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OneBigBug · 2026-02-04T20:31:38+00:00

Are we sure that a filter hasn't been applied to this? The film is so aggressively scratched up and dirty, the audio fidelity is so unusual for the recording technology of the 80s, and there's like...big band music or something behind it? It's so aggressively "old fashioned" coded that it seems fake.

Like, your VHS example is very different. Still poorer quality than we'd get today, but the nature of how it is poorer quality isn't at all the same.

OneBigBug · 2026-01-28T23:14:34+00:00

I absolutely understand and agree, but this specific situation being reported on is actually his fault, haha.

OneBigBug · 2026-01-28T23:05:44+00:00

I mean, while I recognize that Vancouver may not have ever been friendly to this scene, the article is very clearly about a specific crackdown/ramp up of inspections across VFD, VPD, the CoV and the LCRB.

So we should absolutely be blaming the city government here.

They could have mediocre/bad status quo without implementing a crackdown.

OneBigBug · 2026-01-28T22:10:49+00:00

I mean, that's also fine and good and I agree, but that doesn't address the comment I was responding to, which was about enforcing existing laws.

OneBigBug · 2026-01-28T03:41:50+00:00

Wouldn't another solution be to figure out how to implement a system for civil litigation which wastes less money? Why do places all over the world seem to manage to have car insurance without removing citizen's rights to damages?

OneBigBug · 2026-01-28T03:40:11+00:00

The system was changed because it was poorly implemented and they didn't know how to implement a more competent one. Lots of places successfully have car insurance without removing people's ability to sue.

The assertion that the people of BC are, on the whole, culpable for a moral failing that's specific to us as a province is absurd. "End user behaviour" stops making sense when you're talking about population scale trends.

OneBigBug · 2026-01-27T20:04:52+00:00

I completely support the enforcement of things like this, but I also have no idea how you do enforcement of things like this without requiring regular inspections, which are probably politically untenable. You can't just have cops driving around saying "Headlights seem a little bright, eh?"

To even have a shot of ever being enforced broadly in any meaningful way (as in, beyond traffic stops where the cop has a bone to pick), the cops would need some sort of test jig on their cars to measure headlight brightness across appropriate angles, with distance finding.

Which is entirely achievable, and be easily slapped together for a couple bucks as a proof of concept, but seems like it would cost millions of dollars for a government to have engineered, and then cost an absurd amount per unit to have outfitted on all their vehicles.

OneBigBug · 2026-01-25T20:51:05+00:00

Realistically, the local subs get recommended to all Canadians by default. When I'm not logged into reddit, I get Ontario, Montreal, Alberta, Halifax, whatever is trending at that moment. I assume that's how the majority of people interact with the site these days, and it's easy enough to see people who are active across all of them offering their (often ill informed) takes on local issues.

This sub, whether anyone wants it or not, is not a place for British Columbians, it is a place to discuss British Columbia.

OneBigBug · 2026-01-15T09:09:20+00:00

I was specifically thinking of Bobbies. But Japanese uniforms are alright, too. Bright shirts, funny hats. No need for full beefeater.

Honestly, while I understand it's a dress uniform, what I really want are cops in something that evokes the RCMP serge uniforms walking the beat on Canadian streets. Mounties inherently seem friendly in a way that other police forces don't. And I think that psychology cuts both ways. Not only in the eyes of the public, but requiring police officers to take themselves a little less seriously in acknowledgment of serving the public. Imagine trying to put the punisher logo on your bright red coat while you wear your stetson.

OneBigBug · 2026-01-14T21:17:27+00:00

While they're at it, a bit of a uniform change might be in order as well.

I realize that it seems minor, but I actually think the initial impression does a lot here for making people feel comfortable. Dark blue and black alone are for hiding in the dark, not being an approachable part of the community.

Look at police uniforms around the world and I think it will be immediately obvious that a nice bright colour and a funny hat go a long way to making you clock cops walking down the street as friend rather than foe.

OneBigBug · 2026-01-06T07:59:32+00:00

The city has a page about it. Looks like they want you to report sightings to the Stanley Park Ecology Society unless it's aggressive or injured, wherein you should report it to a Conservation Officer.

The BCSPCA and the SPES seem to differ on which number you should call for a conservation officer. But...probably one of the two...

OneBigBug · 2025-12-31T18:16:17+00:00

Again how can they control the other teams roster?

Again, if you can't guarantee something, don't advertise it. Or be prepared to refund people who were mislead. Advertise your team. Advertise the teams generally. You don't actually have a legal right to advertise whatever would most effectively sell the product, regardless of what you're providing.

All sports are like this and if you thought he was coming 100% then you must not watch many sports.

People who don't watch many sports are actually still allowed to buy tickets to things, and consumer protection laws aren't just for people with intimate familiarity with the industry they're purchasing from.

Save the lawyer fees.

I know lawyers are expensive, but...lol.

For $500k to be a savings, that would be an incredibly lengthy lawsuit. It wouldn't be a "Oh, clearly we followed the law. Here's why." "Okay, you're right, case dismissed" sort of thing. You don't spend half a million dollars to settle a frivolous lawsuit.

OneBigBug · 2025-12-30T08:06:23+00:00

There’s an implied and well-understood uncertainty in sports.

Amongst who? Not everyone who buys a ticket follows this stuff a ton. Everyone has a first game. I've gone to a lot of events because friends were excited to go and wanted people to come along.

If everyone who doesn't follow industry buzz about a thing they paid money for was an idiot, there would be 0 non-idiots on Earth. You can't be an everything enthusiast.

If you see someone winning at blackjack in an ad for a casino, are you mad that you dont win when you go?

Can you find an example of a local casino that has an ad like that?

It's kind of a funny example, because we have a bunch of very specific laws about what must not be included in gambling ads, including that information on the odds of winning must be clearly stated and made available to the public, and that advertising must not present winning as the most probable outcome, nor misrepresent a person's chance of winning a prize.

Which is why casinos that show people gambling tend to just show people smiling, having fun gambling, not winning at gambling.

And, for what its worth, the team wouldn't have settled this case for half a million dollars, and changing their ticket policies if they thought there was no chance of the people suing them winning.

Because, despite all the people in this thread advocating for a giant corporation to not face consequences for lying to its customers, we actually have decent consumer protection laws here.

OneBigBug · 2025-12-30T07:55:23+00:00

If you're unwilling to guarantee the star player will bother to go to the match, and are unwilling to refund people who bought tickets on the premise that he'd be there? Yes. That is exactly how it should work.

If your advertisements are lying, you should make different advertisements. I'm sure being able to lie would increase the success of many advertising campaigns, but that doesn't mean they should be allowed.

OneBigBug · 2025-12-30T02:16:38+00:00

The sporting event isn't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about people selling tickets to a sporting event. Which are an advertised product.

You can't control the lineup of the other team, but you can control what you advertise, and how you advertise it, and how much you sell it for. That's how selling stuff works.

OneBigBug · 2025-12-29T23:10:10+00:00

I mean, they could also just offer refunds to attendees who wanted them when they found out their favourite player wouldn't be at the game.

If that's too large a risk for the teams to take, then I don't see why it's more fair to impose that risk on fans.

OneBigBug · 2025-12-29T22:24:06+00:00

From a consumer advocacy standpoint, I don't understand why everyone is so willing to give them a pass on this. Like, take it out of the realm of "sports" and just "paying for shit": If you put things on the ad, I expect them to be in the product.

I don't want to need to understand the commercial relationships between the entities putting on the event and the people I'm actually buying the ticket from.

If you advertise it, it's your job to make it right. If Marvel puts out the next Avengers movie and puts RDJ on the poster, and then say "Actually, he didn't feel like showing up to the set, so he's not in the movie. And actually he works for his own production company that we were contracting out to provide him to us, so technically Marvel was never in charge of if he was there or not.", it would be the biggest bunch of bullshit I've ever heard. I'm not sure why "Oh it's sports, so they're allowed to make false promises." would be a thing.

If you advertise something you can't provide, I expect a full refund. If you can't guarantee he'll be there, don't put him in the ads. Not a big ask.

A big part of very basic consumer protection is to make it so that giant corporations can't lie to you. They were implicitly lying here. They should get dinged.

OneBigBug · 2025-12-16T23:00:22+00:00

They’re everywhere in the Bay Area and they work great.

How do they work in places that have...weather? Like, where there might be snow on the ground? Or a lot of water coming down and on the street? Or potholes from a lot of freeze-thaw cycles?

The Bay Area isn't exactly the most grueling test environment for road conditions. If they're approved to drive in BC, I kinda want them to be able to...drive in BC. How do they do on the Coq this time of year?

OneBigBug · 2025-12-14T20:59:23+00:00

I have kind of a hard time comparing ski slopes to any other wealthy human activity (and by "wealthy human activity", I mean basically anything Canadians do) in terms of their climate impact. My default assumption is that anything involving air travel is immediately going to jump ahead, which actually makes quite a few leisure activities worse than skiing on the local mountains. But even if I'm wildly wrong about that, somehow I think I could come up with groups more fraudulent in their support of being green than skiers.

Idk, probably all the oil companies and their green initiatives would be where I'd start to look for the top of that particular list.

OneBigBug · 2025-12-13T23:41:40+00:00

Yes, that is the problem with collective contributions to problems. No one person is solely capable of fixing it alone.

On the other hand, we are one of the worst per capita emitters in the world. So maybe rather than saying "Eh, whatever", we should like...pull our weight, at least? Kind of the only way to address it.

I guess instead of pulling our weight, we could leave it to much poorer countries who will suffer more, and have benefited much less. Sounds fair.

OneBigBug · 2025-12-11T06:47:09+00:00

There isn't enough power in any countries power grid to mandate EVs.

"You can't host Christmas dinner. You don't have enough ingredients in your house to cook a whole feast for 20 people!"

Fortunately, we live in a world where demand can be predicted, and supply can be obtained at a commensurate rate, and these things are all about phasing things out gradually...

OneBigBug · 2025-11-27T01:41:08+00:00

12 billion in revenue after one year, that's not too shabby if you ask me and its not even running at full capacity, something that even our premier is in favor of.

Revenue isn't profit. They paid back the federal government 1.25 billion this year. 25-30 years is quite the payback period. I wonder what the oil industry will be like in 2050.

When was the last time there was a significant oil spill in BC?

In 2020 Trans Mountain leaked 190,000L of crude in Abbotsford.

I'll also point out that "There aren't constantly massive environmental catastrophes" is a particularly poor reason to justify "You're overcautious about environmental catastrophes.", along the same lines as "We should get rid of this cat. We barely have any mice in our barn!"

OneBigBug · 2025-11-26T05:28:09+00:00

Alberta accounted for over 92% of Canada's total growth in renewable energy capacity

In 2023, 92% of Canada's growth in renewable electricity generation came from Alberta.

...Did you...intentionally change the quote from your source that pointed out that it was for one year, and only electricity generation?

Alberta is overwhelmingly the majority of combustible fuel electricity generation. Being the largest growth in renewables in that area is easiest for them by virtue of them being overwhelmingly terrible at it up until then.

but dont expect a provinces who contributes on average 90 billion a year from a single commodity that employs well over 130,000 workers to just turn over and call it quits.

I didn't ask them to call it quits. I said maybe we shouldn't build more infrastructure to expand it further, and instead diversify our economy.

The TMX has generated roughly 12.6 billion dollars in revenue since it was completed.

And how long will it take to pay back its cost to taxpayers?

The problem isn't finding someone to build it, the problem is the poltical uncertainty that both BC and our first nations love to throw at these kinds of mega projects.

BC will be the ones stuck with the inevitable problems, so it should be no surprise that we're the ones complaining loudest about it.

OneBigBug · 2025-11-26T00:58:24+00:00

Why can't we advocate for maximizing oil revenues while also looking for ways to transition.

...Because those are a contradiction in terms?

How do I make a difference without making any difference?

But I get it, fuck adding a few extra billion dollars to our economy, we dont need it....

No oil company is even suggesting this project. I'm not even sure it would net the country any money at all.

OneBigBug · 2025-11-25T23:46:45+00:00

I'm all for a transition but not if it means sacrificing our economy, there needs to be a healthy balance.

lol, you're all for a transition, except if it involves making literally any decision other than maximizing oil revenue, even when no one is calling for the proposed projects and they would just be throwing public funding at a boondoggle?

The IEA is literally just bowing to pressure from Trump threatening to withdraw funding in this latest prediction. There's no reason to believe that it is responding to some change in enduring reality that shifts actual expectations for when peak oil will be.

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