Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
Alt - ininewcrow@lemmy.ca
Same here … if I’m gifting to someone under the age of about 8 years old, I’ll them a little toy and some cash … anyone older than that is just getting straight cash.
I’m not spending time to try to figure out what people like or dislike or whether or not they’re following some latest trend … take my cash and do what you want with it … and for teens, they combine all the cash they get and get one big thing they want which works out best for them.
You give rattles and shiny things to toddlers to keep them from damaging the furniture or falling down the stairs.
Or better yet …
Fired workers: … sure, I’ll come back on one condition … you give me four times the rate of pay I had before … then when your stupid backlog is taken care of … you can go fuck yourself.
… oh you don’t want to pay four times the rate? … no problem … go fuck yourself.
Some of the best food we can have is the food we make for ourselves.
It never feels like it at the time … but whenever I’ve gone far from home, I always miss the food me and my wife make.
Stupidity-ception
He keeps doing stupid things … we keep accepting it … so he does even more stupid things … we keep accepting more
You are right … we’re all stupid all around
Same here … if I’ve read or looked at something, I’ll just upvote, just to encourage people to post or comment again.
Even if someone says I’m wrong on something or disagrees, I’ll still upvote. I’ve been corrected lots of times in the past (on many other platforms) so I don’t mind being told I’m wrong if I objectively look at my content and see how I was wrong.
The only time I’ll downvote is if I come across blatant hateful, ugly, racist, homophobic, misogynistic crap.
The stupid one is not Trump … chances are he knows how dumb this all is.
The stupid ones are the people who designed and organized all this, the American people who just take it as normal and all the supposed professionals everywhere in journalism and news agencies who just report non critically.
He isn’t the idiot … we are.
I’ve given up on having expectations of other people.
I’ve decided to just be nice to everyone no matter the circumstance or reaction. If you don’t want to be nice or polite … screw you.
If you want to be unkind, negative or rude … I’m going away from you as fast as possible … and if I can’t avoid you, I’m giving you an earful of how I feel about your stinking guts
When an authoritarian country does it, everyone goes crazy
When a company does it to make more money and take more control, it’s just business as usual.
If they didn’t have the numbers or add them to a list … they should have at least given them an honourable mention
Or if its in your basement on a concrete floor … the sounds of a drunken brawl happening downstairs.
You also have to consider barometric pressure and humidity. I find even moderate humidity in winter time combined with low pressure makes it feel miserable, damp and cool … even with a moderate temperature.
20 C in the summer is fine because its moderate humidity, moderate pressure and everything is in equilibrium.
But 20 C in the winter inside a house with a bit high humidity, low pressure makes it feel like the cold is seeping past your skin and into your bones. So the way most people deal with it is to raise the temperature … but it seldom cures the feeling because temperature / humidity / barometric pressure are still not in equilibrium.
The way my family used to deal with it was to turn the house into a literal sauna and raise the temperature to 30 C … I’m Indigenous and this was normal life for me but my wife is non-Indigenous and she gets upset with me if it gets too warm in the house at winter time. I remember camping in the winter time with my dad for hunting / trapping trips in the dead of winter. He’d put on a fire and raise the temperature of the tent or hunt camp up to 40 C or more! I remember one night finding a crack in the wall of a hunt cabin to breathe in cool air because it was so freakin hot inside.
Put on more clothes.
As soon as the cold weather starts, I wear long underwear. Yeah, go ahead and call me an old man … but no one ever sees me expect my wife who constantly complains about it being cold in the house. I tell her to put in more clothes but she says she doesn’t want to be an old woman. I keep telling her that I don’t care … as long as you’re warm.
And it always confuses me when people make fun of others wearing long underway … unless someone tells you, you don’t notice.
I’ve been outside in minus 30 degree weather and people around me shivering and asking me how I can stand the cold. I tell them I’m wearing long underwear and they laugh at me.
And the thing is … you can’t tell if someone is wearing long underwear … it’s completely unnoticeable.
I had a dream the other night of being on top of a high rise building … I looked at the sunset only to realize that a large wall of water was approaching ready to flood the city I was in … then I woke up.
The strangest part was that this would have normally scared me … but that in the dream, "I felt like ‘meh’ so the world’s going to end - great … I felt like I didn’t care that things were ending. "
Going to a bar to meet someone was the first problem. It’s far better to try to meet people in public places that don’t involve alcohol, drugs and loud music.
Sometimes I just respond with … SPEAK LOUDER INTO THE HORN SON!!!
“I’d like to send this letter to the Prussian Consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 auto-gyro?”
Beautiful summary of a complex thought … I’ll have to keep this for future reference … thanks
Sexuality or sexual identity isn’t the problem … being afraid is.
Which I understand and appreciate … any other time of year or maybe on birthdays, I’ll take a bit of time to try to remember what the person likes and what gift they might enjoy. Usually, we’ll be doing something and the person will mention something like ‘I like that’, ‘I wish I had that’ or something … then it’s easy to just buy the thing and gift them that shortly after.
But during Christmas, it’s really hard to try to figure out what a bunch of different people like or not like … it usually ends up that you’ll mess up on most people and get it right with a few. Which is why I settled on just cash.