Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
As if the orange muppet and the idiots that follow along have any kind of cohesive logical strategy … all they care about is being right and having power.
And they don’t need to have either of those things … they’d just have to believe they do.
Or don’t travel with a phone at all. Take a digital camera and use that for pictures.
Anything else, just buy a used phone at your destination and load all your accounts on that, then delete and reset your phone and sell it before you leave
I love beef and meat products and I always have and probably always will.
But after spending the majority of my life trying to eat right and take care of my health … I figured out that eating beef and meat is the worst thing you can do for yourself and the planet. Eat some but only very minimally.
Otherwise, a vegan, or a more vegan diet is by far a more economical solution for everyone and the planet in many ways. Eating more vegan increases your health and lengthens your lifespan, as well as the quality of your lifespan.
A cow requires acres of land in order for it to be raised to its full size and harvested for its meat over a two year life span … if the same land area were converted over to growing and producing vegan protein products like beans, it would produce and generate ten times more protein and calories than raising one cow on that same land area.
On top of that, eating too much and too often animal proteins only leads to serious lifelong health problems that in the end require you spend money to try to make yourself well again … you pay for the food twice! … once to buy and consume it and a second time to try to undo the damage the food caused … three times if you really want to think about it because the cow that was raised led to environmental degradation that you or someone else has to pay for anyway.
The alternative is eating vegan or more vegan diets … you pay for the food once and it only benefits your health leading to longer life and a more enjoyable lifespan, while also benefiting the environment
I love eating bbqs, hot dogs and hamburgers like most of my family … but after thinking about it for years, I’ve come to realize that it makes far more economical sense to eat more vegan, not just for me, but for everyone else as well.
Everything we currently eat or are able to eat was established by the deaths of millions of people who helped us to figure out what not to eat. And we’re dumb animals, so often it would take several deaths or unfortunate circumstances before we figured out what was bad for us.
It’s kind of like OSHA rules and regulations … it’s all written in blood and death.
I’m up in Canada and when I look at these headlines every day … it just affirms my belief that America is a failed democracy. Everyone keeps calling it a democracy but it’s only a name or description at this point because it certainly doesn’t function like one any more.
I’m in no special place either … we are on our way downhill up here as well. We’re not at the same level as the US but we are on our way there. The whole first world system is slowly morphing into some sort of weird Corporatocracy.
It’s part of the game of engagement and rage baiting … even for believers or followers of Charlie Kirk, they know that anything they do or say causes rage or negative responses, which only drives their engagement.
It’s like the age old saying about advertising and marketing … any news, whether its good or bad, negative or positive is always good news … because it means that people are talking about you.
Engagement and rage baiting … everyone knows it’s stupid, the creator knows its stupid, everyone who reads it knows it stupid … so it causes everyone to get upset, confused, angry and interested in it … even the fact you reposted it to share with us is a form of engagement and rage baiting.
It’s all just mindless stupidity to keep us all angry and upset at thing we are already angry and upset about.
It’s not just the fact that a president makes these stupid proclamations …
It’s that the whole American government, or at least a good portion of it, just goes along with it and allows it all to happen and normalize it all. Their leader is there because there is an entire community of professionals, academics, supporters, wealthy leaders, officials, bureaucrats and politicians all want him to be there. Trump isn’t some god king that magically is able to do or say all this … he’s there because enough people who are in control want him there.
The orange menace is just the very tip of just how stupid America and American politics have become
Yeah … let’s get dying old fossils with a few years left to regulate what the rest of the humanity will deal with in the next hundred years
Engagement and data collection … sometimes it’s just a way to collect data. Anyone that responds gets added to their list of accounts that have a live person.
They do the same for telemarketing, email, mail, phone, sms, and any other contact request … once there’s a response, it’s confirmation that the account has a human owner
A Cunning Linguist if you will
The article I read at the time mentioned that this was the average bare minimum … like a single unemployed parent doing their best to raise and keep a child alive and fed until they were 18.
The cost is higher if there are two parents paying for expenses … and even higher if the parents have any bit of wealth
20 years ago I read an article that stuck with me ever since … it detailed at the time that on average, whether you can afford it or not, it costs about $200,000 to raise a child to the age of 18.
So selling the kid would cut the parents losses over the 18 year period
… and no one will complain.
The owner class figured out a few generations ago that in order to keep the masses from openly revolting … you keep them fed. And you also don’t need to keep them fed that much either, you just need to keep them holding on or have access to enough food in order not to starve. Revolts and revolutions won’t happen until people start starving, near starving or are threatened with starvation.
So they’ll keep us all fed … they won’t give us big giant buffets of food … but just enough to keep us all from standing up together to try to fight anything or anyone.
Talk to any old timer from the past 20-30 years who grew up and worked in the 1950s-1960s and you’ll hear stories of what unions, union membership, strikes and worker rights actually means.
I grew up in northern Ontario and got to know lots of older people who lived and worked in forestry towns, pulp and paper towns and mining towns … and all of them have stories of being part of a union and fighting to get the most basic benefits … the same rights and privileges that everyone enjoys today and thinks they are normal and enshrined and have been magically in place forever.
Just remember that if corporations and businesses have their way and always have their way … they would not think twice about developing a society filled with slavery, semi-slavery, starvation wages and no rights for any workers.
And don’t get me started about the whole debate of ‘unions have too much power’ … that is a joke that only most ignorant people understand. If unions had too much power, every worker no matter their station of level of employment or experience or position would have a decent wage with benefits and corporations would be spending the majority of the profits sending it to the people who do the work rather than in spreading it out to a bunch of nameless and faceless shareholders who do absolutely nothing for the company or business other than to claim ownership to the generated wealth.
Here’s another example of what unions and striking workers had to contend with decades ago …
https://www.ontarioplaques.com/Plaques_ABC/Plaque_Cochrane02.html
Who’s to say that it is in fact this hamster who is controlling this human in these nefarious schemes.
Time to bring back ‘Kent Micronite filtered cigarettes’ …
From March 1952 until at least May 1956, however, the “Micronite filter” in Kent cigarettes contained a mixture of crimped crêpe paper and compressed blue asbestos, the most carcinogenic type of asbestos.
All I want to do is write a simple document. Many people have already written plenty of software to do just that … I don’t need it to do anything else.
Any company that wants to engineer anything else beyond that is just trying to justify to everyone why they would want to install a 90hp outboard motor on a little goldfish.