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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.

  • Yes, little Wilfred?

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  • Are we talking about American candy bars or European candy bars? .... because if it's in Texas, the child is going to have instant diabetes and will probably lose both their feet ... if it's in Switzerland, they'll probably break their fingers trying to snap that many Toblerone bars

  • Aging Millennial Humor [Sarah Scribbles]

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  • Most global historic statistics have fairly accurate information for first world countries but seldom have any for developing, third world countries or rural populations.

    I'm Canadian, Indigenous Canadian and my parents were born in the wilderness in the 1940s when starvation was still a thing when they were children. They got an education but one that centered around beating the ever loving shit out of you for being brown than in teaching them how to read or write. Even though they lived in a first world country, their generation in Indigenous Canada was more or less illiterate. And that was the style at the time ... you counted only the people that were worth counting and you didn't count those you didn't care about (which was usually 90% of the rest of the world).

    So in the 1950s, when the US, UK and French average literacy rate was about 70% to 80%, they only represented less than 10% of the global population ... most of the world was unrecorded, badly recorded or just ignored, the global average at the time was about 20% (or probably less)

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    An 81-Year-Old Grandma Streaming Minecraft To Pay For Grandson’s Cancer Treatment Has Been Swatted

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  • Great comment attached to the story in the comments section ...

    "America - the country where they can afford to send 25 police cars to your house for no good reason, but have no money to pay for cancer treatment. Amazing."

  • Society Needs Billionaires [PizzaCake]

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  • The goal state is the same state of mind as that of the deranged cat lady who needlessly wants to own as many cats as possible and keep them all in her house.

    It's a mental illness where the person collecting money and wealth only understands collecting more and more endless amounts of wealth and power ... more than they can ever realistically ever enjoy in one lifetime.

    Think about it ..... it's like wanting to horde bananas ... the person keeps hording endless amounts of bananas until their banana pile is the size of Mount Everest and reaches into the clouds ... but the person keeps wanting to add to the pile and not allow any else to touch their pile or take anything from it.

  • Aging Millennial Humor [Sarah Scribbles]

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  • That is interesting ... but that's the written language. Up until about 1950, literacy was only reserved for those who could actually afford a decent education. A hundred years ago, it was only a very small percentage of the population who could actually read or write. The vast majority of speakers spoke only a common language that was particular to their location and history ... so the English they spoke was probably very different than what was being written by a nobleman from their time period.

    Another fascinating read is just basic Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain ... one of the reasons his writing became so famous was the fact that he wrote his characters speaking in every day language that people spoke ... not a polished aristocratic uptight proper English that only the most wealthiest and properly educated people could appreciate.

    The excerpts in that blog post are interesting but they would only represent the language of the most wealthiest people of their particular time. If you spoke and listened to a common worker from their same time period, you'd probably hear an entirely different language being spoken .... and the difference would be even more pronounced the further back in time you went.

  • Frenemies

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  • Useful Life Skills [extra fabulous]

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  • This life lesson definitely does come in handy the older you get. Nothing like receiving complicated tax forms that have to processed for your dead relative / spouse / or child to remind you of how cruel the world is.

  • Aging Millennial Humor [Sarah Scribbles]

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  • This is what I love about any movie/tv show/book/novel/short story about the future .... it's all spoken in the same language that we all understand now.

    But if we could listen to regular everyday English spoken in North America 100 years ago, it would sound a bit off and unusual. Listen to English as it was spoken in England 300 years ago and it would probably sound very strange and unsual, go back to 500 years ago and we would probably have a hard time understanding.

    The same thing is going to happen in the future (IF there is any kind of future and we don't blow ourselves up or kill ourselves off in some unusual, creative and complicated way) ... historians will listen to recordings of how we talk today and think of us in the same way we think about someone from 1800. Go even far into the future about 500 years and someone from 2526 will probably not be able to understand anything we're saying unless they use a translator of some kind. Those people 500 years from now will probably look back us like we're making grunting sounds like some cave people from prehistory.

  • YouTube really showing top quality in recent update

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  • I think its done by design to drive people away from using a browser where people have more control and the website has less control (of course depending on the skill and patience of the user)

    Having a shitty service on browser and on certain devices just drives people to view Youtube more and more on self contained smart services like Smart TVs or dedicated viewing devices.

    I use Linux, firefox and have ad blocking extensions ... and sometimes Youtube just becomes unusable

  • Xavier Becerra Pushed to Inflate a Black Man’s IQ to Execute Him as California AG

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  • lol .... it's ever better

    Highly educated politician using his higher IQ by arguing in a way that lowers his IQ to inflate a Black Man’s IQ to Execute him

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    usa_map.raw

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  • Dead meat

  • Xavier Becerra Pushed to Inflate a Black Man’s IQ to Execute Him as California AG

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  • Highly educated politician lowers his IQ to inflate a Black Man's IQ to Execute him

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    Trump Voter Says He Gets Now How Hitler Could “Brainwash” Millions - The man, who said he voted for Donald Trump three times, called the president a “liar” and a “con man.”

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  • I'm more concerned about the idiotic American public and its journalists who routinely base their fact checking and reporting on talking to idiots who vote for morons three times in a row

  • Society Needs Billionaires [PizzaCake]

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  • “Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.”

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    South Korea court orders Samsung union strike to not impact chip volume

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  • This is how working people should be represented overall and everywhere

    ... and no, I'm not talking about a socialist or communist hellscape where society is governed or managed by an powerful manager class - that crap just reeks of the current system we have now in the capitalist system.

    We just need a balance in society ... let all the rich people get their rocks off and try to make as much money as possible but place them in a limited box of wealth, if they make 100 million dollars, they get a plaque that says 'you won capitalism' and they are now forced to retire and go live on their wealth ... meanwhile, every working person is given a decent wage, any excess profit is spent on worker benefits and supports, safety, education, health care, childcare and vacation time.

    We can't keep maintaining this insane system of businesses and companies that use the labour of individual people, paying the worker as little as possible while giving away the excess profits of that work to people who have not contributed to any of the work other than to claim some kind of ownership or entitlement to the business or company.

  • Trump’s Latest Scheme Will Go Down as the Most Disgusting in American History

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  • Never thought of that and thanks for pointing it out ... my comment was more of the disgust I feel of the current American government right now

  • Trump’s Latest Scheme Will Go Down as the Most Disgusting in American History

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  • This entire current era in the US right now is the most disgusting in American History

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    South Korea court orders Samsung union strike to not impact chip volume

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  • Nothing is more powerful than a union that can shut down a billion dollar company while also scaring the ever loving shit out of its own government.

    This is the reason why unions should be everywhere.

    Power to the people!

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    Three-Time Trump Voter Unloads on ‘Worst President Ever’ - A C-SPAN caller said years of loyalty made it difficult to walk away from Trump.

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  • I wouldn't be taking any kind of input or commentary from some idiot that voted like this three times.

  • Hope someone knows us!

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  • Great idea but there's a reason why people have a hard time getting the GIF train rolling

    #1 being that GIF is turning into an ancient internet image standard that is sort of kinda maybe adopted and supported ... it was supposed to be retired because it was an old format but it is surviving because of some strange attachment we all have to this format ... and any site that offers to host a GIF is often technically not really hosting a GIF but instead a WEBM masked as a GIF ... because to host an actual GIF, like the one from the top post of the highqualitygifs community ... you have to load a 47MB GIF file from an image website (the same video file for the same or better quality could be contained in a WEBM or MP4 for about 4MB). (Don't get me started on the whole WEBM / MP4 open source debate) The problems start in first creating the GIF file and to make it as high quality as possible while minimizing its file size ... GIF is not very efficient are reducing file size ... and whatever blood sacrifice, chicken entrails black magic you can conjure in order to make a great looking video file as small as possible and save it as a GIF is a dying art ... and even once you get that magical GIF, you have to find a good hosting service to carry it and display it while also not severely altering it or rerendering it in whatever format is suitable to them because every platform has their own peculiar way of hosting a GIF ... and then you run into the issue of which hosting site renders or displays a GIF is compatible with the fediverse platform you want to display it on and whether or not it will get displayed on the website browser or on a phone app (and also which app) or both or neither.

    I tried creating GIFs before and it is like pulling teeth from an epileptic shark ... and creating it is only the first step ... finding a way to have it uploaded and displayed properly on as many platforms and services as possible is akin to trying to pet a rabid hyena.