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 The humanity 2 days ago:
Just use full long tooth picks to keep the cheese on. Leave the picks sticking out long enough for you to find them and remove them after.
- Comment on Hollow 3 days ago:
At least someone put a light inside the pumpkin :(
- Comment on Can't have nice things 3 days ago:
My favorite is an old clock I got from an old cottage I was renovating. I broke the glass on it but it still worked so I propped it up on the wall to help me keep time. I worked for months with that clock on the wall, never changed the battery and just thought, I’ll keep it until the battery dies … I thought it was just some old cheap thing that wouldn’t last.
I renovated for two years and the clock kept ticking, I grew to appreciate Anne decided to keep it. It survived I don’t know how many -40, -50 degree winters frozen solid and it still kept time. In the spring I think I adjusted it for a ten or fifteen minute correction (allowing for daylight saving time).
I finished renos and now the clock is in the living room and I’ll never get rid of it, it’s part of the building now as far as I’m concerned.
20 years later and the clock is still there and I’ve only changed the batteries twice, maybe three times. I changed the batteries so few times, I can’t remember the last time I did.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 4 days ago:
Isn’t it just a limitation of human vision? No matter how much resolution we can create, the human eye will only ever see a certain level of resolution … anything beyond that is imperceptible to us. I think I remember reading that 4K is the maximum we can realistically appreciate and anything beyond that is impractical because no one would ever notice the difference.
The only way higher resolutions work is if you start blowing up the size of the image itself. A 20" wide image at 720p looks good but the same image blow up to 60" becomes noticeably pixelated. A 20" wide image at 8K looks sharp and blown up to 60", it still looks sharp.
- Comment on And I don't care 4 days ago:
But this void is getting filled with so much delicious, juicy, tasty, scrumptious bacon fat
- Comment on No fucking way! I got invited to the Illuminati 4 days ago:
AI probing for users in the fediverse
- Comment on He can't keep getting away with it 5 days ago:
Meth and Christian nationalism
- Comment on Gotta get those tickets! 5 days ago:
That’s the father
- Comment on He can't keep getting away with it 5 days ago:
Does this mean that there is some reclusive Vietnam veteran with mystical powers meeting some geeky young kid in a run down trailer park in the deserts of Arizona and they’ll pair up with a truck driving privateer and his huge overly hairy former wrestling superstar that mumbles a lot, in their 18 wheeled highway tractor trailer they call the Centennial Turkey.
- Comment on Easter can't come soon enough. 5 days ago:
Easy … because that’s the excess supply from last year being sold as new this year.
- Comment on Is it really worth the BS for a couple more years? 5 days ago:
Most definitely involves luck in many cases. My wife currently has pulmonary fibrosis, a life shortening disease that basically slowly erodes your lungs. We did our best to take care of ourselves, good food, not too much, not too little, vitamins, health conscience, exercise, keeping active, healthy mind, staying active, staying connected … and neither being too excessive or obsessive of taking care of ourselves either.
We have a doctor friend of ours who told us … it was just luck … we caught a bad flu a few years ago, just before the pandemic. I got over it, she never did and still hasn’t. She is healthy as anything otherwise but her lungs will give out in a year maybe two, possibly three but the end is coming and its horrible to think about.
We did everything right, we just didn’t get lucky.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Especially when the first season episodes open up with a story arc involving nationalism, immigration and xenophobia.
- Comment on Is it really worth the BS for a couple more years? 6 days ago:
My grandma on my mom’s side lived to be 85 but she had a bit of dementia at the end.
My grandpa on my dad’s side lived to be 85 too and his mind was great but his body wasn’t.
But every time I hear stories of people who lived long lives, you have to compare that to the number of people they outlived or those people from their generation who didn’t make it.
For every 99 year old, there were hundreds or even thousands that didn’t make it to that age. It’s really a very lucky thing to live that long … and even more like winning a lottery to live that long and have a bit of health and be in your right mind.
- Comment on Is it really worth the BS for a couple more years? 6 days ago:
Yeah, I keep reminding people, especially young people about this.
What’s the use of living until you’re 70 if you spend the last ten years of life living in a body that is half dead?
I know one guy who worked in heavy industry retire at 65 and decided to just smoke, drink booze and eat junk on his couch for his retirement. He loved it for about two years. Then he had heart attack, diabetes, and early signs of dementia. He lingered for 8 more years living a miserable life before he died a slow death in hospice for about a year.
One my of neighbours is 80 years old and still at home … but for the past ten years, he’s been battling cancer, heart problems and almost semi regular infections of some kind. His entire life is just pain every day. He keeps ending up in the hospital for something … only to return a week or two later after having survived. He is just miserable all the time and the only way anyone can see him coming out of all this is to die.
I have another old friend who is 70, great heart, good weight, good bodily health … but she has Alzheimers … and she’s had signs of it for the past ten years. She’ll live for a while but what kind of life is it to not have your memory for the last ten years of your life?
Take care of yourself as much as possible now while you are young. Sure some of this is just genetics or luck but I’d rather try my best to have a decent quality of life later on than do things to guarantee I’ll be miserable at the end of my life.
- Comment on The handhold opening of a kitchen cutting board allows you to turn it into a melee weapon. 6 days ago:
I do have a nicer board … a big thick one I use most often.
I use several boards for different things … one specifically for meat … one for just garlic and onions … another for fruits … and a general one for everything else.
It’s the smaller cheaper ones that annoy me. I use them because they’re cheap and you use for a year or two and replace them easily. I just don’t understand why you need a handhold for a small cutting board. But today I was holding in my hand and just started playing around with it wrapping my fingers around the hand hold and I automatically started treating it like a weapon to push, pull, swing and hit things with.
I’ve also been gifted older type cutting boards that look like a paddle. These ones are definitely melee weapons.
They’re melee weapons … lol
- Comment on The handhold opening of a kitchen cutting board allows you to turn it into a melee weapon. 6 days ago:
I’ve heard of that and I’ve seen that but I never do that.
I do quite a bit of my own cooking. I learned from my mom who worked in a commercial kitchen and I worked next to her for a few summers.
Every cutting board she had was just one large block with no holes. We’d cut tons of food and every time to needed to clear it, you pick it up and dump it into the sink or trash can. It’s just faster that way.
I never saw the use of taking a few extra moments to guide the board to the trash can, align it to the top of the can, then carefully move all the scraps to the hole.
A faster way is to just pick up the board, move it to the trash can, use the nonsharp end of your knife as a scraper and push everything off in one quick move.
- Comment on The handhold opening of a kitchen cutting board allows you to turn it into a melee weapon. 6 days ago:
Jackie Chan can turn any living space into a dojo and weapons room.
But you’re right, I should watch a Jackie Chan movie, it’s been years.
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- Comment on From the outside looking in 1 week ago:
- Comment on Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more 1 week ago:
Great way to accelerate the country into a lawless state. As soon as you develop a system where you give people no choice and offer them either to submit or fight … more and more people will want to fight to survive.
This is the main reason why civilization moved away from capital punishment. Governments realized that if you just severely punish people for anything and everything, people will see that the have no choice and just fight right away because they know they will be killed for it anyway no matter what they do.
- Comment on Know the difference 1 week ago:
Nationalism is nationalism and it all depends on the culture and race group
White Caucasians want a white nationalist state
Blacks want a black nationalist state
I’m Indigenous Canadian and I know a few extremely minded Native people who believe in a Red Nationalist State … I’ve known a few that if they saw a white guy on their home reserve, they’d beat up the white guy just because they were white.
It’s a human emotion … we like to be part of an ‘in’ group … and we want our ‘in’ group to be the one in control and hold power over all the other groups.
Any fascist state no matter the culture or identity is a fascist state that no one should ever tolerate
- Comment on reaction 1 week ago:
I’d say thanks … then ask them for a blender
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
Of course it is … a really disgusting terrible soup … but soup none the less
- Comment on Banana 1 week ago:
If our competition raises prices! … We’ll bring them down!!!
- Comment on Banana 1 week ago:
If you live in a northern climate, you have to rely on a very complicated and expensive delivery system that will supply you with this fruit that can only be grown in the tropics. And the only way to keep it economical is to create an economy where food prices are artificially kept low because first world countries systematically suppress developing countries that grow bananas into becoming stable economies that would actually provide better wages for farmers and workers who would raise the price of bananas.
We have cheap bananas because we don’t mind living in a world where we abuse farmers and workers to work for pennies to supply us in the first world with cheap bananas.
- Comment on Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more 1 week ago:
Or better yet … more and more people will start to realize that it’s cheaper in the long run to just skip your loan payments. Even if you lose everything, how much more can you lose?
And when enough people lose, the banks and corporations start losing as well. So it’s in the best interest of the banks to keep everyone afloat as long as possible to keep up the illusion that the system is still working.
It’s a precarious balance between making people believe that they need to stay in the game and stopping them from thinking that the game is rigged.
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 1 week ago:
The current point of our human civilization is like cave men 10,000 years ago being given machine guns and hand grenades
- Comment on The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds 1 week ago:
It’s great because the internet was initially developed as a decentralized service so that if any part failed, the rest could maintain communications.
Over the past decade, corporations have been actively developing an internet of services that heavily rely on just a small set of services … and if any of them go down, everything is lost.
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 1 week ago:
… that run on fuel for a limited time … once the fuel runs out, the data centres go down
Need to transport more fuel there? Can’t because the entire system is down.
- Comment on Time is of the essence! 1 week ago:
New avian virus strain … and all it costs is $20
