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 revered prophet announces that the rapture has begun and that the chosen are being taken to heaven.
Around the world, there are no reports of anyone disappearing or suddenly ascending while plenty of the devout and desperate commit suicide by the thousands.
We were 30 light years and 50 years from earth on a voyage to the next star system.
For the past month, we had begun to receive radio signals broadcasting audio in the German language reminiscent of propaganda from 1940s earth.
Sarcasm is on life support or in a coma in America .... I have to take a moment or two to see if it's an Onion headline or not
Yeah, let's all follow the guy that thinks he'll be at the front of the line in the afterlife that doesn't exist.
(Arms outstretched) .... Awwwwww come here you ..... I SAID COME HERE!!!!
... such as like you know Iraq, like you know, and such as education for children, such as, education, you know such as
It's nice to feel wanted .... even if it's a herd of zombies or your in-laws.
I'm happy for you and I wouldn't have minded jumping into that hugline myself ... even if you tried to beat me away with a stick.
There is no real need to regulate kids on devices ... leave that up to the parents to figure out.
What we need is to regulate every major corporately owned social media company. Regulate and control them like they do for newspapers, magazines or television. Put them under complete regulatory control across the board so that we can regain some normalcy in public perception of reality and politics everywhere.
It's a pipe dream I know ... but in the meantime, no matter what anyone says or does ... if social media companies are not regulated, everything and everyone is going to hell in a hand basket.
Actual Black Friday sales died about 20 years ago ... since then, it's just a marketing gimmick to drive up sales.
Gone are the days of clawing the face of the 130lb housewife who grabbed that 50" LCD after you got there first and is now biting your fingers.
September 11, 2001: Had breakfast, went for a walk, fed the dog, cloudy day, said hi to the neighbour, did the laundry.
From seeing a few young friends who went through this .... she's a goth alright ... but she isn't a 'big tiddy' ... and she ain't worth it
Do you have a link to the video? or at least a description so that we can find it? I'm always on the lookout for new ways to make gravy ... to me it's the key to any big feast.
Lol .... I have an old friend who loves dealing with used cars, trucks and motorcycles and as a hobby he is constantly looking up new deals he could consider.
Every time I talk to him about one of these 'deals' ... he ask about the kilometers and convert them to miles and to him it magically reduces the number and the perceived mileage of the vehicle
Me: .... Yeah Joe, the mileage is 149,471 KM
My friend Joe: ...149,471 KM? ... Why that's only 92,877 Miles! ... this thing still has lots of miles to go!
Wow ... I love the nostalgia of the original old units but this is definitely an option I'll have to look into.
Lol ... I feel like a 12 year old fantasizing about the latest 16bit and 32bit gaming systems
Thanks for this
Attending a Thanksgiving Dinner / Christmas Dinner / Wedding Dinner / Funeral Gathering of a family that you have a very small connection to.
Have someone break through my gates, burn my home, steal everything I have and leave me for dead?
He wondered what it would be like outside this time of year.
Then his thoughts drifted back to his worries, fears and anxieties inside his mind trapped in a Locked In Syndrome.
He watched the glow of twinkling holiday lights, surrounded in a layer of snow in the dim moonlit night.
He didn't know how long he could hold to the edge of the roof as he dangled dangerously by one hand three stories over the frozen driveway.
Creation of Odo the Human
I just finished watching the finale of season four of DS9. I'm really enjoying the show as I've wanted to watch it for years.
A bit of a spoiler for those who haven't seen the show but I thought those of you who already know and have seen it all might appreciate this.
The scene where Odo is brought back by the Changelings and is 'reborn' into someone new is a direct copy of the famous painting by Michaelangelo's 'The Creation of Adam'. It's been noted before by other viewers, I had to check for myself if other people noticed and it has been. I was just surprised myself when I saw the connection after I watched the show.
Of course, they had to have him lifting his other leg so as not show in anatomical detail his Odometer.
Remembrance Day commemorations
Just a friendly reminder of the November 11 Remembrance Day ceremonies.
Here's a photo of James Doohan, 22nd Field Battery, 13th Field Regiment RCA of the Canadian 3rd Infantry Division. He was part of the famous D-Day landings of June 1944.
You can read more about here:
https://www.junobeach.org/canada-in-wwii/articles/james-doohan/
October 24 1991 - Gene Roddenberry Memorial
Don't know how you all feel about Gene Roddenberry who kick started the whole Trek franchise and everything that came after it.
He is definitely someone that has affected a lot of lives beyond the work that he did and the life that he led.
For all his shortcomings, he is someone I look up to that has made humanity look at itself in the mirror and seriously think about what we all see in each other through all the shows and characters that he helped to create.
... btw ... this post is another Trek thing where in chatting with all you led me down to a page that noted that today is the memorial of Roddenberry's passing in 1991.
Police In Canada Warn Lawyer Over Her Social Media Posts On Israel
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/30385203
> BACKGROUND > > Joanna Berry is a Canadian immigration and refugee lawyer in Ontario, Canada. On October 2, two Niagara Police Officers, one of them a sergeant detective, paid her a visit to her home. They told her they were there on behalf of the Ottawa Police Department because of her "personal social media." They begin to tell her that "10 lawyers who are of the Jewish faith" have filed a complaint with the police about her social media. As you can tell from the video, Joanna Berry, is outraged by the visit and clearly distraught. I reached out to the Niagara Regional Police for comment but they did not respond to my inquiry. I spoke with Joanna Berry also and she gave OTL Media permission to publish the video. She told us that she wants Canadians to see it and for the video to be a warning. > > "This is very Orwellian" > > On The Line Media is run by Samira Mohyeddin, a multi-award-winning journalist, documentary maker, and producer at CBC Radio One’s The Current.
Police In Canada Warn Lawyer Over Her Social Media Posts On Israel
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/30385203
> BACKGROUND > > Joanna Berry is a Canadian immigration and refugee lawyer in Ontario, Canada. On October 2, two Niagara Police Officers, one of them a sergeant detective, paid her a visit to her home. They told her they were there on behalf of the Ottawa Police Department because of her "personal social media." They begin to tell her that "10 lawyers who are of the Jewish faith" have filed a complaint with the police about her social media. As you can tell from the video, Joanna Berry, is outraged by the visit and clearly distraught. I reached out to the Niagara Regional Police for comment but they did not respond to my inquiry. I spoke with Joanna Berry also and she gave OTL Media permission to publish the video. She told us that she wants Canadians to see it and for the video to be a warning. > > "This is very Orwellian" > > On The Line Media is run by Samira Mohyeddin, a multi-award-winning journalist, documentary maker, and producer at CBC Radio One’s The Current.
Police In Canada Warn Lawyer Over Her Social Media Posts On Israel
BACKGROUND
Joanna Berry is a Canadian immigration and refugee lawyer in Ontario, Canada. On October 2, two Niagara Police Officers, one of them a sergeant detective, paid her a visit to her home. They told her they were there on behalf of the Ottawa Police Department because of her "personal social media." They begin to tell her that "10 lawyers who are of the Jewish faith" have filed a complaint with the police about her social media. As you can tell from the video, Joanna Berry, is outraged by the visit and clearly distraught. I reached out to the Niagara Regional Police for comment but they did not respond to my inquiry. I spoke with Joanna Berry also and she gave OTL Media permission to publish the video. She told us that she wants Canadians to see it and for the video to be a warning.
"This is very Orwellian"
On The Line Media is run by Samira Mohyeddin, a multi-award-winning journalist, documentary maker, and producer at CBC Radio One’s The Current.
National Day For Truth And Reconciliation
I thought I should take the responsibility to post this and remind everyone about what today is.
National Day For Truth And Reconciliation
Both my parents are survivors of the residential school era and my family have had to live with this horror all our lives ... whether we knew it or not.
For me the day is not to shame anyone or lay blame on those around me.
But rather to let everyone know about this history and never allow anything like it to ever happen again.
Every phone call you make with just the mic near your mouth and the speaker near your ear, you are having a conversational 69 where both of you are placing your mouths next to each other's ears.
Every phone call you make with just the mic near your mouth and the speaker near your ear, you are whispering into the ear of the person you are calling.
If the person who answers with the mic near their mouth and the speaker near their ear is doing the same thing. It's like having a conversational 69 where both of you are placing your mouths next to each other's ears.
It sounds sexual and sensual if you are talking to someone you might be interested in ... but it gets a bit awkward if you imagine doing this with a random stranger you would never usually want to get close to.
What technology will date us in the future?
In The Original Series in the 60s, people had no idea what the future would look like or what technology would look like. In one of the early episodes, they had a paper print out machine on the bridge that looked like a fax machine, which was considered futuristic in the 1960s.
Like the example of the Enterprise fax machine, what technology or system do you think are we displaying in the current Star Trek shows that will show how dated we will become in the future?
Happy Canada Day
I didn't see it posted so I thought I should.
I'm Indigenous, full blooded Ojibway/Cree from northern Ontario. Both my parents survived the residential school system in the 50s and I attended the last vestiges of Christianized schooling when I was growing up. We saw a lot of discrimination against us in my family and we were always made to feel less than every other Canadian we ever knew.
Even with all that ..... my dad always enjoyed celebrating this holiday because he just thought it was fun and a good time to celebrate with family and friends. Maybe he just didn't know but whenever this time of year comes around, all I can think of is how much he enjoyed just having a bit of fun today in the middle of summer.
In my own experience, I've travelled the world to 34 countries so I got see and compare how our country compares to the rest of the world. With all its shortcomings and blemishes .... this is still a great country and a prime example of decent democracy. It isn't perfect and it is very problematic and unequal in many ways ... but its on the top of the pile of mostly or more democratic places on the planet. I may be wrong on that but that is just my opinion.
So with all that said .... to all my Native, non-Native, nation born, immigrant, brown, white, black, and every shade in between ....
Happy Canada Day to all of you.
Lt. James Doohan and the 80th Anniversary of D-Day
I didn't see any one mention it here but today is the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy and what has become to be known as the beginning of the end of the Second World War.
James Doohan who famously played Scotty in The Original Series in the 1960s was a veteran of this famous battle. This was also the day he famously lost his finger which he always did his very best to hide from the camera.
Read about him at this webpage provided by the Juno Beach Centre.
https://www.junobeach.org/canada-in-wwii/articles/james-doohan/
For those who don't know Juno Beach refers to one of the five named beach areas of the D-Day landings. Juno Beach was the landing area for the Canadian Forces of which James Doohan was part. And also for those who don't know, James Doohan was a Canadian.