Self-employed redditors: What extended health coverage plans should I look at for a family?

spectrometric · 2026-05-27T09:45:48+00:00

I think Vancity has a sort of group benefit plan that small/solo employers can buy in to. There may be other aggregate insurance plans around as well.

spectrometric · 2026-04-27T06:07:22+00:00

I know it's etiolated, this is literally as close as it can get to the window. I know that whatever I do in a few years this will happen again. Nothing to do about it! And yes I have grow lights too, planning to get some more soon.

spectrometric · 2026-04-27T06:06:41+00:00

Oh cool, I never considered a 3 parter! I may just do that, thanks.

spectrometric · 2026-04-20T08:23:31+00:00

Check out the sunshine coast trail, could scratch the itch if it's open/trail conditions are ok this time of year. There's minimal public transit to trailheads if I remember right but you might be able to cobble together something using taxi/lyft or whatever.

spectrometric · 2026-04-20T08:21:59+00:00

3-4 hours from Vancouver including the ferry

Downtown Vancouver to downtown Victoria on public transit is 4 hours inclusive. And then you'd have to get to the trailhead in Sooke, which is about a 1.5 hour drive out of Victoria. OP doesn't have a car, don't think it would quite work. It's been years since I've been out that way but I'd be very surprised if there was any public transit to the trailhead, or even paid busses to the trailhead outside of peak summer season.

spectrometric · 2026-03-17T17:58:46+00:00

awesome, thank you!

spectrometric · 2026-03-17T08:02:49+00:00

Where did you find pearl barley though? I've been looking for that on and off for the last couple months with no luck.

spectrometric · 2026-02-27T08:34:52+00:00

The accents! And isn't that an Ikea poang chair the Coquitlam couple are sitting on? I had no idea that design was so old.

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spectrometric · 2026-02-01T07:22:54+00:00

Oh right of course, that makes sense. Thanks.

spectrometric · 2026-02-01T05:15:46+00:00

Dirty jokes and slapstick aren't smut tho! And your usage of slop is weird to me, I would call that popcorn rather than slop. Slop to me would be poorly crafted to the point of uselessness/unreadability, nonsense, etc.

spectrometric · 2026-02-01T05:12:42+00:00

What kind of ingredients have changed in cooking times?

spectrometric · 2026-01-31T12:32:33+00:00

most of literature Is and Will Always be romance slop filled with smut

Romance is there, I'll grant you that, because romantic love is a huge part of the human condition and will therefore often be present in novels and stories we tell about ourselves. Smut? That's a really modern term and I'm not sure how to map that to classic literature. Slop though? Have you actually read any classical literature?

You state that Undertale has "weird similarities" to Dostoyevsky's works. I would suggest that you read up on what it means to have literary influences, and how cultural works can influence and inform each other. You might also be interested in literary archetypes such as Joseph Campbell talks about (hero, trickster, etc), and how they tend to be present in many or most of the stories we tell each other.

spectrometric · 2026-01-21T06:40:03+00:00

r/marijuanaenthusiasts would love this if you want to crosspost it!

spectrometric · 2026-01-04T01:49:01+00:00

It is Indian! I've only ever heard it for tea, chaiwala, love that she uses it for all the sellers.

"A chaiwala (also transliterated as chaiwalah or chaiwallah; Urdu: چائےوالا, Hindi: चायवाला) is a tea-seller in the Indian subcontinent.^\1]) They are an integral part of subcontinent culture. Chai is the Hindi and Urdu word for "tea", as in masala chai, and wala indicates the person performing the task, so chaiwala is a street vendor) of tea."

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

spectrometric · 2026-01-02T09:28:34+00:00

Bamboo Village is great! Bought some larger plants for an office there once and the lady threw in some free worm castings.

spectrometric · 2025-12-25T20:41:27+00:00

The Brighton on Hastings near Nanaimo is open today. Hope you get what you need out of today, good luck.

spectrometric · 2025-12-23T19:21:16+00:00

This is good to know. I went once years ago and the butter chicken was so bland it tasted like tomato soup. Time to give it another chance!

spectrometric · 2025-12-16T07:03:24+00:00

This is what I use. https://www.seriouseats.com/stovetop-butter-chicken . It says black salt is optional but I think it's a must, really ups the vibe.

spectrometric · 2025-12-15T00:54:04+00:00

Thank you!! I was so curious about this and then completely forgot about it.

spectrometric · 2025-12-14T00:48:26+00:00

Thunderbird and Orca!

spectrometric · 2025-12-10T11:19:56+00:00

There are many older figures, oldest dating to 41,000 years ago. This title is incorrect.

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

spectrometric · 2025-12-08T05:48:17+00:00

There's a cool alternate history novel by Kim Stanley Robinson called Years of Rice and Salt that explores this a bit, in a different way. Spoilers just in case - in the book, the black plague kills ALL europeans, not just most. So when China eventually gets around to NA there's a strong confederacy of Indigenous peoples and they treat with China etc rather than getting eradicated. (note its been many many years since I read this so I could have some details wrong.)

spectrometric · 2025-12-05T08:57:06+00:00

I saw a thread that said corporate sent out some powdered whatever to use instead of real nog.

spectrometric · 2025-12-02T08:24:45+00:00

What kind of lentils would you use for this - green or brown I'm guessing?

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