Love This.

Always needs to be reblogged.

Serves the landlords right, keeping places out of the price range of ordinary people.  Investment properties are a plague.

Vancouver property owners 'panic' to rent as vacancy tax implemented

Vancouver's empty homes tax came into effect over the weekend and some property owners are now scrambling to rent, sell or find a way around the fees.

Under the new rules, homes that are not occupied for at least six months of the year are subject to a tax of one per cent of the property’s assessed value. The deadline to rent out empty dwellings was July 1.

Fazli said many of the people he has talked to are thinking of renting or selling their properties. He recently met with a woman who owns three empty properties in Vancouver — and says one of them is now listed for rent, another will be listed shortly and she is thinking of selling the third.

“This is a scenario of someone who is kind of in a panic now and needs to rent them out,” he said. […]

amazing

First Tuesday of the month here.

And you can always tell when someone hasn't been living in the midwest and starts freaking out.

They also start freaking out when they hear about tornado watches. Tornado Watch? That just means that there's some weather going on. It's OK. Relax. Don't be dumb if we get actual funnel clouds, but just a watch? Chill. Chill.

I think my favorite culture shook conversation between myself and Joy happened when the first time she (British) was visited me (USA) for longer then a month.

Joy calling me at work in a panic: "WHY ARE THE BOMB SIRENS GOING OFF."

Me: "Oh yeah it's Wednesday."

Joy: "..."

Me: "..."

Joy: "THAT EXPLAINS NOTHING!"

YES GOOD LORD

Don't care much for Biden? Right there with you. Will I take him over Trump? EVERY GOD-DAMNED TIME.

Would I rather have someone else? Obviously! BUT THAT IS NOT THE WORLD WE LIVE IN.

Btw you can be intensely critical of the Democratic party and recognize that it is full of aged out of touch moderates who are refusing to meet the urgency of the moment,

and also recognize that voting for Democrats is extremely important because it allows things like the confirmation of Justices and prevents the literal fascist party from gaining more power and that harm reduction is an important end in itself

These things can coexist

Politics is a long game. Being disappointed and angry today does not obviate your responsibility to participate

Yeah, it’s honestly crazy.  I know maybe one other couple of my generation that’s been married anywhere near as long as we have.

“what if people transition and then regret it?” ok. let’s do that with everything. no more straight marriages until the heterosexual divorce rate is below the detransition rates

Checking myself before wrecking myself; reblogging to save the world.

have you thought about trans women in a normal way today

That's a good idea, honestly. Maybe even offer both?

Instead of offering an “ad free” version of tumblr for $4.99 a month, why doesn’t Tumblr offer an adult version (age verified) for $4.99 a month? A site where adults can be adults. Imagine this, a magical place where erotic art creators would be able to display or exchange their art with others, without the fear of being harassed (deemed explicit, have their messaging ability taken away, shadow banned, or terminated). Millions of users would gladly subscribe.

Please reblog this message if you agree.

Heard!

It's a great movie, and also shows how much you can do with a small SFX budget and good direction and lighting. (Some scenes in Nosferatu are basically a doctoral thesis on creative use of lighting.)

I have GOT to watch attack the block again

Yeah, I'm spreading this one around, too.

It's good to remind people

hey

hey friend

dont kill yourself tonight ok

you have a really pretty smile and i know its not always easy to manage one but itd be a bummer if we never had the chance to see it ever again

youre really important and you matter a lot so stay safe and try and have a nice sleep