Rowan Wiebe

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Reminder that daylight saving time is the jet lag equivalent of a trip from Toronto to Halifax, or Calgary to Vancouver, without even the hassle of packing a bag.

If you find the time change to be difficult, that's a skill issue.

That's huge dude, great job

passé: burrito taxi
in vogue: boba train

This is a pro-fun account.

There’s a lot going on, times are hard and they aren’t going to get better any time soon.

Celebrate your half birthday.Make up holidays.Find reasons to gather, party and fellowship.Find your people.Spend time with family and friends. Ignore anyone in opposition to fun.

Phrases like “I’ve been told,” “I hear,” or “people say” serve several purposes:
-Plausible deniability
-Signal amplification
-Dog whistling
-Test ballooning
-Deflecting

And it's just a whole lot easier than actually investigating the severity or sources of problems.

Its true, I am TRYING to find decent linen clothes and its either boutique, custom-made for $250 or a linen/polyester blend for $60. Basically no in-between for my size.

Air travel is the apotheosis of this. A pleasant flight experience with many creature comforts is available to everyone who wants to pay for it.

As it turns out, people would much rather forego those comforts in exchange for lower fares, then complain. I don’t wanna hear it!

Everyone *says* they want beautiful clothing that is made to last in factories that where workers make a living wage; but vanishingly few people are willing to actually pay for this stuff.

Private equity didn’t kill Toys R Us, Amazon did.

I am getting very tired of people blaming “private equity” for changing consumer behavior.

Private equity didn’t degrade the quality of the clothes you buy, ultra fast fashion and online shopping where you sort by low price, then buy clothes without ever actually touching them did that.

The fact that Albertans are still overwhelmingly supporting the UCP drives me bonkers. What do conservatives have to do in this country to lose an election (other than split)

One of the instances in which it is actually emphatically true that by stifling left-liberal criticism of Israel on a liberal basis you just leave open room for nutjobs to do it and fill the space instead

Its really too bad that its rude to ask your department admin why they suck at their jobs.

Not only is February brutal in Edmonton... the leasing market feels like this snowstorm too. The absorption rate has completely shifted. Many of us predicted that Spring 2026 leasing would be different, but I don't think anyone expected this many units to hit the market at the same time. Right now, tenants have options - lots of them. They walk into a showing, and if the unit isn't exactly what they want...there is similar one just across a street. What we're seeing right now is something we haven't seen in a while - a real competition between landlords. free months of rent gift cards parking incentives flexible move-in dates upgraded appliances utility credits Everyone is trying to lease asap as the lender is coming at you and if you don't achieve proforma - you get to buy the rate down ouch! For investors this means a few things: You need to be strategic, flexible, and realistic (!!!) with pricing and incentives.

Turns out building more homes makes housing more affordable.

Edmonton real estate investors are realizing that because so many options are on the market for tenants, they need to be sweetening the pot with incentives - and being "realistic" with rent.

#yeg #yegcc

Front page of The Journal of AI Generated Papers

I think this journal is a great idea -- it makes it really convenient to completely avoid all these papers at the same time.

We went from Ok Boomer to Oh no Zoomer

you don't have to read graphic descriptions of SA even if the rapist is running the country right now

you don't have to read or watch graphic depictions of bombing innocents even if it's happening right now

you can be angry about and take action against wrongs without exposing yourself to trauma

Donald Trump accidentally balances the Alberta budget.

I never for one second believed that Farkas had changed. I'm old enough to remember Nickel's half-hearted transformation story after all.

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

She just literally makes shit up. She just lies. I know people have said this. And yes I agree. But here we are. Right there. My god golly

CDS: Stating a negative on Eric Fury twice.

Bluesky: Per se?!

Covert filming should be treated like the crime it is

On "growth should pay for growth": homeowners are all too happy to accept higher property values (created by growth in population, jobs, and public infrastructure), but refuse to pay for the costs that make growth possible. Is that fair?

Trying to keep up with games right now is absurdly hard. Not just because of the sheer volume of releases, but the QUALITY.

Even if you assume 90-95% of everything released is hot garbage... that's still 3-4 worthwhile games coming out EVERY SINGLE DAY on PC alone.

I'm gonna centre my identity around my e-bike even harder

Did my taxes for 2025. Without the carbon tax I am about $1000 short of last year on rebates. As a student that makes a pretty big difference.

I initially shared this, not knowing it was a Claude screenshot (because, having never used Claude, I didn’t know what Claude screenshots looked like), and since I’d seen similar claims in other sources I assumed this was journalism. But I should have checked it before sharing. Apologies, all.

Dwarf fortress is a game about wrangling two hundred humongous dipshits every single one of whom is dedicated, body and soul, to finding their own personal way of delving too greedily and too deep

One of the reasons you should take up a transportation cycling habit asap.
Price of gas becomes mostly meaningless.
Same goes for rush hour traffic reports.