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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Here in BC, you only get retested for driving competency if you have a stroke/seizure/enter a coma.

    I have personally seen doctors write multiple letters of competency for someone who couldn’t pass the vision test, written signs test, briefly forgot where he was, and needed a mobility aid. We still gave him a road test, which he failed, and got harassed by him and his doctor for months about giving him his license back.

    Get your license suspended for reckless or impaired driving? As long as you have your full license (which is a 3 year process here) you just have to pay us $500-5000 + pay off your fines and you can drive again in 3-6 months, no retesting needed. Sure, if you get suspended 3+ times you have to go to AA, anger management, or a defensive driving course, but its only like 3 sessions.

    Our basic competency is honestly a joke, and we basically never retest people… And honestly, as long as you aren’t literally blind, we also don’t permanently take away you license as long as you have money.



  • Unilever just had the CEO removed for being too much of an activist, and ‘aligning with the original owner’s views too strongly’.

    Means I recently bought my last pint of this icecream, because it no longer is a company I can justify exempting from the US boycott (since, in Canada it is produced in Canadian plants, using Canadian dairy products, and was actively going against the current US leadership).





  • Adding to this, I recently got the mautrix-discord bridge set up for myself and while it isn’t perfect, its pretty good for keeping up with the few communities I am a part of.

    Note that if you are using discord for group chats, matrix doesn’t replace discord yet (group voice calls arent ready for production yet), nor does the discord bridge allow you to even see voice only channels.



  • I sincerely wish I could drop loblaws entirely.

    The problem is, between them and sobey’s (who are proving to be just as evil, recently doing things like covering ‘made in us’ labels, union busting after they bought Safeway, etc) there aren’t any other places to shop.

    In my town, there is 1 loblaws store, 2 gas station corner stores and 2 independent corner stores - guess which is the only one that carries meat and produce?

    In the next town over, there are 2 loblaws, 1 sobeys, 4 gas station corner stores, and 4 specialty shops - again, guess where I have to go for produce, or a wider selection of meat cuts/types?

    If I want to buy from stores that aren’t loblaws or sobeys, I have to drive 4 hours to my closest Costco (which i do every 4 months, because Costco is so much cheaper than local it pays for my gas easily), and even then the only other not loblaws/sobeys option in that town is fucking walmart.

    What Canada needs isn’t a better loblaws boycott, it needs a government willing to put in place and enforce checks and balances on the duopolies Canada has in every sector - and stop letting foreign investors own all of our assets and funnel the profits out of country while we’re at.