I work as a barista and get much too annoyed by people ordering a "regular coffee".
Like I know that 99.999% of the time they mean a drip/filter coffee (excluding that one lady that one time who was surprised I didn't parse "regular coffee" as a latte), but like can you just say drip coffee? Or even simply "coffee"!
I honestly don't even know why it annoys me this much.
I used to do social media for a small theatre company. I would have adored this rather than constantly fighting with the atrocity that is Meta Business Suite.
I really wish the Greens would push the Libs hard on electoral reform. It's wildly undemocratic that we have a riding (Riverview) where the Cons won with ~39% of the vote, when the Libs had ~34% and the Greens had ~25%.
Same, he and Megan Mitton in Tantramar are excellent MLAs and we sorely need voices other than Lib or PC in the legislature.
I'm sad for Green candidate Kevin Arseneau who lost his seat in Kent North, he was a very dynamic speaker in Fredericton.
I hope the remaining Green caucus pushes hard for electoral reform; the Lib majority tonight was won more off of Higg's failures than by the actual Liberal platform. As always in NB elections, we voted a government out rather than voting one in. I wish that would change, but it won't as long as we have first-past-the-post.
I'm not thrilled by a Liberal majority, but I must admit I prefer the Libs' tendency of inaction to the Cons active destruction when it comes to policies near to my heart, including healthcare, education, linguistic rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and our relationship with First Nations.
I don't dare put any hope in them to move our province forward, but at least they won't be as active in making NB worse as the past Conservative government was.
I am i mean 😅 which is simultaneously hilarious take my shift on August after bullshit about it with and you want to be nice to you comes across as an avid beer drinker I'd be down to hang out with me you're automatically turn on von when not on home network remotely through it with and you want to be nice to you know you can be a fan of this is the tipping culture I want to be nice to you know.
I'm not saying supply & demand doesn't count, I'm questioning why you're so focused on the demand incurred by immigration and not landlords are the wealthy artificially limiting supply for their bottom line. Immigrants are not to blame for our woes, it's always the ruling class.
Definitely must be frustrating to try and (wrongly) attack someone objectively left leaning and anti establishment for being right wing
I'm not attacking you, I don't know you, I'm just trying to respond to what you said in your comment. I'm not sure where you read a personal attack in my comments (if I recall, you're the one who called me a "dummy") but sincerely sorry if anything I said bothered you.
I don't care (in the context of this conversation, anyway) whether you're a right-winger trying to stir anger against immigrants or a left-winger who's been submerged in so much right-wing rhetoric from the mainstream media that it's infecting your worldview (which, hey, it happens to the best of us).
You're parroting right-wing framing that immigrants are at the root of the issue when in reality they're victims suffering just as much (and often more!) than the rest of us. That's what I'm addressing. You'll just have to trust me when I say that I haven't formed a negative opinion of you as a person based off of one interaction on Lemmy.
Also, what was your portrait of Canada growing up? Exclusively hockey, Donuts, bad coffee, and free healthcare? That's all the national pride/identity you've ever had?
I've never been really into nationalism. Even then, I'm francophone so my relationship to Canadian identity is complicated to say the least, and I'd much earlier identify as Acadian than Canadian. At least as an Acadian I can be proud that we've maintained our culture throughout centuries of attempts to assimilate us. Most "proud Canadians" I know are just kinda xenophobic. Either that or they're immigrants who worked hard for their citizenship, in which case I feel that's more pride in themselves than pride in the country.
Well first off, it seems my first comment came off as more aggressive than I intended, based on your name-calling, so sorry about that, I didn't mean to upset you in anyway.
I did read your entire comment (both of them, actually!)
I'm just frustrated by your take, because immigration is ultimately irrelevant to the shitty job market, the housing crisis, or whatever else the right likes to blame on immigrants these days. Immigrants are a scapegoat to avoid general frustration being directed towards the ruling class responsable for the conditions we live in.
If your issue is with companies exploiting workers, why does your comment do nothing but talk about immigration policy?
growing up I always felt Canada was a peacekeeping nation that helped people out and gave people struggling from war/oppression a safe place to live and become a part of the Canadian tapestry.
That's honestly quite an idealized portrait of Canada.
He won't, and if he does it's inevitably going to be ranked ballots which unfairly favours the Liberal Party and won't have the desired effect of increasing the representation of people who vote anything other than Lib or Con.
Why would the current government do electoral reform years (and two elections) after failing to deliver on the promise that "2015 will be the last federal election under first-past-the-post"?
Plus public opinion of Trudeau is so poisoned that, at this point, his supporting of electoral reform would likely just make it even more unpopular amongst the electorate.
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I work as a barista and get much too annoyed by people ordering a "regular coffee".
Like I know that 99.999% of the time they mean a drip/filter coffee (excluding that one lady that one time who was surprised I didn't parse "regular coffee" as a latte), but like can you just say drip coffee? Or even simply "coffee"!
I honestly don't even know why it annoys me this much.