Seen is definitely a SW Ontario thing too, although more rural still. It's considered kinda unrefined I think. Same with "youse" like "you people" except "youse people." If you go further north I notice people talk in a exaggerated ascending and descending pitch inflection, at least along the north Huron coast. I catch myself doing it when I visit family there.
Yeah, for sure it's all over Ontario, but most especially rural-anywhere, but urban in the north, too.
When I was 16 I did an exchange week where I spent a week in Walkerton (SW of Owen Sound) and that was the first time I ever spent time here. The 'youse' and 'seen' thing was something I noticed right away. Nothing like that growing up in the 80s in rural Alberta near Edmonton, though it might be there now.
... tangent... There's also a subtle but noticeable pronounciation difference between southern Alberta and central Alberta, which I've heard language specialists mention. Central Alberta was more heavily settled by German, Ukrainian and British populations (in order of increasing ratio); southern Alberta had a more heavily American influence, people who came over from North Dakota & Idaho, etc (like my great grandmother on my mother's side). Obviously that has blurred in the decades since, but it had a long term impact on both politics and language. Where I grew up west of Edmonton, a sizable quantity of the kids in my school were only second generation Ukrainian, with their parents often still speaking it at home.
Anyways, the English linguistic situation in Canada is a lot more diverse than it appears at first
We've been through two large pandemics in the modern era and neither caused the destruction of human civilization. Even the really bad pandemics of the medieval era that killed large chunks of the population did not result in the destruction of humanity. We also lived with serious endemic diseases for a large fraction of our history and they didn't bring about doom. This means that the chances of extinction due to pandemic are still very slim.
Nuclear war thankfully has still not occurred. Even if it were to occur one can hope that we would have enough sense to limit how many weapons were used. The fact that MAD works wherever it is in place indicates that humans are not as gung ho on self-immolation as the media makes us out to be.
Ecological collapse and climate change are two different things. Total ecological collapse is much harder to accomplish barring a massive event such as an asteroid impact.
There is a huge difference between how the world works today and how it worked in the medieval era though. We are much more interconnected and co-dependent as evidenced by COVID-19. Maybe there are uncontacted people that could survive a major human pandemic? We also have worse weapons, can the people that survive a pandemic that kills 2/3 of humanity, like the plague, keep it together? There is already speculation that people like Putin were twisted further by the isolation of COVID-19.
WRT ecological collapse, aren't we experiencing the front end of a mass extinction in the oceans? Can humans survive such an event or will it be a domino effect up the food chain?
I don't usually like ruminating on this stuff but it's worth considering our future without AI if we are going to consider what it may be like with it.
How about women getting puked on by patients and yelled at by doctors as nurses? I get your point and it's kinda true, but it's not as clear cut as you're making it sound.
We can go back and forth about this. I'll counter with garbage collectors (chiefly men) having to deal with liquid trash, you'll talk about female secretaries having to deal with harassment, I'll talk about emergency frontliners having to deal with the worst of society, and so on.
And we see the similarity here: they're all relatively low-wage jobs.
The comparison here shouldn't be between high-paid jobs (doctor) and low-paid ones (nurse), rather between low-paid jobs and other low-paid jobs.
The bottom line is that those with lower-wage jobs will be the ones having to deal with the worse things, but generally-speaking women tend to take up the less dangerous, more comfortable low-wage jobs. Think teachers, nurses, secretaries against soldiers, police officers, construction workers.
> but generally-speaking women tend to take up the less dangerous, more comfortable low-wage jobs
"Comfortable" is hard to define and I see it easy to argue that jobs such as nursing, with the stress, insane schedules and such, is far less comfortable than equivalent jobs. It's such a subjective term and the different types of comfort vs stress means that arguing about it seems mostly pointless.
However, it's pretty clear that more dangerous jobs are far more likely to be traditionally male roles.
> tend to take up the less dangerous, more comfortable low-wage jobs. Think teachers, nurses, secretaries against soldiers, police officers, construction workers.
> less dangerous, more comfortable
I don't think a modern school or hospital is more comfortable or safe than a squad car. To be completely fair the difference between a police officer and a nurse and teacher is that the former can defend himself and claim he "was afraid for his life" while the latter can't.
A skilled welder can make more money than a secretary (not to mention a logger or oil worker), but the secretary can probably work from home and the welder can not. At the end of the day, the __vast__ majority of those dirty physical jobs are done by men, whereas women mostly do more comfortable office work, regardless of pay.
The vast majority of dirty and dangerous jobs are done by men, even if there are many women-dominated service jobs as well. For every nurse there are 10 construction workers. Servers and retail are probably about equal. Numbers wise it is extremely obvious that women will be more able to take advantage of remote work, especially when you factor in their much higher education attainment (50% higher college graduation) and tendency to do part time.
I've tried vapor gloves, xero, lems, bearfoot... All supposedly "wide toebox," all too narrow. So far, five fingers and earth runners are the only footwear that works for me.
I haven’t tried any of those so I can’t say how they would compare, but I am quite happy with the toe box on the Altra Lone Peak. Topos also have a wide toe box.
You live in nature. You might not be able to draw a straight line from bears to your quality of life, but everything is connected and if the rest of the web collapses, you will go with it.
I think it's fair to say there's a conversation to be had about this in general, not coming down on it either way... but there's zero reason to throw that particular grenade here.
Yeah it's possible that running everything more than once produces better output, at a multiple of the price and time. Presumably you usually ask that question when you have some reason to think the answer can be improved, though.
