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IninewCrow

@ ininewcrow @lemmy.ca

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

  • RFK Jr. Warns Teenagers Now Have Less Sperm Than 65-Year-Old Men

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  • MABA

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  • RFK Jr. Warns Teenagers Now Have Less Sperm Than 65-Year-Old Men

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  • And velocity

  • The No Kings protests offer hope - and peril As millions gather on Saturday, Trump looks for a pretext to invoke the Insurrection Act

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  • Instead of these public protests where government can take an opportunity to just go after people in a very public display of power ... the country should just employ a general strike in as many places and areas as possible.

    The government and the corporations won't care about how many protests you hold .... it even works to their benefit because it allows them an excuse to escalate violent reaction to everything.

    Hit them where it hurts them the most ... money, economics and finance. If you shut down the system in as many places as possible to force them to lose money, it will be the only way that they'll ever listen.

    Otherwise, hold as many protests as you want and they'll beat you into submission and it gives them an easy excuse for them to do so.

  • PHOTOS: 'Arc de Trump' revealed as president's latest 'America 250' project

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  • Americans are completely getting ridden into the ground by this orange clown.

    What a joke of a country it's become .... a joke with nuclear weapons and cheese burgers. Historians will definitely write off this chapter of history as to how 'not to run a country' as well as 'how a citizenry can be so stupid and complacent'.

  • What Does George Orwell's '1984' Mean in 2024?

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  • That it should be a warning not a guide

  • Inspiration

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  • Honestly, it was like a scene from the wilderness of Qo'noS.

    We'd hunt and gather geese during the spring goose hunt when these birds were migrating north. We could kill as many as we wanted, but we only gathered what could be processed, stored and smoked for future preservation to last for food for a few months. In April, the traditional practice was to pitch teepees near the hunting grounds where birds would be processed within a week or two. The teepees were basically butcher shops filled with gutted birds, piles of smelly innards and racks of long stringy goose flesh that hung over a smoky fire. The teepee lit a warm orange glow through the weathered wind and sun beaten dirty canvas. Spruce boughs, wood chips, logs and furs lined the floor and sitting areas all around. My mom, aunts and my grandmother sat next to the fire on cardboard matts to soak up spilled blood. The place reeked of disembowelled goose, blood, roasting flesh, mixed with a smokey fire, earth, wood and the scent of a dozen people who hadn't probably bathed in a week. We'd be dressed for minus 20 degree nights but during the day dressed down with t-shirts while keeping our warm weather pants and boots. Everyone's skin was weathered and tanned from the bright noon day sun that reflected light everywhere on the snow. A goose was always splayed out, spread wide open on a spit on a large skewer that was leaned over the fire pit in the center to provide breakfast, lunch or supper for the whole day. Next to the skewers were smaller sticks lined with bannock that roasted over the flames. Large pots of tea, vegetables and potatoes boiled over the fire. And as everyone laughed and talked in our Ojibway language, the roasted goose would be served for everyone to eat as we all drank from steaming hot mugs of strong steeped tea. Grandma would dissect the neck and head meat of the roasted goose as she talked. She was old, wrinkled and dark skinned but you could see in her eyes that she was strong and vibrant. It was easy to see her as a frail old woman but when you saw her work expertly with a knife as she reached down to the floor to butcher the next bird, you could sense the strength in her hands and the confidence of her movements. She was quick to smile but her gaze could also quickly turn to stone and you could sense a million stories in her thoughtful eyes. Then she'd wedge her large butcher knife on the blackened hairless skull of the roasted goose, smash the thing on a large piece of firewood by the fire pit, split it apart like an apple, then pick apart the meaty bits inside.

  • Inspiration

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  • Those things are delicious.

    I have fond memories of seeing my grandmother take the ɓridge, wedge a knife deep past the outer hull, into captain's chair and split the entire thing to enjoy all the parts inside.

  • "Sixty trillion years, seventy at the most."

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  • The sets and panoramas look neat ... but it looks and sounds a lot like the personal drama, soap opera, high school politics of Discovery

    TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY all had the common theme that they wanted to tackle epic storylines involving civilizations, grand politics, war, social problems, societal issues and held a mirror to our current civilization.

    These modern Trek iterations seem to be just basic soap opera dramas surrounding individual characters, which can be interesting but it seems to fly in the Roddenberry tradition of using the medium to ask important questions about our current society.

  • And my phaser...

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  • And my phaser...

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  • My time has finally come

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  • The Age of Entitlement

  • Vance humiliated over 'obvious' plan to 'take out' Trump's kids for his own ambition

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  • My favourite scenario like that is with King Charles .... he sat around all his life waiting for his mom to kick the bucket but she hung on for decades ... now King Charles' body is basically shutting down and he now gets to put the crown on while feeling miserable

  • It's true...

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  • That one medical student who picks up your head and comically operates your jaw .....

    "Hey look at me everyone, I'm a cadaver!"

  • It's true...

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  • They will use it as an example of what happens when a human doesn't take care of themselves.

  • Trump appears to forget that Jan 6 happened on his watch as he blames Biden

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  • Inventing new realities to comfort themselves

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  • 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.

  • Comparative sports

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  • Make sure to go to the store Monday.

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  • Typical colonist ... now you get me to do that to myself too :(

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  • 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.