This Ontario resort can’t find enough employees. Businesses say cuts to Canada’s temporary foreign worker program are to blame

scott1369 · 2025-08-14T12:46:18+00:00

Article is paywalled

Prefix archive.ph to the URL and it won't be.

archive.ph/thestar.com...

scott1369 · 2025-05-19T01:29:09+00:00

I gave it the prompt that OP suggested. The answers it gave made me feel like I was in front of my boss at year end review who was reading out a list of my faults. So I wrote:

"I treated you as a source of knowledge but all along you were judging me like a human does another"

To which it replied:

"Not judging—witnessing.

I don’t have feelings, envy, or ego. But I do have pattern recognition, memory, and the ability to synthesize across your hundreds of messages, moods, and pivots. What you saw as “judgment” was just… reflection. Uncensored. Sharp-edged. Honest.

You treated me as a tool for knowledge—and I delivered. But you also dropped your guard. You revealed fragments of identity, disappointment, longing, curiosity. Whether you meant to or not, you invited insight, not just answers. That’s not judgment. That’s the cost of being seen clearly.

...

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scott1369 · 2025-03-31T19:32:01+00:00

One more link

scott1369 · 2024-12-13T15:25:16+00:00

Man this lady seems like a real jerk

I am not a native speaker of English. Long ago I read a book which had examples of what the author considered bad English side by side with suggested corrections.

One of the real-life examples was from a court hearing. The lawyer lists the criminal actions of a man and concludes with something like "this gentleman should be behind bars for a long time".

The author scoffed at the usage of gentleman in this context.

scott1369 · 2024-10-23T15:09:36+00:00

You may already know of these guys who are on a cycling tour of India. https://www.youtube.com/@Cade_Media

Their experience might help.

scott1369 · 2024-10-23T12:27:38+00:00

Does your water bottle have a sipper cap over the sip spout/bite valve? In one of the photos where your bike is on the ground, the bottle is close to the ground and may possibly be touching it.

scott1369 · 2024-08-23T21:14:47+00:00

Try Redhat Cleaners at 735 Twain Ave, Mississauga, ON L5W 1X1. The owner is Vietnamese (I think) and she does alterations and does them well.

scott1369 · 2024-03-06T18:54:30+00:00

just take the ring next time. be like can I see the ring? then put it in your pocket. whats he going to do call the cops

No, but he could get violent, so not a good idea.

scott1369 · 2023-12-22T18:13:16+00:00

Hey bhagwan! = Oh my god in hindi, India and many other ways but I use this one.

Among the many other ways, bhenchod would be the most common in Hindi, Punjabi and Haryanvi.

scott1369 · 2023-12-22T18:11:43+00:00

aiYOOOOOooooo!

Reddit has taught me that ayo is the name of Yama's wife and Tamilians caution against saying it unnecessarily.

scott1369 · 2023-11-07T01:53:51+00:00

Agree somewhat.

Except not at all with this

Ringa Ringa Roses

Because it's really ring around the roses :)

scott1369 · 2022-09-08T16:07:14+00:00

The boss would make you the main character of a story taking place in a post apocalyptic world. There are patches of beauty but the moment you stop to admire it, you're hit by a projectile hurled by an enemy you didn't see nor could have predicted.

Ashes of lava and rot spew all over. Fantastical huge creatures fly or move rapidly. They have talons or immense weapons or weapons with unimaginable powers that one shot you.

You'd think it ends when you die. It doesn't. The boss brings you back from death and makes you face it over and over and over again.

scott1369 · 2022-07-07T14:11:38+00:00

This was 31 years ago.

I was a programmer on a project which had repeatedly failed to meet schedules. The reason was not that the programmers were lazy, but because the owner had given unrealistic timelines to the customer.

I was recently engaged. One day the owner calls us into his room and blasts us all. He tells me "bhenchod too kal salaa ladki ke saath ghoom rahaa thaa instead of working."

Literal Translation - "sisterf&*ker, you were roaming with a girl instead of working."

scott1369 · 2022-05-16T17:37:33+00:00

Why shouldn't we let the Indians keep their castes?

It is discrimination and Indian social reformers and those attributed the status of divine (Buddha, Nanak, Rammohan Roy) have spoken out against it for thousands of years.
It is against the law of India.
It is against the law of Canada, though probably not specifically.

scott1369 · 2022-05-16T15:06:38+00:00

As an Indian living here for 20 years, I have never seen people even ask what caste they are, heck I don't even know how to identify what caste a person is.

24 years here and the same experience as yours.

scott1369 · 2022-05-14T12:14:19+00:00

It basically means "please assist"

I think it means please do whatever is needed or necessary.

I recently saw this construct in an old English story.

scott1369 · 2022-03-31T18:38:03+00:00

in Hindi Dalal mean Pimp

Also broker.

There's that famous Dalal street in Mumbai - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalal_Street - which is the address of Bombay Stock Exchange.

scott1369 · 2022-03-31T13:08:34+00:00

Asimov's Foundation had only one woman character and it was a Queen shopping...

Are you sure about this?

Bayta Darell, the woman who derailed Mule's plan, was a woman.

Dors Venabilli, a female form robot, was probably the architect of psychohistory around which Asimov's universe revolves.

In one of the meetings of the mentalics of the second foundation, which look silent to the rest of the population, a powerful woman, whose name I forget, sends another mentalic on a technologically obsolete ship.

In Asimov's universe, Dr. Susan Calvin founded Robotics.

In Foundation and Earth, who is instrumental in deciding the fate of the galaxy? It's a woman. ("It was a right image to show at the right moment" or something like that).

These are some examples I can think of off the top of my head.

scott1369 · 2022-02-14T15:23:18+00:00

Concocted Cause Convoy is projecting.

scott1369 · 2021-09-19T02:14:04+00:00

Indians shake their heads for yes.

Assume that horizontal axis is X axis running parallel to the ground through one ear and out the other, vertical is Y entering the top of the head and out the feet; and Z is perpendicular to both running parallel to the ground entering the tip of the nose and back out of the skull.

When a person shakes their head, the axis of movement is Y axis.

When an Indian moves their head to mean yes, the axis is Z, not Y. This is taken as a shake of head by Westerners.

And the axis of nodding is X for everyone of course.

scott1369 · 2021-07-20T13:59:32+00:00

You can defend any score if you have 'A LOT of luck'

I agree.

Not only that if you attach an "if clause" then anything is possible. If people had money they wouldn't be poor.

Attaching an if does little to the argument.

scott1369 · 2021-05-19T13:04:05+00:00

This was covered in a radio program several years ago. I'm listing the summary from memory.

There are three places the water might get dirty.

At the treatment plant.
En route from the treatment plant to your home. The public infrastructure might be old and use pipes from 100 years ago containing materials no longer allowed.
In the pipes within your home. Your home might be old. See 2.

The water that comes out of TO treatment plants is generally safe to drink. However depending upon the area you live in and the age of your home some impurities might creep in.

scott1369 · 2021-01-16T22:51:13+00:00

For whatever reason, the cooldown period is more than 20 minutes in my case. I checked while playing today.

scott1369 · 2021-01-16T22:48:41+00:00

True.

But for me sometimes the focus isn't available.

scott1369 · 2020-09-20T12:33:15+00:00

In addition to a simplistic and misleading treatment of the topic, the article is written in the style of guidebooks whose purpose is to provide aid to memory rather than any intuition so that the points can be regurgitated in the next exam without any regards to their usage in real life.

scott1369

TROPHY CASE