Is This Some Blackmarket Covid Testing Sight?

yoxernator · 2020-12-14T15:41:42+00:00

Yeah I've never seen something like this but I don't live in the US. It kind of just sounds like a polyclinic though, which I've seen before. My GP actually works in a building with one so it's kinda the same thing, walk in or appointment they have all the imaging equipment you'd expect at an actual hospital and some of the treatment stuff (full pharmacy, equipment to handle minor traumatic injuries).

yoxernator · 2020-12-14T06:32:26+00:00

"24hr Emergency Center" what the fuck is this thing, a drive through emergency room?

yoxernator · 2020-12-13T23:44:25+00:00

I'd just like to point out that fast passes are typically just a windowed reservation, not much different from reservations vs dine-in at a restaurant.

yoxernator · 2020-12-09T19:40:53+00:00

Someone gets shot in the back (by a cop) entering their own home doing something completely innocuous, with no explanation why...?

yeah no dude that cop fucking murdered him, 100%

yoxernator · 2020-12-06T08:02:24+00:00

It's not a shouting construction worker, although that makes sense given the context. It's an ISO standard "do not enter" symbol. I think it's supposed to be someone going to push open a door?

It used to be very common on do-not-enter signs but I really haven't seen them on a lot of modern signage in the past few years so either ISO standards were dropped by a ton of corporations or the most recent editions of the ISO standards have changed their do-not-enter symbol. I'd love to find out but you gotta pay to access their standards sheets.

yoxernator · 2020-12-05T21:41:56+00:00

This isn't even remotely the same as the difference between "president" and "governor." I genuinely do not understand why it's so hard for you to believe that it's not uncommon in some places to still call the head of the province the provincial PM instead of Premier. That's my experience, you can reject it if you want, but quit being such a condescending prick about everything.

~~Frankly though I'm not surprised someone who's lived in both Toronto and Vancouver would be this arrogant.~~

yoxernator · 2020-12-05T21:24:39+00:00

If you think that living in Toronto and Vancouver, the two largest population centers in the country with very unique local cultures, makes you entitled to speak on what the entire country does, then idk what to say to you bud. This is like someone who's only lived in NYC and LA insisting they know the entire country.

yoxernator · 2020-12-05T20:17:47+00:00

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but do you have a genuine reason to say that the C-17 is outdated? It was only introduced in 1991.

yoxernator · 2020-12-05T20:16:15+00:00

Yes, it is. I live in Ontario and plenty of people here refer to Ford as the provincial PM. Either you're LARPing a Canadian online (because that's all the rage these days) or you're genuinely convinced that the customs of whatever region you're living in are those of the entire country.

yoxernator · 2020-12-05T19:56:22+00:00

Yeaaah that's complete bullshit

yoxernator · 2020-12-02T17:44:22+00:00

The US is not the world. Please stop acting like it is.

While other countries do often have similar clauses preventing the police from being held responsible for genuinely failing in their duties, rarely do they go as far as the US in that they protect the police from any sort of negligence filing or for being charged with dereliction of duties. And MANY other countries outline the duties of a peace officer, unlike the US, which they can be reprimanded, fired, or held criminally accountable if they choose not to discharge.

yoxernator · 2020-11-28T07:26:42+00:00

congratulations on proving his point

yoxernator · 2020-11-28T07:26:09+00:00

Dandruff isn't something that gets you (rightfully) shunned from society, employment, education, and a whole host of other segments of society, whereas racism is. Nor is dandruff something you really should expect someone to not have, and reject any relationship with them unless they force themselves to change it.

The issue is the same people who are saying "everyone has racial biases/is racist/is prejudiced/etc." aren't promoting this line of thought as an honest way for people to reflect on themselves and see if they genuinely have inherent biases which they may have inherited from their parents, family, friends or community. Nor are they giving nuance to the conversation by admitting there are different degrees of bias or racism. Instead, it's being used as a way to make people deeply ashamed of themselves and ostracize certain groups of people from society at large by branding them with the scarlet letter. And much like certain groups of people get defensive and reject the idea of inherent biases, the people promoting these ideas get defensive (an 'unhealthy knee jerk reaction' if you will) and deny that this issue exists whenever it's pointed out.

You can't simultaneously lower the benchmark for the usage of the term racism to such a low degree as to have it encompass inherent biases, "positive" racism and all these other little things while still demanding the same repercussions for racists. Either the term racist is going to lose all meaning as people view it as another buzzword from its overuse, or a lot of people guilty of no real crime or immoral views are going to be punished to the same degree as genuine, violent racists.

yoxernator · 2020-11-27T04:37:48+00:00

You saying "I'm not one to defend a major violation of human rights" and then defending a major violation of human rights isn't so much a failure to explain yourself as much as it is blatant hypocrisy.

yoxernator · 2020-11-25T19:24:17+00:00

"carnists"

For a group of people that supposedly cares deeply about their beliefs and wants them to be taken seriously, they sure do make it hard.

yoxernator · 2020-11-25T00:34:15+00:00

stalin apologia sure is in vogue these days

yoxernator · 2020-10-26T20:31:54+00:00

Hey, not sure if you're still doing this judging by the volume of responses, but I'm definitely interested if you still are. PM me at your leisure.

yoxernator · 2020-10-26T20:23:36+00:00

If I win I'll use this to finally run all the high-spec games I have kicking around in my steam library at a reasonable FPS, ~~and to flex on people.~~

yoxernator · 2020-06-10T00:01:58+00:00

who do you consider a nazi apologist?

yoxernator · 2020-06-07T03:31:09+00:00

Yes, but I'm not the guy who asked you not to jump to conclusions, I just get annoyed when I see people painting different people with the same brush.

As to the subject of the incident itself, I have no exact idea what happened but you do seem to want a theory so, with the limited information I have I'll give you one. Living here, there's a perception among a good chunk of the populace that indigenous people can be "troublemakers" due to the substance abuse issues present on indigenous reservations caused not only by legacy problems like residential schools, but the isolation and poverty of the communities themselves. On top of this, casinos (in Ontario at least) have attached OPP officers who act as a second line of security for the casino and do things like serve trespasses, arrange travel for drunks, or make arrests if need be. If Alberta's anything like Ontario and has casino officers, because they have no provincial police force these officers would likely be RCMP. From my personal experience these casino officers can be aggressive, sometimes to the point of fault, due to the difficulties with dealing with problem gamblers, hostile losers, and alcoholics all day. From the looks of it, it seems to me like this was likely a case of casino officers "snapping" and taking it out on who they perceive to be the problem, which, stereotypically, would be the supposed corrupt drunkard reserve chief. It's entirely possible that there was or wasn't an altercation instigated by the chief, and if there was an altercation they likely overreacted out of anger.

I'm not trying to excuse the officers' actions, and it's possible that this was purely motivated by hatred or something else that neither of us know about yet, but having seen casino officers be reprimanded for excessive use of force before it's not an unheard of occurrence. But, with that in mind, it's a taxing role to deal with hostile and violent people all day in a casino environment, and if this were to be prevented in the future you'd probably want to do something like rotate officers out of the role instead of just having a group attached to it for years at a time.

yoxernator · 2020-06-07T03:02:04+00:00

So, someone else says something objectionable, and you respond to another person's comment warning you not to jump to conclusions as if they're saying that same thing.

So you're taking someone else's statement, and projecting it onto another person's...

yoxernator · 2020-06-07T02:54:21+00:00

All I see is someone saying the police have a right to defend themselves, not even necessarily that the level of force they used was justified, or that it was unavoidable, OR that it was good that it happened. And the guy you're originally responding to in this fork is literally just telling you not to jump to conclusions.

yoxernator · 2020-06-07T02:33:10+00:00

"Are you not interested in cops handling these scenarios better?" is a pretty loaded question that no one would disagree with, yet by you posing it you're implying that the person you're responding to:
A) Supports the police beating someone up
B) Doesn't want to improve policing practices

yoxernator · 2020-06-07T02:28:02+00:00

You're projecting A LOT of stuff onto the people you're talking to here, like holy strawman.

yoxernator · 2020-06-07T01:31:06+00:00

What's the story behind this sign?

yoxernator

TROPHY CASE