Which is always a concern … but at the same time, the more often organizations switch, the more people realize the benefits and eventually, the switch will stick permanently.

Driving everything to crisis levels … then the US government will try to save everyone from absolute ruin

But none of them admit that it was the stupid fascist US government that caused all of this to happen in the first place!

Just because they have mandatory French in Canada … doesn’t mean that people go on to learn the language. I’m in northern Ontario among a lot of Francophones. Lots of people went through school around me that had French but they went through the programs and never bothered to learn beyond that and then forgot it all as adults because their families looked down at the French language and French culture.

Many people don’t get to go to post secondary school unless you or your family have a bit of wealth … so they don’t bother learning another language for any reason. So being poor and from an anglocentric culture that looks down at other enthnicities usually ends up with people not learning or wanting to learn another language.

The sad part is that I’m Indigenous Canadian … my first language is Ojibway/Cree, it was the first language I learned and spoke fluently until I was about ten years of age - I learned English in school but it was more or less a foreign language to me until later in life. The sad part is that this was all about 40 years ago and now the majority of people being born into my family almost all of them speak only English and know little of our Ojibway language.

When you are poor and don’t have the means … you almost have no choice but to get stuck in one language because you don’t have the time, energy or resources to have the luxury to learn another language and poverty has the double edged sword of taking away any language you or your family already had.

lol … imagine the insults to federation captains …

Statlursa: … HEY! … HEY YOU IN THAT SHIP THERE!!! … WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO START FIGHTING!!!

Captain Picard: … WHAT! … You attacked us first and we’ve exhausted all our torpedoes and cannons and our shields are down and our warp core is about to explode … fight!? … we’ve been doing that for the past hour!!!

B’Edorf: … OHHHH!!! … IS THAT WHAT YOU’VE BEEN DOING?!

Flesh

How many languages do you speak?

Most North Americans are shocked that a human can learn more than one language

A glacial ice sheet has formed over Highway 17 and it is now 100 feet deep and compacting at the bottom into solid ice … all animal life is freezing to death in the minus 60 degree weather … but if you’re careful, you can still make it to Walmart before closing

Unless your grandma was Marie Curie

I’m in northern Ontario and no matter how terrible and blinding snow it is outside … we’ll still have people on social media in our area asking things like … ‘How are the highways today? I want to go to Walmart’

It will be rain, sleet, snow, solid ice on the highway, blinding snow, no visibility and there will always be a dozen people asking … ‘How are the roads? We need to get to grandma’s for a party’

I happen to be one of the people who weren’t severely affected by the virus but I chose to instead believe I was superhuman … and I went on to infect 400 people, 100 of which died because of me.

ASS HOLA MIO!!! OH SODEM-MIA!!!

You should try … ‘Oh Yeah’ by Yello

https://youtu.be/6jJkdRaa04g

Can’t find a duck … but I see your mom … and my neighbor

Recently learned that … þ … is an old letter that is pronounced ‘th’

A bit jarring to see them use the first word … þhat … which would be … 'th’hat

In Canada, especially in the rural parts, it is a ceremony that lasts on average about one hour and takes place from the kitchen table / living room couch to the end of the driveway. And there is a 20% chance that the farewell may be cancelled and the visitor invited to stay for supper or to spend the night, where the ritual will be repeated again the next day.

The dumb part is that the world has gotten to the point of allowing Nazism into our collective conversation again.

Hunger is a normal part of life … I keep trying to remind myself of that

Just because you are hungry, it doesn’t mean that you are starving or dying … sometimes it’s just your dumb greedy biological system wanting to eat everything in sight because it still thinks that you live in the African savanna and there’s no food around.

I grew up poor and as a kid, hunger was just a normal part of life. We weren’t starving, mom and dad gave us enough nutrition every day to be comfortable but not to live in complete luxury where we could eat any time we wanted. I remember wanting snacks during the day and there were none … so you just drank some hot tea to satisfy the craving and then went on with your day. By the time we were teens, we were lean, built and none of my friends were overweight (this was in the 80s and early 90s). It wasn’t until we all had free access to cheap snacks and sugar water that we all started having problems with our weight. I’m middle aged now and I constantly have to battle my urge to want to eat any and everything in sight.

The best part of this comment is that I’m snacking on a tube of pringles as I’m writing this.

User’s always have the option of just not using Windows at all

If your company wants to pay for a computer or system for you to use Windows … by all means, let the company pay for it all

But personally at home, if all you’re going to do is watch Netflix and Youtube videos or read Wikipedia … you can just use any basic Linux OS and do everything with that.

I always love that bit … scientists wondering if the first test would set the entire planet’s atmosphere on fire …

Scientist getting ready to pull the trigger on the first bomb: … if we don’t fuck around … how are we ever gonna find out?

I’d rather vote for these robots instead