Love for only those that are worthy .... everyone else is an animal that is working for Satan and should be killed in the name of God
Millionaires and billionaires ..... our modern day logic is to think and believe that someone who owns or has access to enormous sums of money automatically gives them the title of "genius".
I suppose humanity has always been like that.
We called them Kings, Queens, Lords, Emperors in the past ...... we changed the titles but the blind praise is still the same.
The most amazing part of this type of genocide is that people are paying a lot money in order to be discriminated against.
welp ... my thighs were in more danger than I realized
So ...... what's stopping them from just continuing to steal cars and just drive around without a license then?
If they can get away with stealing millions of dollars worth of cars ..... all they need is just a bit more effort and they can keep living a life of luxury by driving around without a license. If the police can't do anything about car theft ... it's a joke to think they can check on a driver's license. They'll charge and arrest dozens of innocent victims with a minor license infraction before finding some car thief driving around without a license.
It's great because we are definitely headed to a lawless state by being led by the party of law and order.
How about acknowledging the fact that in the US, the average police officer spend over three quarters of their time training to use a firearm.
It's no different here in Canada. All they want is soldier, give them enough training so that they'll blindly follow orders, get them to defend the wealthy and control the poor, keep workers subservient and protect property. Give them a gun and a license to kill and encourage a culture of beating people, using violence or shooting people first and then asking questions later.
There's no mystery or revelation here. Everyone who has ever lived on the skids or has skin color other than white has always known this.
If the lake is drying up .... the land is becoming bone dry and ready to burn in forest fires
None of this looking good
It's May and northern Alberta and NWT is starting to burn ... they are supposed to have a ton of spring run off to saturate the forest for a month or two and they had none of it.
Wait until June and July come around, we're all going to be wearing post apocalyptic full facemasks with oxygen and buying bottles from the biggest corporations that we will have to pay to breathe enough air.
I'm up in northern Ontario near Sudbury ... and I've been driving around Timmins and Cochrane for the past few weeks. The forests don't have enough moisture ... we didn't get enough snow last year ... even my friends and relatives up north on James Bay are reporting a lot less water than years before. No one noticed that none of the James Bay communities reported emergency evacuations for anticipated floods this past spring like they normally do. There was about half the amount of snow here than last year.
It all means that the spring run off was a lot less than in previous years ... which means that our forests are already drying out and it isn't even warm or hot yet. As soon as that heat arrives, our forests are going to turn into tinder fire starter. Normally, we should have so much spring run off from our annual supply of snow and ice that it would keep our forests saturated long enough for them survive the summer heat and make it less possible for forest fires. Without that snow, we're doomed up here.
Take in a deep breath of fresh air everyone ... I hate to say it but I'm really worried that the whole north - everything north of North Bay, Sudbury and Thunder Bay - is going to go up in flames this summer. It won't be good for us in the north and it won't spare the south either because it will send clouds of smoke over the entire province.
I really don't understand why they went with a private insurance company to deliver this program ... they really had to shoehorn a private company into a public service in order to make it happen. Cut out the private company and it would likely save more money in the long run ... money that could be turned around to hire government staff and a new government department to run the program. Instead of having a private company partly work to deliver the program and partly work to try to turn a profit by degrading the service for their monetary benefit.
There will always be fat to the system no matter who delivers it ... the difference is that if you allow private companies into these situations, they'll do everything in their power to deride the new system and turn into something that will only benefit them.
Always amazes me how stories of murdered Indigenous women fall to page three or four in the news .... increase the body count to 12 and everyone generally shrugs their collective shoulders.
If it had been reported that it was 12 Caucasian women .... it would have made headline news and reported round the clock for a week.
I'm somewhat relieved that something is being done about this .... as an Indigenous person, it feels sad that stories like this are not that terribly important to the rest of the Canada.
I was going to guess the printing press ... because the letters have to be reversed in order to stamp them onto the sheet ... but that doesn't happen for another thousand years
I wondered what this was about and read about John Brown and the slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
I had just watched a bit of history on this raid a few months ago on a Youtube Channel called 'Canadiana' ... a group that offers historical features on Canadian history.
There was one survivor of this raid and he fled to Canada in southern Ontario where he lived and worked for most of his life.
Osborne Perry Anderson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Perry_Anderson
Canadiana Episode: How The American Civil War Made Canada
https://youtu.be/iL-dGrHe_x8
They'll become the basis of a new Star Trek series in 30 years
Star Trek: Revenge On Mother
On a case by case basis for the moment
if the person needing help needs a non urgent medical care ... then you can spend the time and energy defending the merits of legality and funding
if the person is losing, has lost their limbs for whatever reason and treatment will further affect their long term well being ... then treat them due to compassion and don't send them into a bureaucratic hell hole
We're all going to be held hostage by these dumb wars until the US election is over.
They're turning Palestine and Ukraine into forever wars now because they are convenient distractions for all of us from ever having to deal with the fact that we are zombie walking into our collective global environmental disaster.
It's the subtle difference between a JUSTICE system and a LEGAL system.
One aims to maintain law and order in society in a fair and equal way regardless of one's status or situation.
The other is a system gamed to benefit the richest and wealthiest individuals to get away with everything.
That's the funny part .... of all the born and bred Canadians within Canada ... how many have actually gone out to visit a National Park (either paid for or for free).
I was born and raised in northern Ontario, I'm Indigenous and I've been to lots of wilderness sites in the north on James Bay and Hudson Bay ... but I've never been to a National Park that I know of.
This Passover, we don’t need or want the false idol of Zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name
Yet another video test using a GIF from a Pixelfed server at pxlmo.com
Let me know if this works any better or worse
and also, Happy Vulcan Day .... lol
Another video test to see how well this one works ... this time a MP4 coming from a Pixelfed server at pxlmo.com
I hope it works
I just finished watching this German produced Netflix film and it was completely awful. If you are looking forward to this film, go watch it first if you want and skip my little review below.
spoiler
If you don't care and want to just take my word for it ... it is a waste of four one hour episodes, a total of four hours of content.
Everything inside the film and its marketing is an AI like production with all the sci-fi alien contact cliches and movie tropes from the past 20 years. A mysterious woman in space having an epiphany, hearing voices; a father with his daughter, a daughter with a disability, a father with a truckers hat, construction worker garb running in a cornfield, mysterious no-name SWAT team/soldiers, a nuclear explosion, helicopters, jet fighters, astronauts, the ISS, scientists, the desert, cityscapes, car crashes, car chase, secret agents, a plane crash, .... input all this into an AI program and ask it for a script and you'll end up with 'The Signal'
There is so little soul, sense or common logic in the film that to me it has all the hallmarks of a script and writing that was all generated by AI tools. If you look at the writers who put this together it is a group of four young writers with almost no prior experience in major film, yet they were handed the keys to a multi-million dollar production.
I like watching new films and I regularly take my chances at watching something new and different. This one was interesting but the more I watched it, the more I became suspicious that it was either written by a terrible dyslectic writer with little life experience ... or it was mashed together with an AI text generator.
One of the biggest giveaways that it most likely was an AI generated script was the corny voice over wrap up at the end of the film. I felt like I had just watched a four hour version of those Youtube auto generated AI fake film previews that are popular right now.
Don't worry .... it's not what you think it is ... I'm just getting into posting video content because I think it's fun.
Everytime I look at small problems or big global problems, if you follow the money trail, it all leads to some billionaire who is either working towards increasing their wealth or protecting their wealth from decreasing.
Everything from politics, climate change, workers rights, democratic government, technology, land rights, human rights can all be rendered down to people fighting another group of people who defend the rights of a billionaire to keep their wealth or to expand their control.
If humanity got rid of or outlawed the notion of any one individual owning far too much money than they could ever possibly spend in a lifetime, we could free up so much wealth and energy to do other things like save ourselves from climate change.
I know many other seasoned Star Trek fans out there have probably experienced this one many times before. But I just watched this episode for the first time and the writing, acting and story just blew me away. So far it is by far one of my favourite scenes and episodes of the series so far. The dialogue between Bashir and Garak at end the of the episode is a classic.
I don't like giving too many details ... all you Star Trek pros already know what this episode leads up to. For those who don't, or haven't watched it yet, it is completely amazing episode to watch just for the writing and acting alone.
This is the first time I've been able to watch DS9 from beginning to end and although I'm still in Season Two, I'm completely loving it. So much of the conflict and complexities of war and its aftermath are still very relevant today and its amazing to see. Then they give you a breath outside of the politics and give you interactions like this with Garak and Bashir and I find it completely enthralling.
I know this may be kind of a fan favourite that's probably been stated many times before .... I was just so happy to see it that I had to share my enthusiasm.
For anyone wondering ... this is a regular daily post by Mr Stevenson Two over at !the_kids_in_the_hall@lemmy.ca ... a Canadian comedy show that appeared from 1988 to 1995 and starred actors Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson
I love these daily images as they consistently remind me of the show.
But today's image reminded me of a renaissance painting.
Is it possible to place permanent info on newly created and existing communities?
Specifically just two small items:
- date stamp of when a community was created
- stamp of who created the community
I think it is helpful to permanently place a date stamp on when a community was created. It's also helpful to note who initially created or established a newly created community.
Just these two pieces of information let's everyone know immediately if a community is a long time well established base ... or if it is just a newly created alternate community that people are jumping on because of new developments. Sometimes communities are organically created because of real interest and they grow over time. Other communities appear suddenly when events are happening, like the Gaza war, middle eastern conflicts, or popular topics where there are many opposing sides.
I like being able to verify and check on instances and communities wherever I go now. Every time I see something new, especially when it comes to politics and news, I do a bit of extra work to verify the information and check who created it, when, where and why.
As of now, every new community just appears with very little information other than what is written by the community creator, or creators. There are some metrics on users but its a guesstimate as to when the community was started (there is no start date). And there is a listing for the current Mod (but no indication of who created the community).
The Mod log gives some information but again it is all info that is posted and generated by the creators and existing mods.
Creating and establishing a 'date created' and 'created by' permanent stamp on communities would give them more legitimacy and accountability to everyone that reads content on them. This info is also very important when events are unfolding and people are actively debating with one another in different communities.
I'm in Ontario and this past week I got a couple of messages from family and friends in southern Ontario that their sons/nephews/friends who are in the army are going to be sent to either Poland or Ukraine in the next few months.
It's really upset myself and my family because I have relatives who were war veterans who either died or were traumatized by war (in WWII and WWI). Most of my family and circle of friends all agree .... no one in Canada should be sent to any war / conflict / fight / aggression / whatever you want to call it in Europe.
One of them said that they were going to be deployed to Poland but then that recently got changed to Ukraine. The messages about this one soldier came from a mother who is a friend of mine. She said that her son told her that it would be a combat role for him.
I am not certain if the young son is making up stories for his mother (as they have a difficult relationship). I'm partly wondering if the young guy is doing some strange path of going to Ukraine just to fight in whatever capacity (whether as a Canadian soldier or just a plain mercenary) just because he wants to.
So after hearing two separate families suggesting that they thought their relative was going to be sent to Poland or Ukraine in the next few months ... is Canada sending ... or going to send troops to Poland or Ukraine? Or is this something that their families have to worry about because some dumb kid is wanting to join a war on his own?
Christian Nationalism is a movement that affects us here in Canada just much as in the United States. This documentary highlights how that movement is affecting global politics at the highest levels.
Praying for Armageddon is a documentary film by Tonje Hessen Schei.
Praying for Armageddon is a political thriller that investigates the dangerous consequences of the fusion between Evangelical Christianity and American politics. Through years of reporting, this film not only reveals how structures of fundamentalism weaken the very fabric of American democracy, but also highlights the devastating impact religion wields on U.S. foreign policy. From a grassroots foundation and megachurch empires to the dark backroom maneuvering in Washington D.C., this film ventures inside a movement that ultimately aims to destroy our civilization. This deep dive into power and policy unveils how politicians driven by faith embrace Israel as the key to their prophetic vision for the end of days, at any cost, ultimately escalating the spirals of violence in the Middle East. As Intercept journalist Lee Fang says, “We cannot look away.”
https://www.prayingforarmageddon.com/
Part One https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhT7oyDlBIk
Part Two https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iQhbcOgfqw
I don't know if the mods will appreciate this or not ... because it might be construed as a political / controversial topic ... but I'll risk it.
If it needs to be taken down, I accept that and won't protest it.
This isn't your typical funny, tongue in cheek or fun post ... it's just a commentary that I didn't really know where else to post because it's Star Trek related.
I'm posting this as a commentary on what I am seeing on Star Trek Deep Space Nine, a show I'm currently enjoying. I've just starting season two and I'm almost shocked at the parallels the shows writers were recreating from our past history, the current era of the 90s they were living in and in our modern time period now.
I'm just starting to get introduced to the storyline of the Bajorans and their internal conflicts of wanting to create a Bajoran Only society and becoming intolerant to other species. I know many Trek fans already know this story but its new to me and I am fully enjoying the writing that was produced to highlight this mentality. I highly suggest others who haven't watched DS9 to watch it as well ... plus I am looking forward to more from this show as I am really enjoying it.
It was surprising to me to hear them use the title of the group as 'The Circle' for their extremist political group ... a direct parallel to the KKK, an acronym for the Ku Klux Klan, a name which is believed to be taken from the Greek word 'kyklos', which translates as the word 'circle'. And it was also striking to me to see the symbol they used for their group, a stylized circle, with what almost looks like an 'OK' sign, which over the past decade has become to often be seen as a white supremacist hand gesture.
I'm sure the writers were making the connection to the KKK at the time and I'm sure that many people noticed it when the show first aired ... but it's the symbol that was spray painted as the group's logo that almost looks like that 'OK hand sign' that really surprised me.
They turned the ship around and the wormhole disappeared.
He looked down with deep set frantic eyes and said it wasn't a costume.
IninewCrow @lemmy.ca Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women's rights and do not support war of any kind.