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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.

  • ‘This Isn’t Normal’: Psychologists Sound Alarm on Trump Dozing Off

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  • It wasn't normal when he was awake

  • The chances of a society experiencing rapid societal change are never zero. The chances for it occuring increase with each Starfleet officer stuck in the past with you. This can be seen in the followi

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  • So you're saying that one of you is a Star Fleet Officer from the future who accidentally came back to the past, screwed up history and now has to either stop the Bell Riots .... or cause the Bell Riots?

    Give me a few days so that I can get my internet credits stocked up first.

  • Trump Threatens Major Probe of ‘The Left’ Over Charlie Kirk Assassination

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  • Like a lot of people are saying about all this stupidity

    EPSTEIN FILES

  • How sad for you

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  • Is that you Mr Fawker?

  • Eucalyptus

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  • You can say the same thing about people lining up at McDonald's

  • This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow, 9/15/25; 'The Week That Was'

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  • That's not the modern world ... that's corporate news media.

    Dig a little deeper and you'll find actual journalists that are honestly talking about this.

    Don't dig too deep or you'll end up in a rabbit hole full of demons and ghouls.

  • If you know you know

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  • Yes

  • New York Gov. Kathy Hochul backs NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani

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  • Knowing America and past American history .... someone's going to conveniently suddenly die or be assassinated

    Whenever conservative America or corporate America or wealthy America can't get their way ... someone usually suddenly dies in inexplicable ways. Then we'll kinda sorta maybe hear some half truths and bits and pieces of the real story in a podcast or book 20 years from now.

  • Every fucking time

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  • Usually for me its .... I left it for tomorrow .... but now its next week!!!!

  • Know your place

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  • Out of 2 trillion galaxies that we know of? .... it was a lucky guess.

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  • Beautiful ... thanks for posting this ... Carl Sagan has always been and will always be a great inspiration for me

  • Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer | America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments.

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  • Exactly .... most laws state that manslaughter is when your actions without your knowledge cause the death of someone

    Murder is when you knowingly do something or take a series of actions knowing that it will definitely kill someone or a group of people

  • Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer | America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments.

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  • Political Cancer stops the War on Cancer

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  • It gets messed up really fast tho ... so if you travelled at the speed of light 2 million light years to Andromeda and it only felt like a few minutes to you ... then you travelled back 2 million light years back to our galaxy and it only felt like a few minutes to you ... wouldn't 4 million years have passed at your start point while you were gone?

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  • Same here ... I had those moments of awareness several times when I was a kid learning about all this stuff in school. Together with my background as an Indigenous Canadian (I'm full blooded Ojibway and it's my first language before English) I was always taught by my elders to stay aware of my place in the universe and existence.

    We lived in remote northern Ontario away from cities and towns and the sky was always a deep dark expanse, especially on a moonless night. One of the greatest spectacles I ever witnessed was heading out on the winter ice road near Moosonee on James Bay. My friends and I drove out for fun several miles north for fun. It was February and it was a frigid minus 40, no wind, no clouds, the air perfectly still. We stopped at a bit of a rise in the frozen mushkeg where there were no trees. The sky was so dry, so clear and so unobstructed by anything in the air that we could see every star down to the horizon. At that moment, for an instant realized I wasn't looking up .... I was looking at the universe from the edge of a sphere ... it was almost dizzying because if I thought about it too long, I felt as if I were on the edge of a cliff ready to fall off.

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  • I always loved those examples that show the scale of planets, stars and systems. I remember years ago before I got on the internet (yes I'm that old), reading a comic or book, I can't remember where ... all I remember is the cartoon and illustration.

    If you made a scale model of the galaxy and fit it in between the earth and the moon .... our sun would be the size of a marble and it's nearest neighbour would be about a mile away. And some of the largest stars would be about the size of an average office building.

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  • I don't fully understand how the science and theory works around all that ... all I understand is that it is so unbelievably far away that in order to cross any of those distances or even think about crossing those distances, it begins to break our normal understanding of speed, distances and time.

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  • Yeah but what about the economy?

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  • Here's another perspective .... this is our local galactic group. Our nearest galactic neighbor is the Andromeda Galaxy ... it's located about 2 million light years from us. Again, if you could travel at the speed of light (which is impossible), it would still take you 2 million years to get there.

    Another way of thinking of it is that the light we see from Andromeda today started it's journey when our first prehistoric human ancestors first evolved in Africa 2 million years ago.

    So the light we see from Andromeda today started it's journey when our ancient African ancestors looked like Homo Hablis - estimated to have been around in Africa 2.4 million years ago and looked like this