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Tim Stone
Tim Stone
2:25 AM
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
@Wipqozn it's also illegal to hit a pedestrian with a car whether or not that pedestrian had any sort of right of way
you can't just hit a jaywalker for instance
the question of whether or not it is legal for that person to be on the road is separate from the question of whether or not it is legal for you to hit them with your vehicle
I believe in every state still, though conservatives have been trying to carve out "you are allowed to murder protestors with your car" exceptions
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
That classic "If you didn't want to die you should have been inside of a bigger, more imposing vehicle" defense
Trash people
 
 
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Nzall
Nzall
8:56 AM
 
 
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Nzall
Nzall
12:39 PM
So apparently, Ontario is ending "streaming" in Grade 9. Can any Canadians explain what streaming is in this context?
 
Frank
Frank
12:49 PM
@Nzall From the context, it seems to separate students into two tracks; the, "easier" one seems to disproportionately acquire less affluent members of society.
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
1:14 PM
@Unionhawk It's honestly fucked how many people have got fantasies about running over protesters.
Also wild how many mental gymnastics people are willing to go through in order to excuse the driver of any wrongdoing.
One common thing I've seen is that he "accidentally" got on the highway somehow, so he didn't realize it was closed, and then because protesters were hidden behind a turn he "didn't see them in time."

Except A) There was plenty of time to see the protesers AND the cars blocking them
B) It doesn't matter, since if you look at the video you can see he's riding on the side of the road, for quite a while, in order to avoid the barricade. aka he obviously saw and had time to react, and decided "I'm going to just keep driving instead of slowing down."
Sorry but that's not how it works. If you see something blocking or on the road, your duty is to slow down to avoid an accident.
You don't just keep barreling ahead at full speed
 
Nzall
Nzall
@Wipqozn AFAIK the only reason you're allowed to run someone over is if they're actively shooting at you, and even then it's because of self defense
And even that "excuse" is flimsy at best since self defense doctrines only apply as a last resort
 
Memor-X
Memor-X
@Wipqozn says alot about those people and what they believe in
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
 
Memor-X
Memor-X
@Wipqozn sorry, i have no idea what that is or what it means
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
@Memor-X rekt
It was actually my avatar for a very long time many years ago
 
Nzall
Nzall
1:28 PM
@Memor-X It's just a bit of alt-write comedy
note: I said alt-write, not alt-right
alt-write is just a joking way to refer to grammar nazis
alot is not a word, it's written "a lot"
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
@Nzall although I think since this article was popular, we leaned this writer may be POS? I'm not sure, just got some vague feeling about that.
 
Nzall
Nzall
@Wipqozn POS?
Urban Dictionary tells me that means either piece of shit or positively outstanding service
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
@Nzall The latter
 
Memor-X
Memor-X
@Wipqozn lol, oh that's great and now in my head
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
Two Americans charged with breaking Canada's quarantine rules ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/…
There's been more than this too, It hink.
one american was the source of several new cases in Atlantic canada over the weekend.
They've just been lying and saying they're driving over to visit Alaska I guess.
I say fuck that. No one should be allowed over the border from the US for any reason except work.
@Memor-X you're welcome
 
Frank
Frank
1:57 PM
@Wipqozn Yeah, they've been touring Banff by doing so.
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
2:22 PM
Better soruce
> Grade 9 and Grade 10 students in Ontario typically have to choose between more practical, hands-on applied courses or more theoretical academic courses in core subjects.
> Advocacy group People for Education has long been calling for an end to the streaming process, saying that streaming ends up dividing students rather than providing them with more options. Critics have previously argued the practice was discriminatory towards racialized and low-income students.
> Five years ago they called on the Liberal government to merge the two levels of Grade 9 math classes after a survey found that students in the applied version of the course were less successful on EQAO tests, less likely to graduate and less likely to go on to post-secondary education.
> It also found that in schools located in low-income communities, 63 per cent of students took applied courses in 2015 compared to the 26 per cent in higher-income communities.
> In that same year, the group also cited a study by the Toronto District School Board that found only 40 per cent of Grade 9 students taking mostly applied courses had graduated in five years.
There's also this:
> The province has also confirmed that it will also be introducing a ban on suspending younger students in junior kindergarten to Grade 3, a practice that has disproportionately affected Black students.
 
Frank
Frank
@Wipqozn Who suspends kids under ten? Why would you?
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
@Frank It certainly seems counterproductive, but it's probably intended for bulliying?
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
 
Frank
Frank
@TimStone Inb4 GOP states change laws saying electors are not required to follow the election votes.
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
@TimStone ... how big of a "problem" was that? I remember a whole lot of hubbub of that being one of the many various things that'll totally stop Trump back in 2016 but like pretty much all of those things, it never amounted to anything.
 
Nzall
Nzall
2:31 PM
@Yuuki There were some faithless electors in 2016, but not enough to make a difference
I think the biggest impact this has is probably on the popular vote interstate compact, where they effectively say that if it's ever reached, it's legally binding
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Right, the faithless electors actually harmed Clinton but it does kind of undermine the "We need the electoral college as a filter" nonsense
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
The electoral college is pretty dumb
 
BradC
BradC
2:49 PM
> White House officials also hope Americans will grow numb to the escalating death toll and learn to accept tens of thousands of new cases a day, according to three people familiar with the White House’s thinking, who requested anonymity to reveal internal deliberations. Americans will “live with the virus being a threat,” in the words of one of those people, a senior administration official.
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
3:05 PM
This on the heels of that study that showed some proportion of asymptomatic positive coronavirus cases lost their serum antibodies within months.
 
BradC
BradC
And yet... I fear we are becoming numb to the escalating death toll...
But to have that as part of your explicit strategy, its just... callous is too mild a term
Still goes back to the basic problem, that the White House is treating covid as a political issue to be "spun", not a national health care emergency to actually be, you know, managed
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
Permits revoked by a district judge, must shut down August 5
 
Nzall
Nzall
@Unionhawk GDPR'd
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
Should be good with that source
Both DAPL and Atlantic Coast Pipeline down in 2 days
(Atlantic Coast Pipeline got a favorable supreme court decision, but was abandoned by Duke Energy and Dominion Energy due to regulatory uncertainty)
 
Stormblessed
Stormblessed
3:28 PM
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
3:43 PM
🤔
lol
 
Memor-X
Memor-X
@TimStone i guess Lady Liberty isn't doing it for Trump anymore
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
4:00 PM
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
4:11 PM
@TimStone Its really depressing that this ad will actually be really effective with GOP voters
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
lol
 
BradC
BradC
Seems like a prudent choice
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
4:44 PM
SoMeHoW
 
Nzall
Nzall
5:36 PM
@TimStone And yet Antifa is labeled the terrorists
 
 
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Wipqozn
Wipqozn
7:02 PM
White woman who called police over Black man in NYC's Central Park is being prosecuted reut.rs/3iBFDqs
> A white woman who called police to say she felt threatened by an African-American man who had asked her to leash her dog in New York’s Central Park is being prosecuted over the incident, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance said on Monday.
> Vance said his office has initiated a prosecution of Amy Cooper for falsely reporting an incident in the third degree.
 
Frank
Frank
Apparently some woman jumped out of a car here in Winnipeg with a hockey stick and ran after a black guy.
 
Nzall
Nzall
 
BradC
BradC
7:32 PM
> ...her mother, Carole Brunton Davis, had taken her on June 10 to a church-sponsored event to intentionally expose her immunocompromised daughter, who had survived cancer at 2, to the potentially deadly coronavirus.
> More than 100 mask-free children attended the event, and Davis allegedly gave her daughter azithromycin, an anti-bacterial drug with no known benefits for fighting COVID-19, after she developed headaches, sinus pressure and a cough, Jones reported.
 
Mad Scientist
Mad Scientist
> This is bad. ICE just told students here on student visas that if their school is going online-only this fall, the students must depart the United States and cannot remain through the fall semester.
 
BradC
BradC
@MadScientist Wow. Are they trying to destroy higher education in the US?
 
Mad Scientist
Mad Scientist
@BradC higher education is just liberal indoctrination
 
BradC
BradC
@MadScientist true, that's what they believe
 
Nzall
Nzall
@BradC Remind me again why we can't charge people like this with murder?
 
BradC
BradC
7:49 PM
@Nzall Sounds like the death is still under investigation
 
Nzall
Nzall
@BradC That's something at least
 
BradC
BradC
> Davis finally took her daughter to a hospital, where she was admitted to a pediatric intensive-care unit — but declined intubation until it was too late, Jones wrote.
 
Nzall
Nzall
Though chances are they're just going to close the investigation without pressing charges because it was done in the name of religion
 
BradC
BradC
@Nzall That seems likely to be their defense, even if charges are filed. But it is possible to still convict in cases like that; its happened before
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
@MadScientist Good ol' ICE. Never stop proving you're a complete cesspool of an organization run by racists.
@Nzall Holy shit
@BradC Trump and others who spread this nonsense really need to be charged with murder.
 
 
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Mad Scientist
Mad Scientist
9:30 PM
That's just fucking delusional
 
Wipqozn
Wipqozn
9:52 PM
@MadScientist I don't think it's delusional, I just don't think they care.
 

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