It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that cars are running over these kids. Kids are naive and trust that cars aren’t trying to run then over so they’ll make stupid decisions (for our car brained society that lets people drive until they drop dead without annual testing).

Then look at the types of injuries, you’re not cracking your skull or lacerating your abdomen falling off a kid’s scooter that basically go human running speed (18-30km/h) MAX.

Then we have doctors taking about “sprains” and “concussions” typical falling off your e scooter injuries, but that the worst injuries are car related and it’s pretty easy to see what’s happening even with the blatant pro car bias this article has.

She said collisions with motor vehicles is definitely the most dangerous aspect, but in all situations, these scooters require a certain level of skill and balance.

I love how they’re going out of their way to not admit this whole article is actually about cars running over kids on scooters.

I hate how much we protect drivers from accountability for their actions. If I go out and stab a kid for no reason I’m in jail for decades. If I run over enough kids on scooters they’ll write whole-ass articles arguing that “scooters are unsafe”

The engineers only make the designed safe speed. Government officials make the listed limit. It used to be EXTREMELY popular for government official to knock 20-25% off the design limit of the road, ironically so they can tell everyone how safe they were.

From the first:

This is the first documented case of Klingsor syndrome related to psilocybin, in which a psychologically disturbed person self-inflicts harm on their genitals. Plus the dude was already messed up and an alcoholic.

The second guy was on ADHD meds and hypertension meds:

Although some might be tempted to draw broad conclusions from this single case, it is important to understand the nature and role of case reports in medicine. Case reports are detailed descriptions of unusual or novel clinical events involving one patient. They do not establish cause and effect or generalize to larger populations.

It’s pretty common advice not to mix drugs unless you know what you’re doing, which is something that happened in both cases.

But the point is your “warning” is the same as telling someone about to drive or fly about the worst accident on their mode of transportation. It’s just a paranoid thought (and a dick move), not a reflection of reality.

Yet another example of valid criticism of conservative ideological bullshit being silenced by the courts.

https://lemmy.ca/post/46524991

Apparently if someone is in some way attacking natives and native identity you’re not allowed to fight back or criticize them.

How can opinion and critique be defamation? This is insane. We can’t criticize racist bigots anymore apparently.

Sorry, I had to come back to this. The truth isn’t an absolute defense against defamation??? That’s the most insane thing I’ve ever heard. Sometimes it’s hard being Canadian.

Spotify is just trying to get out of playing Canadian content to Canadians. When we listen to a Spotify “radio” we’re expecting random but themed music, like we get from a radio station. What we don’t get is Canadian content. The Canadian content requirements exist because we’re attached to a very big exporter of culture and music. It’s important to keep our music scene alive in the face of pressure from American artists and American media networks.

If Canadians don’t listen to Canadian music who will?

Yeah, I think a physical pass or QR code you could print off would make this amazing piece of socially progressive legislation more impactful. Every time you use it you’d remember that you’re getting this deal through progressive government policies, not capitalist market pricing.

I’ve written Amanda Presley. You can also write principal Conrad directly through the school contact site https://bellhs.ocdsb.ca/our-school-landing/staff

Principals are bound by Accepting Schools Act, 2012, S.O. 2012, c. 5 - Bill 13 and Bill 14, Anti-Bullying Act, 2011 of Ontario to prevent bullying and intimidation in their schools. A principal who intimidates and bullies her own students cannot carry out her legal duty. This is completely unacceptable behaviour.

Please write to the board. This level of politics is much easier to influence through grassroots activism. A few dozen emails will go far! You can be the change you want to see in the world. Please take 5 minutes and write a short email!

The kill switch IS the complex supply chain. If you don’t get provided spare parts that are only made in 1-2 places in the world (and mostly in the US) you have a couple hundred hours of flight before your f35 becomes a billion dollar paperweight.

I think you wildly overestimate Iran’s ability to target. These missiles aren’t “kill nuclear scientists in their apartment” they’re “aim at a city and hope it lands”

Iran has ballistic missiles, which is an achievement, but aiming a rocket going at that speed with any accuracy is a monumental (read: expensive) engineering challenge.

Don’t worry about that. Pretty soon Israel will have killed all the journalists willing to go into Gaza so it won’t be broadcast for long!

I 100% get where you’re coming from. That makes total sense. I guess I was thinking of one specific context and over generalized. There is definitely room for nuance and to expand definitions of crimes through social efforts.

I think I was focused on the idea that we should be careful with strong language like rape, genocide, fascism, etc. Using them too liberally, or in ways that don’t match their severity undermines the position of victims like rape victims, Palestine, or whatever the fuck is happening to immigrants in the US right now.

It’s definitely a step too far to say that the only valid definition is the legal definition.

First of all I completely agree, and have no solution. Rape is by definition an intimate crime, generally all you have is he said/she said. That makes it hard to meet the criminal standard of “beyond a reasonable doubt” which isn’t far for victims. Weakening the standard isn’t fair for anyone. We have to be innocent until proven guilty, I’d rather not live in a system where proving me guilty requires only the claims of one person and no evidence.

Our legal system was never designed for date rape.

I would like to add that it’s made worse by organisations spreading false information about rape. For example drinking or drugs don’t USUALLY invalidate consent. That should be obvious to anyone who has ever gone out on a date, had a couple of drinks then had sex enthusiastically with their new partner. Alcohol or drugs invalidate consent when either the person is clearly too intoxicated to consent/participate or has been given alcohol or drugs by someone in order to make them less able to resist sexual advances.

Unfortunately in cases like this it’s easy for the “any amount of alcohol/drugs means no consent” messaging to convince someone that it was rape. Especially if it wasn’t a good time, which isn’t uncommon when having sex with a new partner. Then they put themselves through the entire legal process only to come out of the situation worse than they started.

These organisations aren’t doing anyone favours by using definitions of rape that don’t match legal ones.

Same with statistics. It’s well known that the “most women are raped in university” type statistics are based on these types of faulty definitions. Generally the surveyed women report NOT being victims. What these organisations don’t understand is that overreporting statistics only makes people suspicious. If statistics don’t generally match lived experiences people are going to become suspicious of the concepts. Then when a victim steps out they’re subject to an unfair amount of suspicion: did you get raped by the common/legal definition or the definition used in these types of statistics. This is an additional trauma victims don’t deserve.

Definitions are important and we need to adopt common definitions of rape and sexual assault across the board instead of self serving ones to make big numbers and confuse young adults.

If the NDP press hard on these types of motions to materially improve the lives of Canadians they’re going to go far next elections. They need more marketing for their win on dental care. That was 100% them and they’re not getting the credit they deserve when the media talks about it.

A third said it’s causing Israeli families to reconsider sending their children to serve in Israel as lone soldiers

It’s already working as intended! I’m glad to see that there is accountability for Canadians who go out of their way to participate in war crimes and crimes against humanity

They should be put away for perjury. Lock them up. Even if we did need cops in our communities, we don’t need cops like THAT!

ACAB

It’s probably attempt suicide. There is generally an order of magnitude between attempt and commit. But I’m not downplaying how shitty it is tho.

They just interface with the shape of the mouth so well. Truly the best strawberry!

I love how the “little known policy” is that they can do whatever the fuck they want because there are no regulations on credit scores. So great!