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What are the best down and out and struggling movies?
  • 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.

  • App to fill in and sign PDFs
  • 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.

  • Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands
  • 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?

  • What are your favorite shows and why?
  • 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.

  • BC Design Catalogue - Gentle Density
  • 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.

  • BC Design Catalogue - Gentle Density
  • 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.

  • PSA: Add/drop deadline is tonight!
  • More than a decade later and I still get nightmares about screwing this up, not dropping a course, finding out late, and having to prepare for an exam without ever having attended the lectures.

    For the sake of your future sleep, please make sure not to miss this! :P

  • I believe you should be speaking about Sapio so that many people contribute to its community driven database. Just saying (:
  • 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.

  • Death, Injuries, Displacement. The Dark History of One Vancouver Landlord

    > Three apartment fires with one common factor.

    > The properties were — and still are — owned by Fu De (Henry) Ren and his wife, Fang Yan. And while the Mount Pleasant fire was determined to be accidental, the buildings and their owners had a record of multiple fire safety violations.

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    Hades on Steam Deck is a blast

    I had fun playing it on PC, but the game is just that much more fun and immersive on the Deck. I'd say it's the first game where I've noticed a big difference since I got my Deck last week.

    On the other hand, I found Slay the Spire to be better on PC. The controls and smaller screen seem to get in the way a little bit more.

    Any other suggestions for games that really shine on the Deck vs PC?

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