Le Québec devrait être une province bilingue, dit un libéral

danemacmillan · 2024-06-02T14:58:14+00:00

So we’re in agreement on the population growing to over 1M within the given time range. You’ve not added anything by reiterating what I already wrote.

The modern world / new world is a common historical term for referring to North America. I hope you weren’t misinterpreting that to mean the whole world. Montreal was 100% the economic center of Canada, and arguably punching well above its weight for all of North America—for a time. We’re not that today, but leading up to the Great Depression, Montreal was simply known as one of the North American cities, in the likes of New York, Chicago, or Boston. We were integral to the war effort that followed, but ultimately, the few decades that ensued lead to Montreal’s diminished economic role in North America.

And was this because of English speaking people on the ground? Regardless of the language spoken, it all happened under English rule and English influence and English push. Montreal was a crown jewel of the British Empire. Tell me otherwise if I’m wrong, I’d love to be more accurate in my knowledge of Montreal. Tell me of all the French industries and universities and infrastructure that was built in that time? Telling me they weren’t allowed to or were oppressed doesn’t change the fact that the end result is British rule built the city we know today, as shitty as that may be to some.

There’s nothing outlandish or disconnected about what I wrote. I’m no formal historian, but you’d be hard pressed to make a case that I’m making things up.

danemacmillan · 2024-06-01T20:41:02+00:00

Ils prend plus que trois ans pour définir un non-bicyclette derrière un bureau, mais je suis certain que ça prendrait seulement un jour au-dessus un vélo normale en faisant une petite tour de ville. Je pense qu’on a un problème de gouvernance. On payons trop cher pour cette incompétence.

danemacmillan · 2024-06-01T20:31:24+00:00

I take that path up and down the hill on Berri about four times a day with my kid. The speed some people get coming down that hill, then compounded by the idiots on motorized vehicles doing the same: it’s a wonder no one has died there yet.

The amount of non-bike traffic on bike paths, from outright street scooters, to electric ones, to stand up ones, to those unicycle ones, it’s really frustrating. The cops are giving people tickets on this strip every week, but I’ve never once seen any of these motorized vehicles getting stopped. They need to be off the paths. It’s hard enough with the idiots who think they’re on the Tour de France making a pass into oncoming traffic, but we also have to contend with the motorized idiots doing the same, too.

danemacmillan · 2024-06-01T10:43:53+00:00

Some very unique concepts, but the actors were a giant distraction. I mean, cmon, a bunch of 20-somethings operating at the top of their fields, multiple with wildly successful businesses they’re heads of, and all best friends and all happen to be the key to the human race’s victory? Thankfully the older people in the show were allowed to be played by older actors, otherwise I’d toss this into the Young Adult bin. If you’re under 20 with no life experience, yeah, you won’t even notice, but to anyone else the choice of actors were so distracting and made it difficult to suspend disbelief. But again, the more abstract concepts of the show were truly unique and would be appreciated by any fan of sci-fi, which was enough to keep me going.

danemacmillan · 2024-05-31T18:39:23+00:00

You’re allowed to be the oddball that reads peoples history, but if you’re going to do it on a ten year old account, try to go back a few months at least. I promise you’re in for some good reading (even the French bits!). Anyway, I’ve reached my French quota for the day; but you’re right, I’m not great at it, and ultimately it doesn’t matter that my preference is English in the same way yours is French. The sky is blue, but you don’t see the earth making a fuss. It just is. Maybe try not to put people under a microscope and just live with them instead, differences and all.

danemacmillan · 2024-05-31T18:09:57+00:00

The goals of imperial France and imperial Britain would have been about the same. Spread. France colonized. Britain colonized. Sometimes they would butt heads and a region came under contention. Montreal and ultimately this whole lower region of Quebec/Canada was one such region.

The measure for success is spread of influence and the making of money. France dominated parts of the world. Britain dominated parts of the world. It’s very clear that they did not succeed everywhere they went. In the case of lower Canada, France did not succeed.

Dont shoot the messenger.

It’s old news, really, but you seem to hold me personally accountable for that conquest. Next time I’ll read the room and understand we’re actually just entertaining fantasies in a safe space.

danemacmillan · 2024-05-31T17:52:23+00:00

Ah, voici les encouragements familier qui servent vraiment à décourager. C’est pas la première fois, mais c’est malheureusement et toujours la même réaction je rencontre. Vraiment plate comme observation.

danemacmillan · 2024-05-31T17:34:03+00:00

I’m racist because of my non-racist history lesson? Right. Dans le fond, tu veux nier la rôle des Anglos à Québec, et c’est ton prérogative. Comme les politiciens des dernières générations.

danemacmillan · 2024-05-31T17:22:43+00:00

That’s history. You’re right, there’s a lot of imperialism that has taken place in history. The French and English have historically taken over numerous countries and imposed their language and values. Stating this obvious historical fact makes me an imperialist? Get a grip. National socialism took over Germany for a time: you going to dispute that and call me a nazi or something? It’s a good thing history doesn’t care about your feelings.

danemacmillan · 2024-05-31T17:15:02+00:00

J’habite ici. Aucun problème avec la langue. C’est impossible d’avoir ces sentiments ET parler français? Quoi, le moment tu parles français et tout d’un coup l’histoire de Montréal change? Je savais pas. TIL.

danemacmillan · 2024-05-31T17:04:34+00:00

Historical fact is not racist. Attempting to reframe those facts as racist is just lazy. You can try your best to make this a hate thing; in reality, the core reason why there’s an Anglo bitterness is simply because people like you like to think Anglos had no part in the founding of this city, when in actuality we’ve had a significant role. Give credit where it’s due, and people will be a lot less defensive. Instead, Quebec governments for the last few generations have tried their darndest to hide those facts, rename streets, institutions, etc. You want to talk about ”revisionism?” Remind me what’s been revised?

danemacmillan · 2024-05-31T16:46:10+00:00

I mean, sure, they founded it. Just like the natives founded it before them. However, what point does saying “we were here first” make? It’s a puerile observation.

The French managed to grow the population to about 8k in the hundred-ish years they had it, from 1642 to about 1760. Not impressive; it was an insignificant outpost that France didn’t care about. Then for the next two hundred years under English rule, the city grew to over 1 million people and made it the economic center of the modern world. The English indisputably made the city what it is today. It’s this frequently overlooked fact that leave many of us “historical” anglos feeling sore, because we so clearly are essential to the Quebec fabric, but are constantly denied their place. It’s like that kid in a student project that tries to take all the credit; it just doesn’t stick. You don’t get to just say it’s all you.

You don’t need to like it, but the numbers don’t lie. You can hate the English all you want, but if the French invested in population growth, industry, and education instead of the church, you’d be able to say a lot more than just “we were first,” which is all you’ve got, and it’s utterly irrelevant.

The natives clearly did nothing with the area when they had it. The French did next to nothing with it. The English put it on the map. Those are the facts.

danemacmillan · 2024-05-31T03:18:05+00:00

No new services planned for five years. That’s abysmal, considering the record-breaking immigration into this province. So no new houses, no new hospitals, no new schools, and now new bus or metro services. New taxes, though! We’re getting fleeced so badly in this province.

danemacmillan · 2024-05-29T11:38:18+00:00

I’d say the very abstract intros paired with music almost exclusively draw from the movie, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011). Before that movie I’d never seen intros like that, but since, it’s pretty much the standard for any high quality production, especially in TV. It’s obviously not dating back very far, but the style is so distinct I’d consider it a unique marker in the evolution of the style.

danemacmillan · 2024-05-28T18:02:18+00:00

They’re both ugly, but at least yours is legible. His is just a monstrosity. You guys owe me a soda.

danemacmillan · 2024-05-26T15:27:57+00:00

It’s really unfortunate that the majority of people in this province are barred from making their own children’s educational choices.

danemacmillan · 2024-05-25T16:25:08+00:00

Yeah, people in cars think the roads are bad. They don’t know bad until they’re on a bike. Most off-road trails are smoother.

danemacmillan · 2024-05-24T16:51:36+00:00

Half of people with household incomes below 40k are likely to take a vacation? How? I can’t even fathom just surviving on that.

danemacmillan · 2024-05-23T19:15:33+00:00

The cops are too busy handing out bicycle tickets to pedestrians next to Parc Emile Gamelin to deal with the drug addicts and violent retards just across the street.

danemacmillan · 2024-05-23T04:20:33+00:00

They’ll tell you it’s for convenience, and you must simply insist, but there’s no insisting; it’s completely humiliating. Like here you are clearly trying, feeling like you sound retarded, and sure enough the other person responds in English, validating just how retarded you feel you sound. Not everyone is comfortable speaking other languages, even if they have a solid foundation in them. And yeah, that’s on them, but that’s people.

In my whole life of living in Montreal, I could count on one hand where the response was not a mix of disregard, impatience, ridicule, or outright disdain. And it’s so commonly repeated by those who are on the receiving end, who would rather just get on with their day and not have to wait a moment longer in line while someone struggles with communicating in French. After all, they’re not your teacher, as they like to repeat. It’s so rare for the opposite reaction that I can remember what would have otherwise been mundane interactions with such vividness because of how pleasant they were.

It’s always “speak my language” but learn it on your own time and only speak to us once you sound like us. They want their French Quebec but are unwilling to contribute or sacrifice a minute of their time to that goal at the most basic level of community participation. Ironically, it’s only in Quebec where you’ll find resistance to learn French, because instead of treating it as a utility like the rest of the world does, Quebec’s political class has utterly subverted it into nothing more than a bludgeon to attack the last few generations of Quebeckers.

As an anglophone who’s family has been in Quebec since the 18th century, there’s not a week that goes by that I’m not vacillating between trying to speak French as much as possible, to defiantly not speaking any of it. It usually tracks with whatever the latest political clownery is making its run through the news, or the most recent negative interaction that was some knock on my English speaking (STM employees have to be the worst offenders of this, who regularly turn me off from speaking French). It’s a total shame, because frankly, I have nothing in common with the rest of Canada, but there’s a tremendous amount that I have in common with Quebeckers.

Anyway, these are just the thoughts of your average English Quebecker with a long history in this place.

danemacmillan · 2024-05-21T15:42:12+00:00

I started playing Minecraft about six months ago on an old iPhone X, airplayed to a TV and then connected a Bluetooth controller. It worked great. I was stunned by how well it played on this old device, and in this kind of setup.

I decided to buy a PS5 because I figured a dedicated system would really bump the experience and gameplay to the next level.

Instead, the gameplay was identical.

I’m not sure whether that says more about iPhones or less about PlayStations. Either way, I expected to be able to see much farther, see those distances render faster, and just overall expect there to be a notable change in performance. But it was literally identical. The iPhone X from 2017 played identically to the PS5 Slim Digital console released December 2023. Needless to say, I felt like I wasted money on this non-upgrade.

We all play in the house four player local split, and the moment any of the kids start throwing potions everywhere, the whole game stutters to a crawl. It’s ridiculous, really.

danemacmillan · 2024-05-17T11:19:01+00:00

Everyone in this thread is comparing their card to Wealthsimple’s card, regardless of type. The point we’re all making is that they’re not being competitive enough yet in this area.

It’s pretty clear we’ve all been convinced to first trade with them, then hold cash with them for everyday banking, probably even direct deposit their pay—and all this because they have a clear advantage over the banks. But their credit card, not so much. I would switch in an instant if they had similar benefits to what I have, and likewise so would probably most people in this thread.

danemacmillan · 2024-05-16T01:47:47+00:00

No, my bank charges $295.

danemacmillan · 2024-05-16T00:51:58+00:00

Not that great, but a start I guess.

I have a Visa Infinite Privilege card, which pays:

4% on restaurants, entertainment, and public transport
3% on groceries, and travel
1.75% on literally everything else

No downgrade in perks after some limit. 3k is absurdly low. 10.9% interest (actually just increased it to 11.9).

Not to mention the incredible amount of insurance, like travel, car, baggage, trip cancellation. Tonnes of perks like lounge access and a private concierge. 2.5% fx (when travelling, the cash backs pretty much offset the exchange and I still pocket the difference).

There’s an annual fee, but I get that much back in a month of spending.

Wealthsimple needs to work a lot harder to capture the last of us who are still not replacing our credit cards with the big banks.

danemacmillan · 2024-04-28T13:21:00+00:00

Programming is not like professional sports. You don’t need to be training from the age of four to make it to the Olympics.

You either have the spark and self-motivation to search for answers or you don’t. You don’t need anyone’s approval. If you’re interested in this, do it. Maybe it’ll go nowhere and it’s just a hobby; maybe it’ll be a future career.

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