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 How differently would have information technology developed if most of the world were under authoritarian regimes instead of liberal democracies? Would encryption have been more restricted? 23 hours ago:
Yes there were … we just didn’t call them billionaires … we called them Kings, Queens, Supreme Rulers, Emperors, God Kings
The world looks exactly the same now as it did 2,000 years ago politically because the idea of supreme and infinite wealth never went away. We’ve always had men who believed they could rule or own the entire world … and we still do.
- Comment on How differently would have information technology developed if most of the world were under authoritarian regimes instead of liberal democracies? Would encryption have been more restricted? 1 day ago:
I always say and think about all this from the perspective of billionaires … all they ever care about is money and the free flow of money everywhere. As long as money is moving and people believe in it, praise it and worship it, everything else can be tolerated and controlled.
The internet and free flowing communication allows for money to flow a lot … without it money would quickly become segmented into tight regions and countries and everything becomes closed … which makes it harder for money to flow, which makes it harder for a billionaire to make more money.
Same with World War or even nuclear war … I don’t think it will ever happen on purpose because once that first bomb goes off, billionaires will cease to be billionaires as the world financial system collapses. The billionaires won’t care how many millions die, they’ll be more upset that their imaginary digitally managed wealth will either decrease a lot or even completely. They know that in a post apocalyptic world, no one will care if you claim to be a billionaire if banks no longer exist. You might say that billionaires will have gold stashes around to fund their own personal army … but that won’t work either because their army will just kill them to take the wealth.
All of it is possible because of human greed … all of it is under threat because of human greed … and all of it is held in balance because of human greed.
- Comment on The name "seagull" implies the existence of landgulls, airgulls, and firegulls. 2 days ago:
JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL!!!
- Comment on Thanks Mr. Clean! 2 days ago:
I was going to make fun of this thread but saying some dumb thing but then I noticed your comment … this is your thread now … my condolences to you and your family … and you should clear coat that section of the wall to preserve it forever … and if you ever renovate or change your house … carefully carve out that section of wall, frame it and display it as a family heirloom.
- Comment on Time to redraw America's borders in a way that finally makes sense. 3 days ago:
Sounds more like a new line up of pharmaceuticals for the treatment of those suffering from delusions of grandeur and acute narcissism
- Comment on 5 More Seconds 3 days ago:
Because your dishwasher knows how drunk you are and is trying to tell you those aren’t fries and they’re not the microwave
- Comment on Hey.. 4 days ago:
We were helping to move a friend from one house to another years ago. It was all rushed with little time to do or plan anything … we had to move truckloads towing trailers full of all their things and drive 400km to make a deadline. And we had to start by driving to them 500km away first! And it all had to happen within 20 hours … it was complete insanity. I ended up driving, packing, working, then driving again non-stop for about 30 hours to everything to the new house. And midway through the trip of hauling everything, we drove through the biggest lightning rain storm I’ve seen in years. The only way to keep things from getting totally soaked was to keep moving.
I remembering driving past the rain and weather and it was 4am and we were dead tired and couldn’t stay awake. We parked on the side of the road and I sat in my driver seat and finally fell asleep. Unfortunately, I was so full of coffee, sugar and food that I couldn’t really sleep … my body went offline and my brain kept racing. I started dreaming that I was still driving and in my driving dream, I kept pushing myself to stay awake and not drift off the road. In my dream, I kept dozing off and wandering on the road. In the dream, I kept scaring myself, held on to the steering wheel and bolted awake again … and again … and again. Finally, still in the dream, I fell asleep and as I dozed off I knew I was drifting off the highway at speed and I could see and feel the truck crashing into the bushes, the trees and into the forest …
I bolted wide awake back into reality, gripped the steering wheel like a madman and slammed on the horn and the brakes as hard as I could … I was still sitting quietly on the highway shoulder. My cousin in the other truck walked over and asked if I was OK and asked why I just sounded my horn.
I was so freaked out by the experience that I stayed awake for the rest of the drive.
- Comment on Never easier to kidnap people in the USA 5 days ago:
You need to threaten people with guns and machine guns
The crazy part is at this point in American history, you’d have a high chance of getting away with it all.
- Comment on So Proud of The Work 5 days ago:
… when you realize it wasn’t a mirror
- Comment on Powerful and pungent 5 days ago:
- Comment on Powerful and pungent 6 days ago:
I think I’ll use it as a ringtone or alarm for my phone … no better way to wake in the morning than to be terrified
- Comment on Powerful and pungent 6 days ago:
… also, I didn’t notice that link … and now that voice will haunt my senses for a long, long time
- Comment on Powerful and pungent 6 days ago:
- Comment on Powerful and pungent 6 days ago:
Using his force powers to block his sense of smell … but for how long?
- Comment on YOU scare THEM 6 days ago:
They mask because they know what they’re doing is wrong.
If what they were doing was right, moral, necessary and justified … they wouldn’t have a problem showing their face and giving their ID.
The fact that they mask up, and break dozens of laws just means it’s legalized criminal behavior.
- Comment on So I can smoke them if I put shoes on them? 1 week ago:
Yes … unless the building owners are more sadistic and instead wanted pets literally on fire and smoking
- Comment on Soon you will be dealing with this at your supermarket check out shaming you to "donate" 1 week ago:
Or even worse, the company not donating anything but instead handing over all the public donations pretending that it was their work that caused it. They give nothing but instead gain all the publicity and recognition … in the end profiting from charities and the good will of people
- Comment on Soon you will be dealing with this at your supermarket check out shaming you to "donate" 1 week ago:
I’m not apologetic about it any more.
When any company asks me to donate i say no. If there’s a cashier or rep that gives me a look or says something … I tell them that their company can spare 0.0001% of their profits to give way more than all their customers combined. Don’t ask me who to donate to, I give to the charities of my choice when I can. Your company has way more free money to give to not just one charity but many charities if they wanted to but never do and instead choose to collect the money as more profit for themselves and their investors.
- Comment on So I can smoke them if I put shoes on them? 1 week ago:
If you give your pets some little booties to wear, then they’ll let them smoke inside the building
- Comment on I don't cry 1 week ago:
Or just go up next to them and cry louder and more dramatically
- Comment on Future aspirations 1 week ago:
I couldn’t read your response because my eyes are so filled with water from eating so many onions lately
- Comment on Future aspirations 1 week ago:
Police force investing in time and money to investigate an old woman who trained her cats to steal a sock or a curtain.
… while the police force secretly negotiates and collaborates with the mafia on local cocaine trafficking.
- Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s 2 weeks ago:
It is very useful and powerful as a propaganda device and a system to generate and disseminate disinformation, misinformation and non-information very quickly and very efficiently.
It was thought that the internet would do the same but that system only goes at the speed of humans and the whole system is regulated by humans … so as propaganda tool, it has worked better but not as well as predicted. Humans saw the the potential for abuse and fought back against it.
AI is like propaganda on cocaine … and there is very little to stop it other than our awareness of it … but the majority of everyone in the world don’t care to understand what they are watching is real or not. What that means is that AI is set to reshape how everyone thinks and how we all see the world.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 2 weeks ago:
Investors are like parasitic leeches to any business model. As soon as you add them, the business has to grow in order to satisfy the leeches who provide no benefit to the model other than to be attached to it. If you ignore the leech, they’ll drain all your lifeforce, so you’re only option is to satisfy them and feed them. Unfortunately, they are also ravenous creatures who are never satisfied. If you feed them a little, they’ll want more next time in an endless cycle.
Once you are infected by investors … eventually they will destroy whatever you created.
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 2 weeks ago:
In that case, someone should come out with a quality phone and just slap Trump logos all over the damned thing and charge $2,000 for a $500 phone. Run the business until someone tells you to stop.
Sell Trump crap … it’s all crap anyway … make money on it if people are dumb enough to pay for this shit.
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 2 weeks ago:
Or you can spray paint your old iPhone with gold coloring, slap a Trump logo on it and sell it on ebay to some unsuspecting MAGA fan for $2,000.
It’s not hard to copy Trump’s signature … you could throw that on the phone and charge $5,000 and tell everyone that you bought it at a MAGA rally where Trump signed it in 2024.
If they can grift … we can all grift harder
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yes they do … it’s called Pornhub
Turns out that aliens had it easy from the very start … whenever they needed info or intel on human beings, human lives, even human samples … all they had to do was to entice them with sex or kinks or some sort of weird fetish or something
All the aliens had to do was do a couple of anal probs, and that would automatically give them access to several hundred or thousands of humans that automatically became interested in this specific fetish and would just come looking for the aliens without even having to be asked or coerced.
- Comment on US | ‘No Kings’ demonstrator dies after being shot at Utah protest, police say 2 weeks ago:
I think they meant ‘Piece Keeping’ … people who keep pieces, aka a gun or firearm … it’s people who keep guns
- Comment on How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? 2 weeks ago:
Burner phone … leave your main one at home … ABSOLUTELY DO NOT BRING YOUR MAIN PHONE
Set up your burner phone with one or two accounts to things you might want to upload to … encrypt as much as you can. Do not load all your social accounts … only log into the bare minimum. If you are organized, log into temporary or fake or secondary accounts if you can.
Start the day without any prior history, photos or content on the phone and keep as few contacts as you can … memorize numbers that are important to you.
Always be prepared to give up or lose your phone.
And as always … SAFETY GLASSES … bring a pair of industry rated CSA approved safety glasses (try to get a pair with a tint so you can pass them as sunglasses). Look for safety glasses with anything marked ANSI Z87+, sometimes written Z87.1+ (note the plus) rated or CSA Z94.3 rated are ensured to safely withstand a direct high energy strike.
… additional things if you want to do more
Bring a small new blank paper note book you can keep in a pocket with a small pen or pencil … you might be taking notes like license plates, name tags or names of people or places … its always faster to just write something down than in taking a shaky photo or tapping away a note on an app
Wear a big scarf … for guys or girls … a scarf comes in handy for all kinds of emergencies including using it as something to cover your mouth, dress a wound, tie something or cover something up.
Wear a good pair of running shoes … be prepared to run and be on your feet all day.
Bring a small backpack and bring a couple bottles of water and some energy bars … keep it light because you’ll be on your feet all day and if things go bad, you might be targeted if you have a large pack … plus an empty pack can be used to carry things later if you need to.
Dress for the weather … if its going to be hot, wear light clothing but if things go bad and you have to stay out over night or longer, bring a light jacket … if rain is forecast within a day or two, bring a small poncho
- Comment on It's more economical 2 weeks ago:
As an Indigenous Canadian … I think this is the same delivery guy that my ancestors signed treaties with
