Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • White Christian Nationalism

    The belief that they (white Christian Caucasians) are a privileged ethnic group that should have power and control over everyone and that they should automatically have all the benefits of society because it’s their god given right.

    They don’t care about other ethnic or cultural groups because everyone else is a lesser version of them which means it allows them and gives them the authority to have power over everyone else.

    It’s the same route, history and belief system of German national socialists… or nazism.




  • lol … the story of invention of Worcestershire Sauce

    a bunch of guys were trying to recreate Oriental fish sauce in the UK … the thing they came up with was terrible so they put the barrel of the stuff in the basement and forgot about it

    They went back and rediscovered it a year later and tried it again … they had created Worchestershire sauce

    … the fun part of these stories is that this is all based on survivalship bias … these are all stories of foods that actually turned out. It makes you wonder how many instances there were throughout history of people trying to eat things they thought were unusual or forgotten foods and they tried eating them and it ended up killing them instead.


  • Always love the history of the invention of Cheese

    Some people thought it was a good idea to drink milk from a cow because they saw that babies drank from a mothers breast … why not the cow?

    Then a few hundred years of that, some guy kept a bunch of milk in a goat’s stomach they used as a storage bag … the milk curdled and turned into big solid chunks … hmmmm … might as well try to eat it … what could go wrong? that it might kill me!? hahahahahahaha !!!

    Few hundred years later, a bunch of Europeans kept cheese in a cave and it started to get affected with a mold giving it a series of blue streaks and spots … hey Hans, what happened to the cheese?don’t know, let’s feed to Gunther and see if it kills him


  • My parents were born and raised in the wilderness and they thrived there most of the time. But they also reminded us that their lives were very precarious. Mom had an uncle that died as a child because he ate the wrong plant. Dad had a relative die of infection from cutting their hand with an axe. Both of them remember a period in the 1950s when they were children when a famine occurred in the wilderness when animals literally disappeared everywhere - it’s a natural phenomenon where animal populations rise and fall over periods of years or decades. The animals in the forest just disappear, birds migrate elsewhere and even fish stocks deplete. It’s not so much from overhunting, it’s just a cyclical thing that happens due to weather, environment, disease or other factors. When animals grow scarce in the wild due to natural cycles, people just starve. Dad had stories of seeing people boil hide moccasins to make a soup just to eat anything. Women became so frail they couldn’t produce breast milk anymore so they resorted to spoon feeding babies fish broth.

    So they were both always quick to mind me and my siblings … life is good today, no matter how bad you think it might be.



  • Every time period in history including the one we’re in now is only ever good for a very small segment of the human population.

    In ancient times it was a very small group of very privileged people … but in terms of percentage of the overall human population, I don’t think the percentage has changed, just the quantity of people.

    About 10% of the human population have enough wealth and privilege to be very comfortable and say things like ‘I wish for the good old days’ … and 90% have some small benefits to their quality of life but absolutely do not wish for the good old days because they were much worse than they are today.

    It’s always been like that and it’s still like that … most of us online making these comments just never notice because we are part of the 10% of the world’s population that actually have a bit of a good life. And if you think your life is not that great, try living the lives of the rest of the 90% of the world that have less than you.



  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoPolitical Memes@lemmy.ca"Earning a living"
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    16 days ago

    And think of the world we would create if this were the norm.

    The majority of people everywhere are ambitious, industrious and want to be useful. So you’d end up with a world full of people doing creative things … and entire groups of people doing creative, inventive and useful things together.

    They’d figure out things like building space elevators, new industrial technologies, the cure for cancer (which would probably be redundant because everyone would automatically be able to afford to take care of their health), stabilize global warming, create alternate forms and sources of energy and begin the process of exploring space beyond our own system.

    Instead, we have a world where a hundred people own all the wealth, a billion people who think they’re wealthy but aren’t and 7 billion people struggling to get by … and all of them fighting to become king or queen of the world.


  • That hour of the day is strange … I joke about this meme and make fun of it … I don’t smoke weed but I make fun of the culture around it … I also don’t judge people for it, people can do what they like.

    But at least every second or third day, I’ll glance at my watch, or the clock on the wall and for whatever reason … it’s 4:20 or 4:19 or 4:21 … and I’ll think to myself that I must be doing it to myself. And about four or five times in the past few months, I’d wake in the middle of the night and look over at my clock … and it’s freakin 4:20

    I don’t consciously think about it but it seems to happen more often than it should.



  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.caNation Building
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    17 days ago

    It’s expensive to pay first world workers with modern worker rights and work safety regulations in Canada … and heaven forbid if they are unionized workers.

    It’s cheaper to export the raw materials to a country with cheap labor, few or no worker laws and lax safety regulations … and definitely no unionized labor.

    The government wants to build the nation … by allowing companies to skirt as many laws as possible to maximize profits and build the nation’s businesses and corporations in the vain hope that these companies will actually share their profits and benefits.