It's that day of the year again when we celebrate the birthday of the acclaimed, well-known creator of Calvin and Hobbes: Gary Larson.
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For the next 24 hours, Larson-posting is in effect. Until the end of the day, all posts must feature Mr. Larson to show our appreciation for his great work.
We maxed out the character limit of 40k (Warhammer reference!?!) on our first megathread post, so we'll be continuing the extensive chronicle of our extremely niche shitpost sub here.
Feel free to recommend additions in the comments.
Link to Part 1 of the Megathread
Bigger sub, more bots.
Our karma requirements have needed an update for some time now in order to catch more spam, AI and karma-farming accounts. As such, the minimum karma amount to post and comment here has been bumped up from 100 to 500. Account age requirements will stay the same at 2 days.
You may notice the Automod removing more posts and comments than usual for a while due to this change until the bots detect and adjust to the removals. It's far from a perfect deterrent, but it does filter out the worst of it.
- Your Dictator-For-Life
P.S. - Plan B was filtering all accounts made after 2022 and the rise of AI. Make of that what you will.
The Canadian government is simultaneously working to pass bills that will require ID for social media, mandate hardware-level backdoors for law enforcement purposes, and create a loosey-goosey legal definition for inciting hatred online (Bills C-34, C-22, and C-9, respectfully). We are entering a digital police state, a thought crime hellscape where Minority Report becomes reality.
The silence here is deafening.
There are no protests planned, no debates, hardly even an angry post online to be found about it. At best, you might come across someone that will mention this topic in passing before moving on to another subject.
It looks to me like the Canadian people have well and truly been broken into complete submission at this point. The frog has been boiled. The public's opinion has been ignored on every topic by our elected officials for so long that most have people have completely checked out.
Someone tell me there's something that can be done, because I'm not seeing it.
The CT that was fined $111,000 last year because "wages, work conditions or the job did not match what was listed in offers of employment and that employees were assigned to work different roles than what they were hired for" was given approval for 35 roles since 2022. The fine has since been paid, which means they're eligible to do the same thing again.
I mean...what the heck. Youth unemployment was between 15-20% during that time. You could have thrown a rock from a roof and hit someone looking for work in Etobicoke. Who on earth was vetting these applications? 35 workers...were any Canadians working there?
This stuff makes my blood boil. Take "Canadian" off the name already.
If you're an experienced website designer in Markham looking for your next well-paid role, Houssmax Realty Marketing Ltd. has been unable to find a qualified Canadian to fill said position for $36/hr.
Web Site Designer - Job Bank #3497056
Side note, you're still able to apply through the Job Bank even now that the LMIA approval to hire a temporary foreign worker for the role has been issued. Best of luck!
While youth unemployment in NB is still at 12%, Subway/DW Restaurants Moncton Inc. is more concerned about how many foreign workers they can bring in to exploit. All three postings have received an approved LMIA (Labour Market Impact Assessment) to hire temporary foreign workers for Moncton/Dieppe-based positions, claiming that no qualified applicants could be found locally.
Food Service Supervisor - #3511602
Food Service Supervisor - #3508892
Food Service Supervisor - #3508893
All Canadians are harmed when work permit scams are allowed to go unnoticed.
Applications can still be submitted for these positions, even after approval. If you applied for any of these roles and were rejected despite being qualified, please report the listings on the Job Bank and file a complaint with your local Employment Standards Act regulator. Hiring temporary foreign workers when qualified Canadians are available violates employment law in all provinces.
While youth unemployment in NB is still at 12%, a local Subway restaurant is more concerned about how many temporary workers they can bring in to exploit. All three postings have received an approved LMIA (Labour Market Impact Assessment) to hire TFWs for Moncton/Dieppe-based positions, claiming that no qualified applicants could be found locally.
Food Service Supervisor - #3511602
Food Service Supervisor - #3508892
Food Service Supervisor - #3508893
All Canadians are harmed when work permit scams are allowed to go unnoticed.
Applications can still be submitted for these positions, even after approval. If you applied for any of these roles and were rejected despite being qualified, please report the listings on the Job Bank, then file a complaint with the IRCC and your local Employment Standards Act regulator. Hiring temporary foreign workers when qualified Canadians are available violates employment law in all provinces.