I Mean, It Cost Me Ten Seconds And Nothing Else, So Now, Maybe I'll Find Out If Anyone Else Reports It

It should go without saying. And yet, it must be said.

It slaps.

Good lord, this. Due to strange circumstances, I've been involved in editing a translation twice in my life. It's insane. In one case, the original author was relying on a WORD COUNT to judge the accuracy of a translation-- that was a two-language chain, at that! Languages are nothing like each other at all, and it's fairly common to have concepts, words or just grammar that doesn't translate between two languages at all.

strangely common misconception that words have basically the same meanings in every langauge and that translation is just a matter of identifying which exact word in the target language corresponds to the word in the original language

Serves the landlords right, keeping places out of the price range of ordinary people.  Investment properties are a plague.

Vancouver property owners 'panic' to rent as vacancy tax implemented

Vancouver's empty homes tax came into effect over the weekend and some property owners are now scrambling to rent, sell or find a way around the fees.

Under the new rules, homes that are not occupied for at least six months of the year are subject to a tax of one per cent of the property’s assessed value. The deadline to rent out empty dwellings was July 1.

Fazli said many of the people he has talked to are thinking of renting or selling their properties. He recently met with a woman who owns three empty properties in Vancouver — and says one of them is now listed for rent, another will be listed shortly and she is thinking of selling the third.

“This is a scenario of someone who is kind of in a panic now and needs to rent them out,” he said. […]

amazing

HELL yes!

sticker design for pride this year! 💞🏳️‍⚧️

For those who don't know, it's really awesome music; a bunch of remixes of it are in my (vast) play list.

How to explain

There aren't a lot of you, but what the hey, right?

Please reblog if YES so your followers will know!

ANYTHING to fix this BS! ANYTHING!

A boy can dream, can't he?

Small sea creatures want to kill you.  Respect their space, please.

Tully Monster

Reblog and put the species of the nearest stuffed animal

100% this. Absolutely no question about it.