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 Anon shops for diamonds 1 day ago:
Congratulations … we get along with each others families very well now and there’s no worries about anyone pulling anything on us (although there is always a chance that may change) … but at the same time, everyone is now so freakin old that it almost doesn’t matter to anyone any more. We are seriously thinking of getting officially married, simply for the fact that this is the only way to deal with medical rights issues for spouses and partners.
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 1 day ago:
Congratulations on 5 years then … no better way to show you love someone than to stick with them for that long.
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 1 day ago:
It was like that for a year or two … then it turned into 30 … we wondered for a long time … but after a while, you both realize, I’m never finding someone like this again in this lifetime.
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 1 day ago:
Congratulations
Beautiful … you don’t need a public ceremony to display how much you love someone
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 1 day ago:
Congratulations … best kind of wedding in my opinion
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 1 day ago:
Congratulations
- Comment on Sunlight special 2 days ago:
They placed it under the car with the engine running for five minutes
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 2 days ago:
Never bought her a diamond
Never even bought a ring
Never even got married with a giant ceremony or big event
Been together for over 30 years, bought property and all kinds of things, traveled to over 30 countries. Still not married.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on My body is a roadmap of pain 2 days ago:
Then when you least expect, the underlying superstructure decides to give out because fuck you and now you have severe back pain from your spine that no amount of movement, exercise or pain killer can relief except for drugs that completely shut down your sense of self.
I’ve never had this kind of back pain before but I had a construction friend of mine who fell and hurt his back. It didn’t kill him but it left him with a messed up spine for years … to the point of debilitating pain … that led him to taking over the counter drugs … that led him to taking illegal drugs … to the point of overdosing on drugs.
- Comment on When your father is clueless 3 days ago:
I had to wipe down a couple of them because they had some mold growing on them … I think the dog chewed on it or something
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 3 days ago:
Yeah, I think I’ll be jumping ship soon … like most people mention … at one point you only listen to the same 100-200 tracks all the time anyway.
- Comment on It's true... 3 days ago:
That one medical student who picks up your head and comically operates your jaw …
“Hey look at me everyone, I’m a cadaver!”
- Comment on It's true... 3 days ago:
They will use it as an example of what happens when a human doesn’t take care of themselves.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 3 days ago:
The other research I remember from my reading about this subject years ago was the efficiency of industrial farming. Per acre, industrial farming produces very low or minimal yields … whereas an acre that is tended, micromanaged and monitored by small scale farmers has much high yields. It meant that the only way for industrial farms to be able to produce large amounts of produce is to farm huge acreages in order to make up for the losses or inefficiencies.
One of the reasons why the Californian desert is drying up is that industrial farming is so inefficient that in order to sustain itself as a business model is for it grow ever larger and more invasive … it needs more land and more water in order for it to continually grow as a business. It’s not a way of farming that is meant to produce food efficiently for people … it’s a type of farming that is meant to produce profit, money and control for a corporation.
It’s feeding a monolithic corporation … it’s not feeding people.
All our world problems including global warming, food production, water supply are manageable and can be dealt with to help people in very efficient and possible ways … all of it is hindered and complicated by the fact that corporations sit in opposition to all of it because of their ever wanting need to turn a profit, even if it means destroying the environment and everyone who lives in that environment.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 4 days ago:
I remember reading years ago that a vegetarian diet is far more economical and sustainable than a meat based diet. Which is why I lowered my meat consumption years ago. I still eat meat, just not as much as I once did when I was younger.
Even if humanity didn’t cultivate new vegetables and fruits, the produce we have now is more than enough to feed the planet. I think I remember that it takes just a few acres of grown produce to feed one person per year if they ate a vegetarian diet … whereas it takes ten times more land area to feed a single cow to feed that one person for a year in meat and vegetables.
I try to eat my legumes, especially lentils, since they are high in protein … but by far the greatest benefit that a vegetarian diet provides is the health benefits from the consumption of fiber alone. Full vegetarian or high vegetarian diets all around are far healthier and sustainable for humanity and the environment.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 4 days ago:
I meant create a food crop that is actually beneficial to humanity … not some empty nutritionless white styrofoam or equally terrible frankenstein corn that simultaneously destroys the land and the people who eat this so called ‘food’.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 4 days ago:
Or why don’t we use all our technological, scientific and research knowledge to good use and engineer fruits and vegetables that can grow in less hospitable environments and can grow larger yields, have a longer growing season and have plenty of nutritional value.
Instead, we use all our knowledge and ability to build bigger, faster, more deadly weapons of war or AI that can micromonitor everyone’s lives or create slop and porn.
- Comment on Priorities 4 days ago:
Judging by the state of the world today … I think it’s a better idea to turn people into dinosaurs than in curing cancer
- Comment on A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley 4 days ago:
We’d all like to think that but what usually happens is that the ultra wealthy lose a quarter or half their wealth, which makes no difference to anyone because they are so massively wealthy … everyone else lose everything
- Comment on Measuring in dick inches 5 days ago:
Do you do that when your wiener is excited? or not so excited?
- Comment on I will burn this fucker to the ground... internally 5 days ago:
It’s due to the fact that we are BRIDGE GENERATION … the generation that lived in a world without the internet or modern technology but got a front row seat in seeing it all come to what it is now. The generation before us were too old to care about the new things that were coming out so they never took the time to learn about it all. We were just the right age to be young enough to interested and old enough to learn about it. The generation after us have only ever know the modern internet and modern locked in devices we have today, so they didn’t have the interest or patience to want to learn about it all. We grew up in a time when computer systems ran like molasses so it was slow enough for us to have an opportunity to learn about how they worked and ran. We learned to tear apart computers and computer parts, put them back together and figure out how to run them. When we couldn’t afford to buy the latest software, we became pirates and crackers … and eventually, we learned to use Linux and open source software while also keeping our foot in Windows and for some of us with a bit more money, a foot in Mac as well. Now the tech world is becoming more and more locked in with software and hardware … it is getting harder for anyone to see what’s inside the box or to even figure out how to take it apart, rearrange it or swap parts or even to adjust anything. Young people just buy a solid state phone and they will never know or want to know what a CPU, RAM, SSD, HDD, GPU, PSU mean … and whenever that thing breaks down, they just chuck it, buy another one and start all over again.
I mentioned this before in another thread
- Comment on I will burn this fucker to the ground... internally 5 days ago:
I never got to attend school beyond high school but I’ve been able to get by in many things. I know quite a bit of technology, I build my own computers, used to tweak, adjust, maintain, fix and install/uninstall/reinstall my Windows software all the time … I’ve kept just about every electronic device I’ve ever owned over the past 20 years - and they all still function. Now I’ve moved onto Linux and open source software and now enjoy spending my time tweaking, testing, destroying and playing with it all as much as possible in my spare time.
Meanwhile, I have a couple of friends who are the same age as me and they came from well-to-do families who helped them go through years of university and now they’re doctors, lawyers, dentists, teachers and administrators.
They have a ton of training and schooling … yet I’m the one they come to for help when it comes to their home computers, work laptops and any electronic device. When they can’t get my help or I’m not available or I don’t have time, their usual solution to electronic problems is to throw the thing away and buy something new.
The disturbing part of seeing them throw away old devices, laptops and desktops is that no one ever thinks of wiping or destroying the drive. I’ve picked up so many old drives, laptops and devices that still have so much sensitive data on them its unbelievable.
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- Comment on ??? Profit!!! 6 days ago:
lol … when I die, I would really love to have my body buried in a lead sealed container at the bottom of a shallow ocean … bury me enough to not let things eat me but enough to preserve my bones for a few million years … then place a bunch of random objects around me … like an iron bar shaped in a simple random design (like the infinity symbol) … a small solid gold sphere in my eye socket … a small diamond up my nostril… and something radioactive inside my chest … and fill my skull with copper, aluminum and other metals.
Then just leave it all and let some archaeologist in a few milllion years to be absolutely confused as to who or what the hell I was doing and why I did it
- Comment on Smöl 6 days ago:
Who’s to say that this photo was taken on the thumb of a really large giant human?
We need a banana for scale
- Comment on Quack 6 days ago:
This implies that the duck is going to try to kill the boy now … as soon as Emperor Quackatine issues Order 66
- Comment on Slightly Unfair 6 days ago:
David Hahn … I love that story … while I was wandering around on a bicycle running around playing kid games with my friends … this guy was building a radioactive chemistry lab in his mothers backyard shed!
- Comment on Without fail 1 week ago:
I once walked into a hardware store and there was a 20 something woman working there. She was pretty, slim and petite.
And she bent her back and hips like this all the time. When I first her, I thought she was flirting with someone. At one point I had to go talk to her negate there weren’t that many people who worked there. She walked towards me and away from me and still kept this strange pose. She talked to me as normal as anything.
At one point I couldn’t tell if she were posing, trying to look sexy or if she had some medical condition.
- Comment on you're not a hippy 1 week ago:
Yo mana so ugly, she married a Roman Catholic