A friend of mine just sent me a Facebook link that says that decomposed candidate #2 was caught taking bribes from corporations … and that they’re a communist.
Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
A friend of mine just sent me a Facebook link that says that decomposed candidate #2 was caught taking bribes from corporations … and that they’re a communist.
As an indigenous person who grew up without running water or modern plumbing for the first ten years of my life in Canada … I always appreciated this quote …
Will Durant Quote: “From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.”
Personality, presence and confidence
Natural self confidence, but NOT an arrogant selfish confidence.
Some people naturally have confidence and presence and some people need to build it as a skill.
I know guys and gals with little to no knowledge or skill build up careers because they just knew how to talk and connect to people.
I also know guys and gals with years of education and degrees but have little to no way of politely or easily getting along with people.
Isn’t that what those supporters are there for? … to be scammed
I’ve been on Linux for about 15 years now … I’m no pro and I’ve never really advanced in anything with the terminal
I tried doing stuff years ago but then I came at a crossroad … either spend my life learning the dark arts of the terminal and all the details of how every major system works … reinstall every time I have a new problem that I caused … or just leave everything alone and never tweak or adjust anything.
For the past few years, I just install the latest stable version of anything I use and never bother touching or tweaking anything … never had a problem since.
*Windows won’t take screenshots of everything you do after all (that the company will admit to without you knowing)— unless you opt in
Gather up as much plastic garbage as you can and burn it all in your backyard … get your neighbour to join in and have a neighbourhood bonfire … plastic only! … tires work great too because they last longer and burn stronger.
In ten years, we’ll all be looking back at how great it was in 2024
This isn’t an Israeli or American problem anymore.
It’s a world problem.
We’re all complicit in allowing one country to destroy another.
We’re all complicit in allowing a genocide to occur.
When the Jewish holocaust occurred, the world said never again. It will never cease to amaze me that the latest genocide is being perpetuated by the same people who keep reminding the world of how terrible it is for one group of people to dehumanize, disregard, dismiss and destroy another people.
The best part is that this is just run of the mill environmental imbalances for the planet. It’s faced far worse scenarios than this. Even if we caused nuclear holocaust, the planet has seen similar natural events in the past.
Even if the ocean dies right now, it’s happened before and after a few million years it all came back.
So in the scale of millions of years … the planet is just suffering from a flu.
It’s us that will be destroyed and eliminated in the process.
From the planet’s perspective, we aren’t a civilization, we’re a temporary infection.
It’s called a plutocracy … a system built on power and those who hold power.
Whatever it is … it isn’t a democracy.
It arrives with one critical screw missing making the whole thing unusable.
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.
Simple and to the point, everyone should know and follow this. One of the best pieces of advice from the Dalai Lama
“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”
I guess it’s better than … “On your knees meatbag”
Authoritarianism doesn’t just happen from the strong arm actions of a minority group in power.
Authoritarianism often takes hold because the majority of everyone just doesn’t say or do anything to stop it.
The biggest problem with emerging AI is that we are absolutely terrible parents.
Humanity has a child that going to become an amazing prodigy and instead of teaching them to be decent, open, honest, compassionate and helpful … we are raising an entity that is learning that making money and concentrating power is the motivation for everything in life.
We are trailer trash parents who are raising a child that will grow up to become more powerful than we could ever be. Or at the very least become a monstrous pet that will be controlled by whoever has the most money and power.
I wonder what could possibly go wrong.
From a technical point of view I agree … I have a few friends who work in music and visual arts and they swear by Apple products and software
But to average users and people who just want to go online with social media, snap a picture, share it, forget it and do it over and over and over again … they really don’t care if it’s an apple product or not. The family and friends I know that are not technically minded only understand one key technological specification when it comes to devices … PRICE and COST.
If they can’t afford a $1,000 apple phone … they’ll buy a $500 android phone … or just stick to their five year apple phone and won’t upgrade until they can buy a used $500 apple phone.
Or everyone is starting to figure out that the garden looks just as good outside the fence as it does inside the fence. Technology has been converging for many years now to the point where most devices especially smart phones have reached a bottleneck and no one can make things go any faster and there is really no big need for even more massive storage space for the average person. So phones have hit a ceiling and the place that Apple once had where they were one of the few manufacturers that made good phones is now overshadowed by lots of other companies that are comparable or near comparable. Does the average person really care if they have a high definition 20MP camera or a 22 MP camera. All they care about is being able to scroll through Tik Tok, FB or Instagram and no one really seems to care what device they use to do that any more.
First, the weirdest US presidential debate … and now this.
What’s next? World War III?