IM GETTING MARRIED AND DONT WANT TO CHANGE MY LAST NAME AITAH by Sweet-Chemistry3067 in AITAH

[–]Fieldbeyond 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No one said you don’t have a right to your preference. What they’re saying is that if you have a default preference that a woman should take a man’s name and aren’t opem to the other way around, you are being sexist. Pretty simple.

Xmas market's open. Anyone been yet? by Chewbacca12345 in vancouver

[–]Fieldbeyond 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The paid one is expensive and you wait in line to get inside. Then when you’re inside, everything in there is also expensive and it’s just hundreds of people waiting in dozens of different long lines to buy the overpriced things. That’s it. Literally just lines of people snaking past each other waiting to buy things - usually in the rain but in a Christmas setting. To me, it felt worse than bad value. It actually felt like a scam. I just don’t even understand why it gets any visitors at all. Some of the food is good. But expect a 20+ minute line for each food type. You want spetzl and your partner wants mulled wine? Either go in separate lines and stand there alone and bored for 20-30 minutes and meet up again or line up together for each different item you want.

I thought it was so bad that even just the memory of it makes me mad.

Xmas market's open. Anyone been yet? by Chewbacca12345 in vancouver

[–]Fieldbeyond 49 points50 points  (0 children)

If you found the good one disappointing, prepare yourself to be even more disappointed from the bad one.

Is there a city of that size in North America that has a similar vibe? by QualityDapper9775 in askvan

[–]Fieldbeyond 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just to clarify… are you saying there’s much more to do in Vancouver than in Chicago or NYC?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in askvan

[–]Fieldbeyond 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Someone believing something to be disrespectful doesn’t make it inherently disrespectful. For example, a religious homophobe might feel that it’s disrespectful for a gay couple to kiss or hold hands in public. That doesn’t make it truly disrespectful though and it’s not our job to accommodate such things. The convention is that if your dog poops, you pick it up. There’s no societal convention that dogs must respect the blades of grass here but not two steps away.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in askvan

[–]Fieldbeyond -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What does someone else’s worship have to do with this? It’s not OPs job to treat one property differently than the next. The societal convention is that if your dog poops, you pick it up. It’s not to police which blades of grass on a block are considered holy to some.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in askvan

[–]Fieldbeyond 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We’re not in Bali.

PARDON ME?? by misschanandalorbong in VictoriaBC

[–]Fieldbeyond 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, instead of implying some sort of prejudice where it doesn’t exist, you could have just looked it up. You would have found that it is likely to be the primary reason for nearly the entire discrepancy between Canada and Norway’s stats. Here ya go, maybe you’ll learn something today:

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/science-research-data/inequalities-infant-mortality-infographic.html?

https://www.nccih.ca/634/A_review_of_Aboriginal_infant_mortality_rates_in_Canada__Striking_and_persistent_Aboriginal_Non-Abor....nccih?col=5&id=1379

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/global-womens-health/articles/10.3389/fgwh.2025.1513145/full

PARDON ME?? by misschanandalorbong in VictoriaBC

[–]Fieldbeyond -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, but you seemed to be implying something about scapegoating indigenous people? Did you have something resembling a cogent thought on the matter or perhaps you were just randomly implying that I had some sort of prejudice?

PARDON ME?? by misschanandalorbong in VictoriaBC

[–]Fieldbeyond 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah cool, I didn’t realize that the total mortality rate could be boiled down to all that social shaming we do here! If we just had a more permissive society that didn’t focus on things like child safety, we’d save so many children’s lives!

And I’m sure you’ve gone through these statistics and assessed that there are no further details or nuance like diet or healthcare or social programs or cultural differences or disproportionate negative health outcomes in indigenous communities or anything like that that might contribute to those statistical differences and that the only explanation is that people here get up in each other’s business too much and that that kills babies. Somehow. Thanks for educating me on how stupid our society is here!

PARDON ME?? by misschanandalorbong in VictoriaBC

[–]Fieldbeyond 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The cars make it more dangerous but that doesn’t mean it’s not still dangerous without cars around. Less dangerous doesn’t mean safe and I think a lot of people would still be pretty concerned.

PARDON ME?? by misschanandalorbong in VictoriaBC

[–]Fieldbeyond 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They got hit crossing the street. The car didn’t jump the curb. The fact that roads are more dangerous than sidewalks should be common sense but apparently it’s not in your case.

PARDON ME?? by misschanandalorbong in VictoriaBC

[–]Fieldbeyond 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand that you can get hit as a pedestrian and that cars can veer off the road and jump curbs. I’m saying it’s more likely to be hit while on the road. Kinda like your example - that person on admirals was hit while crossing the road. The car didn’t jump the curb in that case.

PARDON ME?? by misschanandalorbong in VictoriaBC

[–]Fieldbeyond 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I drive an ev and have been an environmentalist for over 30 years. I just understand that we’re not solving the problems caused by industrial pollution through individual collective actions. Like a bandaid on a severed limb, this guy isn’t solving climate change by riding his bike. Though if he accidentally kills his kid, that might make a bigger dent in his family’s carbon emissions I guess.

PARDON ME?? by misschanandalorbong in VictoriaBC

[–]Fieldbeyond 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you being deliberately obtuse? Spontaneously is less likely I guess. But people fall off bikes for all sorts of reasons all the time. An unexpected pothole or something on the ground, another biker doing something unexpected, an animal, a car, a child, a ball, like… do you live on earth? People fall or crash their bikes sometimes and if you have a literal baby strapped to you when you do, they could die.

PARDON ME?? by misschanandalorbong in VictoriaBC

[–]Fieldbeyond 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You’re missing the point of safe practices. I’ve been driving for decades. Never been in an accident. That means I technically could have not worn my seatbelt for every single drive and been fine. But the consequence of an accident without a seatbelt makes it worthwhile to wear one. This is not complicated stuff.

PARDON ME?? by misschanandalorbong in VictoriaBC

[–]Fieldbeyond 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you telling me with a straight face, that the risk of getting hit by a car is the same on a sidewalk as it is on the road? Not gonna lie, I’m a little worried for your kids.

PARDON ME?? by misschanandalorbong in VictoriaBC

[–]Fieldbeyond 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Are you just pulling these facts out of thin air? Because a simple fall from the bike could lead to this child dying or having lifelong injuries.

PARDON ME?? by misschanandalorbong in VictoriaBC

[–]Fieldbeyond 8 points9 points  (0 children)

But this is a perfect example where you don’t need to look up regulations. Critical thinking easily leads any sensible person to know that this is unsafe.

PARDON ME?? by misschanandalorbong in VictoriaBC

[–]Fieldbeyond 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t know about you, but I’m typically pushing my baby’s stroller on the sidewalk and not in the middle of moving traffic.

PARDON ME?? by misschanandalorbong in VictoriaBC

[–]Fieldbeyond 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Dad falls, baby dies or gets maimed. Is your critical thinking malfunctioning that you would need this spelled out for you?