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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  • Almost made it years ago … I’m a recovered alcoholic and one of my recovery options was to be admitted into a facility but I wasn’t that far gone yet so I was able to go through lighter treatment services and go through the 12 step program instead … that was over 30 years ago and these days I feel like I’m edging towards losing my sanity again every day.

    I only made the comparison of social media to a mental hospital because just about every day I see more and more deluded realities than ever before. At one end, I have my younger relatives (under 30 years of age) living some kind of weird online life that they try to emulate like a k-pop reality show, a soap opera or a comedy show with a laugh track (meanwhile their real life situation is anything but) … and at the other end, I have older relatives (over 50 years of age) who only ever want to be angry, afraid or semi or fully racist or fascist (when in real life their lives are good peaceful and they would never be openly racist or fascist, or show any support for it!). People keep telling me that maybe it’s just the quality of people I am around … but I look into other social media feeds with family who live in the cities down south, the rural areas, the northern remote areas or the busy suburban areas and its almost all universally the same. And I know a variety of people … poor trailer trash types, northern poor people, native families living on reserves … as well as middle class white people living in cities, upwardly mobile professionals, teachers, office workers, government workers, a few medical doctors and nurses and even a couple of millionaires who live in the city.

    I should also clarify that these observations are all about corporately owned social media … and yes I know that they are heavily influenced and managed to be like this … but still, it feels so overwhelming that at one point, it does feel like being trapped in some kind of institution. Sure I can leave but all or most of my family and friends are in there. Most of the people I know are not technically savvy or interested and they just prefer being on FB, IG or TikTok or even X … and whenever I do see them there, I feel like I’m visiting the FB Ward or the TikTok Ward of a giant facility full of deluded people.






  • Yeah it isn’t much of a secret to anyone any more … anyone who is looking at it from outside anyway.

    It’s like watching a used car salesman stealing money, bank cards and credits cards out of the pockets of a disabled quadriplegic sitting in their chair and no one wants to do anything about it. The salesman also keeps going back to the disabled quadriplegic to forge his signature, thumb print and photo to get bank loans and mortgages … and all the while, the bank knows about it, the companies know about it, the neighbours know about it, the police know about it but none of them want to do anything about it all.




  • No one cares … most people don’t care … governments don’t really care … companies absolutely don’t care

    Mostly because people aren’t dying yet … and even once they do start dying, most people won’t care that much if its just a few people who die once in a while in a few places here and there. The care that the world will have will also be based on the quality of the people who are dying … if they are older white Europeans, especially northern Europeans, then that is a cause for concern … if they are white Americans or Canadians, then that is a concern too … but if they are ethnic in any way, brown skinned or speak some other language other than English, then it doesn’t matter that much … and if they are African or black, then people will just gloss over that and think it’s just a normal rate of people dying in Africa.

    No … the world won’t care until we start seeing hundreds or even thousands of people dying everywhere … we won’t care until we start seeing mass migrations of all kinds of people (white, brown, black, Asian, whatever) moving from location to location by the millions to avoid starvation, war and death … we won’t care until we start seeing pictures of mounds of bodies rotting in the open air because they had to be abandoned and survivors were too overwhelmed to do anything about it all.

    Nah … we won’t care until our world and civilization itself is collapsing around us. And the generation to survive in the aftermath will wonder why the fuck we didn’t do something sooner to avoid all this mess in the first place.




  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoMemes@sopuli.xyzOh that is BRUTAL
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    You’re right it doesn’t … but if you’re a good cook, you spend about half an hour preparing food, about ten / fifteen minutes actually cooking your food, ten minutes to prepare everything else, half an hour or more (depending on your company) eating and entertaining guests … then another half an hour or more cleaning up and putting things away.

    Working in the kitchen is more than just frying, boiling or baking the actual thing you are making … you spend a lot of time preparing and a whole bunch of time after cleaning up.


  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoMemes@sopuli.xyzOh that is BRUTAL
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    This works depending on the cook.

    If he is a good cook and knows how to work in a kitchen … he doesn’t get distracted and his first thought is on the food, the hot grill and things burning or catching on fire. He’ll respond in an hour with a picture of a perfectly cooked sandwich

    If he only cooks from time to time and doesn’t care that much for cooking … he is easily distracted and will burn his food with a simple text message. He’ll send you an angry text back.

    If he never cooks … he’s texting you right back with a meme reaction, 27 instagram posts, 12 tiktoks, 5 youtube shorts, and 10 angry political posts for twitter because you just set him off as he’s sitting on the couch doom scrolling while eating a dozen grilled cheese sandwiches he ordered from Doordash



  • Reminds me of a joke I’ve heard a dozen times at Indigenous conferences from an MC trying to entertain the crowd.

    “When the Creator created man, he put together all the ingredients like a loaf of bread and then had to set them in an oven to finish them. On his first batch, he put in the uncooked loaves and took them out without knowing the cooking time. The loaves were undercooked and still looked white … so that’s how he ended up with White people. He made another batch and this time, he left them in longer and when they came out, they were very dark and almost burnt … and that is how he ended up with Black people. On his third batch, he now knew what to do and he put his loaves in and knew the exact time to bring them out and they came out a nice rich golden brown colour … they were perfect … and that is how he created Indigenous people”