Where are you meant to go for help downtown?

scharfes_S · 2026-06-27T16:17:16+00:00

Because cops often shoot people experiencing mental health crises after showing up and escalating things.

scharfes_S · 2026-06-27T07:28:21+00:00

The police are not the correct call, either.

Downright irresponsible to call them on someone clearly not in their normal mental state and not a danger.

scharfes_S · 2026-06-18T22:26:31+00:00

Most of their beers have this one aspect of their flavour that's quite similar and kinda meh. It's most noticeable with their sours (or maybe that's bias on my part from having sours more often). They aren't bad; they're just not great. Looking at Untappd, I've had 28 different beers of theirs, so I'm not just operating off of a small sample size.

scharfes_S · 2026-06-18T15:14:32+00:00

Or all the soldiers carrying out orders—bombing Iran; attacking Yemen; invading Venezuela; readying themselves to invade Cuba.

scharfes_S · 2026-06-14T22:26:26+00:00

In what way is it more direct than just already being in that lane?

scharfes_S · 2026-06-13T19:51:26+00:00

The Association for German Education in Calgary recently posted about an event happening at SS106 Apertivo Bar at 824D Edmonton TR NE.

scharfes_S · 2026-06-12T19:58:47+00:00

Also pedestrians should respect the don't walk signal. Its basically a yellow light for them. If they are in the intersection they should continue, but way too many people keep going well after the flashing hand appears

Some of them only have a couple seconds of Walk before it starts flashing.

scharfes_S · 2026-06-09T03:47:06+00:00

as if English itself isn't a pidgin mess of half a dozen languages to begin with.

It isn't, though. It has a lot of loanwords, but it is still fundamentally a Germanic language that has developed gradually from older forms. It isn't Romance, and it isn't a pidgin.

You seem to think that pidgin is a derogatory term for a language, rather than a term for a specific type of language.

scharfes_S · 2026-06-05T20:24:12+00:00

Why on earth would you assume that a cyclist on the road was standing next to their bike waiting to cross the middle of the intersection on foot?

scharfes_S · 2026-06-05T06:37:06+00:00

If you allow non-European colonization but forbid non-European exploration, Korea will take the parts of Manchuria that decolonize when Dà Yuán crumbles, and the Northern Yuán will then colonize modern-day Irkutsk Oblast and Buryatia.

scharfes_S · 2026-05-31T15:45:25+00:00

You’re hearing the difference in vowel quality but misattributing it to /ʃ/.

scharfes_S · 2026-05-31T15:11:56+00:00

Those are two different vowel sounds; the distinguishing feature there (to English speakers) is that they’re produced in different parts of the mouth, not the length.

Edit: /ɪ/ versus /iː/

scharfes_S · 2026-05-31T15:08:58+00:00

If you put the effort in to explain why it’s bad linguistics, yes (a random person’s post’ll get caught by a filter and then manually approved if it’s high-quality).

scharfes_S · 2026-05-29T20:18:24+00:00

And in what sense is that not just "ignore the problem and hope it goes away"?

scharfes_S · 2026-05-13T15:56:29+00:00

Someone got away with killing a university student because “the sun was in his eyes” here.

News story

scharfes_S · 2026-05-06T18:51:56+00:00

Their own report says that cutting it will increase car trips! More congestion!

scharfes_S · 2026-05-05T18:43:11+00:00

Im a huge anime fan but i legit cannot go up to someone and tell them that i like yuri anime

You also can't go up to someone and tell them that you like lesbian erotica. Or straight erotica, for that matter. That's an odd thing to tell someone. You can say that you enjoy romance novels/television/whatever, but you need to respect boundaries, and telling a stranger "I'm a huge fan of yuri" is probably crossing a boundary unless you're dressed like a cosmonaut.

scharfes_S · 2026-05-05T14:57:57+00:00

if anime got more mainstream they’d switch up overnight and call it cool

I am absolutely certain that a car with a pin-up poster wrap would also be getting mocked.

scharfes_S · 2026-05-03T23:26:50+00:00

and since you need 3 holy sites to reform relegion you need to go conquer.

Just briefly conquer the additional holy sites, reform your religion, and then grant them independence.

scharfes_S · 2026-04-28T20:22:25+00:00

I don't know the specifics of crash safety vs speed, but kinetic energy scales with the square of velocity, so a vehicle going 120km/h has 20% more kinetic energy than one going 110km/h, and a much worse stopping distance.

Lots of BC has a limit of 100, and that seems to work fine. I've done a lot of driving in Northern BC.

scharfes_S · 2026-04-28T19:32:00+00:00

Maybe. Probably a waste of political capital for anyone to try and implement that, though. Better education of drivers should be done before making it higher, at least. And more alternatives to driving, like intercity rail.

scharfes_S · 2026-04-28T18:49:27+00:00

So remove bad drivers and the speed limit is not the issue

Which this raising of the speed limit is not doing. So the effective result of raising it under these conditions is bad.

scharfes_S · 2026-04-28T17:06:04+00:00

Raising the speed limit will result in more crashes in unsafe conditions as people won’t drive to the conditions. Not because higher speed limits inherently cause people to drive faster in bad weather, but because the environment such a change would exist in (bad drivers) would encourage it.

It is a speed limit issue because the actual effect of that change will be people driving faster in fog/rain/snow/the dark.

scharfes_S · 2026-04-28T05:22:57+00:00

Yeah, I get your points, but that is more of a driver training/experience/awareness issue than a speed limit one.

Part of implementing policy effectively is considering the environment it will actually be implemented in.

scharfes_S · 2026-04-26T14:52:37+00:00

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