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With all his talk about STEM, he's done nothing to actually help with the teaching of STEM.

[–] Gyangrene@piefed.ca 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

This guy isn't just hopelessly out of touch – he's dangerously motivated to rob Peter to pay Paul. He's willing to slash budgets and run education, healthcare and more public sectors ragged to pay off the deficit his government amplified, and he doesn't care that by doing this, he's severely destroying the power of Ontario's future economy.

Tell me Dougie, when healthcare workers, education workers, and now workers of all these sectors fed by post-secondary institutions start seeing record vacancies throughout the province, do you care what happens to the rest of us? Because after what we've seen, I bet you don't as long as you get yours.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago

do you care what happens to the rest of us?

Not his problem, when things go south he will just leave Ontario.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

Little fact check: I went to school with the Fords.

Doug never showed up. His father intimidated Scarlett Heights into giving him a grade 12 diploma.

He flunked out of a grade 13 equivalency program at Humber. Small wonder he has underfunded universities since he took office, it's what Trump would do.

AMA about Ford and his trash family, and the corruption of Toronto Police 22 division.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design with a degree in textiles and was a basket weaver. I won the medal for my program. I was a practicing basket weaver making hats and baskets out of mostly cedar bark. I found quite quickly that the job was actually sales and got sick of craft shows. I got a job in an upholstery shop making canvas enclosures on boats. I benifited from having a salesman take on the bullshit work and left me to hone my craft. My boss was an asshole and eventually I seized the means of production and he went bankrupt. I've run my own shop for the last 6 years and am sending my daughter to OCAD for printmaking. It doesn't matter what she does in school, she will learn the skills necessary to tackle any issue with confidence. She may not be a printmaker for the rest of her life but the skills she develops will ensure she can adapt to any struggle presented to her.

So get fucked you giant sack of shit. Maybe if you hired a fucking designer your bullshit sticker factory could make stickers that don't wash off and that you can see in the fucking dark.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah people often shit on the arts without realizing many jobs are art. Movies, movie posters, industrial design, signs, and so on.

The stuff I do for work is mainly engineering type work and includes CAD but mainly in regard to processes and automation.

But I have come to realize that going to an arts highschool helped a lot because art is all about steps, stages, timing, planning (whether that is prepping a multiframe silkscreen print, or the mixing of clay through to firing and glazing stages of pottery.)

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It was a weird realization that part of why my English degree got dunked on is that in the real world, no one seems to actually read anything. That includes contracts, technical documents, FAQs, reports, literally the text adjacent to sign in fields, etc.

(Sort of joking, but the amount of times I've heard "Wow, how did you know that/figure that out?" and had to respond "It was in the document you sent me" over the course my career is too damn high).

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

I understand totally. Another aspect of my job is training, documentation, and support. Often we have people stuck on an issue and ask for help, many times the software is asking for a selection to proceed. The customer says the software is broken. A screen share shows the highlighted prompt "select an object on screen to continue". And they can't proceed because they didn't read the prompt, and haven't selected anything.

Same with steps, they say the get different results than the training document. It's " did you do step 4?" With a response of "uhh no". OK then, if you don't do step 4 then all the steps after will give a different outcomes.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Artisan basketweaving likely has a sunnier future than, say, auto manufacturing, under current circumstances.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

In this case basket weaving refers to low paying degrees like teaching and nursing.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 days ago

My year in junior high literally had to take basketweaving one semester, because the school's funding kept getting cut year after year, until the school board capitulated to bring in French Immersion (as I recall; this was a long time ago, and I'm old. It was in Alberta).

Funding was being used to force the school board or parent-teacher committee or whatever...

In 7th grade, there were like 3 options we could choose from each semester; then 8th grade, 2; then 9th grade, just one 'option'.

It's pretty rich for politicians to accuse students of slacking, when the options are literally defunded in their schools.

[–] juslemmybee@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Damn. Someone send him a package of ointment for that sick burn.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hick Ontario, who has never step foot on a college campus, loves him.

[–] juslemmybee@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I wish he were only popular in rural Ontario. But unfortunately, I have spoken with many, many Torontonians who have proved that wrong 😒

[–] imrighthere@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] juslemmybee@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Yes he would! 🫩

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

He would spread it on a freshly cracked egg breakfast sandwich.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why does he look like bloated and dumber Brock Lesner?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was thinking a dumber Kent Brockman.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 1 points 19 hours ago

I always thought he was a Quimby.

its like brock lesner on PEDs but he doesnt workout at all or train.

[–] lemonySplit@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

Wait, aren't baskets, especially handmade, actually kind of taking off with the plastic bag bans? They are here...