ininewcrow

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 28 minutes ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 31 minutes ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour 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] 5 points 2 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] 20 points 2 hours ago

More like America has already been sold

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

Peter is not OK

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I'm way past that now .... the country is a fucking joke ... the people are getting taken to the cleaners by an idiot and no one is doing a thing

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

What have you done? Have you no sense of decency? ..... think of the children!!!!!

How do I unsee this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Yes ..... it is disturbing at 3am because there is always that hum to the city at all hours of the day. But it is more noticeable and disturbing at 3pm when you know that someone somewhere should be doing something to make noise for some reason in the daylight

[–] [email protected] 19 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I'd keep it as it is and complete work on it ... then gift it to someone you want to torture.

Nothing like having something that is beautifully made with one fatal flaw on it.

Personally, I wouldn't mind having the completed product. It would drive my visitors insane in the kitchen or dining table as they saw this beautiful piece of woodworking and then a break in the pattern.

From my point of view, I would love to have something like this around. Everything, everyone wants to make and manufacture is always designed to be 'perfect' or 'symmetrical'. Having something like this with a pattern flaw would make it extremely unique and special.

Would you remember 100 perfectly made cutting boards .... or that one board with the broken pattern?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

The goal wasn't to reduce spending ... the goal was to destroy and at the very least disrupt the system so that rich wealthy oligarchs can run free

[–] [email protected] 13 points 19 hours ago

And often when it comes to the stock market .... if you see signs of things headed in a direction, it's already too late and whatever you think is going to happen has already or is in the process of happening and you've already lost money and wealth.

Yes America is fucked but it's going to take a lot of time for everyone to figure that out. We're all just going to pretend it isn't so and that it won't hurt us financially (but it probably will)

 

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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