Random Rants LXXXIX: I HATE MOVING!

[H4run]

Thanks. Worst part is I can't take any NSAIDs because of my stupid digestive system.

That's really bad, you just made me remember I had a friend who have severe joint problem and hard to walk, unless he use dextamethasone (a kind of steroid) to artificially eliminate the pain, I bought for him Glucosamine and Chondroitin for his joint pain but haven't gave it to him till now (the one my father use for his joint pain). I guess I should spare my time to give it to him today.

 

[Birdjaguar]

That's really bad, you just made me remember I had a friend who have severe joint problem and hard to walk, unless he use dextamethasone (a kind of steroid) to artificially eliminate the pain, I bought for him Glucosamine and Chondroitin for his joint pain but haven't gave it to him till now (the one my father use for his joint pain). I guess I should spare my time to give it to him today.

Wasn't Trump on that for covid?

 

[H4run]

Wasn't Trump on that for covid?

Yea that one, my father know a lot of medicine he want me to keep those also for the rainy day, never really use it because I try to avoid steroid, but when my friend got the joint problem I gave it to him, which "fix" the problem temporarily.

 

[Takhisis]

Wasn't Trump on that for covid?

He was on everything but hydroxychloroquine.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Thanks. Worst part is I can't take any NSAIDs because of my stupid digestive system.

I thought there was a Tylenol that's specifically for arthritis.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I thought there was a Tylenol that's specifically for arthritis.

It doesn't really work for me.

 

[Synobun]

It doesn't really work for me.

Time to get stung by bees.

https://www.healthline.com/health/bee-venom-arthritis

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Time to get stung by bees.

https://www.healthline.com/health/bee-venom-arthritis

 

[IglooDame]

Random rant: For a country that has been doing the voting thing for a helluva long time, has had up to fifty different areas to draw lessons-learned from different techniques, policies, and approaches, and has been for a while the most resource-rich and one of the most stable countries and regions on the planet, in the aggregate we seem to suck at conducting elections.

 

[Ajidica]

Made coffee cake for breakfast but screwed up recipe. Was supposed to use a 1/4 cup melted butter, but misread the stick of butter. One stick is 1/4 lb, or 1/2 cup. I misread the 1/4 lb as 1/4 cup.....

 

[Lohrenswald]

I feel this semester is going rather poorly and that I don't have control over the curriculum

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Warning: A bit of politics here.

So why is it when indigneous people have a protest to block a pipeline from wrecking their land, the RCMP deploys snipers,

but then a bunch of white fishermen go and wreck an indigenous fishery and....uh.....

Marr captured about an hour of video footage of his time barricaded inside. At one point, he briefly steps out an entrance that appears to be guarded by several RCMP officers, who tell him to go back inside.

Several other videos were shared on social media overnight, including one of a white van burning in New Edinburgh and being extinguished by an RCMP officer.

Marr said his vehicle was also destroyed.

"They slashed the tires. I watched one guy pee in the driver's seat of my truck. Another guy poured a jug of some antifreeze or something down inside my gas tank. Another guy poured a jug of something down the vents in the heaters of my truck."

Marr said that eventually, the RCMP took him by the arm and forced him to leave the building, and he stood outside and watched as the mob broke windows and carried out lobster in crates.

"They totally annihilated that building, just tore it all apart. They took all the lobster," he said.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Warning: A bit of politics here.

So why is it when indigneous people have a protest to block a pipeline from wrecking their land, the RCMP deploys snipers,

but then a bunch of white fishermen go and wreck an indigenous fishery and....uh.....

The RCMP does a lot of talking, but the observable facts are that they display a great deal of bias and bigotry toward the indigenous population. Bias is an issue all over the country.

That said... when the rail blockades stretched into months, rather than days or weeks, and the protesters weren't just in BC, when they were blocking train tracks that had nothing to do with the situation in BC, when they blockaded bridges and critical roads, ports, and openly harassed people going about their lawful business and work... my sympathy for the native protesters evaporated.

Similarly, I don't condone violence, but there must be reasonable and consistent laws regarding hunting and fishing, and reasonable and consistent enforcement. It's one thing to be allowed to hunt and fish outside the time permitted for commercial hunting/fishing if it's a matter of survival. But if it isn't, then playing the indigenous card gets no sympathy from me. As one of the signs says, the commercial season exists for a reason. Taking the issue to Parliament is the correct thing to do, rather than vandalism and theft.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

It's one thing to be allowed to hunt and fish outside the time permitted for commercial hunting/fishing if it's a matter of survival. But if it isn't, then playing the indigenous card gets no sympathy from me.

In 1999, the Supreme Court declared in the Marshall Decision that the Mi’kmaq are within their treaty rights to earn a "moderate livelihood" from fishing and hunting outside of season.

 

[Ajidica]

That said... when the rail blockades stretched into months, rather than days or weeks, and the protesters weren't just in BC, when they were blocking train tracks that had nothing to do with the situation in BC, when they blockaded bridges and critical roads, ports, and openly harassed people going about their lawful business and work... my sympathy for the native protesters evaporated.

So protesting is only good when it doesn't go beyond waving some placards, that's a hell of a take.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

The Beaverton has a few takes on this:

“Somebody should call the police,” say NS RCMP officers watching van being torched

Nova Scotia RCMP claim they’re not racist since they can’t protect white people either

From the latter:

“We are consistent in every approach whether we’re responding to a robbery or an active shooter situation – we’re nowhere to be found,” said Smith.

This is especially....ironic, because during the mass killings back in April, things were so disorganized that the RCMP managed to call the cops on themselves.

Fifteen minutes before the Nova Scotia gunman was shot dead by police at a gas station in Enfield, N.S., on April 19, Truro police officers descended on a Sobeys grocery store 64 kilometres away.

An RCMP dispatcher had called officers in Truro to report that their suspect — the man responsible for killing 22 people — was spotted at the store on Robie Street.

"He has multiple weapons," the RCMP dispatcher warned Truro police at 11:12 a.m.

The municipal police force quickly asked all units to respond and assist RCMP at the store. At that point, the shooter, Gabriel Wortman, was still believed to be driving a silver Chevy Tracker, as RCMP had advised on Twitter a few minutes previously.

Officers from Truro reported back a few minutes later to say that the only thing they found at the Sobeys was an RCMP Emergency Response Team.

 

[Takhisis]

Made coffee cake for breakfast but screwed up recipe. Was supposed to use a 1/4 cup melted butter, but misread the stick of butter. One stick is 1/4 lb, or 1/2 cup. I misread the 1/4 lb as 1/4 cup.....

Post the recipe. We have a cooking thread, y'know.

 

[Cutlass]

Random rant: For a country that has been doing the voting thing for a helluva long time, has had up to fifty different areas to draw lessons-learned from different techniques, policies, and approaches, and has been for a while the most resource-rich and one of the most stable countries and regions on the planet, in the aggregate we seem to suck at conducting elections.

It's not like that's not an intentional outcome.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

So protesting is only good when it doesn't go beyond waving some placards, that's a hell of a take.

Read some of the news articles and listen to some of the interviews of people who were blocked or intimidated or harassed from going to work, businesses that had to lay off people because their merchandise and supplies they were to have received via rail freight either arrived too late or not at all - and I don't mean a couple of hours late, I mean a couple of weeks to over a month late, and problems with emergency vehicles because roads and bridges were blocked, and then get back to me on that.

Some of the stuff that travels by train in this country consists of critical medical supplies. You know, the stuff that keeps people alive and keeps vital machinery running in hospitals. I have NO sympathy for anyone who prevents such things from getting where they're going.

Passenger train service isn't a thing in the West anymore unless you pay $$$$ for it. Most trains in this part of the country carry freight.

There were times when the chiefs - and understand that even the chiefs weren't on the same page with each other, as the hereditary chiefs and the elected chiefs (aka politicians) were on opposite sides of the issue - would give the RCMP an ultimatum, which the RCMP would obey. Then there would be another set of instructions, since obeying the first set wasn't good enough. All this was just the preliminary to negotiation. The indigenous side of this was not negotiating in good faith.

This went on for weeks, and stretched into months. If the pandemic hadn't come along, some of them would still be sitting there, preventing freight and passengers from moving.

There's a right way to protest and there's a wrong way. I know they have legitimate grievances. They have the right to protest. But they went about it the wrong way, if they expect sympathy.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

There's a right way to protest and there's a wrong way. I know they have legitimate grievances. They have the right to protest. But they went about it the wrong way, if they expect sympathy.

But what do you do when the "right way" fails?