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Squibbles posted:Crazy, was that opening basically unannounced? I saw doctors on twitter yesterday complaining about all the open appointments and asking why the province hadn't lowered the age yet. Officially announced an hour ago. I saw a Tim Bousquet tweet last night. The wording was funny too, "18 and older who live in the community", reminded me of the "and yet you live in a society" comic strip.
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Sep 21, 2022 16:20
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Unrelated to COVID but looking up Bousquet's twitter informed me that Frank Magazine is finally dead (sick) and that before it was a racist rag it was actually really good (drat)
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Sep 21, 2022 16:34
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DaysBefore posted:Unrelated to COVID but looking up Bousquet's twitter informed me that Frank Magazine is finally dead (sick) and that before it was a racist rag it was actually really good (drat) It was awesome back in the 90s - the ottawa version anyway. I got hooked on it when doing work terms there and there was a newsstand that carried it in Vancouver when I moved back here. I think they stopped carrying it in the early 00s, so I don’t know what it became.
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Sep 21, 2022 16:43
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priznat posted:It was awesome back in the 90s - the ottawa version anyway. I got hooked on it when doing work terms there and there was a newsstand that carried it in Vancouver when I moved back here. I think they stopped carrying it in the early 00s, so I don’t know what it became. Decent article from the Examiner that covered it https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/featured/the-vile-racism-and-misogyny-that-was-frank-magazine/ I only remember it as the magazine in the Sobeys checkout with edgy (aka racist) jokes on the front but yeah apparently it used to pwn (hard) so that's a shame
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Sep 21, 2022 16:58
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DaysBefore posted:Decent article from the Examiner that covered it Oh yeah that was the Halifax one, it diverged from the ottawa one before I even started reading the ottawa one. The ottawa one was mostly nationally focused on federal politics and journalists but there were also more local tidbits if they were funny. Iirc it had gotten bought by a finance bro at some point but was still fairly funny just online only and locked behind a really expensive paywall.
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Sep 21, 2022 18:18
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Indolent Bastard posted:Did it change his opinion at all? Or are they still die hard anti-vax people? Didn't change their mind at all, they're just poorer now
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Sep 21, 2022 18:33
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Baronjutter posted:Not Steve, brenden marshal. Hes a total freedom convoy guy. Small business owner who made a local name saying he will never follow health regulations. Hes supported by the neo nazi adjacent VIVA party who are qannon folks. Oh he totally slipped under my radar, ugh. I was thinking of that talk radio dude who was threatening to run for a while
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Sep 21, 2022 20:59
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pokeyman posted:Officially announced an hour ago. I saw a Tim Bousquet tweet last night. The wording was funny too, "18 and older who live in the community", reminded me of the "and yet you live in a society" comic strip. Yeah last night someone on Reddit said they updated the text to say 18+ but the booking still had checkboxes that restricted it to people in care homes or with immune deficiencies and such. Later in the evening they fixed that too so it was fully opened. So I guess they were ironing out the kinks last night before officially throwing the doors open today. When I booked last night there were solid availabilities every 5 minutes at the place I booked. When I got there 10 minutes before the appointment time there were several people waiting for their shots and more showing up steadily as I was waiting, so those slots must have been booking up pretty quickly even prior to the official announcement. At my appointment this morning the doc administering it said they were caught off guard too and had no idea what happened as they suddenly saw all the slots filling up with no explanation. She said she was just happy to be seeing a full clinic though.
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Sep 22, 2022 04:12
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Oh Calgary. An old guy in a pickup truck lost control, jumped a curb, smashed into a bush shelter and killed a pedestrian inside. The police are investigating why the pedestrian was in the bus shelter. Because he had a car. The police don't know where he was going, but wherever it was, he should have been driving. So they better investigate that. I am not joking. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calg...k&ICID=ref_fark
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Sep 22, 2022 04:34
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Squibbles posted:Yeah last night someone on Reddit said they updated the text to say 18+ but the booking still had checkboxes that restricted it to people in care homes or with immune deficiencies and such. Later in the evening they fixed that too so it was fully opened. So I guess they were ironing out the kinks last night before officially throwing the doors open today. When I booked last night there were solid availabilities every 5 minutes at the place I booked. When I got there 10 minutes before the appointment time there were several people waiting for their shots and more showing up steadily as I was waiting, so those slots must have been booking up pretty quickly even prior to the official announcement. I didn't book until noonish and all the slots for the bivalent were filled until next week so I guess once people actually realised what happened it caught on quick
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Sep 22, 2022 12:46
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Maneck posted:Oh Calgary. An old guy in a pickup truck lost control, jumped a curb, smashed into a bush shelter and killed a pedestrian inside. Wtf yeah, you're serious. How is it relevant to the incident as to why he was in the bus shelter? Just in case he was there for criminal purposes so they can bring out the "no angel" defense? Or is it just idle curiosity? Weird.
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Sep 22, 2022 13:42
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Maneck posted:Oh Calgary. An old guy in a pickup truck lost control, jumped a curb, smashed into a bush shelter and killed a pedestrian inside. I don't understand why it matters where the victim was standing. If they were lying down in the middle of the road, sure, but they were in a bus shelter on the sidewalk.
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Sep 22, 2022 14:00
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Mr. Apollo posted:I thought maybe it happened in the middle of the night or something when buses weren't running, but nope, it was Sunday morning. I saw a clip about it on TV and the police office said something like "The investigation has two parts; we're trying to figure out exactly what happened to the driver and also why the victim would be waiting for a bus if he owned a car." Because the cops identify with the pickup driver and not with people who take the bus, so they're looking for an excuse to charge the pickup driver with a lesser offense.
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Sep 22, 2022 14:04
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The most important thing is to make sure that our entrenched dependence on the automobile be deemed not at all a contributing factor. We must do whatever it takes to defend the innocence of that beautifully massive 5000lb pickup truck. Auto uber alles.
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Sep 22, 2022 14:29
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Mr. Apollo posted:I thought maybe it happened in the middle of the night or something when buses weren't running, but nope, it was Sunday morning. I saw a clip about it on TV and the police office said something like "The investigation has two parts; we're trying to figure out exactly what happened to the driver and also why the victim would be waiting for a bus if he owned a car." The answer is always the same for any incident where a driver murders a pedestrian or cyclist for the crime of not driving: victim-blaming and deflection of responsibility from the person driving the two-ton murder machine.
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Sep 22, 2022 14:32
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I guess a charitable reading would be 'they're trying to figure out if the driver had beef with the guy' but yeah, it's really weird.
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Sep 22, 2022 14:39
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TheCenturion posted:I guess a charitable reading would be 'they're trying to figure out if the driver had beef with the guy' but yeah, it's really weird. Yeah but they don't shy off going "we are investigating if they knew each other" in other cases, this is bizarre in terms of how no other case would get this aside from your more sexual crimes for victim-blaming.
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Sep 22, 2022 16:05
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Karatela posted:this is bizarre in terms of how no other case would get this I'm gonna stop you right there, cops blame victims all the time and not just sex crimes. e: Hell in Toronto they routinely blame people who get hit or killed by cars.
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Sep 22, 2022 16:15
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The most charitable explanation is they've spoken with the family of the deceased and found that it's particularly out-of-habit for him to take transit and that they have reason to believe this wasn't a simple accident, but the more reasonable explanation by far is that all cops are bastards.
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Sep 22, 2022 16:44
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Another Bill posted:I'm gonna stop you right there, cops blame victims all the time and not just sex crimes. I'm an idealist, what can I say?
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Sep 22, 2022 17:00
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PT6A posted:The most charitable explanation is they've spoken with the family of the deceased and found that it's particularly out-of-habit for him to take transit and that they have reason to believe this wasn't a simple accident This being true, and the cops being literally unable to articulate it, would be an idea worth considering if not for your second, and far more plausible suggestion
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Sep 22, 2022 17:15
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How would that be relevant to someone hitting him though
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Sep 22, 2022 19:50
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I suppose they might suspect that he was deliberately lured there by someone so that he could then be run over by "accident", in which case the driver and anyone else involved in the scheme would be charged with murder or manslaughter instead of whatever they do when you kill someone with your car through simple recklessness (nothing, lol). But again, they're most likely just looking for a reason to blame the victim because they worship pickup trucks and anyone not in a pickup truck at any given moment is a potential sacrifice to appease the pickup truck gods.
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Sep 22, 2022 20:39
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If he had transitioned to being a regular transit user then his death is justified.
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Sep 22, 2022 20:45
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Shofixti posted:If he had transitioned to being a regular transit user then his death is justified. I look forward to Officer Friendly testifying about "Transit Panic" as a defense.
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Sep 22, 2022 21:20
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This also doubles the amount of investigating they’re doing, which explains why they need a budget increase!
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Sep 22, 2022 23:57
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what kind of murder scheme starts with luring your victim to a bus stop
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Sep 23, 2022 03:19
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DaysBefore posted:Decent article from the Examiner that covered it pretty sad, I used to enjoy Halifax Frank back in the day. (especially when people I knew ended up in it)
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Sep 23, 2022 03:45
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the talent deficit posted:what kind of murder scheme starts with luring your victim to a bus stop One that nobody expects!
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Sep 23, 2022 04:01
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Facebook Aunt posted:One that nobody expects! the spanish inquisition drives trucks now?
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Sep 23, 2022 04:26
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Anyone following this Oakville high school teacher thing? It feels like a right wing psyop anti trans thing but only the usual conservative outlets are covering it. I don't really trust Rex Murphy, NatPo or especially Tucker Carlson to give all the details.
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Sep 23, 2022 06:17
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Crow Buddy posted:I look forward to Officer Friendly testifying about "Transit Panic" as a defense.
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Sep 23, 2022 06:35
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Eagerly anticipating Fiona loving my poo poo up this weekend.
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Sep 23, 2022 07:04
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DrBox posted:Anyone following this Oakville high school teacher thing? It feels like a right wing psyop anti trans thing but only the usual conservative outlets are covering it. I don't really trust Rex Murphy, NatPo or especially Tucker Carlson to give all the details. I think it was definitely a ridiculously stupid thing to do on her part. Her being trans is not relevant to the discussion but it's extremely helpful to the anti-trans 'activists' out there. Breast prosthetics or implants would obviously be totally normal for a woman to have (for a variety of reasons), but the sheer size here? The purpose cannot be to present their desired body, it's to a pornographic or fetishistic scale. It was so ridiculous that I thought at first it was some kind of "costume day" gone wrong at the school. That said, I do wonder if "comically large breast prosthetics" actually violates their dress code lol
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Sep 23, 2022 13:46
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I think we should be more comically huge boobs friendly as a society
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Sep 23, 2022 13:54
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Knowing nothing about the situation you are all talking about, I think it's just swell how our society's ingrained belief in self-responsibility only extends as far as their boners for a lot of people
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Sep 23, 2022 14:15
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Noblesse Obliged posted:I think we should be more comically huge boobs friendly as a society I don't, my tax dollars pay for their ailing backs!!!
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Sep 23, 2022 14:26
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Fidelitious posted:I think it was definitely a ridiculously stupid thing to do on her part. Her being trans is not relevant to the discussion but it's extremely helpful to the anti-trans 'activists' out there. When I remove the transgender identity from the scenario and think back to all the crazy teachers I had in high school, it doesn't even seem that out of the ordinary tbh There's a lot of really hosed up teachers out there
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Sep 23, 2022 15:00
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I mean, I remember my grade 7 science teacher keeping some of the boys after class one day to give us a talk about the evils of homosexuality, including a very descriptive explanation of what fisting is. It was hosed up.
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Sep 23, 2022 15:01
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Fidelitious posted:Breast prosthetics or implants would obviously be totally normal for a woman to have (for a variety of reasons), but the sheer size here? The purpose cannot be to present their desired body, it's to a pornographic or fetishistic scale. Thank you for making the solemn objective determination of the appropriate size of one's breasts.
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Sep 23, 2022 15:13
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