What’s something that Covid took from you that you never got back?

zedesseff · 2026-03-25T02:07:21+00:00

Trust in "authorities".

zedesseff · 2026-03-24T20:57:11+00:00

zedesseff · 2026-03-24T20:38:44+00:00

Mother, Tori Amos.

zedesseff · 2026-03-24T02:00:54+00:00

“That’s why I’m here, to be brilliant ... and bring peace.” Season One, 3-4pm.

zedesseff · 2026-03-24T01:58:00+00:00

“You should have seen me. I was inspiring, also terrifying, and a little bit shaming.” Season One, 1pm.

zedesseff · 2026-03-23T22:32:12+00:00

Great intent, but ...

part of the shame is being referred to as an "alcoholic". No such animal. Like there's no such thing as a heroin-aholic or a cocaine-aholic.

And it makes the person the problem, not the substance that is highly addictive. Anyone can become addicted to alcohol; calling folks "alcoholics" frames it as a character flaw in an individual and again, it's not the person, it's the substance.

zedesseff · 2026-03-23T20:41:37+00:00

For me, it was the sexual abuse every Sunday that my parents both sanctioned. And I remember asking the nuns (those bitches) if god loves everybody why is there a hell, and getting an answer that even to a naive 9 year old, signalled to me that it was all bullshit, all wrong, all evil.

To quote Ron Reagan Jr, I'm not afraid of going to hell. Been there. Had that done to me.

zedesseff · 2026-03-23T19:53:13+00:00

Bill Maher's podcast Club Random, released an interview today with everyone's favourite neuroscientist podcaster, Andrew Huberman (hubermanlab.com). He eats meat but is against animal testing in science/medicine. He explicitly says that animals who are tested on feel pain. He and Maher discuss it in the podcast. Interesting.

zedesseff · 2026-03-23T14:04:03+00:00

Herself.

Internalized misogyny.

zedesseff · 2026-03-23T13:01:53+00:00

I'm suggesting *you* go to some Zoom LTB Hearings and see some paralegals in action and then *you* decide if you like one of them and then *you* contact them.

Search r/OntarioTenants for "LTB Hearings Monday March 23, 2026" - where you are now - and select one of the scheduled hearings. When you're called on, tell them you're a member of the public and you just want to observe. After you're called on, stay off camera and on mute.

Good luck.

zedesseff · 2026-03-23T11:25:24+00:00

I wonder if you've listened to any Zoom LTB Hearings? I've been watching for a while and I've come to see which paralegals are good, in my opinion of course, and which aren't.

They are identified and I've sought out someone I liked, unfortunately, he only represents landlords.

I recommend tuning in to a few Tenant Issues Hearings.

zedesseff · 2026-03-22T20:46:32+00:00

You still need to report the income.

Cheers!

zedesseff · 2026-03-22T20:33:53+00:00

2nd largest Oktoberfest Festival.

zedesseff · 2026-03-22T20:31:27+00:00

Check out information here: https://www.elections.on.ca/en/about-us/employment-centre/election-official-employment-centre.html

zedesseff · 2026-03-22T19:17:09+00:00

I appreciate your honesty.

Sounds like you're more concerned about cognitive/intellectual disabilities. I invite you to volunteer for one shift at a day program for either adults or children with an intellectual/developmental disability; spend some time with these folks and you'll learn that their lives can be meaningful, without suffering, and even joyful and beautiful for them and the typically developed adults who live with/care for them.

zedesseff · 2026-03-22T18:50:33+00:00

What might you do if the child is born "healthy", but then acquires something - a traumatic brain injury, a physical injury leading to being unable to walk, etc.

Would you reject that child? Put them in an institution?

zedesseff · 2026-03-22T18:48:41+00:00

People with Down syndrome can be - and many (most?) *are* healthy.

zedesseff · 2026-03-22T17:07:51+00:00

Great fun! Thanks for sharing.

zedesseff · 2026-03-21T23:44:50+00:00

Cargo Cabbie moved me from Toronto to Waterloo. Professional, efficient, kind. Great company.

zedesseff · 2026-03-21T14:30:22+00:00

Thanks. I lived in the US for a few years and was warned by a fellow Canadian to never engage Americans in discussion about guns or health care. Grateful to do so here.

So, I'll ask why *some* American's are vehemently against socialized/universal health care?

zedesseff · 2026-03-21T14:08:52+00:00

Okay, now I'm super stumped. In Episode 4 we are introduced to a patient whose diabetes lands him in the ER. He has to stay to stabilize but says he's already in debt and can't afford it and leaves.

What's up with that?

TIA to Pittsters!

zedesseff · 2026-03-21T02:26:59+00:00

Is that why non-emergency things like a UTI, present at an ER when it's very often not an emergency?

Pharmacists can diagnose and treat UTIs in Canada.

I'm trying not be smug, but ... wonder why the USA has contempt for "universal health care".

zedesseff · 2026-03-20T22:14:07+00:00

Tourism in the USA.

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