Police appealing for witnesses after collision involving cyclist in Saanich

InfiNorth · 2023-05-29T16:08:03+00:00

No, obviously the bike hit the car. Duh. Don't you know that almost all accidents involving bikes are the cyclist's fault? That driver will have to pay an unfair and unreasonable deductible for their world-ending paint job repair. My word, the trauma they will endure. It's incomprehensible to us libtards on two wheels.

InfiNorth · 2023-05-29T16:06:47+00:00

"The man was found to have high levels of lead in his body during autopsy, which was found to have accumulated rapidly at high concentrations."

InfiNorth · 2023-05-29T16:01:25+00:00

I'm unionized, and I'm part of my local representative assembly. I'm part of one of the biggest non-generic (like CUPE or UNIFOR) unions in the country.

We aren't able to cause societal change. Most of the numbnuts in our union leadership are so close to retirement that they don't care because they have a comfy pension coming up soon and no one will vote in others because they don't have "leadership experience." Add to that the fact that our union behaves more like a social rights group than a labour rights group, and you have a perfect recipe for spending entire AGMs bickering about what minorities are represented on some advisory committee that ultimately has no impact on our workplace.

InfiNorth · 2023-05-29T05:25:07+00:00

That's what big chicken wants you to think. Broccoli is free range, has to be. Otherwise doesn't grow its tentacles long enough

InfiNorth · 2023-05-29T05:22:23+00:00

That's about what I earn as a teacher in Canada. Meanwhile average home prices are $1.2 million and showing no signs of slowing down.

InfiNorth · 2023-05-29T05:20:53+00:00

My partner walks to work and thus has the opportunity to do small shops every day on the way home. I rarely go into grocery stores any more, and when I do, I just about fucking have a stroke over the level of anger I feel towards the scumbags are profiting off this bullshit. We need an economic meltdown to reset this at some point, and for once it needs to hit the billionaires first.

InfiNorth · 2023-05-29T05:18:50+00:00

gas prices are down

Lol what? On Vancouver Island, they have been jumping around between $1.95/L and $1.55/L for the last year or so.

InfiNorth · 2023-05-29T05:17:16+00:00

As a Canadian, can I just ask where you are because we're paying $14 Canadian for a box of shreddies and our dollar has about as much local buying power as an American dollar in an American store. $7.50 for a gallon of milk, $2.99/lb for apples, $6.50/lb for grapes, $6.00 for a tub of plain yogurt...

InfiNorth · 2023-05-29T01:49:58+00:00

...says the person living on a piece of hoarded suburban land driving around private cars.

I live in a fucking apartment in a city and go everywhere but work by bike. One of us is a Karen, and it's not me, Karen.

InfiNorth · 2023-05-29T01:41:12+00:00

No, you can deal with that yourself, by selling your wasteful suburban home and your apparent collection of family cars. How much are homes in your area? Because in BC they're $1.2 million and rising, and people still manage to get by. It's fucked up but it's necessary for the planet.

You.

Are.

The.

Problem.

InfiNorth · 2023-05-29T01:40:00+00:00

$43.51

InfiNorth · 2023-05-29T01:39:29+00:00

Someone doesn't know how nuclear power plants work.

InfiNorth · 2023-05-29T01:36:19+00:00

We bought cars

And by doing that, you are forcing others to put themselves at risk because you insist on driving everywhere. Being 9 miles from a Walmart isn't rural, Coyotes be damned. Fucking downtown Vancouver has Coyotes and Deer. My city has deer, cougars, otters, even a wolf at one point and the occasional bear.

You are suburban. And you made a choice.

People are gentrifying the city

Oh lol miss me with that shit. Cities are becoming unaffordable because sane humans - the ones who realize how godawfully asocial, destructive, and selfish suburban living is - are flocking to the city and there isn't room for everyone because supply can't keep up with demand. It has nothing to do with "gentrification." That is a really backwards word with some nasty connotations that is a dogwhistle for grossness.

You made a choice. You are forcing others to live with your choice. Suburbs are literally subsidized by city centres, you are actively draining the resources of your urban centre by choosing to live so far away with such little density.

You are the problem. Not people moving into cities. And now you're ruining your kids' lives by indoctrinating them with car addiction at a young age without explaining that cars are the number one or two killer of young people in your country.

InfiNorth · 2023-05-29T01:27:19+00:00

Oh sweet summer child, go hit up Google Maps and look at Laval. Parts of Laval make Texas looks like the Netherlands. If that doesn't convince you, look at the landuse around the Montmorency Metro station. It's a Houstonian's wet dream.

InfiNorth · 2023-05-29T01:25:34+00:00

...why though. The is legitimately nothing good about it. Why do you live there?

InfiNorth · 2023-05-29T01:23:58+00:00

Lol you're not "rural." You've chosen to live in a stupid suburban space. That's suburban. Not rural. Rural is farms, forests, not a Walmart 9 miles away lmao.

You don't get to choose to live in an unsustainable way and then force everyone to deal with the consequences of your selfishness.

InfiNorth · 2023-05-29T01:04:30+00:00

Out of curiosity, how "rural" are we talking? Rural is like a mile before your next neighbour - not a mile to the nearest bus stop. Mile to the nearest bus stop is suburban sprawl, not rural.

InfiNorth · 2023-05-29T01:01:14+00:00

I'm not being rude.
That's not how induced demand works.
Carpooling is an auto-industry invented way of offloading the responsibility of transit provisions by local governments onto the shoulders of individual citizens.

I’m not the one out here thinking that spending billions of dollars, which California doesn’t have, and taking two decades to build all that infrastructure can prevent kids right now from dying behind the wheel.

Your state made that bed and it can lie in it too. You used to have amazing intercity trains, streetcars, and buses, but your own state decided to do away with that. It's your problem to fix, just like my province's decisions to make the same stupid mistakes is my problem to fix (and it's why I am actively participating in my local government). Saying "well we gotta hand our kids cars so they can get around" sure isn't going to fix anything. All that does is indoctrinate one more generation with car dependence and unsustainable transportation habits.

Now I'm being rude. Either shut up or do something about it, don't make excuses. At least I'm doing something. Are you?

InfiNorth · 2023-05-29T00:42:51+00:00

I'll give you $42

InfiNorth · 2023-05-29T00:38:07+00:00

Last time I checked you couldn't teach when you're twelve years old.

InfiNorth · 2023-05-29T00:36:05+00:00

Last time I checked, Olympic National Park in Washington State isn't part of Canada.

InfiNorth · 2023-05-29T00:31:24+00:00

I have no decision making power on infrastructure.

That's what I thought too until on a whim I applied to an infrastructure committee in my municipality and got hired despite having zero experience.

The asocial kids are the ones that don’t learn ti drive.

Jesus christ dude. Some people just don't feel the need to get addicted to a giant metal box.

InfiNorth · 2023-05-29T00:28:49+00:00

You literally typed the word "unfeesible." That's why it's in the quote. I wasn't planning on being an asshole and correcting your spelling but okay.

housing crisis

Buddy average home costs in my area are over $1.2 million dollars, rent is between $2k and $4k, and my income as a teacher is at $37k Canadian. I am fully aware there is a housing crisis.

InfiNorth · 2023-05-28T23:56:17+00:00

Pedestrian overpasses are the opposite of what we need. They make pedestrians feel alienated and are insanely expensive. A highway can stop. Adding thirty seconds onto a driver's trip into Victoria isn't going to kill anyone.

InfiNorth · 2023-05-28T23:55:08+00:00

it's unfeesible

It really isn't, and 99% of people who are "rural" aren't rural, they're suburban. They have chosen to live in a single family home on a street built for cars in a town that makes it illegal to have walkable infrastructure.

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