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 Some secrets are kept better hidden than others 10 hours ago:
One-eyed Fingerless Joe agrees … and would give a thumbs up but he lost that one too.
- Comment on Some secrets are kept better hidden than others 23 hours ago:
That is one quality Shitpost … 9/10
- Comment on Wealthy Australians are worried we might realise how rigged the system is in their favour 23 hours ago:
We like to think of how backward our ancient ancestors were to praise sun gods, believe the world was flat, that plagues happened because we didn’t sacrifice animals or people or that a saviour is going to some day arrive and end the world.
We live in a global civilization right now that believes in infinite monetary wealth with numbers growing ever higher backed by nothing but belief and trust. There is so much imaginary wealth right now that it is way beyond what can actually exist. The last time I read about it was about ten or 15 years ago … it was an article that estimated that if all debt, all over the world was stopped at the time and everyone just spent time paying everything off, it would take thousands of years to repay everything. Yet in that time, all we’ve done is keep increasing debt and imaginary wealth.
The whole system is built on our belief in the system. The belief that eventually things will be paid off or that finances will be balanced. It is all built on trust and promises.
If at any point, enough people in parts of the world stop believing or trusting this system … it will all come crashing down.
Money is our new religion and we all believe in it and praise it and put all our hopes in it.
It exists because we praise it and worship it.
As soon as we stop believing in our gods of finance … the whole thing will end.
Just like what happened to our ancient ancestors who believed in sun gods, god kings or powerful beings sitting in clouds in the sky.
- Comment on Has Slavic engineering gone too far? 1 day ago:
- Comment on We like to protect people with OSHA laws in the workplace but not during a peaceful public protest 2 days ago:
As an Indigenous Canadian, I’ve always been aware of where I stand in society … and no matter what anyone says or likes to believe … I’m not that high up on the totem pole (no pun intended)
- Comment on We like to protect people with OSHA laws in the workplace but not during a peaceful public protest 2 days ago:
That’s what pisses me off … and all for what? So that we, the majority of people everywhere can enjoy a little of security and a livelihood where we don’t have to worry about losing our home and ability to eat and clothe ourselves? And what are they protecting? Their obscene amounts of wealth that no individual person could enjoy in a lifetime!
- Comment on We like to protect people with OSHA laws in the workplace but not during a peaceful public protest 2 days ago:
That story of 20 year old Gustavo Gatica in 2019 is what got me a few years ago.
Every time I see a protest anywhere in the world and I see police and security dressed up for war against teenagers and young people with nothing but a scarf and no eye protection just gets me so anxious and upset.
Young people … everyone … should be allowed to protest what is not good for them and to fight for democratic rights. I support any young person fighting for what is right and equitable for everyone and I wish with all my heart that they stay safe and secure while doing so.
- Comment on We like to protect people with OSHA laws in the workplace but not during a peaceful public protest 2 days ago:
That’s the amazing thing about it … if we are working for them, then they’ll grudgingly do things to protect us and provide for our safety
… if we outright disagree with them and protest, then they’ll actively put us all in danger, to wound, blind, maim or even kill us until we conform.
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- Comment on Need clean laundry in the apocalypse 2 days ago:
I saw this during the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York city
We’re in northern Ontario in Canada and I was with my wife and her mother. My mother in law was a great lady, tiny, Irish Canadian completely and with a heart of gold. She had lived through the second world War where she lost her husband, her husband’s brother, three other of her husband’s brothers who were in the war and a long list of friends she saw leave school to take part in the war and don’t of them not come back, some completely psychologically destroyed and others just surviving life.
She was making chili that morning when we got up. I turned on the TV and couldn’t believe what we were watching. It was like a movie. We watched live the first burning building and then soon after watched the second plane crash on live TV. It was surreal.
My mother in law came in and watched with us for a while. We were glued to the TV and waited for more … all day! My mother in law got up after five minutes and went back to her chili.
We told her this was historic. You can’t miss it.
She said she’s already lived through wars, near wars, threatened nuclear war, end of the world predictions, fall of the Soviet Union and a whole bunch more.
She said she felt bad for everyone but we can’t do anything right now.
She went back to cooking her chili.
- Comment on The type of southern hospitality you receive depends on your skin color. 4 days ago:
God I wish he were still here. The world was a lot more tolerable when I could hear what he had to say about it.
- Comment on YSK Trump is doing a rally at Ft Bragg and you can register online 4 days ago:
Whatever event or activity that is announced by the government that asks you to register or provide personal information …
DON’T!
- Comment on The type of southern hospitality you receive depends on your skin color. 4 days ago:
I generally find most average people, no matter their race, religion, colour, creed or location to be very decent human beings.
It’s when you put those same people into groups that they all become a problem because they’ll be swayed by the loudest most obnoxious a-holes in the community.
- Comment on Everyone has a special talent. You just have to discover yours's 4 days ago:
I’m sure she won all or most of her competitions by default
- Comment on Mammal 6 days ago:
Reminds me of a terrible factoid I read a long time ago … they feed young calves they raise for veal a steady diet of cow’s milk mixed with liquefied rendered cow blood and other bio fluids.
We might not have the matrix or dystopian futures yet … but we sure are on our way to building one.
- Comment on Mammal 6 days ago:
I’m guessing you also enjoy your whipped cream …
- Comment on Necessary exercise for this community 6 days ago:
He’s up to 8 hours in the sun now
- Comment on Mammal 6 days ago:
I don’t need a machete to milk a cow
- Comment on Most American headline 1 week ago:
If you want to look at this situation from an economic point of view … what’s cheaper?
Pay a kids lunch every day for about 12-14 years … and for a growing kid, the price wouldn’t be that much, especially if you are paying in bulk amounts for hundreds or thousands of kids.
or
Don’t pay their lunch, let the parents go into debt, take the kids into foster care … now you as the government have to pay for legal expenses to take the kid away, expenses to have police and social service workers to do the work, foster expenses to house the kid and care for them (now you are having to pay for every single meal for them for years), give up the kid once they become of age and go out on their own after foster care as a disillusioned, angry and frustrated young man or woman who will more than likely end up on the street dealing drugs, crime or prostitution … who will then grow up causing or contributing to crime and increasing the costs of police, legal, emergency health care, security and penitentiary … and chances are they will have children who will end up at school not being able to pay for their lunch
…
If you pay to help the kid when they are young, there is more of a chance they will grow up to be a contributing healthy member of society. If you don’t they will become a lifelong burden on society and cause endless expenses that will be far more money than any school lunches you could have bought when they were ten years old.
- Comment on Four NYPD officers converged on one woman on a bike because she smiled at them, then detained her because she wasn't carrying ID. 1 week ago:
I’m up in Canada so this stuff doesn’t affect me much … but I used to laugh at an old friend who used to actively avoid the cops. If he saw them up the street far away, he’d cross the street, turn into an alleyway or just turn around. If we were driving and he saw a cop car, he’d immediately turn anywhere and drive away. He wasn’t a criminal or anything, he just didn’t like police and avoided them. No matter the situation, if he saw a cop, he’d do everything to avoid even having the remote possibility of even interacting with the police.
This was years ago and since then I’ve been like that too but not as bad … but as the world becomes more authoritarian these days, especially when police training even in Canada is to just have a pulse and be a white male … I’m avoiding the police more actively than before.
My old friend Johnny was more right than I realized.
- Comment on Four NYPD officers converged on one woman on a bike because she smiled at them, then detained her because she wasn't carrying ID. 1 week ago:
Lesson learned.
Don’t acknowledge cops, don’t look at them, don’t talk to them, avoid them, ignore them and don’t trust them.
- Comment on Our alternate timeline selves have watched documentaries asking what life would be like if Kennedy had been assassinated. 1 week ago:
Maybe just Reagan’s respectability and character was assassinated and destroyed?
- Comment on Our alternate timeline selves have watched documentaries asking what life would be like if Kennedy had been assassinated. 1 week ago:
Reagan was elected in the Kennedy lived a long life timeline?
- Comment on How will we deal with all the broken images? 1 week ago:
I don’t really care about images on here all that much
Most of the images that are shared are basically ‘one off’ images for a quick gag or as part of a conversation specific to that moment. And often that conversation or interact is a ‘one off’ event as well. Which means it was all meaningful when it happened and when it was read the few times it was noticed over two or three years but then it is forgotten.
If there is anything meaningful I come across that I think is important to me or something I want to keep a reference of or keep … I’ll save it or screenshot it and put it away in my own storage or data.
Otherwise, I really don’t mind losing all those other images I had created over the years … they already did their work when people saw them at that moment.
The only reason anyone would want to keep all that data is to archive it for historical reasons … or to monetize it by collecting a bunch of unique data, images connected to real people.
- Comment on Special sampling opportunity 1 week ago:
??? … that wasn’t chocolate fudge :(
- Comment on Our alternate timeline selves have watched documentaries asking what life would be like if Kennedy had been assassinated. 1 week ago:
My parents were born and raised in the wilderness of northern Ontario. We’re indigenous so I don’t think what was happening in the world in the 50s and 60s had much effect on my people who were still surviving in the wilderness away from any one else. It would have taken a full blown global nuclear war to have had an effect on my family from 1963 onwards.
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- Comment on Time sure flies. I remember pausing my N64 to watch the news coverage. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Don't think I will ever attend that class 1 week ago:
1941: Germany invades Russia but can’t complete their mission
… they did not see that coming
- Comment on Australia’s bowel cancer rates are world’s highest for under-50s. Scientists wonder if the gut microbiome is to blame 1 week ago:
are you six-foot-four and full of muscle?
because it sounds like you speak-a my language
