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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (tranlation) Apartment Women by Gu Byeong-Mo
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:09:51 -0400
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Paul S Person wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 18:23:24 -0400, William Hyde
> <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 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?
> 
>>> 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!
> 
> Only in the minds of TDS sufferers -- the /real/ TDS, not the TDS
> being projected on sane people by Republicans.
> 
> 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 
minimum price in Vancouver is $10.  Little as I respect drug pushers, I 
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.

William Hyde