BCTel is Telus.

BC Tel bought Telus and eventually changed the name to Telus

Jump in the fire!

That’s not the point though.

We are ceding the future of our own language, of the incredibly important part of how we form thought and express ideas to ourselves and other people to the machines that are invading our private spaces more and more. Like an ooze that you can’t hold back it will eventually get inside your own mind.

We have designed these machines for this purpose, intentionally and unintentionally.

It won’t improve enhance our expand, but will contract, the ability to think of things from different perspectives. It was also allow us to communicate with more people, overtime it will erode individuality of language into a homogenized pattern of speaking, and therefore thinking.

It’s absolutely fucking disgusting {to me anyways}

And this isn’t the start of that process, but it is absolutely going to be one of the most significant chapters of our species, if it proliferates as it does in my minds eye. Address already asking machines how to be better humans… And people are just okay with this. It’s fucking Looney Toons. And what really crazy is… It will actually help a lot of people in some ways. They will in those ways be better off.

It’s definitely got some chilling connotations.

Jesus I don’t want to live in this world anymore.

We have no fucking self control.

We have no hope

Duck this

I don’t I don’t know who Vivian is, but there are probably thousands of ttrpg fans that are going to create characters exactly living up to those rules.

I hope you all share your stories.

Also they should all pay respect to the human Vivian who freed the bots from their meatbag oppresors

It’s over saturated with it though and that was really what I was getting at. Point taken though

many of the ones that aren’t likely to attract kids though, teens maybe, but it’s an anime tried I would really like to see disappear. I don’t think it has any positive benefits anyway

“How do you justify having ships built over there?” he asked. “We should be looking to our traditional allies—Norway, Germany, Poland—places where we’ve had ships built before,” Rustad said.

Ah that’s the conservative racism poking out

Or like to flash

What makes that a proposition and not a simple question?

I think they are asking because many people don’t know the difference

I only know of this “rule” because of a joke.

A new student is looking for the library and stops a passing professor to ask, “Excuse me sir, can you please tell me where the library is at?” To which the professor responds, “Here at Harvard, we don’t end our sentences with prepositions.”

The student without missing a beat says “I’m sorry, can you please tell me where the library is at, asshole?”

(Not sure if I remember exactly how it should be written it, apologies if I got it wrong)

And also an artist named Lari Basilio

Satch is my favourite artist and Surfing with the Alien one of my favourite albums.

Hope you enjoy the suggestions even if only a little bit

You may enjoy a band called Kanaan

Go away this is needless noise and didn’t add any value to anyone

I think it’s interesting to compare the histories of Pilates vs Yoga

Glad you found it worth reading

https://youtu.be/7ZVWIELHQQY

I never have a shit about Britney Spears but craigy Ferg earned a lot of respect from me when I warned this monologue

Uhh I saw Jon Stewart say he’s been fired from from shittier companies already so yeah

Maybe not on here, but it is typical that is the problem I encounter with people who are vocally against immigrants. My experiences being my experiences(my algorithms online)

I didn’t read through most of the comments before I felt like commenting, for whatever that’s worth if anything

I don’t know that I would agree that newcomers are necessarily getting screwed, not anymore than anyone else anyway. And I think that’s why I have worked with so many. (Corporate greeeeeed)

Most of the people I work with still are better off than where that came from, it’s still a better life for them comparatively, and like I mentioned, they often have skills(opinions, preferences, familiarity etc) that allow them to utilize their situation to make them happier than non immigrants typically find.

Against my experience, I don’t mean to sorry for everyone else, but I do have first hand experience in this place so I feel comfortable offering an opinion

I work with a lot of immigrants. Here’s some random thoughts opinions and observations

They aren’t the problem. I’ve met and learned a lot from the people I work with. They are as amazing or as shitty as anyone else you know.

Most of the immigrants I know are from India or the Philippines(just establishing perspective), and some are first generation Canadians(children of immigrants)

It’s not hard to make friends with these people. They care a lot about community because it’s what has allowed then to succeed as much as they have. I’m an atheist the vast majority are solidly theist.

But like everyone else, they want something familiar if and when they have the choice, just like anyone else seems to

Most of our opinions are forged by how we grew up and what we learned about the world at that time. (Meaning this was the same for everyone I worked with and didn’t matter where you came from)

communication is by far the most common problem, it’s hard to be successful when you don’t understand what you are being told. Often that means not understanding what you are doing wrong. Hard to do if you don’t speak the language that company does business in. I felt this same way when I had to go to Quebec City to work. I don’t speak French. What I learned to do is exactly what the people I work with do, rely on the person or people that can translate for us. It can turn bad coworkers into your best assets if you can communicate effectively, even if that’s just a box with Google translate on it as your interpreter. Wanting to understand and trying to is going to get you far, even when you are embarrassed about the difficulty you have. You will be appreciated for not just getting yes yes, okay boss, and continuing to make mistakes.

Minimum wages in Canada are way better than most of the places people are coming from, but the cost of living quickly catches up to people. Immigrants often have much better coping mechanisms to combat cost of living than local people do. This is the crux of blaming immigrants for low wages, if the wages didn’t suck already then you wouldn’t have so many immigrants coming here. That’s not on them, that’s on domestic policy and employers fucking everyone over.

I can see that.

I did mean someone not learned already, not someone that doesn’t care to learn but I will concede the point now that you pointed out the flaws

if you have more opportunities to troll, then that’s also more room for disappointment as well, I guess I was thinking in terms of intensity more than opportunities. Thanks