Evkob (they/them) @ Evkob @lemmy.ca

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Vapes are as tightly controlled as cigarettes (at least here in Canada).

The issue is that cigarettes aren't as tightly regulated as you'd think. Pretty much every town has that one spot where local teens know they won't get carded for nicotine products.

Calling him a "cocksucker" is frankly insulting to people who perform the act of sucking cock. Musk is way too selfish to perform the generous and loving act that is fellatio.

Because a lot of Canadians are racist, also people have somehow been convinced that the housing crisis and the lousy job market are the fault of foreign students and immigrants rather than the fault of landlords and other disgustingly rich people.

People in this comment section being shining examples of why some fat people would feel uncomfortable at the beach.

On another note fuck Trudeau for running again, essentially guaranteeing that Canada will have a fucking Con gov't

I definitely don't disagree with you here, but on the other hand, I don't imagine the Liberals pushing a candidate that wouldn't just bring them even further right of centre...

There's just under 3 million francophones in Canada outside Québec, and only around 47% of people in Québec are French-English bilingual (which is still the highest rate of any province, to be fair).

There are francophone communities all across the country, from BC to PEI, from Yukon to southern Ontario. There's also a substantial percentage of people in Québec who are unilingual francophones.

Once, I was in a sandwich shop in the Netherlands, ordering in English (as I don't speak Dutch). The fellow behind the counter had excellent English. When he heard my friend and I speak to each other in French, he switched to French, and it was nearly as good as his English.

That's a guy working in a sandwich shop, speaking at least three languages rather fluently. Heck, he probably speaks a bit of German too, seeing as we were close to the border with Germany. It blew my mind as a Canadian who's used to people being stubbornly unilingual.

Speaking more than one language is so cool. It's good for your brain, it helps one understand the structure of language better, it opens up doors to new cultures and ideas. I truly don't understand why so many anglophones (and, if I'm being honest, a good number of francophones in Québec) are so opposed to the idea of bilingualism.

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Une fois, j'étais dans une shop à sandwich aux Pays-Bas, passant ma commande en anglais (étant donné que je ne parle pas le néerlandais). Le gars derrière le comptoir parlait très bien l'anglais. Quand il a entendu mon amie et moi parler français ensemble, il a changé à un français presque aussi bon que son anglais.

C'est un gars qui fait des sandwich, qui parle couramment un minimum de trois langues. Crisse, il parle probablement aussi un peu l'allemand vu qu'on était proche de la frontière avec l'Allemagne. Ça m'a ébloui en tant que canadien•ne habitué•e aux gens qui s'entêtent à ne parler qu'une langue.

Parler plus qu'une langue, c'est tellement cool. C'est bon pour le cerveau, ça t'aide à mieux comprendre les structures de la langue, ça ouvre des portes à de nouvelles idées et cultures. Je ne comprend réellement pas pourquoi tant d'anglophones (et, pour être honnête, un bon nombre de francophones du Québec) sont si opposé•es à l'idée du bilinguisme.

Ban them for their actions, but not for Minority Report Pre-Crime.

It's fascinating that you consider participation in the events of Jan 6 a "political view" rather than an action.

I've known from a pretty early age that I never want kids. Don't get me wrong, I actually love kids. At social events I'll often be the one entertaining them, and I can't wait for my friends to start having kids so I can be the cool & fun babysitter.

However, kids are dreadful roommates, I'd be a horrible parent, I don't want to bring a living being into this cruel world (especially with climate change), I'm too poor for children, and, being non-binary, parenthood just seems so tied down to gender norms I don't adhere to.

The "humour" in what you wrote is based on the idea that being gay is something to be ashamed of. I understand that this reflects Cruz's views on homosexuality, but you're just indirectly perpetuating those homophobic ideas.

So what? Doesn't change a thing about what I said.

• Reading books
• Going for long bike rides to cool spots
• Trying new recipes
• Crochet
• Learning frivolous, semi-useless skills (juggling, solving a Rubik's cube and unicycling to name a few)
• Trying a new operating system
• Work on my family tree

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/24/colorado-springs-shooting-father-interview

In a series of interviews, Aaron Brink told San Diego’s CBS8 that when he first received a telephone call from his child’s public defender, his first reaction was to question why his child was in the club.

“And then I go on to find out it’s a gay bar. I said, ‘God, is he gay?’ I got scared, ‘Shit, is he gay?’ And he’s not gay, so I said, ‘Phew …’”

This kind of weaponized homophobia does more to hurt queer people than it does to hurt the Ted Cruzes of the world.

It just gives off middle-school bully yelling "Ur gay!!". I'd much rather we criticize Cruz over his pathetic ideology.

It's cheaper for you because suburbia effectively gets subsidized, and because housing in cities gets artificially limited through ridiculous zoning rules. Ideally, suburbs should have to actually bear the costs of the infrastructure necessary to their existence, and we should do away with things like detached single family housing and absurd parking minimums in urban areas.

I acknowledge I can't completely remove myself from contributing to suffering and climate change (short of killing myself, which I have no intention of doing.)

However I'll do all I can to minimize my impact. Including being vegan, living a generally minimal consumption lifestyle, buying secondhand as much as possible, walking or cycling everywhere, and not bringing any children into this world.

I'll also acknowledge my individual actions don't really make any difference in the grand scheme of things, but I couldn't live with myself if I didn't at least try to live in a manner that won't make our planet inhospitable to our species before the end of the century.

Sorry my diet doesn't cause enough death, suffering, and environmental destruction for your tastes.

What is your goal with these posts man? You don't want help, in fact you seem to react very aggressively at the mere idea, so why the fuck are you posting this? To torture yourself? To clap yourself on the back because, while you might be a fucking mess, at least you're self-aware?

To answer your question, it's nice being in a loving relationship, in no small part because it necessitates loving yourself and accepting you are worthy of love. A healthy relationship cannot exist without self-love.

I really hope you eventually seek out therapy, you obviously have a lot of hate for yourself and you deserve better. Everyone does.

Now to wait for OP to berate me for daring to offer advice and empathy! Sorry, not sorry! 😊 If you don't want help, can you please at least stop spamming these super negative, useless posts? If you're so insistent to stay in this mindset in which you are clearly unhappy, at least have the decency to buy a journal or something instead of posting when you are openly hostile to anyone who tries to be nice to you. Sorry if my tone is a bit rude throughout the message, but fuck I can't help but feel you'd just automatically reject anyone sending any kindness your way.

I believe they mean setting up a VPN on your network, rather than buying a service from a VPN provider.

Something like Wireguard lets you configure individual devices to access your network remotely.