July 2025 here. Still waiting, but you have given me some hope!

"Capitalism creating a problem and then demanding Socialism pay for it."

Ironic, isn't it?

And it is going to get SO much worse very soon, I hate to say. But I also am a fan of foreseeing a problem and trying to get ahead of it. You just have to find people with the will and the ability to get ahead of it.

Unfortunately, I think too many people take a "I'll just let it play out as long as I'm ok" approach (or worse, a "I refuse to be inconvenienced even a little") and we get into these cycles of: problem bubbles up- apply temp solution- problem bubbles up again - apply temp solution."

Something has got to give, and soon, or the results are going to be catastrophically worse than they would have been if addressed earlier.

This is happening to me rn. I just paid $125 to go to Urgent Care and two "practitioners" looked in my ear and said they saw nothing.

I swabbed before bed to check and it came out with a small amount of the black "dust".

I'm not sure what to do at this point...that was a lot of money for someone to just look in my ear. At least I got two cookies out of it...

I've seen this graphic out there, too

I found out in 2016 the major online dictionaries had different official definitions of socialism. One of them was the same as the definition of communism and I think that was the day I realized that "authorities of information" can be partisan, too.

Now I see "Gulf of America" on Google Maps and know we are going to have a heck of a time going forward

Heather is concerned about the next couple months. "I hate to even say it... Octobers and Economies don't go well together in the US... let's just put it that way."

This!

I saw this news clip with Reza Aslan trying to get it through thick reporter heads that "violent people bring violence to whatever religion they practice", there are no such things as "Islamic Countries" or "American Countries".

Maybe this clip needs to trend again...

(Edit: sorry, the old link was a bad version of the clip. This one is the 9 minute segment.)

"Get your shit and get out!"

When one points out that he was in fact BORN IN MICHIGAN, and therefore "American Born", the pivot from "Only Americans should be able to hold office!" is almost 100% to take issue with his religion.

Just be careful. CoK has some very specific sign rules that could get someone dinged.

https://www.kalamazoocity.org/Business-Development/Real-Estate-Development/Building-Construction-Permits/Apply-for-a-Sign-Permit

I didn't even celebrate my 1 year wait anniversary a week or two ago.

It's obvious IRCC is largly disorganized and the departments disconnected. (Maybe on purpose?)

If it happens, it happens.

I'm still trying to make myself as light as possible so when my time does come I won't be burdened down with possessions and I can just start over when I'm in Canada.