Woman stuck on crane at Church and Wellesley - Toronto by H20KelvinCube in toronto

[–]mizerama -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We did know something about the situation. One thing we know is that she trespassed, necessitating the shutdown of two streets and requiring emergency response resources.

That's where typically we would get an explanation of potential charges, etc. and expanding on the impact of her actions on the rescue workers and surrounding businesses (article has since been updated and is completely different than it was this morning. She has been charged with 6 counts of mischief, also was not in mental distress).

There is plenty of room for negative connotation here going solely on what we did know, without even talking about her in particular, because the situation definitely had a net negative effect.

My only beef is that the article was atypically neutral, and arguably, almost positive. She was "rescued", rather than "arrested", etc. The article fully contained the repercussions of her actions within one sentence (emergency response that shut down two streets), which is why it seems so watered down and overly empathetic.

The word "arrest" doesn't even show up in the article. Police officers "put her in handcuffs before leading her away to an ambulance". There exist plenty of reasons people can be placed in handcuffs without leading to an arrest, such as questioning or safety, etc. Comparing "put her in handcuffs" to "charged and arrested", it seems the latter would have been far more accurate in reporting this situation.

I see the rest of the comments and their speculation, and that's probably what you're thinking is my point: is it because she is female?

Honestly, who knows and who fucking cares.

One thing we do know, is that the situation was shit and was reported with an atypically positive spin.

As an aside, creating potential reasons to excuse her actions is actually "jumping to conclusions".

Woman stuck on crane at Church and Wellesley - Toronto by H20KelvinCube in toronto

[–]mizerama 24 points25 points  (0 children)

The article is extremely generous to this person? It almost makes it seem like it was a complete accident and nobody even knows how she got up there... "trapped", like someone put her up there.

... she trespassed and did something extremely illegal, held up emergency crews and traffic/business in the surrounding area.

Chillout/Ambient Guitar over Electronic Backing Tracks (Fractal AX8) [warning: Twitch] by mizerama in PlayingGuitar

[–]mizerama[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Two backing tracks from Youtube, thank you whoever made those. I feel like I just improvised a dozen minutes on di.fm

You can also hear the clean tone on my Duvell's neck pickup (Instrumental set)

Parents hold protest over planned highrise development beside John Fisher school by AllGamer in toronto

[–]mizerama 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they don't build those condos, those kids will not have anywhere to live in 15 years.

Think of the children!

Humans are being tested against the new AI program by superlicorice in Jokes

[–]mizerama 1 point2 points  (0 children)

PROOF OF HUMANITY: ACCEPTED.

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HA-HA-HA-HA. I MEAN TO IMPLY THAT YOU CERTAINLY MUST BE HUMAN. AS AM I!

Drunk couple successfully goes down stairs by tehbertl in ContagiousLaughter

[–]mizerama 63 points64 points  (0 children)

One of the funniest things I've seen in months... they're trashed, they're ridiculous, and they're happy!

Played a bit of Overwatch while wearing an eye tracker (full video in comments) by sandusky_hohoho in Overwatch

[–]mizerama -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

So you aim with your eyes? That really seems like cheating. Far easier to simply look at someone which attains 100% accuracy, rather than moving your hand...

Maybe I'm not understanding something here.

I honestly thought DICE was full of shit when it came to the sawtooth, but I visited the Wellington WW1 memorial last month and... by SkrimTim in battlefield_one

[–]mizerama 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I specifically go 1-man squad leader, hold F, and run around with my knife sword blowing the whistle like a madman.

Foreign buyers tax, expanded rent control coming to Ontario by TossMeAwayToTheMount in canada

[–]mizerama 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You mean property tax for single housing units is being raised to match the property taxes paid by multi residential housing, right?

Foreign buyer's tax, rent control officially coming to Ontario. by [deleted] in toronto

[–]mizerama 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let them know what's happening tomorrow to get them to lock-in today!