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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.

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  • Wow ... I think AskJeeves was the first major search engine I relied on when I first started going online. That and 'Dogpile'. I remember a friend of ours bugging me to check out a thing called 'Google' at the time.

  • You're on time out, er, solitary confinement!

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  • After having an incestuous relationship with her "son"? .... Intergalactic banjo music intensifies

  • Whoops, what a careless mistake.

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  • ... or beam them just outside the ship ... while moving at warp speed

  • Whoops, what a careless mistake.

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  • Or your organs keep appearing and disappearing to the beat of a manic DJ high on meth

  • The many faces of Tim Russ

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  • Has he tried combing the Delta Quadrant?

  • You have nothing to lose but your chains

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  • I loved the way DS9 always portrayed these perspectives in their writing but also disappointed in how they fell short sometimes. How they constantly reflected our modern world, our modern thinking and our way of dealing with things through the story telling and dynamics. But I was also surprised at how limited they were in talking about and addressing the idea of workers and leadership. How it was so easy to talk about love, death, destruction, war and betrayal ... yet they only dedicated an episode or two about worker dynamics and its history.

    But over the course of the series, you could see the dynamics they tried to portray that reflects directing onto our world today ...

    The all powerful abusive controlling and intelligent overlords that want to rule everyone ... and who seem unstoppable ..

    The indifferent politically minded elites who are only there for themselves

    The compromised political leader who is always at odds between trying to do what is right or what is expected

    The political rebel we all cheer for and celebrate because we fantasize that we could do the same

    The questioning worker who is only just starting to discover his role and power in the world

    The mindless merchant who only ever thinks of profit at all cost ...

    ... and the hapless individuals who just watch from the sidelines

  • He says he's not dead!

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  • It's going to be a long, long karaoke session

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  • "You guys seeing this?!"

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  • Plain and Simple

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  • His new name is Bob.

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  • He's not that attractive ... from the waist down

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  • In addition to the ability to jog, run and walk during the hottest part of the day ... early humans could avoid most predators who were less capable of being active in the heat. The benefits of being a hairless sweaty upright ape.

  • the fuckening

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  • "It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it."

    • George Carlin

  • It was inevitable

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  • Just like Sean O'Brien

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  • Like I said in a previous post ... unions are a good thing for society in general. I've always supported them because I learned from labour leaders and supporters that any kind of labour law or benefit we enjoy today was made possible because people a hundred years ago protested and held strikes in order to make it possible.

    Weekends? Workplace safety? Child labour laws? Workplace hours? Time off? Minimum Wage? Workers benefits? Compensation? Holidays? Paid time off?

    All of it was made possible by workers unions and union workers who fought to make it all possible. None of it was freely given by companies, corporations or businesses ... and much of the time, unions also had to fight governments in order to make these things possible.

    And to show how supportive companies and corporations are about these things ... big business has constantly done their very best to take away, ignore or sideline all these benefits. If companies had always had their way, they wouldn't mind setting up a world where there was nothing but slave labour working for absolutely nothing until they died.

    This isn't about communism or socialism ... it's just basic human ethics and fairness. The world shouldn't expect workers to just work for as little as possible or even for nothing while companies reap all the benefits of their labour.

  • I'm going to hoard toilet paper and pasta again.

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  • lol ... that would be hilarious ... we get out into the galaxy to explore new worlds and we finally abandon our old ancient religious beliefs only to find out that the Old Testament and Jesus Christ, the Son of God is common to every world we come across.

  • I hesitated to post this. It's really out of focus, blurry. But the pareidolia seems real to me. I took this a couple weeks ago, drowsing at the campfire.

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  • "Pareidolia - is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia

    Neat photo and as an Indigenous Canadian, I have my own stories and I have known many other people who have had many visions of things in a fire.

    We have a traditional during ceremonial events like Pow Wows where a fire is kept burning during the entire time of the event. The fire is kept burning day and night and it is usually maintained by a group of 'fire keepers' and many of them tend to the fire all night long without sleep because they do not want the fire to burn out. And depending on the event, whether a ceremonial gathering or a PowWow, the event may last a single day or multiple days or even a week or two.

    It's during those long nights of staring into the flames and coals that fire keepers get to have visions or signs of things, people, animals or ideas that come to them. The combination of staring into an ever changing light in the dark mixed with extreme fatigue and sleeplessness and insomnia really play on a person's mind and perception. Scientifically speaking, it is documented that if you stay awake without sleep longer than 48 hours, you might as well be drunk and intoxicated.

    The visions and insights that fire keepers have during their work is always different. Sometimes it is good, sometimes helpful, but it can also become frightful or even disturbing. But our Elders are always there to help with interpretations and meanings.

    And it also isn't just reserved for Firekeepers ... stuff like this happens when you are just out camping. You work all day, you struggle, you eat, you drink, you get hurt, and by the end of the day you are exhausted but you still have to stay up for a while to eat and drink and prepare for sleep ... so you end up staring at the flames while dazed and confused ... those are the moments when you start seeing shapes, objects and even people and faces in the fire.

    Keep an open mind and open heart .. don't give into your worries and fears .. and you will find more thoughtful and insightful visions in the flames.

  • Scotty very curious

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  • I'm going to hoard toilet paper and pasta again.

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  • Yes ... but they also want to have sex with you.

    Don't forget, some alien species have their sex organs on their heads (or other bodily location), some have more than two sexes, some have no sex (and inseminate in other ways), some perform crowd insemination and some eat their partner after insemination.