Villeneuve has been really disappointing. He was good with smaller, more gritty stuff but isn’t a good epic director.

They’ll get more votes but people are still going to vote strategically because what choice do they have.

I use sponsor block but YouTubers who do this are still typically channels I don’t like watching. No disrespect to the job but I don’t like feeling like a product.

Much prefer YouTubers who do it as a hobby

Tenant providing bear minimum information and impatient landlord. Engaging post OP.

Have you ever been on the other side of customer service?

You can find them by looking for ‘edison’ bulbs. Any of those distinct visible coil bulbs are edison, vintage look.

PJ White is my favourite - near Lee Valley on SW Marine. I haven’t purchased anything since they changed ownership.

I also have a phone number of a tree feller who processes some of his cuts, but I haven’t called him. If there are a couple people interested he might be willing to sell.

There are more useful web apps than before but blog/affiliate sites are a plague.

That said if I could make a ton of money by clogging up the internet with garbage content then I would. There is nothing holy about this place.

I don’t think it’s about being doomed and giving up. For me it’s just accepting the fact that a change of course is going to happen at whatever rate it is going to happen because the people who are driving it will do whatever they are compelled to do or want to do. Whether that is fast, or slow, or not at all barely feels like any of my business. I do what I can individually.

I went to a climate protest in Canada last week and it was way to tame to actually get anything accomplished.

The main part of the protest was walking down a main artery. For protesters, there is incentive to walk slowly and spread out to make the walk longer and disrupt status-quo longer, but the organizers clearly only had permission to march for a specific duration so they were in the back hurrying people forward so we’d stay within our allotted time window. Maybe 30 minutes. Once a year. It was pointless.

Add to that that 90% of the people there were exactly the people you’d expect to be there and it just felt like a waste of time.