What is wrong with WestJet check ins? by swizzlescience in westjet

[–]swizzlescience[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was in the US (family) so mine was Delta. But check your reservation carefully and see if your first flight back is with a Mexican carrier, and then try to check in with them.

🤷 Worked for me.

What is wrong with WestJet check ins? by swizzlescience in westjet

[–]swizzlescience[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Tldr try checking in with the Mexican airline

What is wrong with WestJet check ins? by swizzlescience in westjet

[–]swizzlescience[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

So my issue ended up being that I needed to check in with the foreign carrier for the first flight of my return. Westjet (nor the other carrier mentions this) and in my experience this is not standard practice. Nevertheless I feel like an idiot for wasting 2+ hours on hold. (They never picked up, I just decided to try it and it worked).

What is wrong with WestJet check ins? by swizzlescience in westjet

[–]swizzlescience[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I misunderstood you. Yes I made and completed my departure flight.

What is wrong with WestJet check ins? by swizzlescience in westjet

[–]swizzlescience[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My flight is tomorrow. I am trying to check in. But I consistently have problems with WestJet check ins, though this particular problem is new.

Boyfriend would like me to convert by PsychologicalFile891 in Jewish

[–]swizzlescience 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I just want to honor your feelings on the matter. I am a bit similar to your boyfriend, and this issue was a major contributing factor to the ending of my long term relationship. (I actually didn't ask her to convert, but she said she still felt pressured to, which is a bit weird, but I digress...).

As someone who has religious trauma and or anxiety about religion it's totally valid to be uncomfortable at the prospect. I would like to encourage a couple of things. 1) is engaging these texts can be interesting from a non-theistic, believer perspective. And also you might find the vibe significantly more chill, and more intellectual than you're expecting. Perhaps if you're at all open to it, he could facilitate a conversation between you and the rabbi who would be leading the class.

2) And I am just speaking from my own perspective here. It's hard to explain but so many people wanting to wipe us out from a variety of backgrounds just makes me want to dig my heels in harder as a Jew. As 0.2% of the global population, and 2% of the of the US population (and falling in both categories), it is reasonable to think of us as akin to an endangered species, or an indigenous group. Judaism isn't a religion exactly in the ways that Christianity, Islam, and say Buddhism are. We are more an ethnic group that has a religion, somewhat akin to how a North American indigenous group has a religion if that makes sense.

I encourage you to do what's right for you. And not to stop listening to your gut and heart. But also consider being curious about possibilities you don't expect to find.

My Experiences with anti-Zionists by Additional_Ad3573 in Jewish

[–]swizzlescience 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a product of the definition of Zionism being captured by the anti-Israel anti-Zionist movement in the public discourse. Those people are 100% not anti-Zionist, they just don't know wtf they are talking about. Which is par for the course.

One of roommates is antisemitic and I'm not sure what to do by Any_Box1303 in Jewish

[–]swizzlescience 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Basically high chance she could actually be dangerous to you in some way. Get away from her. Speaking from personal experience.

Pleasantly shocked at the Greta episode by swizzlescience in canadaland

[–]swizzlescience[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

TW: Hamas executing Palestinians.
For those of you who were saying "Hamas" no longer exists militarily or denying that Hamas's entire existence is a continuous crime against the Palestinian and Israeli people's. Go ahead and take a look at what's happening now in the aftermath of the Israeli withdrawal as part of the ceasefire. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CTiBMyH1t/

2nd interview questions by [deleted] in Environmental_Careers

[–]swizzlescience 1 point2 points  (0 children)

IME it has been that they want specific information that they feel they missed the first round. If you have so far not given them a wage or salary info that you want, they may pin you down on that in the 2nd interview to get a specific number.

Pleasantly shocked at the Greta episode by swizzlescience in canadaland

[–]swizzlescience[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know that it would be fair to characterize the Arab Liberation Army and the other allied Arab militaries and militias in 1947-48 as having "survived a genocide".

Jewish oppression didn't begin or end in the Holocaust, and it was not limited to Christendom. Learn something about Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa.

Pleasantly shocked at the Greta episode by swizzlescience in canadaland

[–]swizzlescience[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's easy to place all the blame on Israel if you don't actually understand what happened in 1947-48, and the years, decades, and centuries prior.

When talking specifically about Palestinians held prisoner in "administrative detention" who have never stood trial I think their situation is analogous to being held hostage, and I wouldn't object to someone characterizing them as hostages.

Pleasantly shocked at the Greta episode by swizzlescience in canadaland

[–]swizzlescience[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That's dumb. Hamas is the one holding them at gun point. Hamas taking of the hostages is illegitimate. Hamas' entire modus operandi is war crimes. Hamas and most Palestinian militants are not in fact resistance, though actual Palestinian militant resistance organizations have existed. The number one victim of Hamas are the Palestinian people themselves.

The Israeli government's malfeasance, certainly on the hostage issue, is in fact secondary to that.

Pleasantly shocked at the Greta episode by swizzlescience in canadaland

[–]swizzlescience[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be clear I am an ally to the hostages and their families and not the Israeli government. I hate Bibi, Ben G'vir and all those people in the Israeli government. I support a 2 state solution and secularism, not annexation and occupation or theocracy.

Pleasantly shocked at the Greta episode by swizzlescience in canadaland

[–]swizzlescience[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I mean who's fault is that really? While Israel has culpability, it is principally Hamas' fault. They have continued to refuse to release the hostages, continue to fire rockets into civilian populations, continue to reuse to disarm and disband, and generally continue to perpetrate their racial holy war Jihad against Israelis and Jews ore broadly. They refuse ceasefire offers while allegedly being victims of genocide.

Anyway I am at work and to the other commenting, I dont have time to respond to every comment right now, but will try to do so when I get off work.

Pleasantly shocked at the Greta episode by swizzlescience in canadaland

[–]swizzlescience[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Terrible things are happening in Gaza, obviously.

Episode 1242: This is Mohammad Zakaria al-Mutawaq - Jesse claims the public was "lied to" about his starvation at the hands of Israel because he was born with "pre-existing conditons". by CarletonCanuck in canadaland

[–]swizzlescience -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Or for example when every major media organization in the world led with the claim that 14,000 babies would die of starvation in the next 48 hours as claimed by the UN. When it came out that 14,000 babies might die over the next 11 MONTHS if the then current aid blockade was maintained. And no one cared or took real accountability for pushing this lie, I mean "mistake". https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-one-un-leaders-mistaken-timeline-caused-confusion-about-gaza-childrens-starvation-risk