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I’m not American so I’m speaking out of turn. But could it be resourcing?

Curriculums have to be made, and that sort of thing takes time and money. So I imagine it’s easier to take a curriculum for European Spanish that already exists and just keep using it under the assumption that it’s “close enough” for students to jump to Mexican Spanish from there, rather than reinvent the curriculum for Mexican Spanish.

It should be illegal to remind people (me, particularly) about Steins;Gate while they’re at work

I can’t be fucking crying on the clock, dawg

Anyone got any show recommendations on CBC Gem? Bf and I just downloaded it but not really sure what’s good yet.

We’re fans of sci fi and fantasy if anything like that is available on it

(Edit: thanks for the recs folks!)

Yep! This would be something you’d be expected to do in a royal court (or even in a regular noble’s presence) if you held lower station.

You know I didn’t think about this comparison until reading your comment, but like:

Back in the medieval period, it was vitally important (socially) that people understood your background and standing in society, because there were pretty strict rules about how one class of people is supposed to treat another. Like whether you were a social “superior” or “inferior” type shit. That’s how we got things like “your majesty” and how you might not be allowed to turn your back to someone while leaving them if they were a “superior”. In a lot of places in the world, wearing a kind of hat was legally required because that signalled “who you were” and how people needed to act.

A lot of those rules were done away with post French Revolution/modernity because the idea that people were supposed to be equal caught on. So nowadays the idea that you might have to kneel at the sight of someone because of who they are or not refer to them directly in speech because they’re “above you” is considered unthinkable.

I dunno, I guess now I see parallels between that old way of social thought and coming out today. It’s not as strict as the medieval thing (I don’t think we’re at the point where you legally have to come out or else you have committed a crime) but it seems like something cishet people socially expect queer people to do to “know who they are dealing with and how.”

I completely forgot that he used the notwithstanding clause within like… the last few years. I don’t know what it says about the times we live in (or maybe just my memory, im probably just exaggerating) that something that should be a major constitutional crisis for us happened and nothing came of it

I wish we had more Watergates because at least Watergate toppled a president

Given that Canadians don’t typically vote in American elections, I don’t see how that has anything to do with us or should affect our decision making.

The USA is tariffing us, not just the red states.

I believe in Friends, it’s justified as Monika pretending that her grandmother is living there so she still gets her rent controlled tenancy agreement. I thought I remembered that there was an episode where she and the custodian were having a fight so he threatened to reveal the grandma isn’t alive anymore so that Monika would have renegotiate the agreement (and it was resolved so he didn’t do that.)

As for Joey and Chandler’s apartment, no clue how that one happened lol

Also big shout-out to local community radio

Seriously, if you have a station in town, tune in. Listen, learn the hosts names, follow them on social media if you use it, subscribe to their RSS feeds, share their stuff, throw some money their way if you can. If this moment is inspiring you to break away from American media and hegemony, let it inspire you to uplift those creators around you.

Special thanks to 91.3 CJTR in Regina, I’ve learned about some weird cool music from y’all

I don’t know what it is about the British Isles but they produce some of the most bat shit insane takes I’ve ever read. “This person made me late to school one time, so she should spend an extra month in prison.” Like that is the most lead micromoles per litre of blood I’ve seen written in text.

Until recently? Did something happen recently to change this? (Genuine question, I’ve only heard good things about the Costco ceo)

Green colourless ideas sleep furiously-ass sentence

Do you have any thoughts on this image?

I feel embarrassed to say this, but I straight up have to use reminders to go “hey, talk to X person” and set them up in advance. Because otherwise our chats will just be me going “happy birthday” or “happy new year” and that’s it for the year.

It’s not that my friends aren’t important to me, its just that it never occurs to me naturally to be the one reaching out. Can’t tell if I’m a bad friend or if I just have zero object permanence for people lmao

Bark bark bark

No?

I’ve never gotten shit from people for having a strong work/life balance and boundaries. Unless you’re being really dickish and combative when you’re communicating boundaries, most people are not going to give you grief about them.

That section does not describe how it does not break the Goldwater Rule. I’m not sure how you came to that conclusion based on what it reads in the section.

It lists specific instances where the rule and commentary on Trump intersect, as well as citing commentators that disagree with the APA about how the Goldwater Rule is applied with Trump.

I’m not defending Trump, but don’t statements like these run counter to the Goldwater Rule?

This is why I don’t like decimal notation lol

(1/4)/(1/2)=1/2 makes it way clearer what is going on.

I’m sorry that you’ve been mobbed for sharing this view. That’s shitty.

I feel like ableism, especially against people with intellectual and personality disability, is the one sphere where nobody seems to take the objections of the targeted group seriously, and simultaneously dismiss people speaking up for the targeted group for being “virtue signalers” or as whiners. So it’s like the only solution is to just not say anything.

(Tangential but I have similar feelings about people calling others narcissists and attacking them for it, though I don’t feel like that is going to change anytime soon. Still, if the person targeted is actually a narcissist, then I feel like it’s bad to attack them for a diagnosis and symptoms they have no control over. And if they aren’t actually a narcissist, then why further stigmatize people with narcissism? It’s more complicated than the r-slur since abuse by narcissists happens and victims shouldn’t feel restricted from sharing their experiences accurately, but similar in how it’s disproportionately used to disparage and nobody takes objections to that usage seriously.)