malle_yeno

Don't ask the questions if you don't want them answered lmao

Thank you! Everyone has been saying this and it's so cop-brained that it's frustrating.

They have not proven that he killed anyone. He is innocent until proven guilty. When you accept that he actually did anything before he is convicted, you are aiding the police's and prosecutor's job by making the assumption that arrest = guilt.

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.

Also just as an observation: monotony is boring and I think aversion to boredom is a big reason people seek different things (maybe even things that require more skill to perform). Who wants to dance the same dance their whole life?

I feel like people in the past were as susceptible to being bored that we are -- maybe even more because there were a lot fewer things to actually do back then.

I think I get the point they're making, but eeehhh? I don't think "art is something inherently human" and "you can (and maybe even should!) be improving your abilities in art" are in conflict with each other. Humans have been able to make art for as long as we've been human, but we've also had an implicit understanding of seeing two pieces of art and picking which ones we preferred in the moment. Capitalism didn't really change that, we've had masters and apprentices since antiquity.

Couldn't we say that the desire to make better art and the anxiety that comes with examining your own progress just as easily be called a behaviour unique to humans?

(Edit: writing that last part made me come up with the image of bees that have imposter syndrome about how they build their hives and I don't know how to feel about that)

"nobody wants to work anymore"

1940

Lmao not even World War 2 is enough for people to stop trodding out this line