There's a bucket on the floor
ininewcrow
joined 2 years ago
From now on whenever there is a disaster .... don't expect any comfort from your leadership, Americans are on their own now.
To demonstrate how dumb humans are and as collectively stupid as we can be ......
There actually exists a video from a few years ago of someone actually doing this.
Note for 2025: don't fly in the US
2050: .... starts manufacturing military cyborg soldiers with a Bic logo across their chest
They don't care about our lives ... or even their lives for that matter ... all they care about is the money.
Once our relationship to money and wealth is changed, then humanity can evolve one more step away from the cave we emerged from 40,000 years ago.
Or after a lifetime of being screwed over again and again, at one point you just don't give a shit and keep working, keep organizing, keep fighting, keep resisting even if you know at the end of the day, you're going to lose anyway. You keep fighting in the hopes that the next person behind you has a better chance of saving themselves.
I'm Indigenous Canadian and I never knew it but I understand it more and more as I grow older. I don't fight or resist in order to win for myself ... I fight and resist to make the fight easier for the next person behind me. I never knew it and I never saw it before but now I understand ... the people I saw fight and lose all my life, were doing it so that my fight would not be as hard.
Always resist ... no matter the outcome.
It makes you think that the US is basically a one party state with two different sections
The Party of the Almighty Dollar
I'm NOT offended that you are breast feeding your dog .... I'm offended that anyone or anything would drink your breast milk
#musk #trump
#musk #trump
I just watched DS9 'Far Beyond The Stars' - Season 6 Episode 13
As a person of colour (I'm Indigenous Canadian) this was a very impactful, thoughtful and striking episode that really hit home on a lot of subjects they were still dealing with in 1998 when this first aired. The main story harkens back to the 1950s but much of the same issues from the mid century were still being felt in the 90s. In many ways, the messages from this show still resonate today.
We all like to think that 1950s style overt racism in the streets is a bygone thing and doesn't exist or not as prevalent any more but it is still there. I was totally amazed and blown away to watch this and to listen to the story it told. Racism may not be shouted in my face any more but I still feel it come out of the cracks of society every once in while and more often than not in social media forums and platforms where bad actors can anonymously scream and shout whatever they please.
This DS9 episode was a beautiful reminder of why I always loved Star Trek. It is through episodes like this that show us what we could be in the far distant future if we want it enough. As a kid and teenager, I always saw and understood the ideas and images of thinking that we could achieve a world in the future where colour, race, background or gender no longer mattered. I always noticed that in the Original Series and it was something I was really happy to see when I watched The Next Generation and Voyager as a teenager. I never got the chance to watch DS9 until now and after watching this episode I'm happy I did. That message of wanting a world of inclusion and openness is a really hopeful message I've always loved in Star Trek.
The bonus was in seeing all the actors, the main cast, and some of the supporting characters appear as they are in real life was amazing as well.
That simple message really resonated with me .... 'You are the dreamer ... and the dream'. We can all imagine a future where we can all be at our best and if we work hard enough towards it, we can be part of that dream. It's a small thing but in many ways, I'm happy to have this small community at c/tenforward with you ... I've always dreamt of enjoying Star Trek and now I feel that I am part of this digital dream with you all.
In everything else, I will never stop dreaming of a better future, no matter what may happen in the world ... I will always hope that we can all become part of that dream.
If you haven't seen the series yet, I would highly recommend it just to be able to see everything lead up to this episode. It is a definite highlight that will stick with me for a long time.
Just finished watching DS9 Season 6 Episode 10 'The Magnificent Ferengi' ..... and totally fun watch complete with the worst Ferengi in the series and a great cameo by Iggy.
One of my favourite from the series out of so many favourites so far. What a great and fun watch.
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It's freezing rain, thawing, freezing on the highway in northern Ontario ... stay at home!
(lemmy.ca)
The highways are literal ice, either thawing, freezing or going to become ice later tonight and people all over facebook, messenger, whatsapp, whatever are all messaging each other and me and my family asking what the highways are like today and if they can safely go out. People are dying on the highways this week all over the north. Stay at home.
The safest thing to do is just don't go on the highway when it is raining in December in northern Ontario!!!
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I remember boarding a short regional flight in northern Ontario in the mid 80s. We were placed in a non-smoking section, while the row behind us was smoking. I remember seeing those little ashtray drawers on every seat and every single one no matter smoking or non smoking had cigarette butts and ash in them.
And wherever you walked, malls, stores, grocery stores, banks, schools, hospitals, banquets, dinners, gatherings ... everywhere, anywhere ... someone or a few people were smoking.
People were considered weird or rude or just plain stupid if they asked someone not to smoke in public.