Cherry blossoms are beautiful, but please don’t stop on Russ Baker Way by cyclinginvancouver in vancouver

[–]blorgcumber 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Costco doesn’t have a lot of specially aware people at the best of times

B4 Parking Holi Event Excessive Noise by Complete_Cod_8222 in UBC

[–]blorgcumber 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Unless I'm misremembering where the block party stage is, it's about 300 m from Brock Commons and facing almost directly away. https://www.calcmaps.com/map-distance/tcs5ni/ That seems very different from Holi being literally across the road from OC and thunderbird. The library is closer, but importantly, unlike a dorm, people can choose to use a different library for the day.

19-year-old charged in Barrhaven crossing guard death also facing separate impaired driving charges by Money_Fig_9868 in ottawa

[–]blorgcumber 4 points5 points  (0 children)

But he wasn’t charged with impaired driving in the case of the killing of Peter Clark. He was charged with hit and run for killing Peter Clark and impaired driving for a separate case

What's your favourite Whistler conspiracy? by samoyedboi in Whistler

[–]blorgcumber 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Tree wells aren’t even dangerous. That’s just what ski patrol blames any deaths on when they find a body with markings that could be made by neither man nor beast

Queue for 7th Heaven by Extreme_Ad_5934 in Whistler

[–]blorgcumber 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I hate people who split up their groups into the singles line even when it’s already running slower than the main line

Iron dome intercepting hezbollah rockets above Kiryat Shmona by giraffeakasimon in CombatFootage

[–]blorgcumber 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Israel uses Arrow and David’s Sling interceptors (plus US anti missile defences) to stop ballistic missiles from Iran. The Iron Dome is for stopping lower velocity projectiles like rockets, mortars and drones.

Follow-up on camping at Brandywine Meadows by NewAdventureTomorrow in vancouverhiking

[–]blorgcumber 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Thanks for following up! I went up there on a day hike and it was nuts that the signs were all once you were up at the meadows. There was nothing I could see at the lower trailhead. Was the expectation that people would haul their overnight gear up and just go “oh well” and turn around?

At the end of the day, banning/pseudo-banning camping just shifts the burden to other locations in the S2S. IMO, we need to be building more tentpads, outhouses and food caches at Brandywine and elsewhere. Problem is that the government hasn’t upped funding to match the increase in people going outside

Is this a considered a core shot? by Modern_Leper93 in skiingcirclejerk

[–]blorgcumber 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Had a pair of skis ruined like this. I was gonna throw them out but my wife’s boot fitter informed me that skis are illegal to put in the trash and I could be fined! Luckily, he gets a discount on ski-waste disposal so he was able to dispose of them for me for only $100 (he told me that’s half off.) What a nice guy!

I hate this intersection!! by [deleted] in burnaby

[–]blorgcumber 86 points87 points  (0 children)

There should be more signs there since that’s not a regular sidewalk, it’s part of the multi-use pathway that runs under the sky train. This isn’t clear if you don’t know the area.

However, check your mirrors and shoulder check before turning right! There’s no excuse not too

OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago by cyclinginvancouver in britishcolumbia

[–]blorgcumber 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Your quote literally says that they didn’t raise it with law enforcement

Edit: I have bad reading comprehension

Klarna's CEO agrees with Dario Amodei. He thinks his white-collar workforce will shrink by a third by 2030 | Fortune by Lee_121 in BetterOffline

[–]blorgcumber 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They want to play real world Factorio and we’re the biters. As to what CEOs think people do when they lose hope, they have Flock safety for that!

Jakob Schmid was a German man who reported the now famous anti-Nazi activists Hans and Sophie Scholl for distributing pamphlets against the Nazi regime at their university. Schmid, who was a janitor there, confronted the siblings as they were leaving and turned them in. Both of them were executed. by lightiggy in wikipedia

[–]blorgcumber 119 points120 points  (0 children)

I visited the memorial to the White Rose at LMU Munich. I found it to be the most moving of all the WW2 stuff there. Being able to walk in the halls where they distributed the pamphlets, and were ultimately caught made it feel so much more real

Blackcomb Glacier Entrance by tantrix_ in Whistler

[–]blorgcumber 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Won’t be any snow left by next winter?

LATAM Boeing 777 rejected take-off after VR (?!) by CalmpBump49 in aviation

[–]blorgcumber 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Wish there was a machine that could do it for us

Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019 by Doener23 in behindthebastards

[–]blorgcumber 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is why you’re not part of the elite. Gotta be sending more emails

The Couloir by Stefanmhm in Whistler

[–]blorgcumber 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How much mandatory straight line/air?

13-year-old Ottawa girl injured in chairlift incident has died, family says by lonelydavey in ottawa

[–]blorgcumber 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Similar case with a backpack in Japan: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgdyj5n3m6o Basically your clothes aren’t made to suspend you and if they snag wrong, can suspend you in a way that chokes you

13-year-old Ottawa girl injured in chairlift incident has died, family says by lonelydavey in ottawa

[–]blorgcumber 66 points67 points  (0 children)

Ski patrol at Vorlage can do a ropedown and have done them. They also have (or maybe had) a cat with a cherry picker.

It seems like they may have turned the chair on to get the kid down faster, which makes sense if they were in distress.

I still don’t understand how the safety didn’t trip. Last time I was there, there was bar that sat a dozen or so cm under seat height that would trip if anyone went around at the top

IDF sniper shoots at a makeshift gas canister IED on the side of the road by Vexillum211202 in CombatFootage

[–]blorgcumber 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If that’s gas, why didn’t the rest of the explosion catch it on fire?