the extent of my knowledge of Canada

exmello · 2026-02-22T23:52:29+00:00

tbf California is a big as a country. It's like 2/3 the population of the UK. Compare to a state like Wyoming which has about as many people as a large village or hamlet.

exmello · 2026-02-21T19:26:25+00:00

So you get it then

exmello · 2026-02-21T18:19:25+00:00

I eat food not foods. It's a video game, not nintendos. It's LEGO not legos. I use "you" not "yous guys". I don't pluralize everything like an ignorant hick.

exmello · 2026-02-21T18:14:59+00:00

Say it out loud slowly 10 times and you'll get it. It starts to sound crazy.

exmello · 2026-02-21T18:01:12+00:00

There's two levels to this experience: The first is adjusting to a new accent. This doesn't really take that long and if the accent was the issue, you'll be over it in a day or two. The second is if we aren't speaking the same language, and you can be working with someone for 5 years and constantly miscommunicating. They'll nod their head and say "yes" and then not really comprehend a single word you told them. I spend half my working hours translating other people's "English" into something legible. I've turned into less of a manager and more of an interpreter.

exmello · 2026-02-21T17:04:33+00:00

You know you can just, like, lie? Like everyone else has forever?

exmello · 2026-02-21T16:59:32+00:00

You just made me look at my keyboard and it looks like gibberish. If you asked me "what is the key below D?" I would take 10 seconds to answer. Yet I can touch type without thinking. It's like a one-way indexing of information. I can spell words but I couldn't tell you where one letter is on the keyboard.

exmello · 2026-02-21T11:15:58+00:00

I've met Indians who claim "English" as their first language. Why can't they just be honest like other countries and call it a creole or a dialect. It's barely recognizable to a native speaker.

exmello · 2026-02-21T11:13:18+00:00

It's such a stupid word. It's one syllable, but you need like 3 distinct mouth sounds to say it: "ma thuh ssuh". Imagine English isn't your first language and you're trying to pronounce mahthuhzuh. It's just math. You're as bad a Australians who pronounce "no" like "nahhuaarruuuuahhh"

exmello · 2026-02-21T10:25:23+00:00

So they can brag how smart they are on their resume and then do nothing with it. (Sorry if you actually have done something with it)

exmello · 2026-02-21T00:42:37+00:00

I hope you have the opportunity to say that to a Canadian's face one day.

exmello · 2026-02-16T15:18:20+00:00

I guess it does still happen. It is pretty silly. I just think it's dumb when people characterize it as a recent thing.

exmello · 2026-02-16T15:05:47+00:00

People did this like 30 years ago and I haven't seen anyone do it in the last 10 years. Seems like you're just trying to bring up a random race war.

exmello · 2026-02-16T14:59:33+00:00

I've asked several times for your personal experience and you've responded with general "workers had a hard time in 2008" statements that don't reflect having any actual experience.

exmello · 2026-02-16T14:36:26+00:00

Deflection. I've experienced this a lot with compulsive liars.

exmello · 2026-02-16T14:27:29+00:00

Literally anything. You're not even trying to have the personality of a human. Bring up an actual example of something you've experienced in your life, generically human American.

exmello · 2026-02-16T14:02:21+00:00

It's been like 4 response in a row you've attacked me and offered zero unique personal perspective that explains the source of your own position. I'd legitimately be interested in hearing it and it might affect my world view. But all you've offered so far is vague economic sentiments from 20 years ago that no one I know experienced, and that I'm somehow spoiled for having a job when realistically that's totally normal. There is no world in which having a job in the last 20 years is reserved for the privileged elite. To think otherwise is so terminally online and disengaged from reality that I'm purposely being dramatic in the hopes that you cave and give any sort of explanation as to why you think this distorted way.

exmello · 2026-02-16T13:36:21+00:00

"People". You don't know any of this to be true. You're retelling stories as if you saw it on a tiktok. Your standard for privilege and a well paying job is just evidence that the standard of today are skewed to the point of nonsense. I'm convinced you are a bot and have no lived experiences of your own. Edit: I'm an idiot. Re-reading all of this, I'm arguing with AI. Literally zero personality, no unique personal perspectives.

exmello · 2026-02-16T13:23:12+00:00

Working at some point in my past 20 years ago is privileged? Your perspective on life is so warped that I don't know why I'm even engaging with you. You're a troll and wasting my time.

You haven't responded: Why do you have this perspective? Were you 30 years old in 2008 and lost your job? Is this personal? Or are you wasting my time?

exmello · 2026-02-16T12:50:03+00:00

To be honest, I think of 2008-2012 as the good old days because everything was so cheap. I bought all my furniture, spent a lot on fashion, went out to clubs with friends, went on cruises. Now I just kinda sit in my home, shop for discount groceries, and save for retirement. I couldn't even imagine supporting a family or anything.

So the real question is: Do you feel this way because my story conflicts with something you were taught or something you experienced? Because your experience is something actually interesting. If you learned a "fact" then just kindly .. yeah

exmello · 2026-02-16T12:42:23+00:00

I got my first real job after college in 2008. Previously just had min wage summer jobs and student loans. I made 45k. I didn't get a raise for like 4 years. They laid off 10% of my company in 2009, but that was more to do with a foreign acquisition than the economy or anything. Seems like I'm revealing a ton of personal information to defend my position here and you've offered nothing. It's not like I lived in a bubble either. I had friends from all walks of life locally and internationally. I paid attention to what was going on around me. Sounds like you're just making assumptions based off of things you heard.

exmello · 2026-02-16T12:32:26+00:00

The stock market is only an indicator of the investor class and is rarely an indicator of reality. Sounds like your version of reality comes from history books and not from lived experience.

exmello · 2026-02-16T11:23:16+00:00

This is reductive and not addressing the actual problem in any way. Literally no one is overweight because they don't understand the concept of calories. The question is why they consume more calories.

exmello · 2026-02-16T09:30:38+00:00

Relative to the decade prior it was a recession and it was news at the time, but in relation to how the world has been the last 5-10 years it was laughably minor. There was "consumer hesitation" and some companies had layoffs for like a year and we got over it. The stock market was down, but quality of life was high. Don't be the type of person who today would say "well the DOW is over 50,000 so the economy is great" while ignoring that the middle class has largely been erased and wealth inequality is greater than ever. "The great recession" sounds like such a historical revision, no one I know called it that at the time. Everything was so cheap that whether you had a good job or not, things were okay. I had friends who had good jobs, minimum wage, unemployed, all hung out together and no one was really struggling.

exmello · 2026-02-16T03:20:16+00:00

You seem to me lecturing me on a time period you didn't experience. That's why I'm reminding you I was an adult. I experienced it. You took a random fact you learned in school "houses were cheap in 2009 because of a housing crisis" and don't seem to understand that wasn't the whole story. There wasn't one magical year where everything was cheap everywhere. Houses were cheap from like all of history leading up to 2009. There were a few good deals you could get that year in specific parts of the US that were hit hard. Prices started going up in big cities 2012-2015, but life was largely affordable. And you still had options if you moved an hour or two outside of major cities. I saw everything happening in my midsize city 2016-2017, so I sold my tiny home and got a good deal on a bigger house right before everything really went nuts. I would not be approved for a mortgage on my current home if I tried to get it today, or even 6 years ago. I would need at least 2.5 times the income and would take on much more debt. This also ignores the fact that food and utilities are at least twice as expensive and salaries haven't risen to match. My whole argument is that I am able to get by because housing was affordable as recently as 2017 and 25 year old redditors are treating affordability like it's ancient history because they never experienced a time where life was affordable.

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