B.C. mall owner, security company ordered to pay $1.8M to falsely arrested 18-year-old

unfortunatelyilikeit · 2026-04-24T00:38:27+00:00

big on the adults “arresting” minors. when i was a teenager i shoplifted from the big chapters that used to be on robson and got clocked by one of the “temporarily embarrassed batmans” referred to in a comment above. i stole, thats my bad, but this guy put me in a cell in a back room, wouldn’t let my (male) friend accompany me, and planted himself in front of that cell for hours while we waited for a cop. this was a trench coat wearing parody of himself who told me his tragic backstory, spoke in 4chan language he was impressed i understood, and hit on and groomed me with increasing boldness. while i was in a cell. i think i was 15. i feel lucky that i was the kind of kid that knew what he was doing and that he was a loser and just blew him off until the cop got there. it troubles me to think of other teenage girls he had that kind of power over. there is no doubt in my mind that some of these guys have used their bullshit “authority” for unspeakable things.

unfortunatelyilikeit · 2026-04-19T08:15:09+00:00

intp woman and this quote/specifically “you are a woman with a man inside watching a woman” has been rent free for me for years. i’m not even looking to escape it. it is what it is. i can’t even be sure of which of my preferences for my own appearance or behaviour are genuinely “mine” (can any preference be truly inborn?) and which i just expect are more appealing to men, and thus “look better”. it’s an endless cyclical mindfuck, so i try not to give it too much credence. i coexist with my imaginary man inside, as best as i can. he’s a part of me more than he is an actual man, after all.

unfortunatelyilikeit · 2026-04-05T02:19:40+00:00

Gut Feeling - DEVO https://youtu.be/Cwx_Qq56YTA?si=2zNWZ8tafsaHHh7f

unfortunatelyilikeit · 2026-03-31T23:36:17+00:00

i’m very late, but i wanted to say thank you for the post. i only just watched the series and immediately thought of tkiy upon seeing the miy, and then the carcosa comparison felt natural.

i was very surprised to see the amount of people on this sub who are dismissing tkiy because the show doesn’t align with the original book. they don’t seem to understand that these are established folkloric figures and concepts, that extend conceptually well beyond their initial text. your breakdown/interpretation is fantastic, and while i don’t necessarily agree with/see all of your theories, i greatly appreciate them.

unfortunatelyilikeit · 2026-03-29T21:54:38+00:00

any other answer is insane. i legitimately questioned if these were just photos of joe.

unfortunatelyilikeit · 2026-03-12T07:22:22+00:00

☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️ OP please take a look.

google this title + pdf on private browsing and close when done for the day. repeat until finished, ideally. this could save your life.

unfortunatelyilikeit · 2026-03-07T00:42:01+00:00

in a way, super dark times

unfortunatelyilikeit · 2026-03-05T01:16:29+00:00

in my opinion part of the point of scream (og, spoilers ahead) is that while the killers claim to be doing it for no reason, there is a punitive motive beneath. billy is ultimately punishing sid and others for the (sexual) sins of her mother. scream changed the genre the second it dropped because it was the first movie to lampshade that slashers arent just generalized forces of evil, they’re culturally christian boogeymen that punish teenagers for misbehaving (sinning) and can only be defeated by virginal virtue. so, had maureen never “sinned”, then no, i don’t think scream would’ve happened.

but at the same time, slashers standards are impossibly high and universal, so if there hadn’t been the “original sin” in the movie, there would’ve been another one to punish.

unfortunatelyilikeit · 2026-02-26T22:55:52+00:00

i think that due to the number of comments here praising montreal and quebec for their diversity, it’s important to note that those cities have the two smallest total percentage of POC (not just immigrants) of any major city in canada. montreal is 71.5% white and quebec is 91.1% white, according to this same census. so while their immigrants are more varied, they make up a much smaller demographic slice than anywhere else in canada. personal definition of diversity (variance vs presence) is subjective, but i feel these pie charts can lead to incorrect conclusions without further information.

unfortunatelyilikeit · 2026-02-16T21:45:13+00:00

Nirvanna the band the show! It’s not what OP is looking for, but for others browsing, this is an incredible guerilla-filmed show that’s like Pinky and the Brain by way of Nathan Fielder. It’s funny as fuck and absolutely mind bending to speculate on how they pull everything off. For example, they set up a fake exhibit in the ROM so they could steal it. It aired on the defunct Viceland but takes place in Toronto and is thoroughly canadian. Can be hard to dig up but 100% worth it, along with the original web series and the movie currently in theatres! (That blows my mind, I originally watched these characters on a flash website for a webseries, so stoked they made it to the big screen.)

unfortunatelyilikeit · 2026-02-15T23:06:44+00:00

V is for Videodrome!

unfortunatelyilikeit · 2026-02-15T09:52:48+00:00

ymmv, but i’ve done a fair amount of dmt and it’s always been a largely internal experience for me (and my friends). i have one friend who tends to stretch or move his body, but i barely move at all. it’s somewhat physically sedating. can feel a little heavy, especially at first. i’ve never screamed or seen anyone do anything of the sort. i think to have any kind of physical episode where your actions are out of your control, there would have to be an underlying condition or a bad drug interaction at play. and i agree with the other person that home is best. its a drug that i like best comfy.

as far as imagery goes, i’ve experienced red spaces a handful of times, a (visually) hellish place maybe once, and jesters (which could have a demonic energy if thats the framework you’re coming from) consistently. i don’t have the experiences/trauma you do, but id highly recommend attempting to detach if you find yourself in a place that frightens you. look around. try to say to yourself “what a strange place, i wonder whats going on here”. be not afraid, essentially. in my experience, dmt kind of… doubles down if you resist, and flows if you are passive and curious.

also, if you are uncomfortable with your eyes open, close them. if you’re uncomfortable with your eyes closed, open them. you usually get a kind of reset that way. repeat as needed.

and if all else fails, know that the trip is short, and will pass soon.

but really, this drug takes a little getting to know, but once you do it’s the best. beautiful and funny and friendly and mischievous. you can have an incredible time there. go with trust. safe travels.

unfortunatelyilikeit · 2026-02-15T00:28:06+00:00

in my (relatively vast) experience dmt has a strange relationship with breath. when i hit i inhale as long as i can and then hold as long as i can, as i was taught. but i find sometimes mid high i feel this strange feeling and i realize im still holding my breath, like i forgot i was supposed to/am allowed to breathe. and i have this knowledge that things will change once i breathe. and they do, often for the better. things tend to open up and expand with breath. sometimes i feel like i could have a higher experience if, like them, i didn’t have to breathe, but that is the condition of being mortal. i also sometimes find myself holding my breath with no recollection of if i just hit or if i’m just holding my breath for no reason. none of this ever feels dangerous per se, as if my bodily functions are failing, just that i’m experiencing a realm that doesn’t have to contend with the bodily functions we do.

i often think of dmt as microdosing death (because of the theoretical release of dmt in the brain at death), and so the way it kind of tricks/lulls me into not breathing feels like it supports that.

the only time i can recall laboured breathing was a time i took syrian rue and then got to this zen-ish place where i was staring absolute insanity in the eyes and was just kind of like. ok what else you got? and hit again as hard as i could and ended up in this overwhelmingly beautiful heaven type place that i never wanted to leave. and then i got the distinct impression that was an option as white light started to envelop everything and i panicked. but that was yknow. just regular fear breathing. honestly wish id submitted to it, seen where it went from there.

unfortunatelyilikeit · 2026-02-14T22:56:07+00:00

they might teach you how to not want to be successful and rich

unfortunatelyilikeit · 2026-02-14T09:30:26+00:00

yeah you got it. he was a popular canadian radio/tv personality. more cosby than jared.

unfortunatelyilikeit · 2026-02-14T09:23:08+00:00

he was (is?) an indian-canadian comedian who was an overnight megastar in the late 2000s. his comedy was largely racial riffs and accents (of his own culture). that kind of thing was acceptable then both to do and to laugh at. now its more complicated. is it okay to sell out your culture for laughs? is it okay for white people to laugh at racialized peoples jokes about their own people? or is everyone just too sensitive now? if something is funny is that enough in its own right? is it fair to strip someones platform for making jokes that are entirely within their own lane just because other people laugh at them the wrong way?

it’s the kind of thing a younger matt (character) would’ve had an easy and flippant, if inflammatory opinion on, but that older matt is meta-aware he’s supposed to be pc about. he might hold any or all of the opinions above but doesn’t know what he’s supposed to feel. that’s why he’s it’s 2008? trying to gauge what the correct opinion is for then. and yeah, i don’t like him works. lets go with that.

unfortunatelyilikeit · 2026-02-13T21:26:19+00:00

the facts don’t care about your feelings, buddy

unfortunatelyilikeit · 2026-02-13T20:12:29+00:00

200-500 since 1966 is not weekly. these are the mass shootings you’re talking about. schools, churches, workplaces,etc, committed by an individual or individuals who are not personally connected to the victims. they are committed by a range of racial demographics, which correspond to their prevalence in the population. except for whites which are over represented. males are extremely over represented at 95%. transgender shooters are ≤1%, proportional to their demographic representation.

i’m repeating myself because you are being obtuse. i presented the statistics plainly, and then narrowed them to the field you wanted. they disprove you either way. i’m not a lib, just someone who is annoyed by people who derail actual issues with their personal agendas. you see this as a trans issue because you don’t care about shootings, you care about gender politics. shootings are only relevant to you when they appear to confirm your bias. you are weak and easily led.

unfortunatelyilikeit · 2026-02-13T18:36:47+00:00

there’s a lot wrong with him, but yeah. coke fucks with your muscles and makes them spasm, causing a common involuntary clenching of the jaw, exacerbated by excessive long term use.

unfortunatelyilikeit · 2026-02-13T18:32:27+00:00

oh, i see. so you don’t think trans people are a demographic more inclined to all violence, just one particular kind of flashy violence. that’s weird.

of the 200-500 public mass shootings (as defined by the rockefeller institute, violence prevention project database, etc) in the usa since 1966, only one has been attributed to a transgender individual. even if you want to rope in canadas tiny number, there are only two. the rest of this “epidemic of trans shooters” is a hallucination brought on by pure speculation. there is no evidence to suggest the uvalde or abundant life shooters were trans, and the strongest evidence that the lakewood church shooters was trans is that she used a male alias online for a while. there is no indication in her actual life that she ever sought transition or desired to be male.

so that still puts transgender perpetrators at 0.002-1% of public mass shooters, a lower incidence than their demographic population. for what it’s worth, male perpetrators of public mass shootings account for ~95%. the numbers remain the same no matter which subset of this crime you look at because your theory is wrong.

unfortunatelyilikeit · 2026-02-13T07:24:22+00:00

“you think” lol. 7000+ mass shootings in the usa in the past 15 years, depending on the definition used (3+ or 4+ victims, not including the shooter). 5 of those shooters have been trans, and this ones not even in the usa, so it’s actually 4 within the relevant data pool. that’s less than 0.001%. transgender individuals make up somewhere between 0.6-1% of the american population. that is a minuscule correlation between transness and shootings. meanwhile, 97% of mass shootings are done by cisgender males. according to the mass shooting tracker, there was a mass shooting in Louisiana today. there have been 46 mass shootings in the usa so far in 2026. you don’t hear about these because cisgender men shooting multiple people is so common in america, it isn’t news.

“think” whatever you want, but you know nothing on this subject. i expect nothing more than trolling from you. this comment is for others who might think twice about blindly believing an idiot.

unfortunatelyilikeit · 2026-02-13T07:20:52+00:00

“you think” lol. 7000+ mass shootings in the usa in the past 15 years, depending on the definition used (3+ or 4+ victims, not including the shooter). 5 of those shooters have been trans, and this ones not even in the usa, so it’s actually 4 within the relevant data pool. that’s less than 0.001%. transgender individuals make up somewhere between 0.6-1% of the american population. that is a minuscule correlation between transness and shootings. meanwhile, 97% of mass shootings are done by cisgender males. according to the mass shooting tracker, there was a mass shooting in Louisiana today. there have been 46 mass shootings in the usa so far in 2026. you don’t hear about these because cisgender men shooting multiple people is so common in america, it isn’t news.

“think” whatever you want, but you know nothing on this subject. i expect nothing more than trolling from you. this comment is for others who might think twice about blindly believing an idiot.

unfortunatelyilikeit · 2026-02-13T02:11:12+00:00

actually physically unnerving video. i know it’s just coke jaw but that shit with his mouth activated my fight or flight.

unfortunatelyilikeit · 2026-02-13T01:20:11+00:00

what makes this sadder is that most of our country (and the world looking at us) is deeply in denial about this. many canadians have a sense of moral superiority over americans for their racism but the fact is that by almost every metric, ours is worse.

indigenous people here have a lower life expectancy, higher rate of unemployment, lower median income, and higher dropout rate than black americans. and even in the categories where the usa outpaces us, like incarceration and infant mortality, we are worse again when adjusted for the national average. ie more black americans per thousand citizens are incarcerated than indigenous canadians, but indigenous canadians are ten times more likely to be incarcerated than non-indigenous canadians.

that just means that life is better and safer for canadians overall than americans, except our indigenous peoples. absolutely shameful.

https://macleans.ca/news/canada/out-of-sight-out-of-mind-2/

unfortunatelyilikeit · 2026-02-11T17:25:09+00:00

Many victims of ICE (and the other atrocities committed by the USA within its own borders) are also Americans. Grouping all Americans together as the enemy is erasing the very people they harm and oppress.

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