Went to the back alley behind Nanaimo Costco and also found mexican coke.

I've seen Superstore carry the occasional Mexican coke in a bottle.

A lot of workout influencers promote drinking diet sodas like crazy on their feeds... they don't come right out and say it but it's always present in their photos.

Agreed 100%!

I can tolerate a Coke Zero, but a normal Coke is the gold standard.

Someone here had radiant floor heating and then added heat pumps. I forgot who that was and wanted to know if they got any of the government rebates for putting in the heat pumps.

Anyone see what looks like a meteor towards the northwest direction?

https://imgur.com/a/HYMOxtA

Or is it a UFO Kappa

See those all the time. Nothing special. A plane taking a piss. Releasing something, on purpose. Can'tremember the details, but it's a thing. Maybe JD13? Can chime in.

My gf was giving me head, then I looked up and saw the same thing In the same direction

And now I read you post

But mg is correct, airplane

Perseid meteor shower???

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-...-meteor-shower

Has anyone here had to deal with aging parents who start to get really weird views on stuff? Like, they've been normal politically speaking or religiously most of their life but then suddenly it's like they start latching onto FB groups or talking incessantly to small groups of people who have... less than ideal views of the world?

My mom is up there in age now and in the last 6 months I basically can't go over to their house anymore without getting in a big argument with her because she just goes on and on about trans people and pronouns and that she's glad Gal Gadot isn't in the Barbie movie because she's Israeli and "Barbie isn't Israeli" to which I told her if she actually watched the movie she'd realize how ridiculous that statement is since the whole point of the movie is that anyone can be Barbie. It culminated the other day in a mini-rant about China people forcing us out of our own city in front of my GF who, despite growing up in Canada, is from China. Of course she threw in the obligatory "except you" at the end because that makes it all better.

It's becoming quite tedious and I'm concerned about her shutting off, she seems to be becoming more and more negative and miserable the more she gets into this stuff. Suggestions to talk to different people or change up her echo room a bit or perhaps even just realize that what she's reading might not be truthful have so far fallen on very deaf ears.

I think like most of our parents, and us to an extent, their social network shrinks when they get older and this in turns them into semi recluses.

My mom is basically bat shit crazy now. She freaks about health related crap and has basically nothing else to talk about other than health related garbage. She has no real friends and all her friends and family her age all talk about the same bs.

Can’t do much with them other than keep encouraging them to be more out going.

Could have been UTI until you said past 6 months. Dementia. If she's got a regular GP that knows what her normal is, it may help with diagnosing changes in behaviour like that.

Which is why I post shit on RS, jbol...................

Getting there. And my parents aren't even that old. My mom is 62 and my dad is 70. Dad can't keep up with the current advance with AI stuff and in the last few months have put him in a really hard place where he can't tell what's real and what's not and since it's a video therefore it's real. Less political but rather he shows me videos and shit thinking fake stuff is real.

My mom has just become a safety and health nut. My wife is from Shanghai and we've been thinking about bringing the kids back to see her grandpa/kid's great grandpa and my mom is freaking out about the kids being kidnapped. She was showing me a video of two guys fighting with a kidnapper. I'm like it's not that bad otherwise no one would have kids in China.

My parents have been insufferable for the last 10 years, every time I see them or get off the phone with them I feel worse. Life is terrible, the world is horrible, health is horrible.

My parents live in another Province, I still make sure we talk at least a few times a week but seriously always bad news never anything positive, it's so miserable.

I don't argue anymore even if I disagree, no point I just move the conversation along not acknowledging the bait and even if I have advice on maybe things they could do to improve whatever their bitching about I just keep it to myself because been there done that, not worth the fight.

My mother is getting there, stemmed from health scares during the covid years that caused her to be paranoid about vaccines and general doctor recommendations presented in mainstream media. What's ironic is that my younger sister that lives with them is studying to become a doctor. Thankfully she isn't so far off and I can still talk to her on these topics in a civilized manner (for now).

My father is more trusting of doctor recommendations, but he's turning more disgruntled by all the social media content posted online regarding bad citizen behavior. Lately, he's fixated on dashcam videos and saying how dangerous it is to drive, and I have to remind him that a YT channel on dashcam videos will only show content involving crashes.

It's interesting (and worrying) to see them navigate the way around all this social media content - there's way more content compared to what they grew up with and they don't have enough experience to filter through what they're seeing and recognize each creator's biases.

My mom was always crazy so nothing she says or does really surprises me anymore that's about the only perk when dealing with her lol

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It's one thing to follow the news, but it is an entirely different issue when you listen to these so-called content creators from online sources.

My dad has somehow picked up the (bad) habit of listening to a lot of dubious sources from YouTube, in addition to following traditional news sources. His excuse is -- he needs to get a balanced view on the issues at hand, but when I happened to be drop by their place, somehow I am always able to hear a lot of untruths and conspiracy theories that these so-called content creators are spewing. I had tried telling him how those are BS / fake news at first, but he just kind of defaults to acknowledging it and keeps listening, or uses his "balanced view" excuse again. I have since stopped trying to tell him not to listen to this BS since it is just wasted effort where I get myself all worked up.

During COVID, my mom would occasionally pass along these news with dubious claims to us as well. Fortunately, between the siblings, someone is always there to correct her or point out the fallacies, and she'd be OK with not believing it. But then when the next round of fake news comes, it's rinse and repeat again. At least we can keep her straight.

As you can probably tell, I squarely blame these garbage spewing content creators for spreading the lies that they do. It is one thing to be mis-informed, but it is entirely another issue when you repeatedly spew dis-information that is known to be false. It isn't even a matter of opinion -- it is factually incorrect stuff that they are spewing. It is infuriating because you can't shut them down as that'd be a violation on freedom of speech. But these fxxkers are clearly taking advantage of and abusing their right to the freedom of speech, and are mis-informing people.

But hey, that's what climate change deniers, anti-vax people, and conspiracy theorists are, right?

At the same time no one is forcing anyone to watch that content.

Would you rather have Justin hand picking what’s fed to people? Lol it’s bad enough with the CBC etc.

There’s no middle ground really, you search every news outlet and it’s got some weird bias/dubious ownership. Imo most of this “news” wouldn’t have any impact on you if you never saw it to begin with. I think the issue are the algorithms that spoon feed you the stuff reinforcing your views based on the “news” being directed to you

I try to teach my parents how the algorithm works with social media content, but it's not the easiest concept for them to grasp. My father's YouTube page is packed with dashcam crash videos, and the sheer volume of this type of content undoubtedly shaped his slanted thinking that driving is unsafe. Doesn't help that he's not a good driver which only amplifies his insecurities with driving overall.

The topic in my father's case is pretty harmless, but when you throw in more sensitive topics like politics and religion it can spiral pretty quickly.

It is also extremely disappointing how such a large number of people have no ability to discern between real facts and dubious claims. Granted, mainstream media is far from perfect, and would of course have their political leanings as well. Still, wouldn't your BS alarm go off when stuff has repeatedly been proven to be false / fake?

It is exactly like the meme that says:

Parents then: Don't believe everything you see on TV.
Parents now: But I saw it in my Fackbook group!

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For those with parents going cray cray ... principle # 1 - do not engage in debate with them about any particular issue. First of all, it won't work to change their minds and secondly, it will result in both parties feeling frustrated, angry, and upset.

Imagine the tip of the iceberg analogy. Whatever bat shit thing they are talking about is the tip of the iceberg ... find out what is underneath and you will make strides and progress to calm their anxiety (what I hear from most of the above) down.

Again ... logic, reason, even showing proof WON'T work. It's not cognitive, something is going on underneath emotionally for them. My guess is anxiety, fear, knowing that they are nearing end of life, anger, resentment, etc.

Yup, this is it right here. That's the only thing that's made conversations with my parents a bit easier. Don't engage, don't react just keep the conversation moving.