Yeah, if that was everyone's experience being bullied no one would care.
My bullies would tackle me, surround me, and kick me while I was down for minutes. Never less then 6 of them at a time. I had 3 concussions from being tackled and having my head smashed against the floor.
They would throw sand into my eyes. I remember not being able to see while being beat. I remember having to wear an eye patch for a week from the abrasions.
They would throw large sticks at me, I have numerous scars from being hit in the face.
They would break my things, I had multiple bikes smashed on the bike rack.
They would steal my things, if I had anything nice in my desk they would steal it when the teacher was out of the room.
They would shove dog shit in my face when they tackled me to the ground in their groups.
They would ostracize me from every other person at school, anyone I tried to talk to would have to ignore me for fear of being beaten up and treated the same. Even those that I was good friends with outside of school felt they couldn't let it be known in school.
I'd have my pants pulled down almost every single day while I was walking in crowds.
I stood up and fought for myself every single time. I never backed out. I always tried to fight back. I was larger then any of them individually. I had my dad take me to Taekwondo from the time I was in grade 2. I started lifting weights in grade 4.
My only recourse was to avoid them. From grade 2 to grade 11 I would pretend to be sick for weeks at a time in order to avoid going to school. Avoidance was my ONLY option, nothing else worked. I would use up every single sick day I could without getting expelled in high school. I'm not even sure about elementary school, they didn't have a max number of days, but I'm sure I missed at least half of every year.
Finally in grade 11 I managed to get the fight to stop by knocking four teeth out of my main bullies mouth and giving him 18 stitches. I was knocked out cold and barely remember the fight.
Standing up for yourself doesn't always work, everyone in this thread that thinks it does is extremely naive.
I'm glad that you punching your bully once solved the problem for you though.
Do you think Russia will find a response to HIMARS in the next six months?
I mean, aside from the masses realizing that the only sane response is to get out of Ukraine and go back into Russia.
Russia has the capability to end this by simply ending the war. Ukraine on the other hand, has no response but to defend itself from the bully next door. It is obvious that only Ukraine's military is holding Russia back, and the illegal annexation only proves Russia's colonial aims here.
We just gotta wait until the Russians realize how pathetic their army is, and that there is no military solutions available to the Russians here. That will take time unfortunately, but that's what we have to wait for.
"Ukrainian officials also reported that at least 95% of the city had been destroyed during the fighting, largely by Russian bombardments"
"The United Nations stated it had confirmed the deaths of 1,348 civilians, but said the true death toll was likely thousands higher, and added that 90% of the city's residential buildings had been damaged or destroyed"
I am not claiming that the situation is ideal. Only that it is incredibly naive to expect scalping not to exist and that selling below market price without a plan for how you expect that to work is a genuinely bad idea.
If you want to raffle your tickets off then by all means do that. But you will need a very different system from what we have now. And in order to prevent scalping you will probably need to collect government issued ID or biometric data which would need to be verified on entry to the venue. And the secondary market would have to be totally disallowed, with cancellations involving a refund and the ticket being re-raffled off.
Personally I think that anything short of that is incredibly naive and that you get what you deserve.
> I am no incentivized to sell at the scalper price permanently removing the ability for my less wealthy fans to attend my show.
The only 'fair' alternative to this (even in hypothetical scenario when there are no scalpers, e.g. like it currently is in Japan) are lotteries.
I do hate the lotteries for ticket sales a lot, but I'm obviously biased (while I'm not wealthy by any meaningful standard, I'd be able to pay ~5x of the usual ticket here w/o breaking too much sweat).
This is all fine and dandy but these people aren't protesting the correct part of the government that has authority to enact the changes they want. That is, if we are talking about mask, and vaccine mandates. They need to protest their provincial governments for those changes.
The Federal demands they have are for our democratic government to resign and instill a dictatorship made up of people of their choosing...
Why the fuck should anyone listen to these people?
Perhaps your technical questions are not adequate enough if someone can sound like a "rockstar" while not being able to program an if statement?
I've interviewed hundreds of people over my career and I've never had an interview where I couldn't figure out their technical abilities through a conversation.
I'll tell you what leetcode interviews do find you though, they find you people that have no idea how TCP/HTTP work, they have no idea how you would debug a distributed system. They've never deployed anything to a server. They probably have no idea how to even measure the amount of work being performed by a server. They've never thought about CI/CD/Deployment/Scalability. They've never used any cloud resources. They have potentially never been through a code review.
etc, etc, etc, etc.
Someone crushing a leetcode test tells me about 1% of the stuff I'd like to know about their knowledge and abilities.
>While Canada as a whole has recently seen some small increases to the cost of housing on the back of increasing lumber and labour costs, the country has a whole has remained largely stagnant, even falling in some cases
Kelowna? Calgary? Halifax? Are those places being driven up by farmland demand?
My bullies would tackle me, surround me, and kick me while I was down for minutes. Never less then 6 of them at a time. I had 3 concussions from being tackled and having my head smashed against the floor.
They would throw sand into my eyes. I remember not being able to see while being beat. I remember having to wear an eye patch for a week from the abrasions.
They would throw large sticks at me, I have numerous scars from being hit in the face.
They would break my things, I had multiple bikes smashed on the bike rack.
They would steal my things, if I had anything nice in my desk they would steal it when the teacher was out of the room.
They would shove dog shit in my face when they tackled me to the ground in their groups.
They would ostracize me from every other person at school, anyone I tried to talk to would have to ignore me for fear of being beaten up and treated the same. Even those that I was good friends with outside of school felt they couldn't let it be known in school.
I'd have my pants pulled down almost every single day while I was walking in crowds.
I stood up and fought for myself every single time. I never backed out. I always tried to fight back. I was larger then any of them individually. I had my dad take me to Taekwondo from the time I was in grade 2. I started lifting weights in grade 4.
My only recourse was to avoid them. From grade 2 to grade 11 I would pretend to be sick for weeks at a time in order to avoid going to school. Avoidance was my ONLY option, nothing else worked. I would use up every single sick day I could without getting expelled in high school. I'm not even sure about elementary school, they didn't have a max number of days, but I'm sure I missed at least half of every year.
Finally in grade 11 I managed to get the fight to stop by knocking four teeth out of my main bullies mouth and giving him 18 stitches. I was knocked out cold and barely remember the fight.
Standing up for yourself doesn't always work, everyone in this thread that thinks it does is extremely naive.
I'm glad that you punching your bully once solved the problem for you though.