Are the mouth shapes made by ASL (and other sign-languages) mandatory and/or standard? I sort of had no idea they were part of the language if so -- having never really thought about it.
A foot rub isn’t a sex act? All conditional sex is rape. If the other person doesn’t enthusiastically and unconditionally consent, then it’s rape. This is obvious, and if you’re having a hard time getting it then you’re probably a sex offender.
As someone who knows sex workers, has done sex work, attends sex parties, etc, I have never heard the term "unconditional consent" and to me it sounds pretty problematic.
You sound hyper-defensive and I can only imagine you have some issues with sex/sexuality (as we all do) and I suggest you do some introspection instead of accusing strangers of being sex offenders.
Also, you did not answer my question. Just narrowly defining "sex act" is a cop out since we all know different people have different ideas of what constitutes a sex act.
Believe me, if someone asks for you to show them your feet in an explicitly sexual way, it absolutely feels like a sex act even though no genitals are involved.
>If the other person doesn’t enthusiastically and unconditionally consent, then it’s rape
This is wrong and dumb. There is nothing wrong with unenthusiastic sex. Criminalizing 90% of normal human sexual behavior is obscene. This is an example of where the cautionary rhetoric has intentionally or unintentionally morphed to be the baseline. The idea of enthusiastic consent was to avoid the possibility of someone feeling coerced but afraid to speak up. Now its transformed to enthusiastic consent being the baseline. This arms race to control social norms by way of emotional manipulation needs to stop.
Unconditionally consent? That's insane. I have conditions on my consent every time I have sex. My consent is conditional on the fact that protection is used with my secondary partners, and with my primary partner it is conditional that they haven't been having any unprotected sex without my knowledge.
I’d love to believe this, but dev and IT people are not paid exceptionally well in most of the world. That says to me that the high salaries are a consequence of social structures and the current economy, not that the skills are super valuable. It’s proximity to money that actually matters.
Developers are paid pretty well in most of the world, usually well above median income for the country. Just because they’re not paid at 90-95th percentile incomes as in the U.S. doesn’t mean they don’t have valuable skills.
Also, you'd better believe that a tsunami of smart, motivated young people are coming through the education pipeline to pump up the labor supply for the IT/dev sector.
Maybe the demand will increase fast enough to keep salaries from dropping in real terms.
Another screw up! The best thing that could ever happen in my life would be the Canadian government collapsing and the country getting annexed by the USA. Such an evil country. It’s so embarrassing to live here.
Speak for yourself that would be the worst thing to happen to this country, and I don’t know anyone who would rather live in America. I like my healthcare.
Do tell, why is it an evil country and why is it embarrassing?
Healthcare in Canada is mediocre at most. Every single time me or my family need it, it's either a few months in waiting lists or "take Tylenol" treatment after few hours in ER.
And it gets worse every year - right now it's a real problem to find a pediatrician or a family doctor in my area.
I don't understand why Canadians are so obsessed with it and bring it up every time what someone dares to criticize their country.
> I don’t know anyone who would rather live in America
because we all get it regardless of income or job, and we don't' go bankrupt because of medical issues, nor are we locked into poorly paid shitty jobs because we NEED healthcare. When i hurt myself i just go, i don't sit there thinking about "is the co pay worth it" - American healthcare is worse than ours for most people: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...
I'm sorry your family hasn't gotten the care it deserves, but would you rather end up with a 100,000 bill, or your child dead because they didn't have insurance and couldn't afford their insulin?
I don't have to think about it, i just go and use it. Yes it could be better but would you want to pay more taxes to fund it better? (i know is sure would)
I don’t know how to fix it, but there are countries where the problems don’t exist and we would be better off as part of them. The average Canadian home owner now makes significantly more money on the house they live in than they do from their job. It’s a completely broken country and I expect it to stop existing within my lifetime.
It’s easier to replace the word “white” with “Jewish” since the arguments about disproportionate wealth and representation will still hold. Everyone knows that’s wrong, so I don’t know why they think white is any better.
While rent-collecting is a major problem in the music industry, this is a rather reductive statement.
Especially when it comes to more niche genres, such as lofi, a label can be a major help to increase name recognition for smaller artists just starting out, especially when said label allows such non-exclusive publishing deals and still offers the artists fair compensation. In this regard, they often serve as, essentially, incubators.
This is also a common way for much larger, more well-recognized artists within a niche to give back to the community, by providing their own name recognition to (or even starting) a relatively small label that launches other artists in similar genres, in spite of the fact that said label is less likely to give that artist in particular more value-add than another, larger one.
> a dampening effect on agility, individual contribution, risk taking, etc. which is opposite of what you want for a software shop.
These are company problems and not employee problems. The employees have no incentive to care about this so unions are a way to get more power over the things that matter.
It’s slavery as a service. Great for saving costs because you only pay for the time that you actually use, and you can outsource the maintenance of the service to the provider.
If real slavery was still legal it wouldn’t even be used because the paycheque to paycheque employee model is so much more cost efficient.
I wonder what it is going to look like when finally every single dollar you have is sucked up automatically by the month. The scales tip by the year. People in major cities are already paying 50% of their wages to their landlord alone. That's a degenerate economy, not a productive one.
Eventually we will reach an equilibrium where there will be just enough vultures out there to eat exactly how many slices there are left in the pie. Complete extraction of 'disposable' income will be achieved this century. For working people in major cities, some are already being completely extracted like this, having to work multiple jobs to keep a roof overhead and bellies fed with no time to do something that isn't low skilled labor for capital.
$150k is not even enough to buy a small home near your workplace in a lot of cities. Janitors had better living conditions 50 years ago than $150k earners do today
It's utterly amazing to me how far up the wealth pyramid you can go and find people saying "Me? No, no, no, I'm not wealthy - it's the people above me who are the wealthy ones."
