Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Everything we currently eat or are able to eat was established by the deaths of millions of people who helped us to figure out what not to eat. And we’re dumb animals, so often it would take several deaths or unfortunate circumstances before we figured out what was bad for us.

    It’s kind of like OSHA rules and regulations … it’s all written in blood and death.




  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Title
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    Engagement and data collection … sometimes it’s just a way to collect data. Anyone that responds gets added to their list of accounts that have a live person.

    They do the same for telemarketing, email, mail, phone, sms, and any other contact request … once there’s a response, it’s confirmation that the account has a human owner








  • I think this is our great filter … the filter that won’t allow us to explore the universe beyond our planet. We’ll send up probes and robots into space but we’ll be too busy fighting the handful of men down here who want to try to rule the planet. And those handful of men will keep our world as miserable as possible in order to keep them wealthy and as powerful as possible. Once that group of men dies off, another group of men will take their place endlessly. And it will be that perpetual small group of men that will keep us confined to our current state of evolution and keep us all down on this planet.

    As Carl Sagan put it in ‘A Pale Blue Dot’ …

    “The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.”





  • This happened to us one winter. We had installed the cheapest security camera system we could buy about ten years ago and it gave out an image that was just one step better than standard definition … but the great thing was that we were able to access it remotely online with an app on our phones. We thought we had entered into the future world and we were technologically more advanced than anyone we knew. The image was terrible, the connection was spotty and it frequently dropped connection if we logged on too long and scrolled through the video notices.

    Then one night while we were hours away from home, we went to review the security cam again … an alien creature was sprawled out on our lawn with dozens of legs and appendages that moved in various directions. We thought it was just dust, or sticks or grass and monitored it for several minutes until it started moving like some intelligent creature.

    My wife stepped back and walked away, disgusted at what she saw … then from far away, she started laughing and said, ‘put it down’ and I stepped back … from ten feet away, we could clearly see that a spider had made a web over the camera