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 Italians at Christmas 6 days ago:
Don’t laugh … I’ve personally known two people who died of an overdose, one got turned to a vegetable (he’s still alive, if you can call it that) and several who did overdose but survived.
- Comment on Italians at Christmas 1 week ago:
Lucky you … I’m up in northern Ontario and in most of the places up here Sudbury/Timmins/New Liskeard/North Bay … the supply seems to have dried up over the years … we used to see lots, now we see a lot less.
- Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 1 week ago:
Trading in existing items is not exactly capitalism … that’s just plain old bartering.
Capitalism, especially the modern form, is when you use your existing or inherited wealth to buy or develop companies who generate wealth from the work of other people to create brand new products or services. It’s exploitative because capitalists take the hard work of many people who create brand new products and then claim full or majority ownership over those products without having done anything except claim ownership.
What you are doing is taking old discarded things that either have no more value or lesser value and taking your own effort and time to recreate value and barter it to someone else. The only person you’ve exploited in the transaction is yourself … but you reap all the benefit. And no one can go back and say that the product that you just traded is stolen profit from the previous owner … the previous owner had thrown it away and didn’t value it any more or even considered it trash to be thrown away.
Flipping isn’t capitalism … it’s just good economic sense for the individual.
Unless you turn it all into a multimillion dollar business with employees, real estate and a corporation … it isn’t capitalism.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Anyone who asks that question should think about their own mental stability.
- Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 1 week ago:
Buy stuff on ebay and start trading to bigger and better things. If you work at it hard enough, you’ll end up with trading items worth thousands without having spent more than $75.
- Comment on China says US broke international law by seizing oil tankers off Venezuela 1 week ago:
I’m no supporter of China … nor the US … nor Russia … nor the UK
But if you change the country names to these headlines, it makes you question why we accept some things and not others
“China seizes oil tanker off Philippines”
The world would go insane and send us to near WWIII if not the start of it … but change it to ‘US seizes oil tanker off Venezuela’, and all of a sudden it is acceptable.
- Comment on Italians at Christmas 1 week ago:
Here in Canada in Ontario, up until about five years ago, they used to sell panettone everywhere during Christmas … grocers used to stock them everywhere and about four or five different brands. Cheaper ones came in all plastic wrapping and more expensive ones came wrapped in plastic and contained in fancy decorative cardboard boxes. And back then, we had the choice of size and they were usually large sized.
Now we have limited supplies and the displays for them are even hard to find. We only have one brand now ‘Massimo’ and they are more the smaller size. Every year now, all my Italian Canadian friends go on a frenzy looking for them … as soon as they come out, they disappear.
Don’t know what happened to the supply but we don’t see much of them any more.
- Comment on One stop shop 1 week ago:
If you can’t afford the traditional funeral or even the immediate cremation … there are other “options”.
- Comment on Harken, mortals, your saviour is born 1 week ago:
Gotta wonder what they were smoking in the middle east 3000 years ago to come up with these biblically accurate angels
- Comment on Na Na Na Na Na Na 1 week ago:
It should be considered a workplace hazard at this point … and workers should be compensated for it
- Comment on Sir, they are attacking the whotilla 1 week ago:
Hot egg nog can’t melt candy cane beams
- Comment on Are you happy now, so-called "bleeding heart" libs? 2 weeks ago:
Do it as a group … get several parents together and get all the kids to huddle together like penguins … if penguins can survive -60 degree weather as a group, kids can do the same
Either that or just teach the kids how to smoke.
- Comment on Great guy 2 weeks ago:
I thought the second photo was John Wick twisting the hand of the guy next to him to keep him quiet
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
As a brown Indigenous Canadian … I’d like to agree with you but you’re wrong.
The greatest threat to life and prosperity to the world is billionaires no matter their gender, skin colour, race, nationality or religion.
- Comment on Ms Rachel forced to hire security over Zionist threats 2 weeks ago:
… and if you look at the background and ancestry of many of the leadership of Zionism, they have more of an affinity to European culture than they do to the Middle East. Many of them are either from Eastern Europe or are a generation removed from European culture.
- Comment on Ms Rachel forced to hire security over Zionist threats 2 weeks ago:
In the same league as nazis, neo-nazis, white supremacists
Groups that claim all powerful, good given supremacy over everyone, yet shudder and run away at the first sign of being threatened. They are both simultaneously the most powerful and gifted humans on earth and also the most persecuted and threatened. Too powerful to fail, yet have to constantly fight against their powerful oppressors.
- Comment on Are you sure about that? 2 weeks ago:
Scully … you do know we live in America right?
- Comment on home gardening 2 weeks ago:
Must be a construction worker … those look like some serious callouses
- Comment on home gardening 2 weeks ago:
The bathroom mushrooms are for fish
The rafter mushrooms are for beef
The closet mushrooms are for salads
- Comment on Failure is the best teacher 2 weeks ago:
When Yoda takes his regular centennial shower on Degobah, it’s definitely a very deep thought
- Comment on Failure is the best teacher 2 weeks ago:
and it also depends on your family, personal wealth, inheritance and income bracket … because even with these credentials, it can lead you to higher political office
- Comment on Failure is the best teacher 2 weeks ago:
A wise new saying I heard on a Youtube mechanic’s short reels a while ago …
“If you don’t fuck around … you’ll never find out”
youtube.com/shorts/GKPU8lNEAZ4
… and that without knowing it has been the motto of my life when it comes to working on things. I learn on my own (mostly because I was never able to afford higher education) and I just tinker with things and often, I will break things but it serves to help me in the future to figure out what not to do. And other times, it saves a lot of work because it made me realize that some problems aren’t so terrible and that they only needed a simple solution.
- Comment on Always wear protection, folks 3 weeks ago:
WHAT?
- Comment on When you get carried away with the corn 3 weeks ago:
No not yet but soon
- Comment on When you get carried away with the corn 3 weeks ago:
Loom here buddy … that’s a typo and you know it
- Comment on Well most of the story is true 3 weeks ago:
It’s what happens after a lifetime of Ritalin, sugar, caffeine and antidepressants.
I have a couple of friends like this who’ve been on psychological drugs for years … at one point they have a hard time just relating to anything or anyone and just endlessly talk without realizing it.
- Comment on Me scrolling through this community after blocking all the political posts 3 weeks ago:
Monsanto
- Comment on Ah! Yes! Its that time of the year! 3 weeks ago:
WTF? … I felt like I did drugs … without doing any drugs.
- Comment on corn 3 weeks ago:
Does that go in the cornhole?
- Comment on When you get carried away with the corn 3 weeks ago:
whhhhhirrlllllllll … plink, plink … AHH, MY TEETH (in some Asian language)