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 GARBAGEOLOGY 15 hours ago:
Maybe this is the remnant of the last technological civilization that collapsed and disappeared, leaving behind a super massive floating wastepile in the Atlantic Ocean and eventually settled into where it is today. Along with all the survivors that have long since forgotten where they came from.
- Comment on let's goooooo 6 days ago:
Sweeps a bunch of random stuff under the ocean
- Comment on Every package you receive has the chance of being a bomb 6 days ago:
742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield, United States
- Comment on Every package you receive has the chance of being a bomb 6 days ago:
Schrodinger was a terrorist
- Comment on Every package you receive has the chance of being a bomb 6 days ago:
I’m waiting for the city wide random delivery service that some country will send some day for everyone to enjoy … all 2 million of them all at once.
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- Comment on You can't see me 1 week ago:
Google giving you saran wrap and telling you it’s an invisibility cloak … then you go wandering around naked with confidence.
- Comment on Washington DC to be renamed to St Donaldsburg 1 week ago:
Exactly he ain’t no saint … Donaldgrad
- Comment on Facepalm on multiple levels 1 week ago:
Tacky as hell
At least Nazi Germany hired actual artists and designers to create stunning and awe inspiring designs and artwork using quality materials (and no I am not glorifying those monsters)
MAGA just go to the local print shop and skim off any premade imagery and use AI to mash it all together on the cheapest poster they can buy.
- Comment on Why are all the worst people in my life the ones that actually exist? 1 week ago:
No it isn’t, your doctors lying
- Comment on Palps 1 week ago:
Have you ever of Joe Weider the Lifter?
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 1 week ago:
Agreed, I use it with as few options and extensions as possible. I don’t want to start creating a complex system of notes that will rely on anything specific. I try to stick to the core functions without any extras because of the worry of eventually falling into a proprietary black hole. I keep my foot in just enough to get my uses but not so much that I might get stuck with the software.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 1 week ago:
This is the same conversation they had with reddit for years. It’s being developed for everyone and we’ll make it open some day. Now look what happened.
I use obsidian but only with the bare minimum knowing that I may have to jump ship at any moment.
- Comment on Current chain of command 1 week ago:
Weakest link of the chain is at the bottom
- Comment on Bumper crop 1 week ago:
They don’t seem to be growing fast enough … you need to spread more republican shit in the soil to fertilize it.
- Comment on Zelensky slams US-Russia talks, urges 'fair' negotiations 1 week ago:
Why? … the people and countries funding and financing this war are the ones who control everything.
As far as the two sides are concerned, the only role the Ukrainians played was to die.
- Comment on I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this? 1 week ago:
Cruise! … that is one cheap way to visit a bunch of places.
Go sign up to a website called … wwww.vacationstogo.com … make a basic account with an email and then look for a link in the website called ‘30 day ticker’ - it’s all last minute cruise deals. Last minute cruise deals are not the same as last minute air fare deals. Air fare deals are usually discounted a few days or even a week or two before the flight. Cruises are discounted two months or a month before departure. The vacationstogo website is a general website that lists every deal from every cruise company. You can search through cruises going to anywhere in the world.
We stumbled on this site about ten years ago and we got on about 8 - 9 cruises in the Mediterranean. We basically used it as a glorified ferry to take us from one place to another. If you just leave your schedule open and take whatever is available you can literally cruise for almost nothing. We took several cruises to get from Spain to Italy … 7 day cruises that cost $400 CAD … all inclusive! It was cheaper to take the cruise and vacation for 7 days with free room and board than it was to fly to Italy and rent hotels and buy food. We once went with friends for 14 days for about $1,000 all inclusive … that might sound like a lot but divided across 14 days that $70 a day to see 6/7 cities, all the food you want, no alcohol because we don’t drink, don’t bother with excursions, just go take a walk yourself, workout gym on the ship, and you get to be in giant hotel right in port in the centre of some of the most beautiful cities in the world.
My recommendation is … go on the Mediterrean cruises to actually see fantastic cities, food and history … go Caribbean if all you want to is party and see poor people in third world countries … go Asian if you want to safely see a bunch of great Asian countries.
This is how we were able to see the pyramids in Giza. We took a random cruise to Turkey and one of the stops was Alexandria and Port Said, both ports that could take you to the Pyramids. We took the cheapest excursions on both just to see these great wonders and it was amazing.
If you’re afraid of travelling, go on a cruise. We always joked that we could just grab a cruise from Montreal, New York or Florida, cross the Atlantic on a last minute deal, then just keep taking cheap deals once we arrived on the other side and then grab more cheap deals to head home and never use a plane the entire time.
- Comment on Gift of speech 1 week ago:
The hairy discoballs were dangling and dazzling for the entire dance floor to see
- Comment on I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this? 1 week ago:
I grew up poor in a semi remote Native reserve in Canada in the 1970s and 80s. The first ten years of my life my parents were still basically living off the land and most of what we ate was wild food. I didn’t even have that many sweets or junk food which saved my teeth when I was young.
Then as a teen, I had to fight and claw my way through life in order to get anything. Sure we got ‘free’ help for food, health care, dental, eye and education … but it was just barely enough for me to barely get through high school. At the end of it all, I still had no prospect of making a living on my own in my own home community … I had to leave in order to survive. Even after then, I had to fight every step of way to make a living and fight off my old community members who thought I was being ‘too white’ and the non-Native people who thought I wasn’t ‘white enough’ … it was completely messed up.
After fighting through all that crap into adulthood, I met someone I fell in love with who wanted to do the same things I wanted to do. We didn’t make that much money but we figured out how to travel to over 30 countries over 25 years. About six years ago was our last trip because we caught a virus that make us sick and cough our lungs out … it was terrible. It took me about three months to get over it. My wife never got over it and now sits at home with chronic lung disease. It’s left us at home and we can never leave again.
The reason why I am saying all this is is that you have the world by the tail … you’ve got everything. You have a job, shelter, a bit of money and you are young and capable.
Give yourself about ten or 20 years and you will feel less and less like doing anything and then it will all be over. Once you get to a certain age, you will feel like ‘hey, I think maybe I want to do something’ but by then, it will be too little, too late and you won’t have a choice and you will be stuck in your apartment or house or home or whereever you’ll be and just sit there and wait for death. The entire time you’ll be sitting there, you’ll be regretting that you never did anything and that you never went out and tried just doing the bare minimum of excitement.
I feel terrible that I can no longer do much and that I have to stay at home taking care of my wife. I love her dearly but I would much rather we both head out into the world and just go somewhere, anywhere as far as money would take us. I really never cared if where I went was warm, dry, hot, cold, wet or miserable or absolutely fantastic. Sometimes, the best part of the trip was coming back home and realizing just how wonderful and fantastic home really was compared to many places in this world.
The only thing that doesn’t make us completely miserable and regretful is that we did go out there and take in as many sights, sounds and tastes as we could afford. It was fantastic. We saw the Acropolis hill, the pyramids, Machu pichu, the St Peters, the Mediterranean, buddhists temples in asia, indian landmarks, dozens of cheap motel dives in the US and Canada, the oceans on every side of North America and so much more … all for as little money as had.
Now that we can’t move or go anywhere any more … we look at old photos and reminisce about every trip we ever took.
Go out there and go as far as you possibly go … then when you get old and grey, you can be as sad as you want but at least you look back on all the great things you saw.
- Comment on China’s Salt Typhoon Spies Are Still Hacking Telecoms—Now by Exploiting Cisco Routers 2 weeks ago:
If only the US had a cohesive, cooperative, positive reinforcing, mutually benefiting coordinated government organization staffed by people that mutually trusted one another and their leadership for the protection and benefit of their nation.
- Comment on The Populist Right 2 weeks ago:
No … they didn’t really believe the billionaires would save them
They thought that they would all magically become billionaires
- Comment on It’s the right color 2 weeks ago:
These two look like Minecraft characters
- Comment on Work on your tolerance 2 weeks ago:
As someone who is lactose intolerant … this made me fart
- Comment on Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again 2 weeks ago:
It was our evolutionary success as a human animal. We were never the fastest, strongest or even the most numerous at the start. But working slowly as a cooperative community, we conquered every liveable space on the planet. We can do the same online.
- Comment on The one time past me is nice to present me. 2 weeks ago:
Or that face you make when you’re high af, tired af, out of it af, or half asleep af and think about the food you wanted to eat but the food isn’t even there.
This usually happens to me on long road trips and I’m a passenger dozing off and in my half sleep state, I start dreaming of food and start mechanically opening my mouth to eat the imaginary hamburger I want to eat. Then the driver asks me if I’m OK because I was looking weird.
- Comment on Eatin’ on the roof 2 weeks ago:
In an active war zone
- Comment on AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds 2 weeks ago:
The owners of LLMs don’t care about ‘accurate’ … they care about ‘fast’ and ‘summary’ … and especially ‘profit’ and ‘monetization’.
As long as it’s quick, delivers instant content and makes money for someone … no one cares about ‘accurate’
- Comment on At least they're trying. 2 weeks ago:
Fourth Reich motors … aka Tesla
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The USA was always broken 2 weeks ago:
When you leave for two centuries and leave the keys to the car and all the money to one bratty teenaged son and give nothing else to the eight other younger children in the house and wonder why there’s a huge party with strangers, the house is trashed and on fire, the car’s gone and the eight younger siblings are on the lawn eating from the trashcan.
