Ininewcrow

Always love that argument … they don’t want or they disagree with the idea of ‘equal rights’ … which logically means that they are in favour of or agree with the idea of ‘unequal rights’

It’s not hard … you just turn the monitor upside down and you can translate everything.

Bored apathetic McDonald’s worker: … please sir, get off the table … (then walks away to check the deep fryer)

I remember reading once that world wide, all the ants on the planet weigh collectively more than all the elephants put together on the planet.

I’ve got a mechanical device that will shake the ants out … I’ll just crank it up to 10,000 rpm so I can get my ants fast and be on my way … let me just adjust the carburetor so I pull start the engine to get started … HOLD STILL!!!

I have a bunch of family and friends from Six Nations in southern Ontario … a Mohawk community. Most of the people I know there are part of the turtle clan and all their houses are filled with turtle memorabilia … at one friends house, I literally trip on turtles because he has several large heavy door stoppers in the shape of turtles.

I love VPNs for this … I get to see advertising from around the world … Japanese noodles, Nordic furniture, some weird German food, Turkish real estate, Australian drinks … and all of it delivered in languages I don’t understand.

The longer I spend on the Fediverse, the more I learn about an entirely new corner of the wider open internet. I’ve drifted over in multiple accounts over the years from Lemmy, Mbin, Kbin, Mastodon … I’ve even tried Bluesky (although I know it’s not fully accepted as part of the open fediverse) … and recently have been learning about and diving into Piefed.

And in learning about all of them, I keep discovering that there are dozens more projects that are growing everywhere in the fediverse … Pixelfed, Matrix, Friendica, Peertube, Misskey … and many more!

It’s a hopeful learning experience because I often feel like any one of these platforms feels small and not that many users … but when you add them all up, they number to about 12 - 13 million accounts with billions of status updates … and because it is the fediverse, all of them are able to connect to each other! … it might not seem like much compared to corporate social media but this is what the start of the early social media internet looked like and felt like 20 years ago.

I’m looking forward to what the fediverse will look like in the years to come

I’ve lost many people at this point in my life and one of the most memorable words of wisdom that someone gave me a long time ago was that …

when you lose someone, it punches a great big hole in your soul, the opening heals over time and grows smaller, but it never goes away.

lol … I was confusing Sejm for Smegma

I just had this talk with my wife … we were talking about a bunch of other things but a highlight that came out of it was this nugget

‘The world is mostly full of good people … it’s only a minority of loud, ugly stupid idiots that make it seem terrible’

Business idea … train a dozen ravens to say … ‘Heil Hitler!’ … sell them for $50,000 each to neo-nazis

If these idiots are this dumb … it’s an easy way to make money

Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem playing in the background at Tenforward

Your work is valuable and profitable

When you work for yourself, all that value is for you to benefit from … that’s why you like working for yourself and it feels enjoyable.

When you work for someone else, almost all the value of your work benefits someone else and you receive very little back. You are also aware that you are just one of many, many people around you who are being held in the same situation. This is why you don’t enjoy working for someone else.

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.

such a wonderful image … tinsel lined void

Doggo trying to lead you to the toilet: … HEY BUDDY! I KNOW WHERE WE CAN GET A FREE DRINK!!!

For such a small character … that’s a really big NO

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.