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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • I used to live in Wisconsin, close enough to Chicago to go on day or weekend trips often. I absolutely love Chicago, it’s a great city to visit, but I’ll never forget going to the Field Museum with my parents once and seeing signs warning against bringing guns into the building.

    The reminders that you live in a violent society are always there, even in the most innocent of places. I’d rather have to save up longer to buy a new laptop or only have good pineapple for a few months in the summer than live that way.


  • I’m not sure how to describe it beyond saying life feels a lot less confrontational here in Canada, even living in the largest city in the country.

    Obviously there are problems here, but it feels much more like an actual society than a collection of people who happen to live near each other.

    It’s not even about healthcare or anything specific, those are just symptoms IMO. It’s a larger philosophical difference between the countries