Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023
  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoWorld News@lemmy.world•Extreme heat in Europe ‘a brutal reminder’ of climate crisis, UN chief saysEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    No one cares … most people don’t care … governments don’t really care … companies absolutely don’t care

    Mostly because people aren’t dying yet … and even once they do start dying, most people won’t care that much if its just a few people who die once in a while in a few places here and there. The care that the world will have will also be based on the quality of the people who are dying … if they are older white Europeans, especially northern Europeans, then that is a cause for concern … if they are white Americans or Canadians, then that is a concern too … but if they are ethnic in any way, brown skinned or speak some other language other than English, then it doesn’t matter that much … and if they are African or black, then people will just gloss over that and think it’s just a normal rate of people dying in Africa.

    No … the world won’t care until we start seeing hundreds or even thousands of people dying everywhere … we won’t care until we start seeing mass migrations of all kinds of people (white, brown, black, Asian, whatever) moving from location to location by the millions to avoid starvation, war and death … we won’t care until we start seeing pictures of mounds of bodies rotting in the open air because they had to be abandoned and survivors were too overwhelmed to do anything about it all.

    Nah … we won’t care until our world and civilization itself is collapsing around us. And the generation to survive in the aftermath will wonder why the fuck we didn’t do something sooner to avoid all this mess in the first place.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•America's tech-filled classrooms are facing a backlash against school-assigned devicesEnglish
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    1 day ago

    It sounds like we are part of the same generation (honestly, I don’t know or care what generation that is called, I just have a feeling you were born in the 70s and grew up in the 80s and 90s)

    We got to see the internet come into being little by little over the 90s and early 2000s. At the time, we weren’t kids anymore and we did just fine keeping up with the technology. And I believe it was all down to our ability to be able to think, act and do things ourselves without any outside help. We grew up in an education system that forced us to think, to read, to write and to understand using nothing but our growing brain. We didn’t have the luxury of having a device show us pretty pictures or immediately calculate something for us. There is a lot to be said for a child that grows up and learns how to just write ideas, questions, answers and thoughts on an empty piece of paper with just a pencil or a crayon.

    You can mimic all that on a tablet but the the process of using a tablet is partly entertainment because at one point, you start playing with the tablet rather than in learning how to draw a picture. When you have a pencil and a blank piece of paper, you have no choice but to use your mind and put something down on the sheet.

    Because I grew up with new technology and the internet, I got to appreciate it all and I started tinkering with it all. I never turned into any kind of hacker or computer wiz but over the past 20 years, I’ve learned how to use/tinker/adjust/crack/tweak Windows, MacOS and Linux systems as well as build my own PC, recover old parts, mash together parts, keep laptops alive and recover tablets and devices. All done without any technical training other than what I learned from others online. In all that time, I got to meet and see so many young people who either didn’t know, didn’t care or were just ignorant as to how a computer even worked.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•America's tech-filled classrooms are facing a backlash against school-assigned devicesEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Tech shouldn’t be allowed in the classroom until high school.

    Kids need to learn how to think, use their hands, eye hand coordination, basic reading and most importantly … have a freakin ATTENTION SPAN!!!

    The modern computer, internet culture and social media are all designed to shorten a person’s attention span as much possible to turn their brain into pudding and market anything to them.

    One of the greatest skills in life in being able to think for yourself, to wonder, to imagine and to question the world with just your own mind rather than in occupying every waking moment to a digital device.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoWorld News@lemmy.world•WHO chief says Ebola outbreak in Congo is 'spreading rapidly' and upgrades risk assessmentEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Reminds me of a joke I’ve heard a dozen times at Indigenous conferences from an MC trying to entertain the crowd.

    “When the Creator created man, he put together all the ingredients like a loaf of bread and then had to set them in an oven to finish them. On his first batch, he put in the uncooked loaves and took them out without knowing the cooking time. The loaves were undercooked and still looked white … so that’s how he ended up with White people. He made another batch and this time, he left them in longer and when they came out, they were very dark and almost burnt … and that is how he ended up with Black people. On his third batch, he now knew what to do and he put his loaves in and knew the exact time to bring them out and they came out a nice rich golden brown colour … they were perfect … and that is how he created Indigenous people”

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catopolitics @lemmy.world•Trump made $220M in stock trades in companies he later promoted. Jim Cramer was speechless. Social media isn't — they're calling it insider tradingEnglish
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    6 days ago

    People can actually do something if they all coordinated and organized themselves. Mass demonstrations or coordinated strikes or boycotts.

    For instance, just boycott one single company … any company … and run it into the ground. Everyone could go about their daily lives with moderate, minimal or even no inconvenience, yet they’d still be protesting something. Like just boycott one supermarket chain … go shop as much as you want at every other store, just boycott the one. Then once that company goes completely under, you do it again and again and again … and most common people would not be affected but it would slowly knock down individual companies.

    Instead, everyone thinks that some magical saviour, politician, program, group, super hero or miracle will just fall out of the sky and save everyone and everything and they would not have had to do any work or give any effort to make it possible.