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[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

Thanks for the info .... it's not easy in my area because I constantly search for plants that can tolerate cold. And even when I do find seeds that can, I have to plan and do work for a year, two years or three years ahead.

For anyone else reading this here is where I get my seeds for northern Ontario wildflowers

https://northernwildflowers.ca/collections/shop-seeds

I've only been trying for the past year or two and only meekly and I haven't achieved any dramatic results yet. One thing I have done is to replace my dandelion infested grass lawn with white clover. The first planting was last summer and it turned out good but I am excited to see what will happen this year.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

This photo was taken ten minutes before the first ever rage quit in a video game to occur ... the lab was set on fire and two players and an innocent bystander were hospitalized

[–] [email protected] 35 points 15 hours ago (12 children)

Same thing happened with Japan.

This is before my time but I've known lots of older people who born in the 50s and grew up in the 60s and 70s.

Products made in Japan were once considered cheap things. I ride motorcycles so I talk to a lot of people about the history, especially with Honda and Yamaha. North American motorcycles were first British, German and American. When the Japanese started in the 50s and 60s, everyone laughed at them ... a common racist thing to call them back then was 'rice cookers' ... but within a decade, they took over and by the 80s they were dominating.

The same thing is happening in the EV market. Right now everything is even and the market is still new. But in a decade or two or less, the Chinese will dominate everything.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 16 hours ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Wow .... I'd love to be able to grow something like this but I'm up in northern Ontario. I think our growing area is a two or less.

What part of the country or region is this? So that we can know if we can do this or not.

It looks fantastic, good for you!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 16 hours ago

A lot of those media journalists you suggest don't have an obligation to journalistic responsibility .... they have a corporate responsibility to the company share holders

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Week two ..... there is now a tariff on drinking piss

[–] [email protected] 29 points 18 hours ago

Bucket of white paint .... just throw a few gallons over the body .... instant outline

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

I don't remember where I first read this factoid (if it is a factoid) but there are several articles mentioning that there are straight line ocean routes that are even longer than the distance from Nova Scotia to British Columbia ... here is on illustration

https://imgur.com/gallery/longest-straight-land-to-land-line-you-can-sail-from-east-coast-of-canada-to-west-coast-of-canada-about-22-000-miles-35-400km-J1BO7xL

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

A neat thing I read a while ago was that it is possible to travel in a straight line over the ocean from the east coast of Canada (Halifax I think) and make it to the west coast of Canada.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 20 hours ago

More like America has already been sold

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago

Peter is not OK

 

I just lost two close relatives who were also friends today. We grew up as kids and they were about a year or two older than me. I've always been aware of death and accept it but when stuff like this happens, it's a really strong reminder of how we're all moving along in the line towards the end.

 

Enterprise Season1 Episode 23 - "Fallen Hero"

I love how the show creators come up with new alien species but this one was too funny not to notice.

 

In case any of you have never witnessed the power of the ancient times

https://htck.github.io/bayeux/

 
 

I was watching the documentary "Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy" on Netflix and heard this comment when discussing waste generated from consumerism.

It made me realize, yes we don't throw garbage "away" because away doesn't exist ... we just pass it on for someone else to deal with. Sometimes that next person might not deal with it right away but eventually someone has to deal with it.

 

I got a package the other day from an online order I had made. My wife asked what it was and I joked and said it might be a bomb, some dust with poison or a virus or something. We laughed at the thought but it got me thinking of all the packages I just open without thinking all the time. I would never know it was a bomb until after it went off in my hands.

 

One of the most catchiest original songs I've heard in a long time.

Plus I love this modern day Woody Guthrie

A singer song writer with a guitar and a conscience.

 

I just finished watching DS9 Season 7 Episode 14 'Chimera'

The episode is one where Odo, the only Changeling in the Federation happens to meet another lost Changeling which sets off a series of conversations of what it means to be different in a society that is not like yourself. I immediately understood all the conversations, ideas, perceptions and perspectives as I watched this episode ..... because I've always felt this way. And even after many years, I still feel this way.

I'm Indigenous Canadian and I grew up and was born and raised in a very different world from the rest of Canada. I had my own language, my own culture, my own traditions, my own way of doing things and my own sense of strange humour and identity. I moved away from home about 20 years ago as an adult to live out my life doing something else in order to make a living and ever since then, I've always felt like an outsider everywhere ... I've never fit in and I always felt different. Many people were kind, helped me and did things for me but I always knew I could never properly fit into what is considered by most Canadians as a normalized white Caucasian man. It's also weird to call myself a Native because most people I meet, especially internationally outside of Canada ... seldom believe that I am Indigenous Canadian. Native Canadians are thought of as some sort of strange fairy tale that don't exist any more. I've been called Filipino, Chinese, Japanese, Peruvian, Asian or the best one was being thought of as an overweight Thai person. And after spending 20 years in the non-Native world, I talk like a white man, walk like a white man, think like a white man .... but I am not a white man.

This whole DS9 episode really struck me because it talked about all those feelings of being completely different from everyone else. That difference upsets me .... and it upsets me even more knowing that since I am different, everyone sees me as different and more often than not see me as unusual and probably a threat. Which is why the following dialogue from Laas really struck me:

"But even when you make yourself in their image, they know you are not truly one of them. They know that what you appear to be does not reflect what you really are. It's only a mask. What lies underneath is alien to them, and so they fear it. And that fear can turn to hate in the blink of an eye. "

There are a lot of good people in the world ... and I've met many of them online in this digital community and here at c/tenforward. But it always disturbs me that when worse come to worse and people are under strain and stress ... any amount of fear because people are different can turn to hate. Not just for a brown long haired Native guy but for any of us that have any perceived difference from the supposed 'norm' of society.

This episode of DS9 was just a striking reminder to me of that reality. But it also gives me hope that it is shows and writing like this that remind us of that reality and prevents us from falling into those fearful, ignorant states of mind.

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