ininewcrow

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 points 15 minutes ago

The scary part is that with this kind of sliding towards fascism ......

They'll probably come up with some weird obscure, illegal, undemocratic way to fund their ICE machine .... taking over property, taking control of assets, seizing bank accounts, just generally stealing money from those they can to keep doing what they're doing.

Look at Nazi Germany ... we keep referring to that history ... it keeps happening ... we point it out ... no one does anything.

Nazi Germany initially got direct help and financing from industrial and corporate Europe and North America to get on its feet. How the hell do you think Germany who was forbidden from building a military got to build a massive invasion force in front of everyone's eyes for years before the start of the first invasion?

Once Nazi Germany got enough power, financing and control of everything ... they just started outright stealing everyone's money, property, bank accounts and assets starting with Jews they persecuted ... then they started moving down the line to more and more people, companies and corporations to steal from everywhere.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca -1 points 24 minutes ago

There are no two major parties in the US .... it's all the same party

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 17 points 38 minutes ago

We spent about 7 or 8 years wintering in southern Spain. Malaga, Torremolinos, Nerja, Almunecar and everywhere in between.

It took us about three years to figure out the local eating schedule.

Breakfast is about 8-9am and anything with a lot of food is usually a tourist meal. The Spanish live on air, coffee and cigarettes.... if they're feeling hungry in the morning, they'll have a pastry.

Restaurants will seldom stay open beyond noon and won't open until six. If you're hungry at 3 or 4 pm? It's better to starve.

Any restaurant that opens at 6 is a tourist place that sells a lot of basic fast food stuff.

The good local restaurants start opening at 8 pm and local families start arriving to eat at about 9 pm. The entire family, three or four generations of them will take up entire tables and sit around eating drinking and talking until about 10-11 and a few until about midnight.

They eat solidly about one good meal a day and snack the rest of the time with plenty of coffee, pastries or cookies but never to excess.

It's why you will seldom find an overweight Spanish person of any age. They eat little and constantly move all day.

I miss that place and wish we were there right now.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The whole history when you look at it from the grand scale of geologic time just makes our modern morality and conservatism so absurd

Our whole ideas of sex, sexuality and sexual activity is far, far older and makes you realize that we are all just wired that way.

Look at the archaeological evidence of prehistoric 'Venus' dolls from our deep prehistoric past that is tens of thousands of years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurine

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 13 points 10 hours ago (7 children)

I think we were doing it way before Sodom and Gomorrah .... my favourite prehistoric sex mystery is what the details were of how we got Neanderthal DNA into our Homo Sapien genome .... the most common theory is just rape but I'd like to imagine two star crossed young lovers that happen to meet each other in the savanna of post glacial Europe against their family's and their community's wishes. Their relationship would have been seen as a freak against nature to have someone from one species mating with another ... and then embody that freaky relationship by having children. I like to imagine that they ran away with each other and lived a happy life with mixed children who went on to become our ancestors.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 35 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't think they care what their family thinks of them .... I think they care about how angry democratically minded citizens see them as unidentified fascists hiding behind masks

If what you are doing is legal, legitimate and moral ... then you never have to mask your name or hide your face

If what you are doing is illegal, immoral and highly dangerous to everyone including you and your family and you know it .. then you are more apt to want to hide your identity and avoid having to deal with the repercussions of what you know is wrong

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 14 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, dad taught us that a shot gun wouldn't defend against a bear. He said if we were ever in that situation to aim for the face, eyes and nose and hope to blind it and give you a chance to run.

But with a bear as powerful as polar bear, chances are still high that that won't work.

A 303 rifle shot in the mud is like an explosion, it's very dramatic, loud and visual. It does scare a bear.

A shotgun blast in the mud is not as dramatic, unless you fire it about 20 feet away from you .... which is too close to you and the bear.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 12 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

Investors are like parasitic leeches to any business model. As soon as you add them, the business has to grow in order to satisfy the leeches who provide no benefit to the model other than to be attached to it. If you ignore the leech, they'll drain all your lifeforce, so your only option is to satisfy them and feed them. Unfortunately, they are also ravenous creatures who are never satisfied. If you feed them a little, they'll want more next time in an endless cycle.

Once you are infected by investors ... eventually they will destroy whatever you created.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 points 18 hours ago

For modern audiences, it would probably be seen as awful. A lot of a humour is dated and not that funny. But there are moments and scenes where everything is still very relevant and will always be relevant.

One of the greatest criticisms of Monty Python and satirical comedy is that it all just places a giant mirror on society and forces everyone to look at reality in a different light .... and in many instances, that mirror image makes us realize just how absurd reality can be sometimes. Some people are enlightened by it ... some people absolutely do not want anyone to ever question their beliefs or how they see the world. I find that the people who enjoy Monty Python are the ones who are able to critically look at the world ... and those that absolutely hate it are the ones who think there is nothing wrong with the world no matter how absurd.

That is the greatest thing about Monty Python and as an Indigenous person, I've always appreciated it ... they will make you laugh and think at the same time. One of the greatest ways to share an important life lesson or message with someone is to tell a funny story and make people laugh ... the humour and laughter will make them remember those ideas forever.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 points 18 hours ago

In that case, someone should come out with a quality phone and just slap Trump logos all over the damned thing and charge $2,000 for a $500 phone. Run the business until someone tells you to stop.

Sell Trump crap ... it's all crap anyway ... make money on it if people are dumb enough to pay for this shit.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 53 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

I went for a walk on the Hudson Bay coast of far northern Ontario once when I was a teenager and we saw a polar bear. We're Indigenous and my family has connections up there so we went to visit them many times when I was growing up.

We had seen the bear a few days before from the safety of a frieghter canoe filled with a group of hunters with high powered rifles. We were in a 24 foot canoe and the bear was a huge adult that was probably about 12 to 15 feet long on four limbs and probably 20 feet standing. We looked at each other for a while and then dad and his hunter relatives fired warning shots next to the bear. The spray of firing a high powered shot in mud and clay is like a mini explosion or a land mine going off. It scared the bear enough that it started running. The land there is completely flat and featureless and the bear was gone on the horizon as a speck in a matter of minutes. We didn't want it near our camp.

My cousin and I went for a walk later, we came across the big claw marks of the adult polar bear in the mud and clay of the seashore. The marks were huge and it looked like it was made by a small backhoe or tractor. Clean cut marks from four huge claws with each limb. We were impressed and measured them with our feet and hands and head. We said to ourselves, hey this thing could tear us apart in seconds.

It was then that we realized, we about an hour long walk back to camp, we're alone and this bear could reappear at any moment and come running or even just walk fast at us from far away in a matter of minutes. All we had were shotguns to go bird hunting and we were just 16 year old kids. And we couldn't really walk fast in the muddy clay and tundra marsh where we were.

If the bear had been anywhere near us that day ... we would have been one of those little box newspapers stories of two teens that got killed by a bear in the northern wilderness.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 points 18 hours ago
 

I'm up in Canada so we are all just on edge watching to see what will happen tomorrow for mass protesting.

Whatever happens, everyone stay safe, protect and guard yourself from danger and keep aware of your surroundings. Stay with a small group of allies and keep yourselves safe.

If you are not prepared and don't know what you are doing .... stay back and don't become front line fodder.

If you are prepared and equipped, stay safe, protect yourself, run and hide if you must. I'd rather see you running than to be put in danger.

Whatever you do tomorrow to take part, we're all cheering for our American brothers and sisters standing for democratic rights and fighting against fascism.

 

I just saw Star Trek Enterprise Season 4 Episode 18: 'In A Mirror Darkly' and I noticed that someone that looks vaguely like Karl Marx leads the mob to raid the Vulcan ship.

Also on another note .... what the hell kind of fever dream did the writers drift into with this side story that lasted a few episodes? They just come out of left field for no apparent reason.

 

I work in a bit of construction, building and renovations. I've gone through several health and safety training over the years. Some of it has to do with protecting yourself from sharp objects and flying debris. There is quite a bit of training in protecting your eyes, especially when you are around metal saws, wood saws and anything to do with cutting machinery. You don't want small particles or objects flying into your face, especially onto your eye.

Which is why there are so many stringent regulations on eye protection and the technology is so far advanced now that you can wear eye protection that can protect your eye from flying debris or objects like a nail gun fired right at your eye.

Nail gun on safety glasses test

A broken angle grinder blade can travel at extremely high speeds, potentially reaching 120 m/s (430 kmph) or even higher. That's basically a small piece of hardened material flying like a knife through the air that can slice through your skin, into your bone or puncture your eye and blind you.

Worker's angle grinder blade snaps and gets stuck in safety glasses

If you are wondering which safety glasses to get ... buy them at a hardware store. They are more likely to carry actual safety glasses. Department stores or discount stores sell 'safety glasses' but they are usually not industry rated and are only meant to protect against dust and liquids - they will not protect you against high velocity impact.

Look for safety glasses with anything marked ANSI Z87+, sometimes written Z87.1+ (note the plus) rated or CSA Z94.3 rated are ensured to safely withstand a direct high energy strike. These glasses are meant to supply workers everywhere so you can buy these for about $10 to $30 depending style and type. Buy them in bulk and they're much cheaper overall (just make sure they well marked and approved). Well worth the money to save your eyes.

After all this work, effort and technological development to get to the point where there can be political protests on the street and police and security forces can fire small projectiles at people and put their faces and eyes in danger. Small pellets, bean bags or tear gas canisters can give you a bruise or even cut you if they hit your back, legs, arms or chest. But these things can potentially blind people if they are hit in the face. Police are told not to aim them at people's faces but in a chaotic situation where people on all sides are angry, anxious, tired and afraid, anything can happen. In some parts of the world, police and security forces are directed to purposefully aim at people's heads and faces.

Safety glasses will protect you from these low velocity munitions from police. If they are firing things at people that are faster and stronger than this, then they are using lethal force and basically shooting at people with shotguns. If your glasses can stop flying objects, then they are firing non-lethal or less-lethal rounds .... anything stronger or faster than that and no safety glasses can protect you and your whole body and not just your eyes are in danger. Basically, if an object can be fired through a pair of industry rated safety glasses ... the same object can blast through your skull.

In the workplace, I can't walk into a potentially dangerous situation without wearing safety glasses .... but at a public protest where police are firing things without much control? No one is told of the danger and in some jurisdictions people are discouraged or punished for trying to wear any kind of safety gear. Even in first world countries like the US, Germany, France and Canada, people wearing safety glasses at a protest are targeted as terrorists, criminals, instigators, or potential violent criminals.

I really don't care what anyone has to say on the matter whether for legal, moral, ethical, political or security reasons ... if you are joining a major protest anywhere in the world from now on ... wear safety glasses ... approved, industry rated safety glasses. They are easy to find and not that expensive and they can be found in most hardware stores or ordered online. They are made freely and easily available to protect workers in just about every industry, so there is no excuse for young people joining in a major protest to not wear them.

One of the saddest stories I ever saw was the story of 20 year old Gustavo Gatica in 2019 who was part of a protest against the government in Chile. Police were actively shooting at protesters' faces on purpose blinding many people in one eye. Gustavo was hit in both eyes and was rendered completely blind.

https://www.amnestyusa.org/gustavo-gatica/

It's one of the saddest and most infuriating images I've seen in a long time ... no matter where you are and you want to join a protest ... wear safety glasses and save your eyes. Police might not try to aim for your face but if they do, they'll just make the excuse that you shouldn't have been there in the first place and blame you for your injuries.

To me the distinction is striking ... if we are working for corporations and government, they will protect and defend the right to our safety to the utmost degree ... but if we disagree or protest against government and corporations, then our safety no longer matters and is instead endangered.

Wear your safety glasses

 

I saw this today and thought you'd all enjoy it

 

If the government's stance is so well based in fact and authority ... then it shouldn't be afraid of any kind of criticism or debate from any side. The fact that they just remove any dissent goes to show how weak and dishonest everything is.

 
 

This whole timeline is getting so strange that I wouldn't be surprised if this actually happened.

 

My wife hates it when I use these terms for our kitchen and bedroom.

 

I happened on a bit of TV trivia a while ago. I enjoy watching a Canadian TV Show on CBC called ‘Son of a Critch’ … great show with great writing and acting … it’s simple, holky, funny, endearing … reminds me of the 80s show ‘Wonder Years’ … and it’s all based on a family living in the 80s in Newfoundland … all things I really love and enjoy.

One of the show regulars is Malcolm McDowell … who played Soran in the Star Trek film ‘Generations’ ... I also found it amazing that someone like McDowell was co-starring in this little Canadian TV show.

In the episode ‘Old Friends, New Friends’ - Season 2 Episode 10 … one of the guest actresses was Alice Krige … who played the original Borg Queen from the Star Trek film ‘First Contact’

It was really neat to see McDowell and Krige together in the same scenes in this episode … Soran, a mad man in search of eternity and the Borg Queen in search of eternal slavery.

The addition of text to the image (and inspiration for this post) was thanks to @ummthatguy@lemmy.world

 

My wife likes watching America's Got Talent with all their highlight reels and it got me to thinking, there's a business out there making a ton of money from parents allowing their children to perform for free.

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