The craziest part is when you go outside of Vancouver to places like Abbotsford or Victoria. Both have housing prices nearing the $1m mark fast, and it's not uncommon for property owners to get realtors knocking on their doors daily asking them to sell to their overseas client.

As it happens, yesterday, a real estate agent dropped off some materials about selling while I was out. Now that's a timely coincidence.

If you want to die to assist the population-control efforts, be my guest. : )

More seriously, what would happen if the average number of children per family was 3.5, rather than 2.5 [1]? Probably nothing absolutely catastrophic, and that's roughly what would happen in a pessimistic scenario of an ageless society- instead of simply generating a batch of new people that will later reproduce, there's a batch of new people and the original parent. Maybe some outliers will just keep having children constantly (until they just physically give out- that would be an extreme strain), but I'd think most people would allow a decade or two between families.

More more seriously, birth rates are declining drastically in highly developed countries, to the point that many places are worried about population decline. Overpopulation is a problem in developing nations, but realistically, anti-aging won't make a big difference there- they're already typically dying of more preventable things than old age.

[1] Source; that old apocryphal statistic we all know from the 90s or something. Its probably different now, but I'm too lazy to look it up.

relevant documentary: "No Sex Please, We're Japanese" - Link is https://vimeo.com/80542212 (this appears to be the director's account, so I don't think it's a random/pirate upload)

They are regulating the hardware as well? What is to differentiate between an ecig battery and a flashlight battery? Are Tesla vehicles now going to be considered nicotine devices? That's absolutely ridiculous.

All will be revealed in due time

So they're claiming there is a WMD on the phone and they need to break the rules and invade the privacy of millions of people to save them? Yeah, that's gone so well for America in the past.

Well maybe it's all part of the plan. First teach him about financial literacy, then teach him about intellectual property laws.

I live in Vancouver. We have a number of pot chains that are starting to grow bigger and bigger. The city is trying to implement a number of regulations that include not allowing pot shops to be within 300m of schools, community centers, or other pot shops. As well, edibles were banned almost a year ago now.

At first I was completely against the edible ban. Now, with shops only being able to sell things like infused oil pills and simple cooking oils, I'm fully in support of it. Weed gummy bears are a fun idea to think about, but it seems like these are novelties at best and extremely likely to be used in a distasteful prank or over-consumed by novice users.

I'm still kind of against the "300m from other pot shops" rule, but c'est la vie.

When has it ever not been like this? They aren't going to change for a while longer.

Which would explain why the majority of their board was appointed directly by the provincial government.

Last week my SO was freaking out because she kept getting ads for things she had conversations about in person, but never looked up on her phone. A few days ago I asked her why we had a plastic bag from Games Workshop (we've never shopped there and the bag came from a Craigslist purchase we had made). Her phone was sitting on the table, and a few hours later she showed me an ad for Games Workshop on her news feed. This was on Android, and the Messenger app includes permission to use the mic at any time.

It might be audio being always on, or it might be more than that. They aren't above it.

Ever checked the T and Cs to see if they are capturing audio?