Also about my own experience. Poor people pay the difference in time. Did you wait more than 20 minutes for you 20 minute ride to become palatable to pay for?

Maybe not on here, but it is typical that is the problem I encounter with people who are vocally against immigrants. My experiences being my experiences(my algorithms online)

I didn’t read through most of the comments before I felt like commenting, for whatever that’s worth if anything

I don’t know that I would agree that newcomers are necessarily getting screwed, not anymore than anyone else anyway. And I think that’s why I have worked with so many. (Corporate greeeeeed)

Most of the people I work with still are better off than where that came from, it’s still a better life for them comparatively, and like I mentioned, they often have skills(opinions, preferences, familiarity etc) that allow them to utilize their situation to make them happier than non immigrants typically find.

Against my experience, I don’t mean to sorry for everyone else, but I do have first hand experience in this place so I feel comfortable offering an opinion

Cynicism

I work with a lot of immigrants. Here’s some random thoughts opinions and observations

They aren’t the problem. I’ve met and learned a lot from the people I work with. They are as amazing or as shitty as anyone else you know.

Most of the immigrants I know are from India or the Philippines(just establishing perspective), and some are first generation Canadians(children of immigrants)

It’s not hard to make friends with these people. They care a lot about community because it’s what has allowed then to succeed as much as they have. I’m an atheist the vast majority are solidly theist.

But like everyone else, they want something familiar if and when they have the choice, just like anyone else seems to

Most of our opinions are forged by how we grew up and what we learned about the world at that time. (Meaning this was the same for everyone I worked with and didn’t matter where you came from)

communication is by far the most common problem, it’s hard to be successful when you don’t understand what you are being told. Often that means not understanding what you are doing wrong. Hard to do if you don’t speak the language that company does business in. I felt this same way when I had to go to Quebec City to work. I don’t speak French. What I learned to do is exactly what the people I work with do, rely on the person or people that can translate for us. It can turn bad coworkers into your best assets if you can communicate effectively, even if that’s just a box with Google translate on it as your interpreter. Wanting to understand and trying to is going to get you far, even when you are embarrassed about the difficulty you have. You will be appreciated for not just getting yes yes, okay boss, and continuing to make mistakes.

Minimum wages in Canada are way better than most of the places people are coming from, but the cost of living quickly catches up to people. Immigrants often have much better coping mechanisms to combat cost of living than local people do. This is the crux of blaming immigrants for low wages, if the wages didn’t suck already then you wouldn’t have so many immigrants coming here. That’s not on them, that’s on domestic policy and employers fucking everyone over.

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They thanks. That was an interesting read

Just look at surge pricing on Uber to see where this is headed

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Alternately why bother leaving a message when they just ask you why you called when they do call back?

Then again I’m old enough to have had to use a rotary phone so that could be a factor in my personal experience

And Internet killed the video star

Sennheiser chose Eagles - Hotel California for it’s CES listening demo for the Orpheus 2 headset($55,000 headset)

Norah Jones - Don’t Know Why was also used by some people at a different event.

I think I remember they had Tidal Master Quality streaming used for the source, but I could find that article I remember again just now

So casually included… Like it should be

Truth and also I agree fuck spez the little piggy boy

I now understand

Ahh. Lame. Should have been long johns then

Congratulations, I have no idea what this means

Why beef + eyes? It’s a very specific concern so was curious what is the danger

If anyone’s is interested in a stream of modern rock that is devoted to new music, I can introduce you to the dj before he does a stream. I spoke with Alan Cross (From the Ongoing History of rock and roll) via email briefly about this DJ and Alan already knew who he was and there is video interview between the two of them as well

If interested send me a message, don’t want to promote a link to something I support through patreon without permission, but I’m happy to share to anyone that’s interested.

Last week was his first live show in a long time, and I’m glad he has decided to continue.

it is a basic human right to steal from those who haven’t paid their fair share?

Seems an odd concern so I’m wondering if there’s something in unaware of?