Having the government own most of the liquore stores doesnt make much sense

Even though I lived in Halifax most of my life I find it weird most of the liquor stores are owned by the government. Only recently I learned they are called a Crown corporation. I like to call it a Clown Corporation, because you'd have to be a clown to have the government have a mostly monopoly on the liquor stores. If I want to get shit faced at home I should have the dignity to do it at home and not pay through the ass for it. I also shouldn't have to feel like i need to be treated like shit because people working in those stores tend to have a chip on their shoulder.

When you enter the store they say hello to you and act like a basic bitch. I usually just ignore people when people who work in stores say hello to me because I feel like they are insinuating I'm doing something wrong by walking in their store. If I needed your help Id ask, leave me alone. I'm not half retarded and I can find stuff I want, I have eyes and I can read and none of those stores aren't even that large anyways. It's not like I'm walking in a big box store.

Other places in the world I herd about, even other provinces make a lot more sense. I should be able to buy liquor at a corner store. Convenience stores should be able to sell alcohol, having the government have a monopoly of liquor sales sounds like fascism to me, a lot of people would agree. The government should stay out of most of the choices of it's citizens choices and shouldn't subject people to bullshit like making them go to a Clown Corporation store.

I've lived under a rock most of my life and didn't talk to most people in Halifax, except for a few close friends. I'm a bit weird and a lot of people think I'm from somewhere else even though I've lived here most of my life. My parents moved here when I was a little kid. That's probably why I have ideas like this, because I've talked to people from other places from the world a lot of them thousands of kilometres away or across oceans. My dad had internet access since I was 12, and I used it a lot since i was 15 when i found things like ICQ and IRC.

People around here seem not to care or see something wrong with things like waiting in long lines in front of a NSLC. You see inane cartoons about it, I forget what it was about. You know, if the supply of alcohol wasn't artificially limited by a handful of Clown Corporation Stores around the city, like if you could get your six pack of beer at a corner store shit like that wouldn't happen.

Maybe they do it to curtail things like drunk driving, walking intoxicated or alcoholism. It doesn't do a whole lot for the issue and i think the government shouldn't act as a nanny for it's citizens. If I want to fuck up my liver or drink myself to death the government should let me do it. It probably makes alcoholism worse. Think of those homeless people that bum change for an overpriced bottle of rum. Things like these stores are making people want to drink more.

Street Photography Halifax NS July 2021 Post #1

 

Re: Reality is funny

I thought the post I wrote about that computer was misunderstood by people, I also wrote about the situation that seemed to be related to that in another post on my blog.

Though the post I wrote about the computer I built seemed to have triggered more people harassing me than usual, after I posted that post on my blog and someone came accross it somehow it seemed to have triggered a chain reaction where I was harassed more often and then 2 days later a charge of assault was layed on me for something i didnt do. 

I was dopped up on a lot of medication when i wrote it and I think it sent the wrong message and people who dont know much about computers probably got the wrong idea.

A couple years ago in 2019 i wanted to build myself a computer. Which was a dumb thing to do as I am on social assistance and I probably shouldve been spending the money on something else. Though I had more money than I used to, dad wasnt making me give him his share of the money that was for boarding at his apartment $200 out of the $500 cheque I got each month. 

Dad was also insisting on buying me cigs. He'd just show up with a pack without me asking. I'm not going to say no to that even though it made me feel bad. No sense punching a gift horse in the mouth or so the boomers say.

I was stuck in the hospital so i was getting extra money. My social worker kept sending me the full cheque, since i was following the rules and I was out of the hospital on a pass two days each month (more than that) Atleast dad told me those were the rules. My social worker knew I was in hospital and didnt seem to care.

Dad would let him know for me, even though I never asked him to do that. Either that or the social worker wasnt listening to his voice mails. I'm not sure if Dad actually talked to Joshy Simmons. He seemed like a really friendly guy(at the time I met him in person), I met him once and he shook my hand. Other than that I never heard from Joshy and my only communication with him was a cheque coming in the mail box, as is with most income assistance workers. What he did later was really passive aggressive to the point of being hostile.

Anyways, I had an old motherboard that my friend Alex bought me back in 2010 because he was so happy with the computer I built him with the parts he bought. He didnt feel confident building it himself though yet he gathered all the parts. He had a job at Super Store and had more money than he was used to.

The motherboard sat in the box for years because i didnt have the money to build a computer with it, as most of the time i have a hard time even affording food, much less ciggerettes when I'm totally out on my own.

Computer parts have gotten a lot cheaper in the past ten years. I was able to buy an old Core2quad and 8gb of DDR3 memory. That was a weird motherboard. It had a LGA775 cpu socket and those memory slots. Normally motherboards with that cpu socket have DDR2 slots, so I've been told anyways. It's a very old socket. By the time i booted it up the CMOS battery was dead, i had to enter the time every time i booted it from a cold boot or when i unplugged the computer or flipped the switch on the PSU.

The ones before that wernt LGA, which stands for Land Grid Array. Which means the pins are on the motherboard rather than on the cpu itself. Sockets before that you pushed it into the motherboard. While now you put it there and it sort of sits there when you close the little leaver.

Anyways, the parts I bought over 2019 the appx prices of the parts, as im not sure as I've been on a lot of meds that made me retarded and I'm still getting out of that retardation:

ATX PSU: $60. For some reason it had hipster lights even though the listing didnt say anything about lights or i just didnt notice that.
CORE2QUAD: $30 very old cpu, mustve been 10 years old when i bought it. It worked nice though, well i guess for regular web browsing. I believe its 4 pentium 4's glued together. Sort of like how the Core2duo was two of them glued together. I'm not sure what tells me this. I'm probably wrong. It's amazing how much things change that a quadcore cpu from ten years ago is really slow compared to mobile and budget cpu's nowadays, if you look at their benchmark scores anyways.

8gb of DDR3 RAM: $45
Microatx case: $90 This case is bad. I cut my hand when i was working in it. It has a lot of sharp edges in it. A neckbeard on irc said that sounds like a lot of cheap cases.
120gb HD free, a nice guy gave it to me. It was really slow.

About a year later in 2020 in the height of beer virus over several months I decided to replace the motherboard, cpu, RAM and the HD.

I forget what most of the prices were as I was on a lot of medication that was making me really spacey. I swear divalproax was like being drunk. Id take that and I wake up laying on the floor in random places. I was lucky I was in the hospital at the time.

Though I think the Celeron CPU I bought was about $80. The DDR4 memory I'm not sure how much it was, but I remember thinking it was strange how cheap the memory was(though i'm weird). I bought 4gb because I figured I didnt need 8gb. I only bought one DIMM. The SSD I bought was really cheap though it was really low capacity, around the same size as that really small mechanicle HD i had in the case before. 

The two monitors in the photo, one was gifted to me by the same guy who gave me the HD, he had some spare parts he worked in an IT department. As for the other monitor I had that for years. I bought it for like $100 over 7 years ago. I see similar monitors as those at thrift stores for like $30. You see them at value village and they're like mine, they connect with a VGA cord which is an old way to connect a monitor. both of them are 720p, which is the typical resolution of a laptop. The computers at the central library have high end screens compared to my computer.

As for the keyboard and mouse in the picture. I got those from a thrift store. I got both of them for $10.

FM radio kind of sucks, atleast in Halifax NS

I dont have any experience in other areas in the world. As I lived in Nova Scotia/HRM the longest. I've been living here since 1996 when my dad moved here. We mostly lived in the middle of no where's ville in HRM outside of the main part of Halifax. 

For some odd reason Halifax decided to amalgamate in the same year. If i was retarded Id draw a conclusion where there is none as a lot of random people do. Though more on that in another post, much as anyone probably wouldnt be interested in my convoluted opinions about that.  

Anyways, i think my first experience with FM radio here was with q104 when i was 12. Even then they were really behind. They played mostly old rock from the 70s or even before. They didnt start saying "classic rock" until recently. I guess they wanted to make their radio station more boomer friendly, even though the truth is they always been boomer radio. 

I think the main demographic for FM radio stations nowadays is boomers anyways, since most people have moved on to other ways of listening to music, via the internet, mp3s and streaming music services. There was a rise of hipster stuff with vynle records. 

You started seeing music stores crop up even though those vanished near the end of the 00s, only to reappear when the hipsters wanted more records, a blast from the past. It's weird seeing those places around. 

I like having CD's of my favourite albums, but i never set foot in one recently since i buy stuff like that online. I only listen to FM radio because it's a convenient way to tune out noise that's around me and it's light on the battery on my phone, it also doesnt use data which is great. 

Though if i had more data and didnt have a shitty phone that drains the battery quick i probably wouldnt listen to the radio, since a lot of the radio stations here suck. I do kind of like the French stations here, though I dont understand much french so i dont know what they're called. q104 is okay, though they seem high as balls sometimes. One time they remarked it must be a cloudy when it was clearly sunny. I heard that yesterday afternoon. Little bit cool for ya in August, old man? 

For awhile there was a radio station called live105, which was great. Though it vanished and turned into another boomer radio called jewel105 or something. Then suddenly someone backpeddled and live105 came back and called themselves surge105. 

They played a lot of music I like, mostly from the 90s, though i stopped listening to it because the messages they played in between songs grated on my nerves. 

Also they had an odd tendency of playing the same Linkin Park song multiple times a day, which really annoyed me. They also played a lot of Nickelback. Both of those bands I never want to hear and if i have to hear them multiple times a day that's just annoying.

Email I sent to the department of proffesional standards for the HRM Police.

With attached photos. I used my real name in the email but I changed it here since I dont use my real name on my blog. 

The police officers I reported a death threat to and harrassment and stalking ignored my complaint even though they know ppl want to hurt me. To

He wouldn't let me finish most of what I said and asked me irrelevant questions about food, sleep and what day it was. It was very condescending.

He wasn't interested in listening to anything I said and kept cutting me off he was more interested in telling me about the security guard to stay away from who probably should lose his job for what he did to me as most ppl at the hospital.

The officers didn't itentify themselves when I asked one he only gave me first names which he probably made up on the spot

These officers should lose their jobs as most HRM police should. Pictures of them and their cars are attached. It happened around 920pm

After I walked away they talked to another officer and laughed like adolescents in their cars like man children like most HRM police behave.

adrien

 

 

saving the battery on a phone

If you find your phone burns a lot of battery. There are a few things you can do.

Put your phone on airplane mode when you're not expecting a call or not actively doing anything that requires the internet.

Turn off data and wifi when you're not using them.

Close all apps and reboot the device. Sometimes even when an app isn't open it can become truent and soak up cpu, memory and bandwidth. You'll also notice things will speed up too.

Delete any apps you don't use much. Some apps have a tendency of doing things without your permission which will burn up power without you realizing it a lot of the time.

Turn down the brightness of the screen when you don't need it like if you're somewhere dark.

Keep in mind how Power hungry the app is. Things that require the internet burn a lot. So do a lot of games. So don't do that when you're trying to save your battery.

Use power save if you're not doing much that is taxing to your device.

Take photos and videos at a lower resolution.

Some people get angry when you take their picture or they happen to be in the picture

For something to do I thought I'd take up people photography. What I thought was strange is some people get very upset like I'm doing something wrong. 

It's not like I know who they are and they're in a public place. 

Some people talk like it's a crime to take their picture without their permission. I've given up explaining myself since it doesn't help anything. I never publish any of them since I don't see much point most of the time.

One guy told me I was weird for taking his picture. He also called me a clown and was very threatening about it. To be honest I thought he was weird and a clown for getting upset. It's not like I published it and I have no idea who he was.