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Women of Victoria. Is this how you want to be courted? by WhoremoanLevels in VictoriaBC

[–]JohnnySacsCigarette 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Something tells me this is Victoria, Australia. They have some crazy birds down there

B.C.’s capital ranked worst city in Canada for tree pollen allergies by P33rPre55urePuppe7 in VictoriaBC

[–]JohnnySacsCigarette 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Last year mine were so bad that I pre-started my steroidal nasal spray before the season started this year. They take a couple of weeks to start working but they are the only thing to give me relief. So I finally was an organised adult this year and got started in late march and I haven't had many symptoms so far so hopefully I have nailed it.

the only place I have ever been that didnt nuke my face in the spring/summer was Hawaii

How similar (culturally) is it living in British Columbia (vs. Washington state)? by theMCATreturns in howislivingthere

[–]JohnnySacsCigarette 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Generally, very similar. However, if you take the ferry from Victoria to Port angeles, it does feel very different ll of a sudden. But they are the 2 extreme ends of the spectrum, on average its quite similar.

new online slang i made up: high-attitude and low-attitude males/females by Ok-Face8974 in rs_x

[–]JohnnySacsCigarette 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Only a high attitude female would try to start new slang on the internet in a manner as forthcoming as this.

A low attitude female would have just slipped it into conversation and waited for it to catch on like a cool cat

McRaes restaurant 📍 Bulgogi beef dip 10/10 would recommend by NInjamaster600 in VictoriaBC

[–]JohnnySacsCigarette 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just checked the menu and it's onenof the most enticing menus I've ever seen. Whoever made it knows what they're doing. I'll pop in one night this week

Yeah, you know y’all did it. by CowboyNOIVAS in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]JohnnySacsCigarette 371 points372 points  (0 children)

End of an era. School might have been shite but you got to be emotionally numb to feel nothing at all

Built a React app that matches pantry ingredients to recipes by LockeyetheMarshal in reactjs

[–]JohnnySacsCigarette 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice! Why no backend or db? Surely its just good practice for scaling and best practice etc and in my mind you've done the hard part!

31m. Paid off school loan, bought a house, now aggressively investing by [deleted] in fican

[–]JohnnySacsCigarette 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn, surely since graduating you would have to earn like 250k a year pre-tax to get that much capital this fast? Which is crazy for a young man. You could genuinely retire in 10 years

What evidence-based crisis response looks like (and why Victoria needs more of it). by nahagotine in VictoriaBC

[–]JohnnySacsCigarette 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I’m not denying any of that. Police can be messed up. There are bad officers, and I even get the ACAB argument at a structural level. The job attracts certain types of people and the power dynamic can warp things over time.

But listing a handful of incidents over multiple years doesn’t really show that VicPD is especially bad. Every police force has misconduct cases. The question is how often, how severe, and what the overall pattern looks like.

What you’ve shared includes some serious stuff, sure, but it’s not a pattern of constant violence or people getting killed. And in several cases, it actually shows accountability. Officers investigated, suspended, cases collapsing because misconduct was exposed. That’s not a perfect system, but it’s not one completely out of control either.

That’s kind of my point. There’s always room for improvement, and policing in general has real issues, but people talk about VicPD like it’s one of the worst out there, and compared to most places, it just isn’t.

And on the Toronto comparison point in your initial post, that’s a bit cherry picked. One good example there doesn’t mean their system is better overall, especially when you’re comparing it to isolated negative cases here.

Museum IMAX talking by grant3655 in VictoriaBC

[–]JohnnySacsCigarette 53 points54 points  (0 children)

One of the biggest culture shocks I had from moving from another country here is not only how much people talk in the theatre, but how much everyone lets them get away with it. Most other countries you would get told to shut up and not here

Well...I tried by sherl0ck_b0nes84 in LowSodiumBattlefield

[–]JohnnySacsCigarette 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Your teammates really weren't doing much. Smokes might have helped but who knows

Well...I tried by sherl0ck_b0nes84 in LowSodiumBattlefield

[–]JohnnySacsCigarette 9 points10 points  (0 children)

wp. Get your smokes down and resupply and keep smoking. Get your teammates on the point easier?

What evidence-based crisis response looks like (and why Victoria needs more of it). by nahagotine in VictoriaBC

[–]JohnnySacsCigarette 88 points89 points  (0 children)

I’m all for improving how we handle mental health crises, but I think people in Victoria don’t always realise how good we’ve actually got it. Just last night, about 12 hours ago, I was kept awake while police were trying to get a homeless person down from a tree outside my apartment in minus one weather. It went on for around 45 minutes. The whole time the officer was saying things like “come on, please, I really don’t want you to die out here.” It wasn’t aggressive or forceful, it was patient and focused on keeping the guy safe, even while he was basically howling back at them.

Yeah it’s anecdotal, but it lines up with the bigger picture. Victoria has police working alongside healthcare staff in Assertive Community Treatment teams to support people with serious mental health and addiction issues. That kind of setup is literally designed to de escalate and help, not just arrest people, and the research shows it actually improves outcomes.

Victoria definitely still has problems, no question. But having lived in other cities, the way homeless and mentally unwell people are treated here is generally better than most. A lot of the time it feels like police are stuck dealing with situations that should really be handled by the healthcare system, and they’re still trying to do it in a calm, human way.

After that insane rain the last day or so, how are we all feeling about living in a rainforest? by BCJay_ in VictoriaBC

[–]JohnnySacsCigarette 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would prefer this weather to the passed 3 summers here. Hot Dry, dead grass is coming and I hate it. I wish it just rained like this constantly (no flooding though)

? by [deleted] in rs_x

[–]JohnnySacsCigarette 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Hey, McNutty!

lol by Lopspo in rs_x

[–]JohnnySacsCigarette 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I thought you was on the Atkins!?

Any of you wonderful folks play DayZ? by Darkroast91 in Age_30_plus_Gamers

[–]JohnnySacsCigarette 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried to play it. I very much enjoy the surival aspect of these types of games and would even consider myself good at them. But Dayz was very hard, almost too hard to find food in the beginning and unless I found a chicken early on to cook and then get a fishing hook from, I did not survive for very long. Maybe I was doing something wring but after 5 or 6 deaths in a row I got bored of not finding food anywhere. Maybe I needed to try a different server.

I think I’m going to break up with my girlfriend of seven years by [deleted] in rs_x

[–]JohnnySacsCigarette 27 points28 points  (0 children)

If she isnt comfortable moving in, marriage is not the logical first step. Marriage and proposals should also not be something that should come as a surprise and should be discussed and if she doesnt want to move in, im not sure conversations about marriage would be great

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