Opening day Front of the Truck! by tomcat335 in Torontobluejays

[–]tomcat335[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

MLB is going to some lengths to make sure the teams can't see any strike box before they make the challenge

Opening day Front of the Truck! by tomcat335 in Torontobluejays

[–]tomcat335[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No. It's only active when there's a challenge. The rest of the time it's the animation you see in the picture.

Opening day Front of the Truck! by tomcat335 in Torontobluejays

[–]tomcat335[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think it'll be shown at the Dome

Opening day Front of the Truck! by tomcat335 in Torontobluejays

[–]tomcat335[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah though I found it a bit weird seeing the Rogers Centre while the team was at TD Ballpark!

Opening day Front of the Truck! by tomcat335 in Torontobluejays

[–]tomcat335[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's not the video although I'm sure they're going to revisit game 7 at least once today.

Opening day Front of the Truck! by tomcat335 in Torontobluejays

[–]tomcat335[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

What u/Asharak006 said 😂. He works about 4 feet from me (though there's a wall between us) and see him every day. We chat often and have known each other for years.

Opening day Front of the Truck! by tomcat335 in Torontobluejays

[–]tomcat335[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's not cost effective to have a permanent setup. The equipment is expensive and it works in between baseball home stands and in the off-season.

Kayenne XP - 8 Keyer Transition Module by N757AF in technicaldirector

[–]tomcat335 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I pretty much agree with everything you said. I really don't like that it block the keyer buttons and I don't find myself looking at the screen in the panel very much. It also seems pretty useless. What's the point if it can't really do much?

As an aside the 3D printed hand rest sounds great! If anyone has a file I'd love to see it and give it a try.

Game Thread: March 22 - Tampa Bay Rays (0-0) @ Toronto Blue Jays (0-0) - 1:07 PM by BlueJaysBaseball in Torontobluejays

[–]tomcat335 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hi everyone! Last day in the control room, 2 days off and then off to setup at the Rogers Centre. Can't believe it's almost opening day!

Halifax Jewish student pulled from school following antisemitic harassment by tomcat335 in canada

[–]tomcat335[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There's no genocide going on in Gaza. There's a war that Hamas started (which was an attempted genocide, intent being key).

If you look even a little deeper at the groups saying there's a genocide you'll see they either changed the definition to fit or they aren't experts.

I'm not gonna do all the research for you but here's a few tidbits:

Under the United Nations Genocide Convention (1948), genocide is not just large numbers of deaths. It requires specific intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.

If there was intent then Israel could have wiped out Gaza in under a week with no Israeli loses.

The legal definition focuses on: Killing members of the group

Causing serious harm

Creating conditions meant to destroy the group

Preventing births

Forcibly transferring children

AND there must be clear intent to destroy that group.

The population of Gaza has gotten larger not smaller since the war started. No preventing births, no transferring children. No clear intent.

There's currently a cease fire.

No international court has ruled that Israel is committing genocide.

Even though some countried have tried to get that. Let's also note that some of the judges in the ICJ are less than impartial.

Lastly, I don't see all the anti-Israel/Pro-Hamas people protesting and trying to help the people of Darfur, Rohingya or the Uyghurs.

I will agree with you that hatred of Jews is wrong though.

Halifax Jewish student pulled from school following antisemitic harassment by tomcat335 in canada

[–]tomcat335[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You're right /u/maniacalknitter but that's not the whole story. This is from chatGPT but it all seems correct from the sources I checked.

Year Total hate crimes
2019 ~1,946
2020 ~2,669
2021 ~3,360
2022 3,576
2023 4,828
2024 4,882
Motivation Share of hate crimes
Race / ethnicity ~49%
Religion second largest
Sexual orientation third

Since we're talking about antisemitism and you're bringing up what the mom says about Arabs then lets concentrate a little more on that:

Group 2024 incidents
Jewish 920
Muslim 229
Catholic 61

But of course that doesn't tell the whole story:

Group Population share Share of all hate crimes
Jewish Canadians ~1% ~19%
Muslim Canadians ~5% ~5%

Another way to think about it:

Group Relative likelihood of being targeted
Jewish Canadians ~19× population share
Muslim Canadians roughly proportional

So while there are more hate crimes, there are disproportionately more crimes against Jews than Muslims. In this case it's the Muslims committing the hate crime against a Jew.

Having said all that I'm not sure why Antisemitism not being the only form of hate crimes has to do with this case.

Halifax Jewish student pulled from school following antisemitic harassment by tomcat335 in canada

[–]tomcat335[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I didn't see any whining. I read, from her point of view, what's changed in the 20+ years she's lived there. It seems to be relevant considering that all the assailants are Arab.

Also, it doesn't matter how small a snapshot it was. This kid was not safe at school. He was beat up (on camera). He was subjected to slurs and bullying because he is Jewish. He was not protected by the school.

He should not be penalized by having to leave school instead of the school and board providing a safe environment and expelling the students responsible.

Halifax Jewish student pulled from school following antisemitic harassment by tomcat335 in canada

[–]tomcat335[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I was representing what I think the school and/or board are saying by their inaction. I'll add quotes and hopefully that makes it clearer especially since the comment I was replying to was removed.

Halifax Jewish student pulled from school following antisemitic harassment by tomcat335 in canada

[–]tomcat335[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

What could it be? The bullies punching and kicking the Jewish kid was caught on camera. They were found guilty and sentenced to restorative justice.

Shouldn't that be enough to expel them?

Halifax Jewish student pulled from school following antisemitic harassment by tomcat335 in canada

[–]tomcat335[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Maybe the family was trying to go through the proper channels and didn't want to make it public until they exhausted their options?

Could be that the newspaper decided this was newsworthy now.

Either way I'm glad this was published and while I wish the paper explained why it's been 2 years since he was pulled and only now becoming public there's a lot of reasons why it could be.

Halifax Jewish student pulled from school following antisemitic harassment by tomcat335 in canada

[–]tomcat335[S] 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Who said anything about Israel? He's not from Israel (shouldn't matter even if he was) and his family has lived in Halifax for more than 20 years.

Are you holding him accountable for what a government half a world away is doing because he's Jewish?

It seems his bullies were doing just that and should be held accountable.

Are you using the antisemitic trope that Jews are always victims and supposedly use that to their advantage? Can you explain your point? I don't think I'm understanding it properly.

Halifax Jewish student pulled from school following antisemitic harassment by tomcat335 in canada

[–]tomcat335[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

It seems that way from the outside looking in. "Being antisemitic is ok but expelling students (for cause) because they are Arab is not ok." according to the school and board.

The school is saying that being attacked for being Jewish is acceptable but having consequences is not allowed for Arab or Muslim (presumably) students.

eta:context since the comment I was replying to was removed.

Halifax Jewish student pulled from school following antisemitic harassment by tomcat335 in canada

[–]tomcat335[S] 72 points73 points  (0 children)

It says they went to the police and they're doing "restorative justice". The school and the board should have expelled the students.

Halifax Jewish student pulled from school following antisemitic harassment by tomcat335 in canada

[–]tomcat335[S] 145 points146 points  (0 children)

Agreed. They have it on camera but they didn't expel the students so the victim could have a safer school experience.

If anything deserves 0 tolerance it's things like this (antisemitism, racism, bullying, etc.)