Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
Don’t waste your energy on people who won’t listen.
Look for people, places and groups that support your own beliefs.
If you can’t find those people at work, then just be nice to them but not too close. Them in your free time, use your energy to support those people and groups you believe in.
Don’t waste your time on those who won’t listen.
Beautiful … bookmarked and saved … my personal best so far is 1023 m
I guess we’ll have to keep experimenting to determine which parts need the reinforcing in order to achieve our goal of two second levitation
Beautiful, I was waiting for an engineer to do the calculations … so in layman’s terms, clench your urethra, push your bladder as hard as unhumanly as possible and hope to everything that is holy that your entire urinary tract doesn’t explode before your urine leaves your body.
True there are different types of poor and different types of people that see life as completely normal in any circumstances. We are all very adaptable creatures in whatever situation you place us in.
I grew up poor and I didn’t know it for about the first 10/15 years of my life. We had enough food but it was just that … enough … we never had extras, no snacks, no guilty pleasures. I have good teeth because I didn’t have the opportunity to eat a lot of junk food when I was younger which then led me to not really want it when I got older.
A lot of people around me were the same or similar … it was just the way things were and we were more or less just happy and content with it all. It was normal so there was nothing too upsetting about it. Unfortunately, not all families were as capable as ours. In a community full of people in the same boat, about half couldn’t do it and they fell into extreme poverty, addictions, bad health and just generally miserable lives. Then in my life, I started venturing out into the world and saw how wealthy everyone else was and I wanted to do the same but as a brown skinned Native person, the entire game was rigged against me … I couldn’t get schooling, I couldn’t find work, I wasn’t wanted, I wasn’t needed and I was just different. I had to work really hard to get anything. People also claim that my school could have been paid for but it only works when you work the system and are connected to everyone and everything in that system … I wasn’t and I had to fight my own leadership, my own community and the non-Native government about everything in order to get anything done. I barely scraped by and found work on my own, made a bit of money and barely made it to become an adult. Of all the family and friends I grew up that were like me … I think only about a quarter of us made it to something, a handful got post secondary and became lawyers and doctors or something important and the majority of the rest just ended up at home in varying levels of poverty from just getting by to literally living on the streets with small children. All in a situation where it is believed that we Native people get free money and have the world handed to us.
Money may not buy happiness but it sure helps and no matter how you frame it, poverty makes everything harder to do.
I keep having this and similar conversations with my wife and my friends and family …
The majority of the world has always been in a bad mood because 90% of planet has always been poor, struggling, doesn’t have enough, live in poverty, are hungry and are generally not happy.
The only difference is that us in the rich west have been recently affected and are facing a near future where our comfort and freedoms are going to be affected. We are starting to feel what the rest of the world has been feeling for a long, long time.
I say all this from the perspective of an Indigenous Canadian because I grew up poor and in a circumstance where me and my family were always made to feel less than the rest of the Canada.
Lol … a probe or sample device gets picked up on Mars, sent back to earth carrying an exotic extra terrestrial virus that is indestructible. It infects our planet killing every biological organism on earth.
The Martians end up invading and conquering us … just not in the way we imagined.
Said the astronomer from his observatory in Uruguay
Because I’m Canadian and the instance is Canadian moderated by people in Canada who do their best to keep the service and servers as Canadian as possible. I wouldn’t be surprised if the servers hosting the instance were liquid cooled with maple syrup, the racks held together with hockey sticks and hockey tape and the whole thing guarded by polar bears.
Don’t know if my contributions are best (or can be placed under these lists) but they are ones I enjoy and appreciate
the fediverse instance that I use and want to support
Same here on my instance lemmy.ca
Learn to eat healthy, in good portions, not too much, not too little and fast once in a while.
It’s a pain when you’re younger but gets easier with age because you start losing or degrading your sense of taste (like all your other senses) anyway.
If you get that habit early in life, you’ll keep it forever. And if you take care of your system early in life, your older self will thank you for it. Otherwise if you abuse yourself, and you do end up living a long life, you’ll be miserable for the last decade or two of your life and probably won’t know your name or where you’re from.
To me its the same as the thought about survivorship bias … you want the best flooring material for the place that will most likely get the most damage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
You seldom use the bedroom floor because all you really do there is sleep … basically wake in the morning and walk on at night before bed. And you seldom bring anything serious into the bedroom like liquids, hot / cold food, drinks or cups or containers.
The living room has moderate traffic and again you don’t really use it during the day.
A high traffic area is the bathrooms because everyone goes there on a regular basis.
The most high traffic area in any house will always be the kitchen because everyone is constantly working and walking there … and it is always exposed to liquids, solids, spills, hot stuff, cold stuff, broken stuff, glass, ceramic, metal, pots, pans. And you sometimes have crowds of people there … all working and basically scrubbing the floor with all those feet.
It’s the reason why you should have the best, hardest and most expensive flooring in any house.
If you are going to invest in expensive flooring … put it in your kitchen because that is where it will be most useful and last for years in your house. If you install cheap floor in your kitchen, you’ll be replacing it in less than 10 years or even less if the flooring is really cheap. After you replace flooring two or three times, it would have been the same cost as buying one good layer of expensive flooring anyway.
Whoever you are … this could be either hilarious, sexy or disturbing … or maybe all of the above.
Cover your face with a towel and just show your eyes to sneak a peek … give a quick glance and wink
At least he’s persistent
Show them up next time and shout … “I LOVE YOU!” … bet you it will surprise them, they won’t see it coming.
Sneak a peek and tell them I said hi.
Smiling is always good, especially at the start of the day when you first get up. If you don’t see any smiles all day, at least you’ll see one in the mirror.
The cost is not so much in losing the product but in deciding when and how much to invest in increased security. The more shoplifting happens, then the owner has to start investing in more security cameras, security guards and legal costs of dealing with law enforcement and courts. Then no matter what products or items you try to discriminate against, the owners and corporations just raise the prices of everything to cover their costs.