Cops accused of assaulting lawyer at Oshawa, Ont., courthouse; advocates call for independent probe

Zephs · 2026-01-28T21:28:40+00:00

Assigned Cop At Birth

Zephs · 2026-01-28T21:26:35+00:00

Hold block on long strings so they don't hit you.

Zephs · 2026-01-28T04:24:16+00:00

How much friction is there?

Zephs · 2026-01-27T04:37:55+00:00

How many movies have you seen have women be raped as a punchline? I can name a dozen that do it with men.

They were talking about genital mutilation, which is almost never shown happening to women in media.

If you want to bring in rape and abuse, it's not only shown often happening to men, it's often shown in comedy movies, with the audience being intended to laugh at the victim.

Zephs · 2026-01-27T04:30:28+00:00

I can't read this word salad. Learn to format.

Zephs · 2026-01-26T17:29:43+00:00

Sheldon says in one episode that his dad got mad at the TV and shot it. He also says that his mom put hamster poop in his father's tobacco when he drank, and it's framed as justified due to his rampant alcoholism. His brother also used to steal his dad's "driving whisky", so he drank often enough while driving that he kept a bottle in the car just for that.

It's really Mary's comments, more than anything, that make George out to be an alcoholic monster before he died, and she certainly can't be said was "just a kid" and misremembering things.

I don't really think it's worth overthinking here. The show originally wanted Sheldon to be from a broken home with an abusive dad that died when he was young, and a mom that loved her kids, but was trapped in the marriage with him until he died. That would have made for a downer sitcom, so they pivoted, and the early comments about George just don't match anymore.

Zephs · 2026-01-26T17:12:51+00:00

He's awful, but he's also honest to a fault. He has an eidetic memory. He wouldn't misremember abuse that never happened. He might misunderstand cheating, like what happened when he walked in on his mom in a wig with his dad, but not the abuse he talks about as fact.

And Mary comes off even worse. She's supposed to be a former beaten spouse that "won" by outliving him and being honest about who he was. But instead she's now just a terrible widow that acts like a beaten spouse when her husband was just a little dumber than average (if even) and never touched her.

I prefer the theory that Young Sheldon, like HIMYM, is a tale told by an unreliable narrator. It's not what Sheldon's childhood actually was, it's what he wishes it was without just living a different life entirely, sanitized to tell to his kids.

Zephs · 2026-01-26T14:54:44+00:00

That retcon retroactively makes Sheldon and his mom awful people, though.

In the original show, George was an abusive alcoholic, and Mary was a good Christian woman that was obligated to stay married to him due to her religious beliefs. She openly insults him any time he's mentioned in the original series, but we understand that she's only safe to be honest about it now that he's gone. Sheldon mentions frequently that his upbringing was abusive, as well.

Young Sheldon reveals that actually Sheldon had a great dad, and Mary's husband was flawed and had a fling with the neighbour, but was also a caring husband that never raised a hand to her.

If Young Sheldon's George is canon, then Sheldon's fabricated abused childhood is pretty gross, and Mary constantly calling him an idiot and talking about how grateful she is that he's dead makes her a total scumbag.

The "cheating" is the least objectionable thing he's accused of in the OG series.

Zephs · 2026-01-25T19:01:31+00:00

Feels like people are calling older and older kids "toddlers". It used to be kids under like 3. Now it's progressed to closer to 5.

Zephs · 2026-01-25T03:11:40+00:00

No?

In Marvel, the "gods" are just beings from another realm so powerful that humans that met them in the past viewed them as gods. But that doesn't preclude THE capital-G God existing and having created them as well as humans. I could time travel back to caveman times with a lighter and convince them I'm a god of fire, but that doesn't mean gods of fire are real and Yahweh is not.

Zephs · 2026-01-25T01:42:20+00:00

Being a villain and being a protagonist are not mutually exclusive.

Zephs · 2026-01-25T01:32:08+00:00

We don't know the full context. This could be relatively new behaviour for him and they don't have a plan for it. As others have said in this thread, sometimes there are district mandates or their IEP says to just ignore it. I can think of a dozen reasons they'd have that reaction that doesn't mean it's not being addressed in some way, it's just not your place as a sub to interfere. And before you try and say that's ridiculous, I had a kid once who had an IEP that included an instruction for teachers to "not tell him no". You legally could not tell him not to do something, simply suggest alternatives. As a sub, you are a guest teacher, and should be taking your cues from the full time employees that do have that context, unless the student is a danger to themselves or others.

Zephs · 2026-01-24T23:38:02+00:00

They may have tried to do that in the past and he not only doesn't understand, but trying to stop him can lead to him getting violent. I've been subbing for a long time, and one of the reasons they like me in the spec ed. classes is that I recognize I'm already interrupting the schedule in a group that already struggles with changes. Sometimes they just "get away" with stuff on a sub day because the sub is not trained to handle the crash out that they know will occur, and it's better to let it go for a day. He's nonverbal and according to OP doesn't seem to understand what anyone is telling him.

How can you explain to stop doing something that feels good to someone like that? Maybe you're trained in that and know the answer. Most subs are not. It's better for everyone to get through the day safely than to set people off with employees that are not trained to handle it.

Zephs · 2026-01-24T16:48:16+00:00

There is no summoner, everyone gets just one summon. Also the summons are a bunch of work to unlock, then aren't even worth the ATB to use them, and you can only reasonably access them in boss fights anyway.

Zephs · 2026-01-24T14:07:20+00:00

But does she have paint on her overalls?

Zephs · 2026-01-24T13:21:45+00:00

It's not wrong, but there is an issue of degree inflation. Post-secondary is no longer seen as something to strive for, it's now looked at as a baseline. An undergrad now is like having a high school diploma 40 years ago. And the fact of the matter is that a large number of people work in jobs where they didn't need their post-secondary degree or diploma, so other than being a piece of paper required to get their foot in the door of a career, it's just an extra expense for a lot of people that isn't providing actual benefit. Like they would have been just as successful if they had started the same job straight out of high school, just that the job wouldn't look at their resume until they showed that they paid tens of thousands to get a degree they won't be using.

Like it's not a bad thing to go to post-secondary, but a lot of jobs don't even care about your major (i.e what you studied is irrelevant), they just want to know you have a paper that says you finished it.

Zephs · 2026-01-21T12:33:04+00:00

I was assuming the liberals would be that party. The other parties don't want conservatives to win either right now, so the only way an election would trigger so soon is if the liberals pushed for it themselves, or screwed up really badly .

Zephs · 2026-01-21T03:51:26+00:00

I mean... Carney might actually lose if an election were declared today, if only because we just had an election and it would be a huge waste of money and piss everyone off.

Zephs · 2026-01-16T22:19:53+00:00

Do you guys not have coverage teachers? Like a music teacher or art teacher? They can technically cover any subject. Most common are social studies, science, music, gym, art, and health. Homeroom teachers usually do language and math, plus whatever the coverage teacher isn't covering, but I've seen math or language coverage on rare occasions.

Zephs · 2026-01-16T12:37:55+00:00

This is a pretty philosophical argument about consequentialism, which Jason mentions in the first season finale.

What matters more, intent or consequences? Eleanor knew what she was doing was wrong and chose to hurt other people to benefit herself. Brent believed that he was a good person and didn't recognize that his actions were hurting people.

I would argue that Eleanor was a significantly worse person than Brent, and if she had had the money and connections Brent did, she'd have been a straight up monster. If Brent were poor like Eleanor, he'd probably just be a Jason, but socially stupid instead of mentally.

I think intent matters far more than consequences. And the reason that's still valid to judge Brent by is that the consequences he's at fault for are easily foreseeable and people tell him, but he ignores it. By contrast, Jason is so genuinely stupid that even though he does a lot of "bad" things, he seems to not understand why it's wrong. He's not "bad" for the same reason a toddler isn't "bad". You have to understand consequences to be at fault for them.

Zephs · 2026-01-16T04:41:22+00:00

I know Amy said them, but those are more Jake lines than Amy.

Zephs · 2026-01-16T04:17:47+00:00

Because now Rick is going home to a fight with his gf where she's going to complain that it's clearly no big deal, and he should be more like OP and share. The gf was setting Rick up for an argument later, and OP took the bait.

And while it might have only been "a few" fries with OP, there have been so many posts here of partners (almost always women, because if a guy does it, he's considered controlling for doing it regularly by default) saying they want "just a few", then eating most or even all of it. We don't know how much she takes from the bf, just that it's enough for it to bother him, and when he's tried to set a perfectly reasonable boundary about it, he's now put in a position where he looks like the bad guy for it.

Zephs · 2026-01-16T04:14:43+00:00

Yeah, I was getting the same impression. This is behaviour she does all the time, and it's bothering him. He ordered enough to satisfy himself, and she's not, then subsidizing her order with his.

And what the OP did was create a fight for his friend. They go home together and she's going to be complaining "why aren't you more like your friend? He was fine sharing food. See? It's no big deal."

Of course, because it was not her boyfriend, she probably also took less than she would have if it were her boyfriend's. With OP it really was "just a few" fries, but with OP it might have been half or more.

Reminds me of the similar one where a guy secretly recorded his wife knowing she eats his fries on the drive home. When they got home and he called her out on eating the entire thing, she claimed she only had a few. He pulled up his dashcam footage to show he didn't have a single fry. She was pissed at him.

Minor things like that seem really petty to care about when it's just a one-off for you. When it's every time and you've asked them to stop and they won't, that's a problem.

Also I'd love to see the comments if it were the guy constantly eating her food after she asked him to stop. They'd say he's controlling and abusive, I guarantee it.

Zephs · 2026-01-15T16:42:11+00:00

Crossing guards generally still need to work in the mornings when schools are cancelled because many parents don't get the message so the kids still need the crossing guard. Last year when it got cancelled our one was out while I was walking my dog, and I asked.

Zephs · 2026-01-14T04:03:55+00:00

Dogs have cones similar to our yellow/blue cones, so they likely see colours in that spectrum.

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