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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Ill paint a picture:

    Lots of cattle farming in Alberta too, so there isn’t a lot of new age thinkers there who care about factory farming pollution of water systems, and that all that farm land could feed more people, and the terrible conditions animals live in.

    So when I’ve gone on work trips all the food places at hotels and events are all beef/rib products and fries. Finding a salad or some vegetarian protien is difficult.

    I went on a two-three day work trip and lost 5lbs from lack of food choices.

    Talking to them is like being in Hicksville, with lifted smokey diesel trucks, etc.












  • Sometimes asking if their private conversations (about spouse or kids) conversation would be different with an active observer in the room. Or if they are OK with a stranger at each window watching you. But some see that as paranoia, so it is fruitless.

    The real issue is things like: how ICE is requesting records without subpoenas from telecom industries and they comply. Which lets them target protestors, and arrest them an trumped up charges. That’s the slide into 1984 distopia. But it still comes off as paranoid.



  • As a white immigrant who went to speech classes to match the Canadian Accent, I blend in perfectly. Because of the blending in, some white folk openly share if they are racist.

    There have been times when a coworker has mutter something about immigrants stealing our jobs, and I say " Like me, you mean?".

    And they are confused, so I offer that I’m not Canadian.

    They are like “whaaat? But you sound Canadian”. So I say " yeah speech classes"…then comes the “Well its OK, you’re you know…”