Victor Villas @ villasv @lemmy.ca

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I do, of course. It certainly is mainly to serve as a means to shorten things. Still, not every acronym has the exact same purposes behind its design.

Not every acronym is designed to be easy to remember. Obvious example: UNBGBBIIVCHIDCTIICBG, almost 1MM members on reddit; many of whom probably can't recall the entire acronym and yet it's a lively subreddit.

What other purpose would an acronym serve?

One of these extra purposes imbued to 2SLGBTQIA+ is to bring visibility. Visibility is achieved by unwrapping a few extra letters from inside the + in there. And the obvious demonstration that it works is this post: some people just learned what 2S means, thanks to it being right there in the acronym.

Care to enlighten the community on the purpose of that acronym?

Could it not be the case that the purpose you see in that acronym is a different one from the purpose the activists do?

That was in the nineties? I mean infighting specifically due to that 2S change. Also, chill.

valid criticism

Is the goal to use every letter of the alphabet?

lol super valid criticism, not a knee jerk response at all

like a great way to start the kind of stupid infighting

How much infighting regarding this have you been seeing? From where I stand, it has been pretty smooth sailing. The LGBTQIA+ community reaction I've seen varies between "meh, whatever" to "yeah that's kinda cool".

That’s why looking at year-over-year inflation is meaningless.

It's not meaningless, but like any economic indicator you need to be very careful with the conclusions you draw from it.

I don't understand what's your point here. I didn't meant that 3% is a great inflation to have forever, I just said that going from 4% to 3.8% is good because the target is 3%. BoC meeting its targets is the good economic indicator. It's a single indicator, not synonym of a perfect economy, and a great economy doesn't translate into great society/QoL either.

Uh well I believe we should celebrate getting inflation closer to the 3% target because that’s a healthy economic indicator. It’s not “propaganda” if you remember high school economics.

Inflation rate slowing doesn't mean grocery prices drop either, prices just increase slower... so don't celebrate on that cheese just yet

Neither did First Nations people, and I don’t see the majority of Quebecois speaking any of those languages either.

Québécois are not asking First Nations people to forget their language, you are.

Fair. Maybe all efforts will be in vain and sooner or later French is going to disappear from Quebec. I can’t fault them for resisting, though. Sometimes they go overboard and cross the xenophobic line, but this time… meh, ineffective at worst.

Somehow millions of immigrants are expected to understand and accept this, but Francophones somehow feel special?

Yes, because they didn’t go anywhere[1]. They’re not immigrants[1]. How is that difference not obvious?

It really isn’t.

K, that’s just ignorance at this point.

[1] PS. Obviously they immigrated as colonizers at some point, but the language they’re being assimilated into isn’t First Nations. If it were, that’d would be a different story.

Won’t that make people not want to go there and select somewhere else instead causing a reduction in the student population?

Having English-preferring students go somewhere else seems to be aligned with their goal.

they encourage French-speaking Quebecois to have more babies (and they already do this)

It's understandable that this is not enough, they'll grow up speaking more English than French. Most yougsters in Montreal seem to be fluent in English, so it becomes a matter of diminishing the forces that give younger generations more reasons to speak English day to day. One of those forces is having a bunch of student colleagues that only speak English and attend English classes.

It's impossible to be smart talking and lead morons, because to lead the morons you need to spew stupid shit. Pollievre is already near the minimax of optimal intelligence for that target audience. The smartness is in saying the vote-grabbing stupid shit.

I think they don’t believe it, they just don’t dare attack it yet.

I love that this news gets a whole block on CBC Vancouver News TV program for like 3 days in a row, even on the Late show which I assume it's supposed to be the "core" issues of the longer one. What a time (and place, specially) to be alive! I wish we we'll remain able to afford being this lighthearted forever.

Lunch was never amazing in my Brazilian schools, I still remember the "alien meat", "color juice", the burnt rice and beans, leftover soups etc; but they were there when I and many others really needed them so cheers to the program and keep on with it by all means.

I don't understand the title of the article. It has so little to do with the matter being discussed... The core issue the interviewees are raising is that the policies and government initiatives haven't been enough - not a problem of consumer behavior.

So once again, the answer to the question headline is "no".