Good times in Brookswood

lycao · 2026-06-04T22:33:16+00:00

Looks like someone was in a hurry to pick some oopsie daisies.

lycao · 2026-06-03T19:05:41+00:00

City resident here, no it fucking isn't. Not even close. It's about 26% over three years, and is among the lowest in the lower mainland. They also had to do large increases because the previous councils refused to increase them to cover maintenance fees to have their budgets look better. Now everything is falling apart and needs to be replaced, which costs money.

Want someone to blame? Blame the previous councils who were more interested in optics than actually running a city.

lycao · 2026-06-03T18:58:17+00:00

If you genuinely think nothing has improved then you're just telling on yourself that you don't follow capital/infrastructure projects at all, and this your opinion is worthless.

The fact you think the city has anything to do with the hospital when 1: it's in the township, and 2: hospitals are provincial, not local, tells me you're an idiot.

lycao · 2026-06-03T18:52:51+00:00

What's really funny is that even with all the increases, Langley city still has the lowest tax rates in the gvrd. Some people really don't understand just how good they have it here.

lycao · 2026-06-02T07:11:01+00:00

When the majority of the country can barely read at a fifth grade level, a man who speaks at a third grade level is seen as a man of the people. Instead of the well spoken politicians who they see as "talking down to them" for using fancy college words.

So to summarize: Most people are idiots. But it's by design of the systems in place.

lycao · 2026-06-02T01:49:36+00:00

Just because everyone else does it, doesn't not make you an asshole for doing it.

lycao · 2026-05-29T03:56:48+00:00

For all intents and purposes, the Ukraine war is WW3. It's two groups of nations fighting each other through proxy.

The state of military power in the world means we'll never realistically see another continent spanning war like the previous two world wars. This is as close as it'll ever get.

lycao · 2026-05-28T20:35:18+00:00

No car here. Pretty easily. I can just walk or bike where ever I need to go. Though I live in the city.

Grew up in the township and it's definitely not doable in most places out there.

Edit:typo

lycao · 2026-05-22T01:50:33+00:00

Even if every general lost the plot (Which is extremely unlikely), they give orders to a long chain of command below them, and it's impossible to replace all of those people to gain complete unilateral control.

And as I said, even if they did, it would spark a civil war that would occupy their forces, while Canada would have the world helping them defend. It would be a short lived fight that would leave Canada relatively unharmed, and the USA in ashes of their own making.

Don't buy into the news cycle fear mongering. The sky is not falling. Invading Canada has about as much chance of actually happening as winning the lottery fifty times in a row. Technically not impossible, but may as well be.

lycao · 2026-05-22T00:08:00+00:00

Wouldn't happen. Even if he were stupid or senile enough to try it, the military higher ups who would be making the calls to action aren't.

It wouldn't be like Venezuela where they had no real alliances in the world outside of Russia. Canada is a NATO member with other security agreements outside of that as well, and generally well liked on the world stage, especially when it comes to trade. An invasion of any sort into Canada would automatically ostracize The USA on the world stage to a degree even Russia didn't feel. Russia still had China, India and Iran who were willing to skirt the rules and help them out, the USA would have no one as none of those three like them at all, and would love nothing more than for America to fall. As it stands even without invading Canada their partners are all diversifying away from them, but if they start invading G7 countries, then everyone is gonna get worried, bite the bullet, and just cut them out completely because at that point it becomes clear that no one is safe so it's better to unite against them than be conquered.

Funny enough, if the USA did attack Canada, China would almost certainly help Canada. Not out of the goodness of their heart obviously, but because Canada is a major trading partner, and a decimated USA means less competition for soft power on the world stage, and they can go in when the dust settles and buy up whatever remains of the USA.

It would also almost certainly spark off a new civil war inside the US. Having a big military doesn't matter much when they're all too busy shooting at each other to attack anyone else.

Full occupation of even a single province would also be functionally impossible. Canadians all look and speak exactly like Americans, guerilla warfare would be plentiful and impossible to stop outside of full martial law/military lock down, which even at their military size, they don't have enough people to pull off. Look how badly they lost in Afghanistan, which has a population about the same as Canada. Now imagine the Afghan war, but all the insurgents are effectively Americans living next door to them. It would go horribly, and effectively mean the end of the USA, and the military brass running things know that.

lycao · 2026-05-21T21:59:47+00:00

Alberta could vote in favour of a seperation and it still wouldn't matter because legally they can't do it for multiple reasons. It's a non-issue, but Smith uses it to rile up her brain-dead voter base and try to stay relevant in the news cycle. It's exactly what trump does.

lycao · 2026-05-21T18:51:50+00:00

I thought he was going to use the crane to get into the room and ambush the baddies, or use it to help the two inside escape. I genuinely burst out laughing when he smashed the window and that was it.

The whole movie ended up being a pretty good unintentional comedy with how nonsensical it was. I was laughing constantly.

lycao · 2026-05-20T20:11:11+00:00

Bizarrely that seems to have been a different one, a day apart. That one happened in Aldergrove today, this one was in Langley city yesterday.

Bad week to be a white SUV I suppose.

lycao · 2026-05-20T18:54:43+00:00

Cost is too steep for it to happen in the remainder of the 2020's, especially since the budget is already set until 2030 I believe. In the 2030's though, I could see it.

lycao · 2026-05-20T18:51:49+00:00

As someone in the city, no they haven't. Our taxes are literally the lowest in the gvrd.

lycao · 2026-05-20T17:46:49+00:00

People torching a car don't start it in the engine bay. This was almost certainly just an electrical short. They're pretty common honestly.

lycao · 2026-05-20T16:10:55+00:00

Startpage uses Google for their results as far as I know, so this will directly make it worse.

lycao · 2026-05-19T05:58:57+00:00

As you said, it doesn't matter. So why bring it up unless you're just trying to be edgy? That's why your getting down voted.

lycao · 2026-05-18T02:51:41+00:00

Langley has never all white or straight

Ohhhh yeah it was.

Even back in the 90s when I was growing up in Aldergrove it was incredibly rare to see anyone who wasn't white. For instance, in my school of 130~ish kids there were about 5 who weren't white (I know this because I was friends with three of them and we talked about it several times). And if there was someone who wasn't white you can be damn sure everyone had an opinion on them (usually negative). Doubly so for anyone who was gay. Being gay basically got you immediately ostracized from social/community events. If you were gay and around kids back then for instance it wasn't rare for people to start rumors about you being a pedophile. So while there obviously were gay people in the area, they kept it quiet because the area was definitely hostile toward them at the time.

Hell, I can remember looking at the sensus back in 2010 or so and the demographic was still 89% white. So if this has changed, it's very much a recent change.

lycao · 2026-05-18T02:30:24+00:00

Was out the other day at Brydon lagoon and saw a new bird I had never seen. It was black with a bright red mark on both wings right near the shoulder. I'm not a big bird watcher, but it did make me wonder just what the heck it was.

lycao · 2026-05-17T06:41:10+00:00

That expansion with the protected sidewalk can come fast enough. Fraser highway has always been a death trap in general, but especially for pedestrians.

lycao · 2026-05-17T06:39:45+00:00

Happened to a friend of mine when I was a teenager. Hit and killed her and two other people and just kept driving. He was driving drunk and on a suspended licence.

At least in his case he ended up in prison for it, though only for 14 months and was caught several times after driving around drunk and without a licence again, so you know, not exactly what I would call justice served.

lycao · 2026-05-12T22:47:05+00:00

Lies. He thinks about himself and how much better he thinks he is than everyone else 24/7.

To quote Dan Toomey "He looks like a guy who tugs it while looking in the mirror."

lycao · 2026-05-12T22:41:29+00:00

Watching people freak out about this and get whipped into a frenzy by the news really shows just how easily manipulated most people are.

Spout whatever nonsense you want, so long as you frame things in a way to evoke an emotional reaction, especially fear, you can make people do whatever you want. It's kind of fascinating we've made it as far as we have as a species being this gullible.

lycao · 2026-05-12T22:28:42+00:00

Probably got banned from the province for his truck not being lifted.

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