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Cake day: June 27th, 2023
  • CyanideShotInjection@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Las Vegas staff say MrBeast should be blacklisted, cite OSHA, setting medics for failure
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    10 days ago

    That’s the thing, I totally get why people say he’s a sociopath cause even though he’s fucking rich, he can’t even pay for an hotel room for the participants. I have a feeling their belongings were taken so they would not have to deal with people stealing each other’s stuff, which would have been wayyy less likely if people got their own room. I highly doubt it’s that much cheaper to rent a fucking stadium, buying 2000 sleeping bags, paying for portable toilets, etc. than to rent a whole cheap hotel or motel.

    He really wanted those participants to be desperate for that money. “At least if I get to the end, all that crap before will be worth it”. It’s disgusting… He’s not considering those people as humans but as cattle.

  • CyanideShotInjection@lemmy.worldtoCanada@lemmy.ca•Cineplex fined $38.9M over $1.50 online booking fee
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    12 days ago

    Well not really. And this is not to defend this company, I hate them so much, but I just want to highlight the difference.

    When you go on Ticketmaster the price shown is what you will pay. Including the taxes and whatever bullshit fees they want to add. So you know exactly what it is going to cost you. What Cineplex was doing was showing the cost of the ticket (let’s say at 15$ or whatever), but when you go checkout, now the cost is 15$+tx, PLUS the ordering online fees as well. That is what was ruled illegal.

  • CyanideShotInjection@lemmy.worldtoHumor@lemmy.world•Let's call it what it really isEnglish
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    1 month ago

    And to had to that, soccer comes from the term Association Football (hence A.F.C. -> Association Football Club) but since it was too long, the British shortened it to Soccer and it was the prefered term going back as far as the late 19th century. Refering to it as football regained popularity in the UK during the 1960s. As for Gridiron Football, the first part of the name was dropped long ago as at the time all football sports were simply called “football” in North America (this includes Rugby).

    And yes this joke is sooo tired, my first reaction was “oh we’re going back to making those lame repeated memes that made me quit 9gag 10 years ago”

  • CyanideShotInjection@lemmy.worldtoQuébec@lemmy.ca•Je vais à Polytechnique Montréal/en génie informatique!
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    4 months ago

    Félicitations pour ton admission !

    Je ne suis malheureusement plus à la Poly (gradué en 2017), mais je peux te dire que ça a été l’une des expériences les plus enrichissantes de toute ma vie. Pour répondre à ta question, je ne te cacherai pas que la marche est très haute entre le cegep et l’université, particulièrement pour la Poly 😅. (Pour te donner une idée, j’ai toujours été un étudiant très “sur la moyenne”). C’est beaucoup plus une question de rester motivé plus que d’être “une bolle”.

    Ce que j’ai vraiment aimé par contre est que malgré la difficulté des cours, il y a vrainent un esprit de collaboration et d’entraide. Dans mon cas (j’étais en elec), on s’est rapidement bâti un petit groupe où on faisait souvent nos travaux et nos études ensemble. Honnêtement ça a grandement aidé à me motiver et me dépasser. Ça vaut vraiment la peine de tisser des liens avec les gens de son génie et ceux des autres aussi.

    Je te suggère aussi de t’impliquer dans la vie étudiante. Sans nécessairement donner du temps à un comité, ne serait-ce que d’aller aux Pubs, aux 5@7, aux partys, etc. Dans mon cas ça m’a permis d’encore plus m’attacher à l’école et à me pousser à y rester malgré les moments plus durs. J’ai fait deux ans à l’UdeM avant et je peux te dire que j’ai senti un sentiment de communauté tellement plus fort à la Poly, ça motive énormément.

    Bonne chance pour la rentrée, j’espère que tu aimeras ton expérience ! ;)

  • CyanideShotInjection@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•When I die, turn me into soup
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    5 months ago

    Of course the root of evil is capitalism, but you have to understand that we would need to greatly reduce meat consuption to have the “ethical” way of breeding that most people expect. The reason why the animal exploitation is so bad is that it has to satisfy a demand that keeps growing. People expect to continue their eating habits and that companies should just be held accountable, change their ways and still produce the same quantities of meat/diaries/eggs.