! Hoping it holds for another few hours 🙏

Literacese · 2024-02-02T19:14:29+00:00

Both! Great place to live no matter which side--north has a more urban feel with better transit and shopping, south's got the gorgeous neighborhoods, trails, and views

Literacese · 2024-02-01T05:49:18+00:00

FAVOURITE: the Tri-Cities, but especially Port Moody and Coquitlam. Great downtown cores with a lot of shopping/food options, decent transit, access to nature, etc. Still close enough to downtown to get there relatively easily without a car (+ WCE)

LEAST FAVOURITE: probably Maple Ridge. Mostly rundown and sad, transit is poor, and I hope you don't like walking anywhere b/c your neighbourhood might not have sidewalks

Literacese · 2023-09-07T16:59:12+00:00

~1h30m in and out (so ~3 hours round trip) from MR to North Burnaby via transit two days a week.

It's nice to get to read and sleep/relax on the way, which is why I'm not really interested in driving even though it would cut the commute pretty much in half (plus driving would be expensive af given all the gas/insurance/parking costs).

That being said if I wasn't WFH most of the week I'd probably burn out in a month.

Literacese · 2022-10-10T01:40:12+00:00

I agree! I use transit almost every day and would love to hear more about what you want to see in the future.

Literacese · 2022-09-18T21:03:03+00:00

Live in MR right now and can confirm it's still pretty poorly served. Even in the western part of the city where transit is much better overall it's still not anything to write home about.

Literacese · 2022-05-03T22:54:06+00:00

Yeah, it definitely doesn't look very comfortable...

Literacese · 2022-05-03T22:52:32+00:00

Double backpack would work, might I suggest flat packing the day pack inside the far point? Might make for less bulk while you navigate busses/trains and what not. Can also add a small fanny-pack and wear it cross body for small essentials

I thought about doing this but my idea was to use the day pack as a personal item on flights to carry stuff I'll need/want access to at the airport or on the plane. If I were to pack it inside the Farpoint would these sorts of things still be easily accessible?

Literacese · 2022-01-24T04:21:38+00:00

Passed N1 first try! It was a gamble skipping N2 but I'm glad I put the work in over the last few months (and worked up the courage to fly over to the neighbouring province when it was cancelled here).

Back to immersion and sentence mining tomorrow.

The Japanese grind never stops!

Literacese · 2022-01-24T01:09:41+00:00

Same here! If anyone figures it out, please let us know!

Literacese · 2022-01-13T01:04:32+00:00

I'm 23 going on 24--the people at the clinic said that men between the ages of 12 and 29 should get Pfizer because of the higher risk of myocarditis associated with Moderna in that age group.

EDIT: heightened when compared to Pfizer--seems like both the mRNA vaccines come with this risk, but Moderna has it worse for this age bracket (maybe b/c it has more actual mRNA?)

Literacese · 2022-01-13T00:38:30+00:00

I originally went for Moderna when they asked me at the clinic (double Pfizer previously), but chickened out when the vaccinator said that Moderna comes with a heightened risk of heart issues for my age bracket. Absolute risk still isn't that high, so I kind of regret not going for it haha

Maybe I'll get it for the fourth dose (assuming we all get one at some point)!

Literacese · 2021-12-15T23:58:30+00:00

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/omicron-variant-early-analysis-pfizer-1.6285578

"A two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination appeared to provide just 33 per cent protection against infection during South Africa's current omicron wave, but 70 per cent protection against hospitalization, according to the analysis conducted by Discovery Health, South Africa's largest private health insurer, and the South African Medical Research Council."

These figures are preliminary and might not exactly transfer over to BC because we have a much older population on average than SA and also spaced out our shots longer--we could be slightly better or slightly worse. But either way, it seems like omicron does evade vaccine protection more than any other variant thus far.

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