ininewcrow
@ininewcrow@lemmy.ca
Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
- Comment on Italians at Christmas 1 week ago:
Don’t laugh … I’ve personally known two people who died of an overdose, one got turned to a vegetable (he’s still alive, if you can call it that) and several who did overdose but survived.
- Comment on Italians at Christmas 1 week ago:
Lucky you … I’m up in northern Ontario and in most of the places up here Sudbury/Timmins/New Liskeard/North Bay … the supply seems to have dried up over the years … we used to see lots, now we see a lot less.
- Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 1 week ago:
Trading in existing items is not exactly capitalism … that’s just plain old bartering.
Capitalism, especially the modern form, is when you use your existing or inherited wealth to buy or develop companies who generate wealth from the work of other people to create brand new products or services. It’s exploitative because capitalists take the hard work of many people who create brand new products and then claim full or majority ownership over those products without having done anything except claim ownership.
What you are doing is taking old discarded things that either have no more value or lesser value and taking your own effort and time to recreate value and barter it to someone else. The only person you’ve exploited in the transaction is yourself … but you reap all the benefit. And no one can go back and say that the product that you just traded is stolen profit from the previous owner … the previous owner had thrown it away and didn’t value it any more or even considered it trash to be thrown away.
Flipping isn’t capitalism … it’s just good economic sense for the individual.
Unless you turn it all into a multimillion dollar business with employees, real estate and a corporation … it isn’t capitalism.
- Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 1 week ago:
Buy stuff on ebay and start trading to bigger and better things. If you work at it hard enough, you’ll end up with trading items worth thousands without having spent more than $75.
- Comment on Italians at Christmas 1 week ago:
Here in Canada in Ontario, up until about five years ago, they used to sell panettone everywhere during Christmas … grocers used to stock them everywhere and about four or five different brands. Cheaper ones came in all plastic wrapping and more expensive ones came wrapped in plastic and contained in fancy decorative cardboard boxes. And back then, we had the choice of size and they were usually large sized.
Now we have limited supplies and the displays for them are even hard to find. We only have one brand now ‘Massimo’ and they are more the smaller size. Every year now, all my Italian Canadian friends go on a frenzy looking for them … as soon as they come out, they disappear.
Don’t know what happened to the supply but we don’t see much of them any more.
- Comment on One stop shop 2 weeks ago:
If you can’t afford the traditional funeral or even the immediate cremation … there are other “options”.
- Comment on Harken, mortals, your saviour is born 2 weeks ago:
Gotta wonder what they were smoking in the middle east 3000 years ago to come up with these biblically accurate angels
- Comment on Na Na Na Na Na Na 2 weeks ago:
It should be considered a workplace hazard at this point … and workers should be compensated for it
- Comment on Sir, they are attacking the whotilla 2 weeks ago:
Hot egg nog can’t melt candy cane beams
- Comment on Are you happy now, so-called "bleeding heart" libs? 2 weeks ago:
Do it as a group … get several parents together and get all the kids to huddle together like penguins … if penguins can survive -60 degree weather as a group, kids can do the same
Either that or just teach the kids how to smoke.
- Comment on Great guy 3 weeks ago:
I thought the second photo was John Wick twisting the hand of the guy next to him to keep him quiet
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 3 weeks ago:
If I ever run into that scenario … that would be a great reason to raise the Jolly Roger
- Comment on Are you sure about that? 3 weeks ago:
Scully … you do know we live in America right?
- Comment on home gardening 3 weeks ago:
Must be a construction worker … those look like some serious callouses
- Comment on home gardening 3 weeks ago:
The bathroom mushrooms are for fish
The rafter mushrooms are for beef
The closet mushrooms are for salads
- Comment on How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device? A plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the world’s highest mountains in a covert mission that the U.S. will not talk about. 3 weeks ago:
The fun part of this is that … these are only with the stories that they will admit to
You have to wonder what weird stories there are out there that no one knows about
- Comment on This makes more sense 3 weeks ago:
Yes it was … but it was often preyed upon by the Philosoraptor
- Comment on Always wear protection, folks 3 weeks ago:
WHAT?
- Comment on When you get carried away with the corn 3 weeks ago:
Loom here buddy … that’s a typo and you know it
- Comment on don't tell the cable company about the splitter 3 weeks ago:
lol … I had a few family members with that mentality … you gave it a few gentle smacks to try to coax it to work and often it did work … but when it didn’t, they’d hit it harder, then harder, then harder until the screen just turned into horizontal or diagonal static which usually meant the thing was destroyed.
- Comment on Me scrolling through this community after blocking all the political posts 3 weeks ago:
Monsanto
- Comment on Ah! Yes! Its that time of the year! 3 weeks ago:
WTF? … I felt like I did drugs … without doing any drugs.
- Comment on corn 3 weeks ago:
Does that go in the cornhole?
- Comment on When you get carried away with the corn 3 weeks ago:
whhhhhirrlllllllll … plink, plink … AHH, MY TEETH (in some Asian language)
- Comment on When you get carried away with the corn 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know … but I think they are now
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- Comment on don't tell the cable company about the splitter 3 weeks ago:
That was the thing with these old heavy CRTs … they could take a beating … they could also give a beating.
- Comment on don't tell the cable company about the splitter 3 weeks ago:
In 2000, at around the point when most well off people were transitioning to flat panel TVs, I inherited a large 32" CRT from a friend of mine. They were upgrading and wanted to get rid of their old CRT.
I said I’d take it and use it for my treadmill so I could watch TV while I walked.
The thing weighed 100lbs!!! I had to build a reinforced stand to lift it up in the air and I nearly killed myself hoisting it up and having it nearly fall on me multiple times! And the thing took up so much room … I think it occupied almost the same amount of floor space as the treadmill.
The dangerous thing about these things is that they were big and lopsided … it’s like lifting a huge kettle ball but all the weight of the ball is only on one side and the rest of it is empty air. It was really easy to just drop the thing because you lost balance with it. Or even worse, throw your back and some muscle because you were trying to save it from falling over while you held it.
- Comment on I estimate my power perfectly 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Remember the whole covid thing. Well instead of wearing a useless mask THIS GUY had the solution that actually worked 4 weeks ago:
I happen to be one of the people who weren’t severely affected by the virus but I chose to instead believe I was superhuman … and I went on to infect 400 people, 100 of which died because of me.
