It’s nearing the end of the year and I am on a better financial situation than I anticipated.

I am planning to donate to VisionZero and Movement because I am familiar with their missions and want to improve walking/cycling/bussing conditions in our region.

I don’t know much about organizations addressing homelessness and ppverty and I would like to donate to groups addressing these challenges as well.

I also really enjoy this one. However, it contains no tea leaves so not a ‘true’ tea. ‘Tisane’ or ‘herbal infusion’ are the more precise terms.

GrapheneOS includes this feature

My film recommendation: The Florida Project. It follows a young girl and her single mother struggling to make it in Kissiimee, Florida (where Disney World is). Most of us would think living beside Disney World would be amazing but there is a darker underside of poverty. I have heard the film described as ‘poverty porn’ but I thought it was a fair depiction.

I love slice of life films and this is one of my favourites.

I spent the day looking for a desktop app that does this and finally found Scribus. The fact that most desktop Linux PDF readers and editors cannot do this satisfactorily does not make me hopeful that such an app exists for Android.

There is a place near me called “Indian Burger Joint” which does something like this. Super tasty and great variety of different Indian flavours and styles.

This article gives a good discussion about a potential coming East/West political split in the world of FOSS.

https://thenewstack.io/avoiding-a-geopolitical-open-source-apocalypse/

You make a good point. Hate must be addressed at its root.

I see hate speech censorship as important for protecting the victims/vulnerable. How can we protect these people without this censorship?

Do you have any favourite examples of how a society can fight hatred?

I disagree since I think censorship can be desired when combatting hate speech. Maybe we just disagree how exactly we use the word ‘censorship’.

I am so grateful for your work on both of these projects.

You don’t know that! All you know is that you don’t know if you know any of us. ;)

I like seeing a group evolve and form good friendships.

Reply, 1988

It is a Korean drama where each episode focuses on a different character, all living on the same street in Seoul in 1988. I recommend it to everyone as my favourite show but especially for your preference described above. You feel each character’s struggles and successes. The way the show develops the characters through their relationships with their families and friends is outstanding.

Have you seen the proposed Official Community Plan for Burnaby? I would say it could go further at densifying neighourhoods near transit, but its clear that most of the city will become zoned for apartments and townhomes.

This doesn’t just address the design bottleneck. Since it is a standard, permitting is super fast to approve. Construction will be quicker since each home will be made of standard components. The hope is that much of the construction can be done off site with a quicker assembly done on site.

Funding may be easier to get if the are able to negotiate with the builder. Say, the original owner gets a new unit + lump sum and the builder gets to sell the other units to pay off the costs of construction.

Ironically, Plexus currently crashes and won’t open on GrapheneOS. Both 2.0.3 on F-Droid and 2.0.6 on IzzyOnDroid.

If you are in to urbanism, checkout:

• https://video.canadiancivil.com/accounts/ohtheurbanity/
• https://video.canadiancivil.com/accounts/shifter
• https://video.canadiancivil.com/accounts/paige/

They all seem to post simultaneously with here as on YouTube.

And Yet It Moves https://store.steampowered.com/app/18700/And_Yet_It_Moves/

I had contributed before but ultimately I don’t find it that useful because the app is incomplete. The concept is valuable and I like the evaluation visualization, but incomplete or incorrect data make it much less useful.

Only the latest “evaluation” of an app is saved. It was very common for me to reopen Sapio only to discover someone had assigned a different evaluation from the one I had given and my evaluation was gone.

The user should be able to add a comment saying which features don’t work. Just saying “Some features do not work” is not that helpful. Some users may have tested an app more thoroughly than others and so can provide details about specific parts of the app that do or do not work.

I have relied on completely degoogled android for many years now (first LineageOS and then GrapheneOS) but I almost didn’t even try because I didn’t know if my apps would work. A database like this would have been very useful at the time. Hopefully it can be made even better.

Thanks for your comment, I agree with you that generalities are harmful (and often lazy thinking).

If I understand what you are saying, that’s not what I meant. I don’t intend to say all landlords are bad people, but that landlordism itself is bad. It is not possible for there to be a good landlord because the relationship that must exist between a landlord and renter is exploitative and harmful.

The behaviour of the owners is disgusting. There is no such thing as a good landlord.

“Everyone deserves a safe place to live,” Vlietstra said. “I believe that is a basic human right: a safe place to live, that you can call home and not fear it’s going to burn down or people are going to break in.”