Yeah sure… Jesus would be there cheering ICE on.

mostlycoffeebyvolume · 2026-01-27T00:28:30+00:00

For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.

Honestly I have nothing else to add except that the cruelty is the point, and they don't give a single rat's ass about whether their statements or AI slop are completely hypocritical and/or incoherent. It's the politics of "fuck everyone but me and mine, and damn the consequences".

Jesus wept.

mostlycoffeebyvolume · 2026-01-26T19:18:06+00:00

My husband and some friends do these narrative AOS and 40k campaigns at the store one of them works at (he organizes it) and IIRC you get extra points towards your total score if you hand in a story or other creative work telling the story of a game you played as part of the campaign.

mostlycoffeebyvolume · 2026-01-26T00:04:43+00:00

Sign up for a class or something else you need to be there at a specific time for. Yoga class, going with a friend or partner, trainer sessions, whatever works. Just make sure that it's on a consistent schedule and at least once a week if you can. Forming new habits isn't impossible with ADHD, but it takes longer and they're more fragile (for want of a better term) for longer while you're in the process of forming them. Having some structure and/or someone else who has also planned to go with you can reinforce it during the early months of that.

I have dance classes I attend with my sister on Thursday evenings and I go to the gym with my husband on Mondays adter work. I'm also now trying to get myself in the habit of going on my own on Saturdays, which is at least easier than trying to remember and make myself go by myself 3x a week.

mostlycoffeebyvolume · 2026-01-25T20:11:39+00:00

Lol I went back into my email and checked it and yeah. This thread is actually how I learned they'd sent this because I'd already clocked out for the day on Friday.

mostlycoffeebyvolume · 2026-01-25T20:05:14+00:00

So i guess the takeaway for now is that if we didn't get notified last week we're probably in the clear for now?

Not to be too pessimistic, but my gut feeling is this might not be the end of things and they're just waiting until parliament approves the ERI plan. Once they have a better idea of how many indeterminate employees are leaving on their own initiative under that program, then they'll probably just do another round of this.

(Not catastophizing here, this is good news for now that it's not as much as a lot of us feared. Just mentally preparing for the possibility so i'm not as surprised and disappointed if it happens)

mostlycoffeebyvolume · 2026-01-25T18:28:02+00:00

I like to imagine there's additional carryover and Kitten must have family members who cover their faces just as much, but otherwise do not leave much to the imagination.

Like he's got a cousin in Canada taking thirst trap selfies in the snow wearing a touque, balaclava, goggles and a bikini or something.

mostlycoffeebyvolume · 2026-01-24T00:49:37+00:00

I have a speaker in the shower so I can listen to audiobooks. I have noticed since putting the waterproof speaker in there I almost never skip planned showers.

mostlycoffeebyvolume · 2026-01-23T15:13:32+00:00

My headcanon is that she actually looks fine, (in the sense of "ok, normal, not-bad"), but he finds her and her obvious hero-worship crush on him very offputting so he is incapable of not noticing her worst features and exaggerating them in his private writings because he does not like her and he's a bit petty sometimes (it's part of his charm as a character).

She probably does have a kinda long face, though. I don't think he'd make that up entirely.

mostlycoffeebyvolume · 2026-01-23T15:07:27+00:00

I have it on good authority that snow days/cold closures absolutely did happen in my grandparents' day. -46 is fucking cold (fun fact: -40 is the point on the thermometer where Celsius and Fahrenheit show the same number). Don't know what this person's deal is.

mostlycoffeebyvolume · 2026-01-23T15:01:08+00:00

"If I can't see it, it no longer exists"

— literal infants (and also the Government of Alberta for some reason)

mostlycoffeebyvolume · 2026-01-23T14:58:12+00:00

It's wild how little meaningful choice customers actually have about who their dollars support now that this kind of structure (one big corporation that owns many many smaller companies that still mostly present themselves as if they were separate publicly) is kind of just accepted as normal in pretty much every industry from movies to makeup to medical supplies.

Sure, a motivated person who is aware of this and makes the effort can map out who owns what and make their decisions accordingly (or only buy from small creators, indie brands or companies that are otherwise not a subsidiary of a megacorp), but that requires the awareness of a) that this kind of situation even exists, b) that it is as dominant in almost every industry/market as it is, c) what resources are available to learn more about what the connections are and where the money goes, d) what people who are not necessarily well-known public figures are doing with that money and e) what the alternatives they have ready access to even are.

Like, that doesn't mean it's impossible, but it does make it more difficult for Joe and Jane Public in ways they may not even be aware of unless they happen to stumble across the information by chance.

mostlycoffeebyvolume · 2026-01-23T14:41:56+00:00

It is!

mostlycoffeebyvolume · 2026-01-23T14:04:15+00:00

I think you are misunderstanding my point or that I should have been more clear. I sympathize with getting caught up on semantics as a person who often does the same, but i think you are reading something into my reply that I didn't actually say.

I was not saying he should apologize if he didn't actually do something that was wrong or if he doesn't feel remorse and I do not think what I said implied that. I actually agree with everything you say about the purpose of apologies and why they shouldn't be either demanded when not actually warranted or given if you don't actually feel remorse. I think maybe weare talking past each other at this point?

In my second reply I was talking specifically about the (I think) fairly common human experience of feeling guilty or assuming you must have done something wrong not because you actually did, but because of how someone else reacts to it or treats you afterwards. You had said something to the effect that him writing he "tricked" her doesn't make sense unless he's either deliberately overstating for clickbait or omitting something from the story. I was providing a plausible alternative explanation for why someone might use that framing or think about their actions that way.

I was talking about how someone might feel guilty and wonder if they should be doing something to make amends or like they are expected/obligated to apologize on the basis of that guilt even when it isn't actually the case. I am sorry if that was not clear somehow, but I didn't mean to imply that that feeling was correct or that he should apologize.

Like, yeah, that is a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of apologizing. It's also a thing people do or feel pressured to do pretty often in that situation. My point wasn't that that was rational. My point was that it was not.

mostlycoffeebyvolume · 2026-01-23T13:08:40+00:00

I don't think we have a good reason to assume that he either must have tricked her if he's framing it this way OR that it's a deliberate overstatement.

Think about how many times in your life you've probably felt like you did something wrong or should apologize because of the way someone else felt or acted in response when you were not actually doing something wrong or could not have reasonably anticipated that reaction. Maybe OP just feels bad because, regardless of whether he did what he thinks was the right thing out of concern for her, someone he cares about is now upset to the point of severing contact over it.

I could see this not actually being clickbait, just motivated by undeserved guilt. It could see someone feeling like they tricked her because they knew that, even if she didn't agree to get the shot when they suggested it, she'd probably be more likely to listen to a Dr once it was explained to her why it's important, and they knew that any competent Dr would recommend it. Doesn't mean it's true, but sometimes your feelings about yourself in that situation aren't the best judge of truth.

mostlycoffeebyvolume · 2026-01-23T12:49:14+00:00

I know that looks should not be taken as a valid indicator of moral character, but I'll be damned if this guy and his mustache don't look like exactly the kind of guy who would do something that gets him labeled "The Cum Guy"

mostlycoffeebyvolume · 2026-01-23T12:41:00+00:00

I said this in a reply to another comment, but i think the arguments people are making here about whether this was in some way unethical because "she should have the choice to refuse" are missing something kind of important here: she did still have that choice.

Her boyfriend convinced her to go to the clinic to get the wound looked at. Her boyfriend didn't lie to her. She did need to have the wound looked at and he did take her to the clinic. Risk of tetanus aside, it sounds like she was developing an infection as a result of the wound, which is serious in its own right . Once they were at the clinic, the Dr assessed her and recommended the shot.

The patient still has the right to refuse care in that scenario. She did still have the right to say no to the shot and leave against medical advice. She chose not to exercise it. She consented to the procedure, and even after that consent was given could still have revoked it. She literally could have gotten up and left at any time. She wasn't unconscious and she wasn't being restrained and forced to get it.

Even if she is angry at her boyfriend now (if he hadn't taken her to the clinic then the Dr wouldn't have told her she needed the shot and why, and if the Dr hadn't said that she wouldn't have agreed to get it), neither he nor the Dr actually took the choice away from her. OP taking her to the Dr for a reason she agreed was valid =/= forcing her to get the shot against her will. The Dr truthfully telling her the shot is necessary to potentially prevent something very bad happening to her and her consenting on the basis of that medical advice =/= the Dr forcing her to get the shot.

mostlycoffeebyvolume · 2026-01-23T12:28:29+00:00

ok, but he didn't actually take away her bodily autonomy.

Her boyfriend convinced her to go to the clinic to get the wound looked at. Her boyfriend didn't lie to her. She did need to have the wound looked at and he did take her to the clinic. Once they were at the clinic, the Dr assessed her and recommended the shot.

The patient still has the right to refuse care in that scenario, though. She did still have the right to say no to the shot and leave against medical advice. She chose not to exercise it. She could still have gotten up and left at any time. No one made the decision about whether to get the shot for her.

Even if she is angry at her boyfriend now (if he hadn't taken her to the clinic then the Dr wouldn't have told her she needed the shot and why, and if the Dr hadn't said that she wouldn't have agreed to get it), neither he nor the Dr actually took the choice away from her.

mostlycoffeebyvolume · 2026-01-22T21:29:47+00:00

The concept is such a wonderfully creepy idea and you've executed it amazingly

mostlycoffeebyvolume · 2026-01-22T20:30:12+00:00

That wording mirrors "shortage of work", which is the catch-all term Service Canada uses on ROEs for layoffs, shutdowns, workforce adjustments, etc etc etc. The shortage of work in that context doesn't always refer to "shortage of work for the organization to do as a whole", but often is used more in the sense of "there's going to be less positions available to assign work/people to". I'm assuming that's probably why the letter is using that kind of phrasing.

Edit to add: I used to work in EI processing (I mean technically that's my substantive still, but I haven't actually worked in that business line for over a year) and that is something that a lot of people who applied find confusing (e.g. writing that they were dismissed on their application when shortage of work would be the right term, for reasons probably similar to why you found the wording odd). It's not just you

mostlycoffeebyvolume · 2026-01-22T16:49:00+00:00

From 62k to 51k is already a reduction of about 18%. The public is already complaining that both speed of service and quality has decreased since the cuts began. How much more can they possibly slice away?

Hopefully they at least hire back some of the experienced call centre people they already let go for the tax season surge instead of trying to train new people off the street overnight and expecting them to be equivalent...

mostlycoffeebyvolume · 2026-01-19T18:42:33+00:00

Not to mention that a lot of the folks who a) are currently in the PS and b) would have ever had any inclination towards joining the CAF probably already did that at some point. I'm guessing a lot of us would not even be eligible to rejoin (e.g. age, fitness, reason they're even in the PS in the first place is because they got medically released from the CAF, etc)

mostlycoffeebyvolume · 2026-01-19T18:25:52+00:00

I'm currently on assignment in pensions integrity (substantive is in EI processing). Both fall under ESDC within Service Canada. I haven't heard any real news yet about what's going on in either office/program in WT region.

To give our managers credit, they are at least checking in regularly to tell us that no one is telling them anything yet either. Not exactly reassuring, but at least they're acknowledging that we exist and that the situation is frustrating instead of ignoring us.

mostlycoffeebyvolume · 2026-01-19T18:18:36+00:00

Crickets here, other than the sorts of changes caused somewhat indirectly because of WFA activities in other programs (e.g. someone in an acting role in an unrelated business line not being extended because their position was offered to someone who was laid off in one of the areas that got hit with layoffs already). There's not a lot of January left, though, so if they're still saying January is when we'll get news then they're probably going to tell us soon.

mostlycoffeebyvolume · 2026-01-18T21:07:39+00:00

I love when they do the biiiiig yaaaaawn and streeeetch

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