ininewcrow
@ininewcrow@lemmy.ca
Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
I’m no scientist or researcher … but the logic tracks with me.
I have many gay/bi/questioning/anything/nothing/something friends and relatives. The majority of all them are very liberal minded in their politics. There are outliers but not many.
The opposite is also true … I have a lot of straight people in my family and they are more easily prone to follow conservative and even far right rhetoric … this one is weird because I’m Indigenous Canadian and you’d think we would all be a left leaning bunch but we are not.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
I have a friend who is a career nurse and has dealt with a lot of elderly people.
She explained that it has to do with testosterone levels affecting the brain.
As young men, their levels are through the roof and it drives them crazy and they sexualize everything and everyone around them all the time. Sexualize to the point where it will make you wonder if they are gay or not because they constantly want to associate and fraternize with other men all the time.
By middle age, they temper their habits and are easier to deal with and their politics are less extreme by still conservative.
After a certain age and on their way to being elderly … they really soften up on many things as the testosterone levels start to decrease a lot.
By the time they are old feeble and very old in age, their levels are very low and they turn into some of the kindest most humble people imaginable. She pointed out several people in my family and hers that were once almost brutish conservative assholes in their 30s and 40s who turned into meek kindly old men in their 70s.
I should know because I’m a man and I know easily it was to fall into the whole masculine culture in my teens, 20s and 30s … I’m middle aged now and I really don’t care about all that any more … and judging from what I’ve seen in my family, I’ll probably be a very quiet old man who will absolutely not care about any politics in my old age.
- Comment on Another essential book in your library 1 day ago:
Step two: … is this the anus … or the mouth?
- Comment on Another essential book in your library 1 day ago:
Step one: … is this human?
- Comment on Deep Space Nine characters 1 day ago:
- Comment on The book you needed today 1 day ago:
You should take that show on the road … people would pay to see that
- Comment on What would it mean for the world if America was confident they developed a technology that would act as a fool prove deterrent from nuclear attacks what would that mean for the rest of the world? 2 days ago:
“The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.”
― Carl Sagan
- Comment on Ancient Aliens 2 days ago:
… with light refracted from a jar full of pickling juice ready for fresh vegetables at the start of the season … and a jar full of pickles at the end of the season
- Comment on Ancient Aliens 2 days ago:
But is it aligned with the winter and summer solstices?
- Comment on Rate my setup 2 days ago:
I can understand that … but you’re sacrificing flavor for utility
- Comment on My playlist, everyone 3 days ago:
Not quite for me … you’d need to add an old time country singer, a hippie from the 60s, an Italian opera performer and a monk
- Comment on Rate my setup 3 days ago:
Maple or tomatoe sauce?
One might offer better cooling than the other
- Comment on Nine out of ten dentists approve! 4 days ago:
- Comment on Hot sauce is for Dad to protect his food from scavenging by lesser beings 4 days ago:
The sad part is the tolerance you build to it. I love Thai food and one summer we spent a lot of time in the city and went to the same Thai restaurant in downtown Toronto for about three or four months over several visits to the city.
I loved their authentic curry Pad Thai and I always ordered it with a bit of their homemade chili garlic hot sauce. As the visits progressed, I kept wanting more and more chili garlic sauce. By the end of the summer, I was eating two small bowls of the stuff with every order … just for myself! The restaurant people weren’t happy and they started diluting the stuff to discourage me but I just kept wanting more like some sort of street drug addict … I even offered to pay more for it all like some crack addict craving the stuff.
I had to stop by the end of the summer when my stomach and gastronomic system gave up and I started developing bad indigestion and stomach problems and acid reflux :(
- Comment on Anyone? 4 days ago:
I don’t blame you … when your skin is literally melting into blistering flesh, you will try anything to save yourself. I remember when it first happened about 15 years ago, it went from a small open sore to full blown skin melting all over my hand, forearm up to my elbow the reaction was so strong. I was bandaged up to the elbow for about a month before I saw a dermatologist and it was scary because I thought I was done for and that it would only get worse.
So any nuclear option that is gross, ugly, weird or just strange is fine by me as long as it works.
Like the old saying … ‘If it looks stupid but it works, then it isn’t stupid’
- Comment on Should try again tomorrow 4 days ago:
You can’t choose your family … but you can choose your friends
I have trouble with my family too … which is why I moved so freaking far away that they are forced to have nice conversations with me at least once a year because they know it will be months before I talk to them again.
- Comment on The Popes condemning the Trump regime 5 days ago:
Even when they’re bad, they’re so slick with their organization that everyone always believe they’re good.
- Comment on Anyone? 5 days ago:
I tried a bunch of them including O’Keefes but I’m allergic to something and I’ve had the skin on my hands break out in blisters. I can abuse them with motor oil and auto chemicals but if some weird skin lotion ingredient gets into a crack in my skin, my skin literally just starts to break down for some reason.
Cetaphil is the only one I’ve found that doesn’t have any weird ingredients … it was recommended by the dermatologist that treated me during a really bad break out. Haven’t had a problem since.
- Comment on Anyone? 5 days ago:
Moisturizer
Get a brand called Cetaphil and use it on your hands every day or whenever they dry out.
I’ve worked in construction and I like working as a mechanic in my own vehicles … it means my bare hands get exposed to a lot of dirt, sand, mud, metal, oil and chemicals … which means I have to wash with lots of soap and chemicals. In the winter it’s worse in the dry cold air.
So my hands get dry chapped and even cracked and start bleeding. My skin is so cracked and broken now that I can no longer use my finger print ID on my phone. I’ve tried resetting it multiple times but a new crack forms and then no longer works again.
For years I put up with it and pretended I was a man that didn’t need help … but I got sick and tired of it and started using moisturizer and I really don’t care what anyone says about it.
I still get dry cracked skin but not as often and not as severe.
- Comment on A New Pope 5 days ago:
Does this mean that his father was Satan?
- Comment on i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies. 5 days ago:
Run away, uncontrollable, unregulated and unlimited growth is known as one thing … Cancer
and it usually eventually kills the host
- Comment on i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies. 6 days ago:
Advertising is the blistering puss of an underlying Capitalist stage four cancer that has broken the surface of the body.
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 6 days ago:
Time loop
I could have been in that gap once, twice … a million times … we don’t know
- Comment on Second US Navy jet is lost at sea from Truman aircraft carrier 6 days ago:
A quick search prices them at about $50 to $70 million each
And I’m sure it would cost a lot more to replace them with something newer
- Comment on The FBI launched a special task force targeting anti-Tesla ‘domestic terrorism’ 6 days ago:
Never did understand it either and always just saw it and then saw it so often that it just became normal
I had to look it up myself to see where the origin of it came from
knowyourmeme.com/…/wait-its-all-ohio-always-has-b…
Know Your Meme is always a great resource for this kind of stuff … thanks for asking because it made me look it up and find out for myself because I never knew the origin of it all.
- Comment on The FBI launched a special task force targeting anti-Tesla ‘domestic terrorism’ 1 week ago:
- Comment on Sweet pic 1 week ago:
Everyone that responds to this thread is on acid … the trip’s only just begun
- Comment on LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues 1 week ago:
Same here … I started off for about four or five years on OpenOffice until it devolved into some weird open/private organization and everyone revolted and it turned into LibreOffice. I held onto OpenOffice for a while and then realized the LibreOffice was more open source system … but you’re right, whenever I look up anything as an Microsoft alternative, OpenOffice is the first to come to mind.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The office of US president has become meaningless … it’s the people with all the money who control the inner workings of government that have the power … they just allow everyone else to elect a meaningless figurehead to throw rotten vegetables at.
- Comment on The internet is millions of monkeys hammering away on typewriters. 1 week ago:
While billions upon billions of us are just writing complete nonsense
