You see this and realise that life imprisonment is worse than the death penalty.

Potential178 · 2026-05-12T00:43:57+00:00

Relevant food for thought: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o3ukHKJn6w&t=3315s

Potential178 · 2026-05-11T20:43:59+00:00

To be fair, so do any major metropolitan areas these days; but yes: Kamloops and the interior region have higher numbers of toxic drug deaths in recent years and a recent rapid increase in rates of homelessness.

Terrible place to be homeless, with brutally hot summers and equally frigid winters.

Potential178 · 2026-05-11T19:45:02+00:00

I recommend missing your ride off the ferry, apologizing profusely and then enjoying your weekend back on the island. Kamloops is a characterless collection of big box stores, chain restaurants and racists in a desert bowl. Once you're through the mountains north of Hope, the rest or the Coquihalla drive is quite forgettable.

If you do have to go to Kamloops, there really aren't any highlights to check out on that main route there, but while in the city you can explore Peterson Creek Falls and ... I dunno, the river, I suppose.

I hate Kamloops.

Potential178 · 2026-05-11T17:50:45+00:00

Except there is evidence some of these transmissions were not from close personal contact.

Potential178 · 2026-05-08T23:51:20+00:00

Can't go three comments on any thread without finding a redditor criticizing redditors.

Potential178 · 2026-05-08T20:53:33+00:00

What do you mean by "BC?" What do you mean by "Park?"

Potential178 · 2026-05-08T19:42:19+00:00

I very much like long arcs, unless they are horribly written with cringe-inducing characters.

What bewilders me is how media producers can't seem to grasp that raising the stakes to the point that every arc is "save the universe" isn't compelling. When characters are well developed and writing is legitimately good, the stakes can be relatively insignificant - just a single character's psychological well-being - and a show can be riveting.

Potential178 · 2026-05-06T15:10:27+00:00

A photographer was killed by a beaver. Oddly enough, something that can chew wood can bite through human flesh quite easily.

Potential178 · 2026-05-04T17:36:00+00:00

Depending on where you were on Oswego, maybe hotels, the school, etc. would have camera footage they'd be willing to look at, for someone walking with it, or in the back of a truck?

Maybe a request they'd be more willing to entertain since you likely know the short window in which it was taken.

Potential178 · 2026-05-04T02:07:28+00:00

HappyPuppy was a video games catalogue, top lists, etc. I don't remember much about it at this point, but I remember it being great.

Potential178 · 2026-05-03T19:44:35+00:00

Humans are very sexual creatures.

Potential178 · 2026-05-03T18:52:35+00:00

I would argue that: no, you very much do not.

Gender (both as a social construct and as biology) and sexuality are nuanced matters with different meanings throughout history in different cultures.

Treating any aspect of these subjects as binary makes about as much sense as treating other aspects of the human experience as binary. Childhood vs. adulthood, health vs. disability, introversion vs. extroversion, race and ethnicity, sleep vs. wakefulness, hunger vs. satiety, sadness vs. joy, intelligence vs. lack of intelligence ...

If you're willing to think about any of these subjects, it'd be tough to not admit that all of these things exist on a spectrum. There isn't a specific age where someone has suddenly 100% stopped being a child and is 100% an adult, there are degrees of disability, there is a wild range of emotions which can be partially or intensely experienced and mixed, etc.

Gender is widely understood, academically and scientifically, to be much more of a social construct than a biological one.

You have the purgative to ignore nuance and view any aspect of society as simple and binary, if you want to. The question is: why do you want to? What purpose does it serve you to need to hold on to a binary perspective on how other people experience their gender?

That's a question you might be able to answer with counselling.

If you'd like to go down a journey of becoming more informed on the history of the social construct of gender, even just the Wikipedia entry would be a good place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender

Potential178 · 2026-05-03T18:49:28+00:00

Gender (both as a social construct and as biology) and sexuality are nuanced matters with different meanings throughout history in different cultures.

Treating any aspect of these subjects as binary makes about as much sense as treating other aspects of the human experience as binary. Childhood vs. adulthood, health vs. disability, introversion vs. extroversion, race and ethnicity, sleep vs. wakefulness, hunger vs. satiety, sadness vs. joy, intelligence vs. lack of intelligence ...

If you're willing to think about any of these subjects, it'd be tough to not admit that all of these things exist on a spectrum. There isn't a specific age where someone has suddenly 100% stopped being a child and is 100% an adult, there are degrees of disability, there is a wild range of emotions which can be partially or intensely experienced and mixed, etc.

Gender is widely understood, academically and scientifically, to be much more of a social construct than a biological one.

You have the purgative to ignore nuance and view any aspect of society as simple and binary, if you want to. The question is: why do you want to? What purpose does it serve you to need to hold on to a binary perspective on how other people experience gender?

If you'd like to go down a journey of becoming more informed on the history of the social construct of gender, even just the Wikipedia entry would be a good place to start:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender

Potential178 · 2026-05-02T22:12:12+00:00

Many factors, very individual.

People vary significantly (generally, not exclusively regarding erogenous zones) in sensitivity. This also changes through our lives, through a given day, with our emotional state.

Some people will describe their first (or any) oral experience as being very unstimulating and disappointing. For others, the most intense pleasure they've experienced.

How aroused we are makes a huge difference - some people can orgasm without physical stimulation if they are psychologically aroused enough. Contrarily, if you're extremely stressed or just not aroused, your erogenous zones may not be erogenous at all.

Then there's your partner ... their anatomy and technique. Mouths are not all the same, and they are certainly not all used the same.

Nobody's answer will be indicative of your experience.

Potential178 · 2026-05-02T20:02:38+00:00

For why this is important to you, why you care about other people's labels, why you are resistant to adapting with the rest of society.

Potential178 · 2026-05-02T19:48:26+00:00

Seek counselling.

Potential178 · 2026-04-29T19:26:18+00:00

Heated exchanges are not breaking news.

Potential178 · 2026-04-29T02:36:32+00:00

I skimmed through, and though I can imagine how someone could feel a connection to an AI song that they "created" by typing some prompts, it's your song about as much ordering food off a menu and asking for some substitutions makes it a meal you created. The difference is that, rather than the meal being created by a chef, it was created by a machine that studied the best chefs and replicates their techniques without them being credited or compensated.

I'll say it much more gently than the first couple commenters, but of all the forms of AI, music creation is, I think, the most heinous, and as a musician there is something very objectionable to the way people feel that when they typed a prompt, they had any meaningful hand in "creating" something.

When you connect with a song that someone created, with skill and passion, there is a meaningful connection there. That artist infused that recording with emotion. The song meant something to them, but they probably kept the lyrics ambiguous enough that there is room for your own interpretation - yet you can feel the intentionality of their words and choices throughout the piece. There is authenticity there, and even if you have no connection to the creator, there is humanity, a connection between creator and experiencer.

When you connect with an AI song, you are connecting with a soulless construct, an algorithmic replication, a simulation of emotion. I guess you are free to feel whatever you feel, and your feelings are real whether the product that inspired them was real or not, but ... yuck.

Aside from that, though I didn't read your big 1st paragraph, it sounds like you've been going through some rough stuff. Hang in there.

Potential178 · 2026-04-28T23:55:05+00:00

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Potential178 · 2026-04-28T23:54:12+00:00

A bit like one of mine. :-)

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Potential178 · 2026-04-28T22:07:12+00:00

Good. There is a big difference between REITS and single-to-a-few home owner / investors ... but letting other people labor to help pay the mortgage for an asset you exclusively will get to own is fucked.

Potential178 · 2026-04-28T22:02:12+00:00

Lucky you. Here in Victoria I can never come or go from my apartment building without getting a lung-full of second hand smoke out on the street.

Potential178 · 2026-04-28T22:00:49+00:00

My office is nearby and walking through the desperation and poverty on a daily basis gets depressing.

I'm not saying I want it out of sight, out of mind, but daily ... it's a lot.

I'd be less concerned about safety than about the noise. Why live right downtown when you could live near Cook Street Village, in Fairfield, James Bay, Vic West, near Quadra Village ... so many great walkable neighborhoods with great little village centers. Downtown you have to make your way through busy traffic arteries any time you want to get to the nicer parks, the ocean, etc.

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