just yelling and shoving and throwing people on the ground and detaining them is not normal professional police behavior

Except it is extremely normal. It’s literally the bulk of their training.

This is just straight up attempted murder.

Yeah, don’t ever make your food the way this guy doesn’t like it!

Any time someone says Canadians are nice, just refer them to literally anything the RCMP has ever done. They’ve been among the worst of the worst since the day they were founded.

He said some workers are forced to go to food banks because they cannot afford to buy groceries.

“We’re not being able to buy the food we want from the grocery stores we work in, right? So why not give us what we need so we can survive paying rent, paying our bills, groceries,” Labatt said.

Wow, practically a terrorist!

There is no conceivable scenario where simple shoplifting justifies any significant use of force whatsoever.

Still more of a punishment than he’d have gotten if he shot a kid instead.

The main opposition has called for a boycott of the referendum

So they support it, then.

Except in the US. We don’t enforce those laws here.

Maybe if you havea heath condition that makes your hands thrash around uncontrollably, but then you shouldn’t be driving in the first place.

No reason is a legal reason, unfortunately.

Machines don’t demand time off or benefits, and they sure as shit don’t try to unionize.

They only wish they could hit me with a wrench when I get tired!

Plenty of employers do. They’re called farmers and contractors. Just go ask literally any undocumented worker.

We are absolutely not machines to them. In a capitalist society, human life has no meaningful value beyond the profit it creates for other, wealthier people. Machines are generally far more cost effective than humans, and are therefore inherently more valuable.

I’mnot talking about as a worker, but as a consumer. You do not have to give your money to these places. If you value convenience and familiarity over customer support and workers’ rights, the problem is with your position, not mine.

You’re right, I guess we just shouldn’t try. We should probably just let corporations do whatever they want with no meaningful pushback and keep making our lives worse.

It’ll be our fault because we accepted these practices in the first place.

Why should the customer have to hand-hold shitty corporations while we pretend, againt all past evidence, that they’re ever going to learn to do better, when “doing better” isn’t their goal?

It’s not our job to fix bad business practices by rewarding them with continued business while they lie about “figuring things out.” It’s our job to condemn them to failure and bankruptcy for their atrocious anti-human behavior, and we’re failing miserably at it due to our toxic collective preference for short-term convenience over quality and long-term societal and economic health.

My recommendation for anyone, but especially IT, is to learn how to use LLMs as they will be pervasive before you know it.

Better idea: stop doing business with companies that do this.

I’ve never been really comfortable since.

Welcome to the 2/3 majority!

Trying and failing to live life in a worthwhile way is a lot more respectable than doing what most of do by latching onto the corporate tit, never letting go no matter how miserable it makes us, and not having time to enjoy life until we’re too old to, if we get to retire at all.