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I live and own a business in PEI. It's a classic arcade that usually sees a bit of traffic from tourists.

I for one welcome this change.

All the teachers were deaf.

Deaf people LOVE when hearing folks try to communicate so they’ll do anything they can to help you out generally.

That is the exact opposite of what I experienced when I was learning ASL.

At one point in my life I had planned to learn ASL/English sign and work as an interpreter. I lived in an area on the west coast with a community college that had a huge deaf community and a very good ASL interpreter training program. I did almost two years (just short of completing) before bailing out.

Our classes were complete immersion from day one. No speaking or writing was allowed. Later classes, fingerspell was to be kept at a minimum. It was pretty cool but at times really frustrating. It's easy to build your vocabulary of noun and verbs, but more abstract concepts were hard to understand in this setting.

Think of it this way. How does someone explain "abstract concept" with only gestures you don't understand yet?

Why did I quit?

I'm a hearing person and the deaf community was generally pretty hostile towards hearing people in the program. One deaf woman went so far to say I was exploiting her disability. That's kind of the vibe I got from many in the community. This was the main reason for leaving. I didn't want a job where I worked with people who actively hated me for no reason.

The second reason; it was very hard to become fluent. I was getting pretty familiar with the local dialect (a blend of ASL and English). I was getting good at reading sign, but MY signs sucked. I just didn't have people to "talk" with out of my class and they were all hearing people in the same boat as me.

You can pick up sign languages by watching videos over and over, but your pronunciation is probably going to suck without someone actively correcting you.

Ban THC but allow alcohol, tobacco, and guns?

BHA-HA-HA-HA!

I'm still using CS5.1 Photoshop. I used a newer version about a year ago and short of a few things moved around, it was pretty much the same.

Maybe there is some back end, under the trunk changes that make it more intelligent in how it does something, but I never noticed.

For what I use it for, I don't foresee myself using anything else until it stops running.

This would be cool. I have to go off island to pick up products a fair amount for my business. The tolls are just part of doing business and I include the costs of tolls and gas in my product overhead. Reducing my costs and lowering my products retail price makes me happy. Lower prices means I sell more.

Why the fuck should I care what a guy who plays video games says about anything other than playing video games?

I have a feeling this dude has no formal education on human sexuality, biology, or transgender studies.

Who wants to bet that the idea of retaliatory tariffs wasn’t gamed out beforehand and they have no strategy?

He has a concept of a strategy.

US companies would pay a total rate of 104% on Chinese imports.

The more money people lose, the more desperate they become. This is going to get interesting. Who goes after Trump first? The ultra rich or the average working class?

I'm Canadian. I support social programs and humanist programs. I support regulation of business so they don't abuse their positions of power over people and to curb their habit of doing bad things in the name of more profit. I'm for taxing those with hordes of cash and giving the struggling worker a break. I support people to have the freedom to be who they want to be (gay, straight, trans, etc) as long as they aren't hurting other people (IE pedos don't get to harm children because they "were born that way" or god said it was cool). I support protecting the land, water and animals. I think Trump is a cunt.

I'm probably pretty left-wing.