[canada] I don't need to take lessons on marginalized people. I'm ITALIAN!

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Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

They are literally for blind people and people with disabilities and are required by most cities now

My company distributes them, they also come in polymer composite with woven fiberglass for the ones with colour that you see at transit areas or places that get cold and the metal would destroy the concrete.

# ¿ Aug 3, 2018 20:19

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 00:02

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

The Chinese built this country when they made the railroad

# ¿ Aug 14, 2018 17:39

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

The smoke has drifted into Manitoba too

# ¿ Aug 17, 2018 14:22

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

James Baud posted:

I think it's buried deeply enough that I'm not even outing myself by accurately stating I work at a tech company worth billions that was founded in Winnipeg.

Heck, Winnipeg might not even know!

Those posts are for people with venture capital money looking to invest in the next big thing, not people looking to get into an existing tech company

# ¿ Sep 17, 2018 18:35

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

smoke sumthin bitch posted:

I saw a group of women in full ninja outfits once in the bus and it got me thinking, it might soon become a need to go out in public with your face covered with the exponantial spread of cameras, data colection devices and facial recognition software in our cities as the tentacles of the technocratic fascist government slowly wrap themselves around our collective neck. both the authoritarian left and the authoritarian right are plotting to violate our right to anonymity

Buddy they use wifi to track our position at all times anyways, they don't need eyes to see

# ¿ Oct 2, 2018 21:09

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

They'll make a newcomer tax that will hit immigrants and young people entering the workforce don't worry

# ¿ Oct 11, 2018 10:27

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

weed is now ILLEGAL

# ¿ Oct 20, 2018 15:47

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

DariusLikewise posted:

https://twitter.com/AndrewScheer/status/1060627685662224385

im sure the definition of "gang" will be as concise in this theoretical legislation as the definition of "terrorist" was in bill c-51

It's to secretly crack the largest and most destructive gang of them all, the police.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2018 15:24

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Baloogan posted:

the only loving media that has any relation to reality is heart of darkness and apolaypes now and perhaps some of david lynch's work

Twin Peaks is a pretty good expose of small towns being seedy as gently caress

Also that there are other worldly forces of darkness living in the hearts of men

# ¿ Nov 10, 2018 12:00

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

I used to work for a guy who whenever given the chance would talk your ear off how white people in Canada were being replaced by immigrants, and that it would be hard to compete against them because they worked together very closely and they looked out for their own groups.

Motherfucker didn't care that I'm Metis and half the people working there have some sort of Asian background, we just all looked white enough for him I guess.

A smart business owner would try to capitalize on this growing sector of new customers but he just bitched how they were not doing things the way he likes.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2018 20:32

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

pretty much any name followed by a random string of numbers is a bot

# ¿ Apr 28, 2019 21:44

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

vyelkin posted:

2 things here
1) we've been trained for decades to believe that unprofitable is the same thing as inefficient
2) we don't make the connection that places providing services to us being profitable means they're taking more of our money than they're spending serving us

but number must go UP!

# ¿ May 2, 2019 10:35

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Reality Winter posted:

Is machines running 24 hours a day supposed to be scary? All across the manufacturing industries, high tech machines are a huge bottleneck. Would you want MRIs running only 9 to 5?

radiation is a bad word

# ¿ May 4, 2019 12:39

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

James Baud posted:

Speaking of being 18, I like this story:

https://globalnews.ca/news/5298928/marijuana-credit-cards-border/

From New Brunswick, vice payment methods:

Pot:
Cash: 34%
Debit: 50%
Credit: 16%

Alcohol:
Cash: 26%
Debit: 42%
Credit: 34%

There's a bunch of theorizing around credit card avoidance for fear of getting in trouble with the USA (nevermind all the big banks having substantial US presence, too, re: debit), but I offer up an alternate theory:

A significant percentage of the purchases are by young adults who don't actually have credit cards.

Alcohol drinkers are spending more money than they have on drinking so they need to use credit to fund their addictions

# ¿ May 27, 2019 19:12

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Virtual Russian posted:

oh noooo, what happened to Hbomberguy!?

Ehbomberguy

# ¿ Jun 3, 2019 08:50

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

CommonShore posted:

I think I hate Pallister more than any other major Canadian politician.

How can you hate someone who hates Halloween

# ¿ Jun 20, 2019 10:51

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

DariusLikewise posted:

imagine living in canada and looking down on any other place in the country for being more racist than the place you are at the moment lmao

Yeah it solely exists to pass the buck to another city for being more racist so they don't have to do anything.

"well at least we aren't like Winnipeg/Saskatoon/Calgary/INSERT TOWN HERE"

Meanwhile more native women keep going missing

# ¿ Jul 16, 2019 15:56

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

quote:

"There is truth on both sides," she said. "People do feel a little safer (with the security measures in place) using the library, and people also don�t feel safer because of the presence of airport-like security."

Gotta make downtown Winnipeg feel more safe for the jets fans who will maybe possibly stumble over to the library once the game is over! gently caress all the others who have been using it safely for years

# ¿ Jul 17, 2019 15:45

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Postess with the Mostest posted:

y'all have a lot of violent crime

the more police you have the more crime there will be

# ¿ Jul 17, 2019 22:35

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:

I remember learning about Louis Reil in grade 4 but he is probably a lot cooler than they made him seem tbh

He killed a man for being racist, makes sense they wouldn't want anyone to live by that idea

# ¿ Jul 18, 2019 20:27

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

incontinence 100 posted:

why is the government livestreaming on Facebook?

Cops and people who are pro-cop LOVE facebook

Guaranteed your local police force have a facebook page with a full time employee talking to random people online and posting about BAD GUYS around your local area

# ¿ Jul 22, 2019 20:07

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

I expect those are cloud coverings, but what use is that on a static map used to indicate where two towns are lol

# ¿ Jul 29, 2019 09:08

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

flakeloaf posted:

Something something Panama papers

Might get the first recorded case of death by cannabis overdose from anyone who investigates this

# ¿ Aug 29, 2019 16:05

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

I can't even register my address on election canada because it says the postal code doesn't exist lol

# ¿ Sep 19, 2019 22:13

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

most people I've spoken to have just been "lol what an idiot but he's still better than the conservatives"

# ¿ Sep 20, 2019 15:00

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

MasterSitsu posted:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/kevin-o-leary-s-wife-charged-in-fatal-ontario-boat-crash-1.4608037?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Throwing the wife under the boat.

I wonder how drunk they all were

# ¿ Sep 24, 2019 19:15

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Powershift posted:

I'm just so incredibly frustrated by the electorate's inability to look more than 2 years down the road, and inability to understand why the programs they want to destroy were implemented in the first place. They can't consider the long term cost of their short term planning, and things the only viable political parties offer cater to that need, with their own greedy shortsightedness on top. I would be long dead had i lived in the states and i am grateful for what this country has provided me and continues to provide me, but right now it's extremely hard to see any sort of a future. I appreciate the generous government programs keeping me alive, but deplore the decades of right wing policy that made my reliance on them necessary.

This is compounded by the conservatives transparent self-serving nature, and destructive populist policies. In considering the value system somebody would need to support someone who has promised to do them harm, it begins to feel like i need to adopt their selfishness for the sake of my own mental health because the alternative is screaming at a concrete wall while they carry on with the destruction of our civilization, our society, and our planet. I can't, however, force myself to do it when i consider that i may be taking my frustrations out on the 1 in 4 people who aren't contributing to the destruction. It is just so painfully defeating to see things being done the wrong, more expensive way, purely out of spite. People complaining about needles, then fighting against legal consumption sites. Protesting against homeless shelters then complaining about tents. Voting for the party of zero corporate taxes, then complaining about hospital wait times. Railing against a living minimum wage because their own pay is inadequate. Yes these problems are global, but each one has it's own unique Canadian twist that people are somehow proud of. Their safe streets, their home values, their free healthcare, and their Tim loving Hortons.

We can't even get a single part in power to address the quality of life issues we universally agree on. We can't have nationalized pharmacare when nobody is happy with the price of their medication. We can't address the abuses by our telecoms when nobody is happy with their phone bill, or the service it provides. We can't tax billionaires or corporations when nobody is happy with their disproportionate tax burden. Come election day you could sit and break down the effects of every part of the conservative platform for people, and they would be either neutral or against each and every aspect, but they'll still vote straight C because that's their team. People kept alive by socialism in this country have been trained by toxic bleed over from the states to believe socialism is absolute evil. You would think with a smaller population, there would be less of an angry mob effect but a shared culture with the angriest of mobs has poisoned the well. Add to that the right wing conspiracy nuts looking for order in chaos on the left, while the right openly flaunts it's global co-ordination with the IDU and the Wilkes/Koch brother's meddling in everything everywhere.

We can see progressive policies working, and conservative policies failing worldwide. Portugal's decriminalization of drugs, Finland's progressive school system, Germany's rent control and labour protections. Contrast that with Kansas's corporate tax rate, Brazil's environmental and indigenous protections, Russia's............everything. People here seem to lack the imagination to even consider applying those solutions to our own problems. Instead of seeing what works and exploring it's implementation, they only look for results that re-enforce their views. They'll take the one study saying vaccines are bad for the thousand that say they're good, if that was the conclusion they came to before even giving it any thought. That, again, happens globally, but again has it's unique canadian twist.

I appreciate that it can be difficult to reconcile opposing positions when you benefit from the worst one. Connecting the cost of living to your home equity gains, enviromental issues to oilfield work when it's all that is available, or the tax burden that comes with socialized medicine if you've never gotten a medical bill, or dealt with a serious illness. There are probably things I am blind to and could be more reasonable about. But we have short sighted voters electing short sighted politicians in this country, and not even a single party with a 100, 50, or even 20 year view to support. Studying the past and observing the present leaves me very little hope for the future. It's true that most people today live better than people in any other time in history, but the forces seeking to reverse that seem to be more powerful than ever. Leaders who personally saw the horrors of war made every effort to avoid it, eaders who have never been challenged in their life see no harm in dismantling the structures those men built.

So while there are worse countries, there are also much better ones. While Canada is doing pretty good with regards to most issues, it could be doing a whole lot better with very little effort.

I realize this is the more lighthearted Canada thread, and i promise i'll make up for it in my next post.

Have you ever entertained the thought that most people know what they are voting for and they want to get hosed?

# ¿ Sep 25, 2019 18:39

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Wake me up when a chud rolls coal and Scheer appears out of the black smoke with his crooked smile

# ¿ Sep 26, 2019 21:44

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

the true way to climate strike is to go into work and not do anything and get paid

# ¿ Sep 27, 2019 21:47

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

youth can't vote though lol

# ¿ Oct 21, 2019 16:20

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Young people hate Tim Hortons because without fail you go in and every single table is taken up by boomers for several hours

I don't remember a time when I've gone into a Tim Hortons and been able to actually sit down at a table.

Also they got rid of the Beyond Meat burgers which were the only draw for me in the past few months

# ¿ Oct 30, 2019 15:47

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

This crime wave is the perfect excuse to privatize and bust a union

# ¿ Oct 30, 2019 19:22

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

How many weed edibles did you guys hand out this year? We only had 8 kids show up so we had a ton left over

# ¿ Nov 1, 2019 15:17

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Arivia posted:

yeah the winnipeg budget situation is loving ghastly

they're talking about shutting down libraries to give the cops more money

also no raising taxes ever obviously

Pretty sure the police just want the Millennium Library real estate

# ¿ Nov 19, 2019 19:42

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

CrcleSqreSanchz posted:

So, I work in health care. I just got off a hellish two week schedule so of course my body gave me my decompression cold. Happens quite a bit. I get through something stressful, I get sick when I have time to enjoy myself.

Anyhoo. Scratchy throat that went away in a day, now a dry cough and some sneezing. A cold.

WHich, of course, is the wrong time to have. SO I called work, they gave me the Manitoba health care workers line to call so they can OK me back to work.

Except, the line is now only open from 8am-4pm and you can't speak to anyone, just leave your name and number.

So, after waiting a business day, they tell me to call Healthlinks after 6, since that's when health care workers can call.

I am currently on hold. I have no idea how a general healthlinks (as opposed to the number specifically for health care workers) line has the power to OK me back to work in a way that I couldn't just bullshit either way (they said to isolate OR they said *cough cough* I'm okay *hack cough die*). I assume the other line documented and kept track of the health care workers, could figure where I worked and sent them a message (maybe not with privacy laws?) since it was set up for that. But, this? No idea what's going to happen but strap in kiddo's.

The worst part about healthlinks right now is the "hold" music only works like once every 3 turns, so you're faced with silence instead and the assumption the first time is to hang up.

Good way to keep the metrics down if you make people disconnect!

"Our hold time was only 3 minutes during the crisis" (3 minutes for non-dropped calls)

# ¿ Mar 17, 2020 15:02

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

lol it was the previous government what did all the bad stuff!

Manitoba's way too slow to react

# ¿ Mar 17, 2020 18:15

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

vyelkin posted:

love too pose in front of my own car that i own at the car dealership where i happened to be for an unrelated reason

I recall people looking up his license plate and finding out he's a poo poo driver who changes cars often

# ¿ Mar 18, 2020 19:19

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

DariusLikewise posted:

she left her husband and kid to start dating this new guy last year

Seriously?

And yet people still give money and attention to these grifters? How can you not see the grift? How does someone think that these are the people that should be telling you how to live?!

# ¿ Mar 18, 2020 20:24

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

Professorjuggalo posted:

well Peterson is a vegetable in Russia right now from benzo addiction so I don�t think anyone is giving them money now, probably why the daughter is shacked up with that dork in the first place

I still see JP when youtube algorithm recommends me a chud wojack meme video

Usually they are praising him in anti-coomer meme videos like "if only you would listen to JP you would have a better life"

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 00:02

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

DariusLikewise posted:

manitoba reported no new cases yesterday and no community spread so far. how long can our government keep this facade going

No new cases, no deaths...

Just announce a state of emergency just in case...

# ¿ Mar 20, 2020 17:29

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