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1. The more you hate a trait in someone else, the more likely you are avoiding it in yourself. Carl Jung believed that characteristics in others that bother us are reflections of the parts of ourselves that we deny. Freud referred to it as “projection.” Most people call it “being an asshole.” For example, the woman who is insecure about her weight will call everyone else fat. The man who’s insecure about his money will criticize others for theirs.
2. People who can’t trust, can’t be trusted. People who are chronically insecure in their relationships are more likely to sabotage them. Call it the Good Will Hunting syndrome, but one way people protect themselves from getting hurt is by hurting others first.
3. The more you try to impress people, the less impressed they’ll be. Nobody likes a try-hard.
4. The more you fail, the more likely you are to succeed. Insert inspirational famous person quote here. You’ve probably heard many of them. Edison tried over 10,000 prototypes before getting the lightbulb right. Michael Jordan got cut from his high school team. Success comes from improvement and improvement comes from failure. There’s no shortcut around it.
[Image description: drawing of a pink seahorse saying “This can be the year you start that new project you’ve been wanting to start for a while. You can do this! It’s going to be awesome.” in a blue speech bubble.]
I know this isn’t Bojack related, but recently instead of turning men down by saying “no, thank you”, I experimented with saying “I’m engaged” and flashing a ring instead.
Needless to say, I am not engaged. It still worked better than just saying “no”, but then came questions like “so where is your fiancé?” and “he let you go out by yourself looking like that?” or just remaining persistent in asking for my number.
So I went into my closet, and pulled out a fiancé.
Now when I turn men down and they need further proof, they can know that I would rather lug around a 5 foot tall plastic skeleton to Steak n Shake and fake a proposal than give them my number.
His name is Braunschweiger Last-Name and I think I’m going to take his last name.
Ok, so I just fell into a misinformation trap out of my own panic, so I did some more research. Here are a few important notes on the Canadian Net Neutrality stuff, so people don’t get too confused or panicky:
It’s bad, but it’s not the same as what’s happening in the United States.
The US telecommunications regulatory agency is called the FCC. That’s where Ajit Pai and his two Republican cronies voted to overturn net neutrality in the US.
The Canadian equivalent is the CRTC. Unlike the FCC board, which is staffed by representatives of the Republican and Democratic parties, the CRTC is non-partisan.
So, in the US, the Republican-controlled FCC decided to throw out net neutrality. That is why we all sent angry emails to Ajit Pai and the FCC.
In Canada, the CRTC has actually done a fairly good job of protecting net neutrality for almost 25 years. Remember, they’re not the bad guys here.
The bad guys are Bell, Rodgers, Cineplex and Shaw. These are the companies that are petitioning the CRTC to block access to websites that rely on piracy. Unfortunately, this is a “slippery slope” proposal in that it could basically lead to a blank check for internet censorship. This is NOT the same as what happened in the US - it’s not a case where you might have to pay more to access certain websites, it’s an attempt by these companies to block certain websites altogether.
The CRTC hasn’t commented on this proposal or evaluated it yet, but keep your eye on the news. Most experts agree that Bell and co. are on extremely shaky legal ground, however - so it’s worth being concerned, but it’s not worth panicking yet. The CRTC have been pretty consistently fair about internet regulations in the past.
Still - it’s disturbing.
So what do you do? Well, for now, you keep watch. There is a petition to sign:
…..which is a good start, but I am extremely suspicious of online petitions. If you care about this, that’s where you start, not where you finish.
The post I reblogged earlier also had a major error in it. That’s the wrong CRTC petition! :) As far as the internet knows, there’s no method to send comments to the CRTC directly yet (aside from phoning people who work there I guess?) but I will keep a lookout and double-check next time
drifbilim: hi i just read the post about bell ending net neutrality in canada and tracked the source provided - which is a claim that the website canadaland made dec 4th that hasn't been substantiated or picked up by major canadian news outlets since. additionally crtc's recent statements suggest that they are for net-neutrality and a search of the exact wording of bell canada's statements is that they want a govnt agency (1/2)
(2/2) to set up a blacklist - but for the express purposes of blocking sites infringing on copyright and piracy laws - with the blacklist being maintained by the CRTC. um i hope this doesn’t come out rude i just wanted to set the facts straight - or as straight as i could manage cross checking sources and reading the context behind the quotes used in the article. i’m not denying the potential threat of repealed net neutrality just wanna make sure there’s no misinformation going around. thanks!
Canadaland is credible, though. This isn’t just a source; they obtained actual documents of draft proposals sent from Bell Media to Canada’s telecommuncations regulator, the CRTC.
Since the majority of large websites are based in the USA, what the USA does in regards to net neutrally will effect every person that uses the Internet.
“We may not live in the U.S., but many of our favourite websites do,” he said. “Canadians rely on a lot of American services… to go about their daily lives.
“If a proposal were to go through that would allow slow lanes on the internet, that could impact how those services operate and what new services are able to emerge.”
Yes, it will. Because the majority of the world’s most used and popular websites are hosted on American servers (Facebook, Google, Netflix, Twitter, Tumblr, etc) they will be subject to American laws on Net Neutrality.
Some large companies may have Canadians servers and in that case there shouldn’t be a slowdown on this end, but for many smaller websites/companies I’m sure it could have a negative effect. Cost pressures in the USA could be shifted to Canadian providers as well.
Whatever happens in the states regards to Net Neutrality is going to also affect us here in Canada. The internet isn’t easily divided up into regions, it’s essentially one massive entity and as such it’s inevitable that some of our traffic is going to come through the states. On top of, many of the services we use on the net are US based, Reddit for example. If the states allows their telecos to prioritize and price different traffic that inevitably going to spill out into additional costs for our services and telecos who buy bandwidth from the US backbone. The cost and consequence of which will be passed on to us.
In my quest for more themed pubs in Toronto, I ventured to the Victorian Monkey Steampunk Edwardian pub on Kingston Road. It’s So Awesome. The food is amazing and there’s a steamer trunk of board games.
Hi, I'm Tim Lai! I'm a cartoonist living in Ontario, Canada. I like drawing cute and colourful things. This blog is a hub where you can find all of my Tumblr, DeviantArt, Flickr, Blogspot, and other posts in one place.
About My Work
I write and draw Lemon Inc., a comic about a seven-year-old who wants to be a business tycoon when he grows up. Until then, he runs a lemonade stand. You can read it at www.lemon-inc.com.
I have done some professional web and graphic design work, including designing the website for the webcomic, Just Joel. I'm also a member of the webcomic collective, Ink Bomb Comics.
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