I’d love some examples if you care to share!

There is a difference between “calling everyone a nazi, racist, and transphobe” and calling out Nazis, racists, and transphobes, and a lot of people fail to grasp that nuance. From what I’ve seen so far in your comments, you’re giving off the vibe of someone who either doesn’t understand that nuance, or willfully avoids it.

Again, would love some examples if this isn’t the case.

I work in a café and the comments I overhear men saying to my feminine coworkers are insane. I get some weird comments sometimes (I’m pretty visibly queer) but it’s nothing compared to them. I honestly don’t know how women deal with it.

I’m very curious at to what these “far-left” extreme views that the media (owned by billionaires) are espousing. The only news I see is either aligned with fascists or the milquetoastiest of liberalism.

(I’ll bet anyone here 5$ that this guy considers “racial minorities and trans people deserve human rights” to be an extremist position)

I’m honestly curious, how would you define anglo-Canadian identity?

I feel like more and more, English Canada is becoming culturally Americanized. Less gun-obsessed, sure, and hockey over football/baseball, but apart from that the difference seems to be waning.

Not that francophone communities, including Québec, aren’t also influenced by the US, but the impact is a lot lesser. I’d be super curious to see how much Canadian music/TV the average Canadian listens to, versus how much québécois content the average person in Québec consumes.

There, to me anyways, seems to be a much higher emphasis on national identity in Québec than anywhere else in Canada (for better and for worse).

Fun fact: there exists black women other than Oprah Winfrey! Experts say there are at the very least 12 non-Oprah black women.

If your job mostly revolves around checking people’s documentation and you fail to recognize government-issued ID (from the country in which you work, no less), you’re objectively shit at your job.

I don’t understand why you’re making excuses for the airline. I did a better job than this as a 19 year-old cashier selling lotto tickets.

I would definitely put my money on white nationalists.

Seperationists don’t tend to join the Canadian military, nor would they typically display stickers of the American flag on their trucks as you can see in one of the images on the article. Also, when’s the last time the souverainiste mouvement got violent? I can’t think of anything more recent than the early '70s.

I think what the author describes as the culture of Whatever is also a big reason everything kinda sucks now. It’s all run by MBAs who have no relation to the product and have no vision except “line goes up”. They have no incentive to care about the product they’re offering because they couldn’t care less about it.

Damn I didn’t know Lyman was a sexist!

That list would unironically make a pretty decent playlist!

Honestly, I’ve served similar looking pours to people and had them say how cute it was. Thanks for this comment, it’s easy to get really picky when you spend all day making lattes.

I love how all of this was just to avoid asking a family member “hey can I change some settings on your router to fix the Wi-Fi?”

I mean, I get it. More often than not you’ll either become the de facto tech support or they’ll find a way to blame you the next time something doesn’t work.

The infamous cockaccino!

If I just messed up on the pour but the milk texture is good, I’ll usually still serve it. I’ll either take a stir-stick and try to make some pretty swirls, or I’ll serve as-is but make a joke about it to the customer.

I scanned the whole page and I didn’t see this censorship you allude to, I did see a couple of uncensored “fucks” though.

You’re just describing shrooms, lol

I’ve yet to meet a barista who wasn’t delighted to see someone snap a pic of their latte art!

Although, between you and me, I’ve had more customers excited for the most basic pours than any of the more elaborate stuff. I’ll pour a sweet-looking swan and no one bats an eye, yet people’ll go gaga over a simple heart pour.

As a barista, I often get customers who express this same kind of sentiment; feeling bad for “ruining” latte art by drinking it.

Y’all realize we know latte art is temporary, right? 😅 It’s honestly one of my favourite aspects of latte art. It doesn’t change the taste of the drink, it’ll last 5 minutes at best (even if no one drinks it, it doesn’t take long for latte art to look kinda gross if left on the counter). Yet baristas all over take the little extra effort to make a drink look pretty, just for a moment.

Seriously, you shouldn’t feel bad, if anything baristas will be hyped that you appreciate our artwork!

If there’s any cappuccino drinkers out there, what do you prefer: traditional Italian-style capps with the big circle of foam on top, or more third-wave style capps with latte art?

I’m not a huge cappuccino person but I tend to prefer the big-round-foamy style. I like that it’s aesthetically distinguishable, and this may be placebo but I think the texture and mouth-feel is better. Also, speaking as a barista, finding the balance between well-foamed milk and being sufficiently flowy for latte art is a pain in the butt :P

Was this thread better without it?

Yes.

I, and I assume most people, go into the comments on Lemmy to interact with other people. If I wanted to fucking chit-chat with an LLM (why you’d want to do that, I can’t fathom), I’d go do that. We all have access to LLMs if we wish to have bullshit with a veneer of eloquency spouted at us.