DerisionConsulting

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[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Being bilingual is a metric for hiring, so some people who can say "Jim apple George" or "monet es George" will call themselves bilingual. So knowing enough to be hired, and knowing enough to actually do the job are two different things.

So, if I work at the CRA, and I go into a meeting where we're discussing some finer points about the tax code, and how it interacts with a s85(1) rollover or eligible vs non-eligible dividends, am I going to speak a language that I am confident that everyone in the room actually knows, or the one that I might need to repeat myself 15 times or make a mistake in front of everyone at work and look stupid?

Another (better) article that this article sites:

In short, francophone public servants feel uncomfortable expressing themselves in French because their anglophone colleagues are not sufficiently fluent in the language.

More than 39 per cent of anglophones surveyed said they do not feel comfortable expressing themselves in French. Around 70 per cent cited a lack of practice speaking French while 61 per cent feared having their accent and mistakes judged and corrected. Forty two per cent also reported feeling embarrassed when their francophone colleagues reply in English after they have tried to express themselves in French.

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

The pickle-ball people in the article mention that one of the reasons that they want to use this court, is "our homes are right here.” So it depends on how close those homes are, and what's between the courts and the houses.

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 year ago (7 children)

From a pickle-ball website:

Pickleball sound levels within 100 feet of courts will usually be around 70 dBa with no sound reduction efforts applied. This is as loud as freeway traffic sound.

70dBa is much louder than tennis, and the game should be played on courts that are designed to deal with the sound.

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Buncha cunts who can't park.

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 year ago

It never stood a chance against people watching it, and then telling people that it sucked.

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 62 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This doesn't look ergonomic at all. It looks like instead of potential wrist issues, you get thumb issues.

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yet, you only streamed because you needed to pay rent, or didn’t you?

It's pretty fun to having guys go on and on about how big/suckable your dick is and how much they want you to fuck them. If I was single I'd probably do it again, even without being paid.

Also, I did not propose immediately anything that would threaten the activity in the way you practiced it

When you responded to @SlothMama@lemmy.world, you said that you were against all porn.

To be clear, I’m reading your response as against porn in all forms and for all audiences based on your wording, is that what you mean?

Yes.

I was showing one of the many examples of being in the sex industry, without any abuse and without it being "paid rape" as you put it. You didn't say "some", "a lot", or even "most". You simply generalized all sex work as harmful to the worker/performer.

My problem with pornography is the reality of it as well as the reality of prostitution in general. The porn industry is the home of abuse, in every sense. First in the rawest sense, the physical and mental abuse that actresses go through; second in the reproduction and propagation of the culture of abuse, considering that it is the most recurrent theme in porn films; third in the economic sense, pornography, like prostitution in general, is the sale of consent: the actress or prostitute receives money to have sex with someone she would not have sex with under other circumstances, in short: paid rape.

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I paid rent using a webcam years ago, and I am not sure that your points really apply to all porn/sex-work. I am not denying that it doesn't apply to some of it though.

Men paid me to chat with them, let them watch me jerk off, and sometimes watch them watch me jerk off. I was probably going to jerk off anyway, and knowing what I was so attractive that people would pay me to see me do it was a turn on.

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

In MB, it's either until you graduate or you turn 18.

https://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/schools/gts.html

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