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Jonny 290 posted:hey look theyve got ad copy now 
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if you think about it, running a jitney cab service is a lot like ending segregation
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Feb 10, 2015 04:01
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duTrieux. posted:like, seriously, that poo poo's a loving bar fight if it's ever said out loud Ah ha, hush that fuss Everybody move to the back of the bus
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Feb 10, 2015 04:03
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Jonny 290 posted:hey look theyve got ad copy now Thats a joke, right?
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Feb 10, 2015 04:05
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Uber: Your own Underground Railroad®
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Feb 10, 2015 04:06
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yeah just a lil somethin i whipped up
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Feb 10, 2015 04:06
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Jonny 290 posted:yeah just a lil somethin i whipped up Its hard to tell because we are already through the looking glass with poo poo like that
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Feb 10, 2015 04:07
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Jonny 290 posted:yeah just a lil somethin i whipped up get it spreading through twitter as a purported upcoming ad campaign
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Feb 10, 2015 04:08
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Citizen Tayne posted:Its hard to tell because we are already through the looking glass with poo poo like that it'd be so fuckin evil too because it has this initial read of "yeah sista! go get that uber ride and tell The Man to piss off!" but the reality is that the focus could also be on the white dude who's like oh my god i wish there was a way i could get off the bus away from this nnnnnnnnnNO CARRIER
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Feb 10, 2015 04:13
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Necc0 posted:don't think you're allowed to be this blatant when abusing h1-bs but i'm not a lawyer if we can send every last scrap of our manufacturing out of the country, the only thing stopping sending everything else is the education level of the 2nd and 3rd world, and it is being raised for precisely that reason lust for death etc
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Feb 10, 2015 04:35
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i still haven't gotten used to the GAR-BAGE DICK avs being the new generic stupid newbie avatars and it's making me think everyone who has one is the same person.
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Feb 10, 2015 04:40
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Necc0 posted:don't think you're allowed to be this blatant when abusing h1-bs but i'm not a lawyer isn't the whole excuse of the h1b visa that you are bringing in someone from oversees because you couldn't find anyone local to do the job? how does that fig leaf hold up when you are having the existing employees train the h1b holds?
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Feb 10, 2015 04:44
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do you think anyone that matters will ever ask that question
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Feb 10, 2015 04:48
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Wulfolme posted:do you think anyone that matters will ever ask that question no, but they used to try to pay lip service to the premise maybe they're taking cues from their neighbour to the north. our TFA program has seen rousing success replacing unskilled restaurant and service industry workers with purpose-hired fast-tracked TFAs housed in company dorms and cheap bunkhouses no one even noticed until one of the banks tried to pull that poo poo on some white IT workers
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Feb 10, 2015 05:14
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sf has absolute poo poo public transport and lol if you pay rent in that fuckin city.
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Feb 10, 2015 06:37
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infernal machines posted:no, but they used to try to pay lip service to the premise based on lots of casual observations and discussions with people around bentonville, walmart is running some fuckin kind of shimmy shake through canada, lots of people that by every observable notion were mainland chinese, but all swore up and down that they were from Canadian As gently caress from vancouver i dont know exactly what it is, but the term "year and a day" probably factors in somewhere e: i am fully aware of the strong actual asian immigrant presence in vancouver and BC. this was not that.
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Feb 10, 2015 07:28
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Jonny 290 posted:e: i am fully aware of the strong actual asian immigrant presence in vancouver and BC. this was not that. are you? canada, british columbia in particular, has a very strong anti-assimilation culture. i live in richmond, bc which is where the pre-china handover hong kong diaspora (so 20+ years ago at this point) settled and many of my neighbors speak literally zero english. they don't have to. it's perfectly possible to spend months in richmond without ever needing to speak english. almost every store and government service is available in cantonese. if you speak mandarin you've got burnaby and coquitlam. filipinos have the kingsway corridor in east van. the indian subcontinent has the largest city in british columbia -- surrey. it's not just asian either. there are italians who have lived in east van and north burnaby since the 30s who still speak no english. canada isn't the usa, speaking english or adopting north american culture is completely optional
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yeah canada loves to brag about that, especially in comparison to the usa's melting pot concept in canadian elementary school they will say "oh, yes, there are lots of immigrants in the usa, but everyone has to be an american first and foremost. they all melt together. in canada we're more like a mixed salad, where everyone gets to keep their own distinctiveness while still making a whole!" then i had a girlfriend who was born in romania who utterly hated the concept and thought the melting pot was a way better idea. because everywhere she'd go they'd ask (hearing her accent) "where are you from?" and she'd say "toronto" having lived there most of her life and they'd say "yeah but where are you REALLY from" -- trying to be ~so understanding~ but actually just being big ol' racists
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Feb 10, 2015 09:24
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the talent deficit posted:are you? canada, british columbia in particular, has a very strong anti-assimilation culture. i live in richmond, bc which is where the pre-china handover hong kong diaspora (so 20+ years ago at this point) settled and many of my neighbors speak literally zero english. they don't have to. it's perfectly possible to spend months in richmond without ever needing to speak english. almost every store and government service is available in cantonese. if you speak mandarin you've got burnaby and coquitlam. filipinos have the kingsway corridor in east van. the indian subcontinent has the largest city in british columbia -- surrey. it's not just asian either. there are italians who have lived in east van and north burnaby since the 30s who still speak no english. canada isn't the usa, speaking english or adopting north american culture is completely optional when is the last time you actually went to richmond because it hasn't been the territory of hongers for almost a decade. It's all mainlanders with x5's and ferraris these days.
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Feb 10, 2015 09:26
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Well I can safely scrub the io programming language of things to try, knowing that the creator owns truly dumb statements such as the above.
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Feb 10, 2015 10:01
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Sagebrush posted:then i had a girlfriend who was born in romania who utterly hated the concept and thought the melting pot was a way better idea. because everywhere she'd go they'd ask (hearing her accent) "where are you from?" and she'd say "toronto" having lived there most of her life and they'd say "yeah but where are you REALLY from" -- trying to be ~so understanding~ but actually just being big ol' racists this usually just means "where's your family from" and nobody gives a gently caress its a conversation starter, lmao if you think the US has a better immigrant culture
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Sagebrush posted:then i had a girlfriend who was born in romania who utterly hated the concept and thought the melting pot was a way better idea. because everywhere she'd go they'd ask (hearing her accent) "where are you from?" and she'd say "toronto" having lived there most of her life and they'd say "yeah but where are you REALLY from" -- trying to be ~so understanding~ but actually just being big ol' racists this happens in america too, unfortunately
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Feb 10, 2015 16:02
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Sagebrush posted:yeah canada loves to brag about that, especially in comparison to the usa's melting pot concept I think they just wanted to know where she was from because they knew she was full of poo poo by saying toronto
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Feb 10, 2015 16:05
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"where are you from" "toronto" "no but where are you really from" "oshawa  "
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Feb 10, 2015 16:07
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Pinterest Mom posted:"where are you from" lol
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Feb 10, 2015 16:09
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Asking where someone is from is racist, especially if they're too insecure to give you a non-bullshit answer
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Feb 10, 2015 16:10
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I'm from Pittsburgh.
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Feb 10, 2015 16:11
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infernal machines posted:our TFA program has seen rousing success replacing unskilled restaurant and service industry workers with purpose-hired fast-tracked TFAs housed in company dorms and cheap bunkhouses whats tfa
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Feb 10, 2015 16:11
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emoji posted:Asking where someone is from is racist, especially if they're too insecure to give you a non-bullshit answer what if you're not from the place you're asking in? like you're not from the US, in the US, and asking if another person is from the US?
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Feb 10, 2015 16:13
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graph posted:whats tfa it's tfw, temporary foreign workers a special kind of visa in which companies can bring in foreign workers ("only if there are no canadian workers available" lol) to do work, and they can only stay in the country as long as they're employed by the company that brought them in. an innovative new way to skew the management/worker dynamic even further in management's favour.
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Feb 10, 2015 16:14
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Condiv posted:what if you're not from the place you're asking in? like you're not from the US, in the US, and asking if another person is from the US? how about when you meet another american while you're overseas, and you're curious about what part of the country they're from?
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Feb 10, 2015 16:15
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Condiv posted:what if you're not from the place you're asking in? like you're not from the US, in the US, and asking if another person is from the US? That's normal.
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Feb 10, 2015 16:16
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emoji posted:That's normal. super glad i pass the nonracist test once again
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Feb 10, 2015 16:24
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Pinterest Mom posted:it's tfw, temporary foreign workers thanks, i wrote that up last night and somehow didn't notice. VLADIMIR GLUTEN posted:this usually just means "where's your family from" and nobody gives a gently caress its a conversation starter, lmao if you think the US has a better immigrant culture i get asked this constantly, i was born and raised here and my mother's family is like fourth or fifth generation french-canadian. they always keep pressing though because apparently i have some bizarre unidentifiable accent, and besides no one's "from" canada right? eventually i just tell them my father's from malta (he came over at age 3) and this seems to satisfy them.
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Feb 10, 2015 18:27
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Pinterest Mom posted:"where are you from" haha nice. whenever i meet someone here (seattle) with an ontario accent i always guess thorn hill and i am batting like .850
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Feb 10, 2015 18:43
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:this happens in america too, unfortunately i was having a nice dinner with a lady once when some random old dude stopped as he was walking by my table and loudly asked where i was from. born and raised in southern california, just outside of LA. "no, i mean, before that" gently caress you, old dude.
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Feb 10, 2015 18:46
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do you have a strange accent. if you do it's a reasonable question
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Feb 10, 2015 18:48
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emoji posted:do you have a strange accent. if you do it's a reasonable question yeah, it's totally reasonable to go up to somebody you don't know in a restaurant and immediately ask where they're from. nothing offensive about that at all. also duTrieux. posted:born and raised in southern california i'm pretty sure that southern californians are used to the southern california accent.
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Feb 10, 2015 18:50
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emoji posted:do you have a strange accent. if you do it's a reasonable question no, just mind your own business
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duTrieux. posted:i was having a nice dinner with a lady once when some random old dude stopped as he was walking by my table and loudly asked where i was from. born and raised in southern california, just outside of LA. you just come off as smug. what you typed doesn't seem to be racist on the part of the old guy, who is probably just friendly and a little dumb. somehow i doubt he was singling you out on the basis of your race as if he had never seen your skin color before, in southern california, where every ethnicity on the planet is represented
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