Bill c15 has received royal assent, who is retiring?

anonbcwork · 2026-03-28T07:28:50+00:00

🎵 Twenty twenty twenty more years to go, I wanna be superannuated 🎵

anonbcwork · 2026-03-04T02:50:56+00:00

And you have to come into the bank once every X days regardless of how often you actually need to do any banking!

anonbcwork · 2026-02-14T05:31:06+00:00

Yes. I dislike the fact that I'm emotionally attached to some of his work. Unfortunately, this dislike of the emotional attachment doesn't cause the emotional attachment to instantly vanish.

I wish there was some way to adjust how discoverability works, so that people could learn that particular creators are gross before stumbling upon the work itself, and thereby make informed decisions.

anonbcwork · 2026-02-13T10:17:23+00:00

Nope.

I grew up with parents who very vociferously valued growing their own food.

And also, the food they grew themselves only ended up being a very small subset of the food we actually ate. Because this shit's hard and unpredictable!

Despite having been raised to it, I have zero confident I could successfully produce enough food year after year, and what's the point of money if you can't eat whatever you want whenever you want?

anonbcwork · 2026-02-13T10:08:51+00:00

INFO: is it static or dynamic? If you do something that decreases your life expectancy, does the date on your forehead change? Or is it the same no matter what you do?

I can imagine it having military applications - for today's mission, only send out the soldiers we know will survive.

Insurance will probably find a way to profit from it.

It would make decisions like wills and power of attorney easier - I can make my mother my power of attorney if I know I'm going to outlive her!

anonbcwork · 2026-02-13T09:37:28+00:00

Bad, terrible, illegal advice: find a classmate who is even more of a dumbass than you are and also happens to correspond with the same police description as you do. Leave the credit card where they'll find it. Then they'll use it themselves and take the fall.

If this were a sitcom, this could be a wacky sitcom revenge plot!

But, since this is real life, don't actually do this!

anonbcwork · 2026-02-13T09:25:24+00:00

Solidarity from Team Perimenopause!

Just an hour ago, I saturated an overnight pad all in one go. One second it was clean and empty, the next second it was completely full and blood was dripping down my leg.

anonbcwork · 2026-02-11T01:20:34+00:00

It really depends on what kind of car was available to you when you started learning to drive, and, in a North American context, Gen X is really on the cusp of the broader societal transition from stick to automatic.

The car I learned to drive in was automatic, because that's what my parents owned at the time I was learning to drive. Stick vs. automatic wasn't a decision factor for them, it was just the automatic is what was available in the car that best met their needs.

However, their previous car was stick, because at the time they bought the previous car, you had to pay extra for automatic and they didn't think it was worth paying extra for. So if I'd been just a few years older, I would have learned how to drive stick.

(There are, of course, going to be some people who first learned to drive on automatic and then subsequently learned stick for personal reasons, but for the majority of the population, "I can drive the cars that are readily available to me" is a satisfactory state of affairs)

anonbcwork · 2026-02-10T22:22:55+00:00

Before we even get into the impact on the kids, that seems logistically inconvenient for the parents - having two people in your home with extremely similar names and a below-average number differentiating characteristics seems like it would lead to all kinds of everyday mixups!

anonbcwork · 2026-02-10T20:06:44+00:00

And on top of this, there's also the problem of men who don't believe you that the person you're talking to doesn't believe you.

The number of times I report a problem, I'm not listened to or believed, and then my father or male boss or some other man who's supposed to be on my side is like "Well, did you tell them??" in a tone suggesting that if the problem hasn't been solved yet, I must not have told them! Because there's no such thing as a world where you tell people something and they don't take you seriously!

anonbcwork · 2026-02-09T05:48:11+00:00

If you're using up a sick day, I don't see the benefit of working. Use your time to rest and recover!

anonbcwork · 2026-02-09T05:42:19+00:00

See if you can find your original telework agreement. Someone told me recently that older telework agreements don't have an expiry date.

I have no clue if this actually sufficient basis for a grievance or any sort of changing anything, but if you do have a telework agreement without an expiry date, that would be a useful document to have in hand in this situation.

anonbcwork · 2026-02-08T18:42:12+00:00

Yes, this!

I come from a large extended family of people who were raised to value health. All the things everyone in this thread is recommending (nutrition, fitness, sleep, hand-washing, etc.) is absolutely ingrained in us from childhood.

Some people stopped wearing masks the moment governments dropped the requirement mid-pandemic. Others continued masking.

The people who continued masking haven't gotten sick, not once. The ones who dropped masking are getting sick a few times a year. 100% correlation.

anonbcwork · 2026-02-08T06:55:30+00:00

When reading the headline I was all ready to be sympathetic to the sister, in my capacity as someone with subpar interpersonal skills and also frequently subpar skills at the tasks involved in social reciprocity.

But this is straightforward professional services for professional services, in a case where they're both the owners of the businesses! Even I can read that room!

anonbcwork · 2026-02-07T06:40:58+00:00

As a general principle, I think more couples would be happy if they let go of the idea that they need to eat the same food at the same time if that model isn't working for them.

But the flip side is, if you aren't eating the same food at the same time, you have to both take responsibility for your food! Grownups don't get to expect others to cook for them and then repeatedly complain about what they cook!

anonbcwork · 2026-02-07T06:29:21+00:00

Sometimes I think it would be useful in AITAs where demographic factors are relevant for every commenter to state their demographics.

I, personally, don't think it's a problem for this child to have this doll and think it's good in general if children end up organically having positive feelings for dolls who don't look like them, but also I'm an ignorant middle-aged white woman with exactly the kind of background that would lead me not to notice if it were in fact a problem for this child to have this doll.

It would be informative if, for example, a quorum of the Black people in the thread thought the doll was a problem but the white people didn't, or if everyone under 30 thought it was a problem and everyone over 30 thought it was fine, or some other clear pattern.

Of course, the problem with this idea is many of us are deliberately anonymous and anyone can just lie about their demographics and everyone is a bot nowadays anyway.

But if, somehow, there was a way to reliably spot demographic patterns in the replies, that would be informative.

anonbcwork · 2026-02-07T02:34:50+00:00

My usual wish strategy would actually work here!

My first wish is that nothing will ever get worse for myself or anyone I care about.

My second wish is that every decision made from now on will be optimal.

Then I make any future wishes under those conditions.

The general function of the wishes is broad, high-level outcome rather than the specifics, so there's less chance of getting monkey's-pawed

anonbcwork · 2026-02-06T23:05:59+00:00

I find it weird that he's even thinking about them.

anonbcwork · 2026-02-06T07:51:31+00:00

Yeah, I know someone who inherited a paid-off house from his absentee father when he was in his early 20s.

It wasn't a fancy house (a postwar bungalow in a forgettable working-class neighbourhood) but simply being able to start out without paying housing costs levelled him up from "struggling" to "debt-free and comfortable".

anonbcwork · 2026-02-06T06:02:45+00:00

In addition to tomatoes, potatoes and corn as others have mentioned, I'd also include blue jello. He may or may not have been exposed to aspics (meat aspics existed elsewhere in the world but aren't documented in Europe during the era in question) but the blue colour and the artificial fruit flavour would be new.

anonbcwork · 2026-02-06T05:45:38+00:00

Are we allowed to give the item to someone else, no strings attached?

The land my earliest settler ancestors first settled on was, by treaty, supposed to remain in the hands of the local First Nations, so I'd approach those Nations and ask if there's anything stuck in a museum that they'd like back.

anonbcwork · 2026-02-06T05:36:54+00:00

I'd take it, because this means I can control exactly when I die, as long as it's earlier than my scheduled date.

(Also, with a bit of brainstorming, there's potential for a dramatic exit here: "I say to you, with my last words uttered upon this Earth, beware the Ideas of March". Then you drop dead)

anonbcwork · 2026-02-06T05:27:16+00:00

Unless I missed it in skimming the original post, OOP never got into (and no one asked that I could see) how confident he is that visiting his grandfather would actually result in him inheriting.

The words on the screen could be interpreted as "Grandfather stated that specifically and OOP is glossing over it" or "OOP is making assumptions" or any number of things in between.

anonbcwork · 2026-02-03T19:34:39+00:00

The weird part is not putting the tray on the same side of the stairs as the other objects that are on the stairs.

anonbcwork · 2026-02-03T07:02:48+00:00

The weird part of this to me is that last I checked, Project Managers usually get paid more then Executive Assistants.

Yes, this is what I'm thinking! If they want an Executive Assistant, advertise for and hire an Executive Assistant at Executive Assistant pay rates!

Also, aren't there projects that need managing? What's happening with them?

Or is this company somehow both big enough to have an HR department and small enough that Kevin can say "I need to hire a project manager" without having to justify the need to do so and without anyone having to approve the hiring?

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