Kevin Laprise🔌🤔
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Parle Français. Philosophy grad student.Research into Epistemology of expertise.Agreement=/= endorsement.Follow=/=endorsement. Same on Bluesky
Montréal, Québec
Joined June 2015
You say that like that wasn't already true lmao. Of course being a CEO is a lot about politics and optics. Being the face of a company is all about relations. They are the one signing the deals, not the one we ask to draft the contracts.
Every CEO in Canada -- and any global talent considering coming here -- just got the message. Your skill as a businessman is not what counts. Your ability to appease the political elite is more important. Otherwise your -- or your entire business -- will be destroyed.
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"oh wow, you're clearly one of the good gays!" Is no different than "you're good at your job, for a woman" And "you did this? You? Really?" Or "You studied that? I could never do something so... Unproductive." It's rude or insulting to act that way.
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It's funny that people think microaggressions are woke nonsense, because if you just call it by the commonly known description of "being condescending, dismissive and insensitive" most people would agree that this kind of behavior is irritating.
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If you don't believe it, just meet a kid that's a nepo baby, and you'll see clearly how clueless they are when it comes to understanding others. They'll be condescending, dismissive, overly confident... People who suffer less are less likely to care about others.
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Actually, here the answer is right. People of higher status mostly understand how to interact with people of their own status. The more marginalised have to interact with all sorts, and more often face conflict than people secure in their positions.
intro level college classes (and i suspect everything vaguely associated with business+education schools) are such ridiculous nonsense
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You could start by having such articles not behind a paywall 🙄
Professors face a dilemma: If they hold students to the same standards they used even 10 years ago, more will do poorly. If they ease up, students won’t be prepared for more advanced work. What should they do?
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Lmao, from personal experience, I can tell you, most people don't even bother filling those evaluations. And if they are forced to, most students write nothing. They rate and move on. Most that did more were either those with petty grudges or admirative,so mostly outliers.
The easy way to get rigor back in university courses to get rid of anonymous student evaluations but nobody in university leadership wants to do that
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In my undergraduate philo classes, every philo class open to students outside philo had them complain we read and write too much (even literature students said it was more than lit courses).The funny thing is, it was still less than the exclusive courses for philo students only.
Harvard faculty report that they've had to "trim some readings and drop others entirely, switch from novels to short stories, and that it’s difficult to keep assigning reading in the face of increasing student complaints."
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I've seen something like this before in a documentary. It was a sort of attraction center. All sponsored by corporations who wanted to use it to brainwash kids into brand loyalty or to scout for future low skill employees by profiling the kids based on tests disguised as games.
A Chicago mom started a "REAL WORLD" summer camp: Kids go to grocery, laundry, even a cemetery. And they find their way via public transit. THE KIDS LOVE IT! The parents are GRATEFUL! The clothes are CLEAN! https://t.co/VZUQfTZzBO
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I think a conversation on ethics is not gonna help if students see their education as merely a requirement for a paycheck. You need to awe them. Show off your expertise. Make yourself look impressive. Someone they'd want to be like. That's how you motivate people to be better.
I used to mark students down for using AI. Now I refuse to mark their papers at all & instead call them in to have a conversation about integrity. I give them a chance to redo their work properly with a grade reduction. It's time consuming, yes, but it's also our job as teachers.
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You could have just lied if you did see them or say the truth if you hadn't. Also, it's grindr, it's location based and has photos. I've recognised people from gay apps before. Nobody sane will come up to you in public, why would they do anything bad in front of witnesses?
Hi, please don’t do this, I’ve now had to tell my workplace, because I don’t feel safe
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Interesting. At my uni I heard my department, philosophy, was in hot trouble for not doing enough grade inflation. But if you don't inflate, you penalise students, as most grants and scholarships take into account performance,so it favors the students with inflated grades.
Talked to someone who graduated Stanford last year — 1. said that grade inflation was so out of control that much of the class has a 3.9+ because professors just hand out A+’s now. 2. said they made majors like chemE dramatically easier by removing required “hard” classes
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Why would they? We have to accept that when a product/service isn't strictly necessary, it's people who lack self restraint that perpetuate bad actors like this. One can't escape grocery prices, as we all need to eat, but you don't have to buy a 20$ stadium beer.
Notice they cut the person selling the drink but didn’t cut the price of the drink to match
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Funny how a capitalist like Ezra, which would absolutely support firing people without much cause usually, will object when it's politically convenient to him. As if Ezra doesn't believe that someone being bad publicity for a company is sufficient reason to fire someone.
Understand what this means. They will fire a world-class CEO because he's not perfectly bilingual -- despite 600 hours of taking French classes. If they would do that to him, imagine what they would do to you. I'm talking to you, Alberta.
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"supply is not affected" Just how many tonnes of KitKat do they have and need?...
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J.J. is every Québec separatists dream. He validates every single one of their arguments every time he opens his mouth. He also demonstrates the fundamental cleavage between conservatives and right-liberals. Everyone is merely “an individual”. There is no place for the nation.
I have written a long essay clearly and hopefully comprehensively making the case against official French-English billingualism in Canada. I hope you give it a read!
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"autobesity" lmao.
Driving through a city SHOULD be inconvenient if you're driving at the same time as everyone else. Space is limited, and motor vehicles take up a ton of space. Over time they keep getting bigger. Autobesity is a burden on everyone.
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The hardest part of starting a new job I find is not what people tell you to do, but what they forget to tell or assume you already were told about. That and people telling you what to do in a disorderly fashion like C before A then B, you know.
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People boasting about killing themselves at work are so sad to me. Imagine thinking this makes you look tough instead of just reckless.
A Chick-fil-A employee using a mechanical lift to throw away a single trash bag just sparked a massive culture war. Blue-collar workers filmed it from above, laughing and saying modern men have gotten completely soft. Half the internet agrees, bragging about slinging 50lb boxes
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That's the Molyneux problem, a well known *thought experiment*. It was successfully solved by philosophers long before empirical experiments were possible. It's a good example, to this day, of the value of thought experiments as it gave us the answer very early.
A riddle from 1688 goes: "If a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes,if given the ability, could he distinguish those objects by sight alone?" In 2003, the riddle was solved when five people had their sight restored through surgery. They
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