ininewcrow

joined 2 years ago
[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 48 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Does this mean that St Teresa had a wild night of hedonistic partying in 1652 or that Lindsay Lohan had a profound spiritual awakening in 2007?

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That one friend who insists that they don't know how to cook.

You reassure them and tell them they can learn.

The friend who can't cook goes on to boil a pot of water and returns with this abomination that defies physics

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 46 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Basically ..... and the funny part is that America takes it seriously and the media goes along with whatever the toddler says.

Turnip is a representation of just how dumb this country is

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 weeks ago

This trash podcaster should be labelled one degree worse than actual brain cancer.

Anyone that would want to listen to an entertainer run pseudo intellectual circles around everything like a dog chasing its tail deserves to be treated like an idiot

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 45 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

Every time I see shit like this ... all I keep imagining is 340 million idiots in charge of nuclear weapons and the world's largest military

Your leadership isn't the problem ... the entire country is

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

Some grumpy exhausted, frustrated and fed up Borg drone (speaking in a condescending tone): this is Borg cube 13465356, please hold the line while I connect you to a representative. ...... (soft elevator music starts playing)

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

Hang up ..... block number .... delete conversation

You're gonna have to work harder than that to assimilate me

..... oooo look, a special at the hardware store

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I find it useful to carry small things that are important.

  • a single house key
  • $5 worth of coins for parking
  • a small picture of Gowron
[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

All out war and violence .... that's what's stopping us.

If we ever attempted that, we would be easily manipulated into thinking that it was a war for other reasons and generally break down into a general war.

And at the end of the fighting, the rich and powerful would take over the narrative of why the war started.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If someone were to identify that person ... I'd contribute to a fundraising site for them

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 65 points 3 weeks ago

King wasn't disrupting the peace of the country .... he was disturbing the never ending war against the poor

"And they’ll say we’re disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war."

  • Howard Zinn
[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 77 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

About 20 years ago, I was renovating an old cottage that had been infested with mice and squirrels. I gutted the entire place down to the studs and rebuilt everything. While I was at it, I removed all the wiring to the build and redid it all too. As I worked around the main electrical panel, the panel was separated in two partitions. The first partition was where all the house wiring went to ... the other side was for servicing by the electrical company to install or reinstall or service the panel ... I never needed to go in there. So I worked on the place for about a month until I had to get behind the panel to remove a few screws. and adjust a few things.

I opened the never opened panel ...... I couldn't see any wires ..... the whole section of that panel was completely blocked by a recently deceased squirrel that was completely spread out, all limbs stretching as far as they could go in four directions and its tail completely ballooned up with fur. I took the out the squirrel as one solid stiff piece. It had entered in through a punch out that shouldn't have been removed and crawled in and touched things it shouldn't have touched.

I just didn't expect to find that when I went to open the metal box panel.

I wish I had taken a picture but it was just before the period when people started to get camera phones to take pictures of everything.

 

Imagine being woken up at 4am and told to get on the ground while you get arrested, treated like a criminal, threatened, have guns pointed at you and then told .... sorry ... wrong house ... waddaygonnado

This is stuff you would expect in a third world country.

 

You can't have a Buster Keaton community without showing some of his most famous (and insane) stunts ... many of which were done without any special effects, safety gear or prior experience.

The one where he runs on top of the train cars, grabs a water tower funnel and has hundreds of gallons of water land on his head is famous for injuring him ... he actually cracked his vertebrae in that scene and it gave him life long pain.

 

No better way to start a new community than with good news for the party. This is post taken from Jagmeet Singh's Facebook page

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Congratulations to Olivia Chow and her team on their win tonight!

Olivia's campaign focused on the real issues. She inspired a movement of people working to make Toronto a city for everyone.

The City of Toronto is in great hands with Olivia as its mayor. 🧡💜

 

I've been talking to many people about the controversy with Reddit, why I left it and why I went onto Lemmy, Kbin and Mastadon instead. Some of my friends have commented that the control is still a problem as other platforms and it is all dependent on who owns the software, who owns the hardware, who are the admins, who are the moderators and which community or group has the most influence.

Who are these people that influence the most control on the fediverse? Are they Conservative? Are they Liberal? Are they Republican? Are they Democrat? Do they lean to the left of politics? to the right? or are they center? Are they even political? But also if they had to be would they easily or not so easily influenced?

So .. for the ELI5 version of the question ... Who owns the fediverse?

 

From one indigenous person to everyone out there, I'm happy I'm here with you all in this great country. The history may have terrible periods for my people but over the past few decades things are getting better. It is not perfect but to me it is moving in the right direction.

It's not just a day to celebrate identity ... it's a celebration of how we are all becoming more inclusive of one another.

Chi-Meegwetch misiway.

It's northern Ojibway-Cree and it means "thanks very much to you all"

 

Just when you thought extreme right wing rhetoric couldn't get any lower .... they start targeting children at their schools to hold their protests

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“The biggest names in the Canadian far-right have pivoted to this issue,” Canadian Anti-Hate Network Deputy Director Elizabeth Simons told PressProgress.

“Many of the networks and influencers involved in the anti-2SLGBTQ+ hate targeted at school boards and drag events got their start, or at least their notoriety, during the Freedom Convoy and the COVID conspiracy theory movement.”

 

When you allow far right attitudes to grow ... they are like weeds that start appearing everywhere.

My general rule of thumb is .... if one's ideals and beliefs start affecting the lives of others ... then their beliefs are not about them, they believe in wanting to control the lives of others.

 

A better option to treating the opioid crisis is to help those in need now ... rather than waiting to see how their suffering will affect them and society as a whole.

The costs are always the same ... either be a conservative and villainize these people and let them become a burden on society and costs go towards police, security, emergency health care, judicial and negative social effects from their destroyed lives

.... or ...

Be more socially minded and spend the funds on helping these people now and prevent them from spiralling out of control and negatively affecting their lives further or the lives of others.

 

Anyone else feel like we're on the very early stages of something new? I know I'm not the first and this system has probably been active with many but it hasn't reached thousands or tens of thousands yet so it feels exciting to be here.

I just hope that this instance of social media 'Canada' doesn't turn into the hell hole that happened in other social media sites (that shall not be named)

Any ways, I'm just happy to be here and I look forward to my new landing pad on the internet.

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