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Old 06-17-2024, 03:47 PM   #921
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Parks and school yards overrun with dandelions to the point of absurdity, the playground and boulevards near our house are an unmowed eyesore, the outfield for my kid's t-ball knee high clumps of overgrown weeds.
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The water pipe is another sign of stuff being left beyond the crumbling point.
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Old 06-17-2024, 03:47 PM   #922
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All this never would have happened on Kevin J. Johnston's watch.
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It honestly can't be overstated how bad the brainworms are getting in this city.

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You people care too much about the twitter cesspool. You'd be amazed how easy it is to not fill your life up with that bull#### when you stop seeking it.

At minimum we could stop hearing the same circular complaints about internet idiots.
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Old 06-17-2024, 04:03 PM   #925
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In their minds, nothing bad can ever happen by chance. Any time something bad happens, it MUST be part of some grand conspiracy to ruin their lives.
Probably a lot of crossover there with religious people. And I don't mean that as a put down, but I've found these are generally people that are just uncomfortable with the idea that #### can just happen, and there's no plan or guiding force behind it
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You people care too much about the twitter cesspool. You'd be amazed how easy it is to not fill your life up with that bull#### when you stop seeking it.

At minimum we could stop hearing the same circular complaints about internet idiots.
You'll never stop me until the place inevitably burns to ashes.
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Old 06-17-2024, 04:30 PM   #927
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I am surprised that it seems like the older generations are the ones that have gotten so soft here. What’s going on?
Today's old people were yesterday's "Me Generation". This group has always been soft and selfish, they just weren't always old.
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Old 06-17-2024, 04:30 PM   #928
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I am surprised that it seems like the older generations are the ones that have gotten so soft here. What’s going on?
Unsupervised access to Facebook and for whatever reason lack skepticism on what they consume.
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It honestly can't be overstated how bad the brainworms are getting in this city.
Maybe ease off your social media usage.

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Old 06-17-2024, 05:23 PM   #930
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Yeah but she showered!! While at the same time she was telling us *checks notes* that it's totally still okay to shower just do it quickly
If you're not outraged you're a sheeple that's not paying attention!!! Blanket densification!!! (Idk why, just because) The Gondek Turdeau WEF alliance are in on this to control us all and put us in 15 minute cities!!1one
The leftists on Reddit are losing their minds this afternoon after the city announced that the Stampede will go on. So much outrage about the decision and hate for cowboy cosplay.
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Sadly about 50% of my income is funnelling through social media at the moment. I am trapped
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Old 06-17-2024, 05:31 PM   #932
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The leftists on Reddit are losing their minds this afternoon after the city announced that the Stampede will go on. So much outrage about the decision and hate for cowboy cosplay.
Stampede was an obvious yes.

The event itself could easily afford to truck in what ever its water needs are before canceling. So then your left with just the hotel use as incremental load. And again that small incremental load could be trucked if it was acute.

People seemingly don’t understand that cutting a small amount of water is really important but also this is the least significant crisis we have faced. High consequence if you run out but very simple to mitigate.
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I think generally people are fed up with the state of infrastructure, parks, and facilities.

Potholes on every road, once a city with good roads now in the bottom percentile nationally.

Parks and school yards overrun with dandelions to the point of absurdity, the playground and boulevards near our house are an unmowed eyesore, the outfield for my kid's t-ball knee high clumps of overgrown weeds.

The water pipe is another sign of stuff being left beyond the crumbling point.

People see their property taxes go up every year while the city physically looks like its headed the wrong direction.
Well unless you are mad at the city for not having psychic powers to know that the pipe was about to burst, I don't know what this has to do with potholes or dandelions...
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A truck? Would have been cooler to get like a C-17 or Antonov to bring our pipe.

Thanks San Diego!

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It's amazing to me during times of crisis like this, how there are scores of people who magically become pipeline experts, project managers, master of all things construction, public relations advisors, engineers, etc...

In my boomer-filled Facebook community group, there was a guy who was complaining how in the photos there was no one working on the site and claimed it should be done in days. His qualifications? "I workED in construction".

Someone else who was complaining about how Gondek looked like she showered and why did her hair look good.
Well now that all the advanced degree information they obtained in virology and epidemiology over the last few years is no longer required, you can't expect they'll let all that exceptional grey matter sit idle, do you?
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The leftists on Reddit are losing their minds this afternoon after the city announced that the Stampede will go on. So much outrage about the decision and hate for cowboy cosplay.
So I quickly checked the comments in r/Calgary and r/Alberta, barely any comments in the Alberta sub and mostly sarcasm in the Calgary sub. Where are these "leftists losing their minds" posts exactly?
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That sucks. I used to have to listen to the Rutherford Show for my job back in the day.
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So I quickly checked the comments in r/Calgary and r/Alberta, barely any comments in the Alberta sub and mostly sarcasm in the Calgary sub. Where are these "leftists losing their minds" posts exactly?
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