Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
Meanwhile, they have an orange beanbag presidential hopeful spilling the beans to the whoever around the world and he gets millions of dollars of support, literal legal immunity from anything and 1/3 of the country want him to become their Cheeto leader in Mountain Dew.
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.
Oh, … good … since one of the commandments say you should not kill … then we can get rid of everyone’s guns then.
Isn’t that what those supporters are there for? … to be scammed
*Windows won’t take screenshots of everything you do after all (that the company will admit to without you knowing)— unless you opt in
Great idea because the merch acts as an advertisement to support the project and create awareness. It’s the main reason why corporations like Adobe are so successful - they have a pervasive marketing campaign. We should do the same and wearing a hat, t-shirt or bag would help do that.
Now you got me thinking about what to buy from the projects I like to support. Thanks
Thank God … I’ve been on Gimp and Scribus for the past 15 years, mainly because I could never afford Adobe products for the little bit of work I needed them for.
I was open source a long time ago because I just couldn’t afford paying for stuff for the little time I needed software. Now I’m happy to be fully open source and even contribute with donations to the projects I like the most. I donate annually now to projects like Wikipedia, Libreoffice, Scribus and Fediverse developers and projects.
This is one criticism I’ll always have with open source supporters … if you want open source alternatives, contribute with donations to them. Give anything you can afford … $1, $2, $10 … because they need money to survive and stay engaged and committed to their project.
If we all just stand aside and take advantage of free open software and not give anything, then we are no better than the corporations we were trying to avoid. Instead of corporations taking advantage of us, we are taking advantage of developers.
So if you want these open projects to live and survive, contribute to them with whatever you got. If we all just gave a dollar each to these projects, no matter what they are, the developers would have more than enough to maintain their work.
And whatever you contribute, it will be far less than the hundreds of dollars annually you would have given to a big corporation that would have just counted your money as profit and not directly contribute or support the actual developers.
Throws old man cane to the side and starts dancing
Hooray I’m young again!!!
… breaks hip because he is actually still old
Throws old man cane to the side and starts dancing
Hooray I’m young again!!!
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.
I guess that’s what humanity is aiming for … a holocaust we can all accept.
… and again … and again … and again
The only thing we learn from history, is that we don’t learn anything from history.
No one is safe including the rich.
The biggest major effect that global warming will have in the next few years or about 20 to 30 years is … mass migration. Once that starts in earnest, countries will be breaking out in conflicts everywhere. We aren’t cooperating with ourselves within our established borders now, what do you think will happen when millions of people start moving around to avoid the heat and more natural disasters.
Everyone will suffer … the only thing the rich buy themselves is time because we are all headed to the same global environmental apocalypse.
I feel good that I’m middle aged now because I will have lived my younger years when the world was doing relatively OK.
I feel bad for anyone born right now because they’ll either see the beginning of the end or start surviving it.
Saved by the bell
A saying thought to originate from the old custom of safety coffins … where corpses were tied to a string to the surface above them to a bell. So that in case they didn’t die and were still alive, their moving body could pull the string and ring the bell.
If you were buried alive, and you rang the bell and were rescued … you were ‘saved by the bell’
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.