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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: (tranlation) Apartment Women by Gu Byeong-Mo
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 08:04:53 -0700
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On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:09:51 -0400, William Hyde
<wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:

>Paul S Person wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 18:23:24 -0400, William Hyde
>> <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
>>=20
>>> Paul S Person wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:18:05 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
>>>> Nicoll) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In article <vremii$13ocd$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>>> Dimensional Traveler  <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>>>>> On 3/19/2025 6:10 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>>>>>>> Apartment Women by Gu Byeong-Mo
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The Dream Future Pilot Communal Apartments is a bold attempt to
>>>>>>> address South Korea's negligible birthrate. In exchange for new
>>>>>>> homes in an invigorating rural setting, certain conditions need
>>>>>>> to be met.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/babies-forever
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Technically, not SF or even futuristic but sufficienty dystopia-
>>>>>>> adjacent to be of interest.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would you want to raise babies next door to North Korea?
>>>>>
>>>>> A question lamentably relevant to Canadians, provided one replaces
>>>>> North Korea with the United States of America. One cannot easily
>>>>> choose whose ones neighbours are.
>>>>
>>>> I suppose Canada will eventually use its Secret Weapon -- and outlaw
>>>> shipments of Maple Syrup to the USA.
>>>
>>> You could, at least until recently, find American "Maple Syrup" on
>>> the shelves here.
>>>
>>> It's garbage, but it's sweet and cheap.  Won't be so cheap, now.
>>=20
>> Doesn't matter to me. I only get Maple as a flavor in snacks/junk
>> food. And only occasionally. When those disappear due to a cut-off,
>> I'll get by just fine without them. Might even lose a few ounces, who
>> can say?
>>=20
>>>> And Trump thinks the MAGA outrage about egg prices are disturbing =
[1].
>>>
>>> Egg smuggling from Canada and Mexico into the US has begun. Soon, =
eggs
>>> with added fentanyl!
>>=20
>> Only in the minds of TDS sufferers -- the /real/ TDS, not the TDS
>> being projected on sane people by Republicans.
>>=20
>> Oh, wait, was that humor? If so, never mind.
>
>The egg part was serious, the fentanyl not.
>
>Fentanyl pills can be bought for as little as $1 in Spokane, but the=20
>minimum price in Vancouver is $10.  Little as I respect drug pushers, I=20
>am certain they can distinguish between one and ten.
>
>Or they could google to see if ten is really bigger than one.  Might
>get the wrong answer, though.

Supply and demand, no doubt.

Capitalism at its finest, so to speak.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"