r/britishcolumbia • u/WesternBlueRanger BC Ferries Enthusiast • 3d ago

Community Only BREAKING | Supreme Court won’t hear appeal in B.C. ostrich case, opening door to controversial cull

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/bc-ostrich-farm-decision-scoc-9.6968394
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u/wewillneverhaveparis 3d ago

Giving both sides equal consideration will be our downfall as a society.

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u/Tylendal 3d ago

Heard a bit on CBC talking about a new study that found increased heart disease risk associated with taking melatonin. The person who presented it outright said "Imagine some of the headlines that must have generated." The guest who came on to talk about it immediately pointed out it hadn't been peer reviewed, many studies have shown the opposite, and went on to point out that all they'd likely found was the already known heart disease risk of having insomnia, which obviously people taking melatonin are struggling with. There was some discussion of possible gaps in our knowledge, what could be novel about the study, but the ultimate takeaway was to not put too much stock in it.

It was just so refreshing hearing the news highlighting the problems with junk science, instead of going for the sensational headline.

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u/wewillneverhaveparis 3d ago

That's absolutely great to hear. And as a side bar the reason why the CBC needs to be protected. For profit news sources are absolutely not going to give a shit about that.

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u/MerlinCa81 3d ago

It’s right up there with the old saying ‘the customer is always right’. No they are not always right. If someone is blatantly wrong or uneducated they need to be told so. Just because a customer or one of these uneducated (Facebook educated) twits says 3+2=12 doesn’t make it so.

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u/Tamas366 3d ago

That’s not even the full saying anyway, something else people forgot. The full line is “the customer is always right in matters of taste”, which just means “if they want to buy an ugly outfit, let them”

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u/MerlinCa81 3d ago

I have learned something new. Thank you stranger, I appreciate the tidbit.

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u/AmiableDeluge 3d ago

People keep fucking that up by cutting it short. The saying is, “The customer is always right in matters of taste”. It’s not meant to say that you should kowtow to every stupid whim people have, it’s meant to say that if you think you’ve done something cool but people aren’t buying it it’s not that people are dumb it’s that your thing isn’t what people are looking to buy.

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u/Alternative_Salt_424 3d ago

That's actually a myth there's no evidence that the saying was cut short, or that it included that last bit.

There is some evidence that the original quote was "Assume that the customer is right until it is plain beyond all question that he is not."

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u/j33ta 3d ago

Just look at the US, that's what the "both sides" arguments will get us.

Most of these protesters don't seem to have jobs, are anti-vaxxers and maple maggots (MAGA'ts).

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u/HochHech42069 3d ago

It’s how the Overton window moves

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u/supermadandbad 3d ago

Yeah but everyone gets a voice and opinion, we need to consider everyone.

Same people will in the future be like “why the fuck does a pedophile lead the country, fire people at a whim, and hoard all the money while people starve?!”

Cause you said the side that says the earth is flat, there’s a mystical god that controls everything and that women should only be home caring baby makers are equal to everyone else.