Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
You are a monster … I spend hours watching furniture and small engine restoration videos … documentaries and history … now you’ve given me a new branch of content to watch.
I can both simultaneously thank you and curse for this information. Regardless, I’m happy to have met you.
Neat … never did think about where the word ‘tarnation’ came from … heard it many times and just thought it was a made up nonsense word … never thought it had an actual history like that. Thanks!
The same people who said they would remove big government that tries to control everything and everyone
Loose piece of tape … then press on the weird recessed piece of tape
Guy was so high he planned it all in detail, then told everyone … then later realized he hadn’t done anything.
But we have access to wifi … take that 13th century!
It’s slow, a bad connection, the neighbor keeps changing the password … but I can watch Netflix (as long as the neighbour doesn’t figure out I’m on their account)
I had to look at the date of when this stupid article was written … most sane people were saying this over a year ago.
Now the NYT is making it sound like its some new revelation?
Normalization
The more its done, the more people see it, then the more average people will go out and share it and even generate them themselves.
I’m sure this first generation of slop we’re seeing is probably majority generated by bots and automated services but eventually it will be done by people who have normalized this behaviour.
It’s like manicured green grass lawns … nobody really wants them, they’re a pain and they serve no purpose … but if you market them enough and spread them around a city and convince people that they are needed, then everyone normalizes it and green manicured lawns become a normal necessary part of society.
Always love how Christians can justify anything for their religion … no matter what it does.
I love legend of the Judas sects … believers that honour the memory of the traitor Judas Iscariot … their belief is based on the idea that in order for the good to complete their earthly work, they need to fight and defeat ‘the bad’ … and in order for that to happen, someone has to play the part of ‘the bad’ … so followers of Judas sects believe that ‘the bad’ has to exist in order for ‘the good’ to complete their work. ‘The bad’ sacrifice themselves to eternal damnation in order give ‘the good’ the chance to get into heaven.
All done under the watchful eye of an eternal all powerful being that can control time, matter and substance and has already predetermined everything and everyone in the universe.
Still needed a way to finance a billion dollar corporation with tens of thousands of prime real estate all over the world managed by a legion of professional clergy all managed by a central office that is it’s own country at the center of one of the most expensive cities in the world … all while spreading the message of piety, peace and being humble.
As much as everyone likes to glorify catholic leaders, they’re still a mafia force that is based on money and wealth and Christian faith last
Lol … this is it
When you’re at the end of your life and hanging on the edge looking for a glimmer of hope … then you get visited by an absolute tool that is only motivated by greed and power and represents a general apathy for any kind of humanity …
you just think to yourself, “yeah, nah, this isn’t worth it any more”
An evil authoritarian regime that is committing human rights abuses and does not follow democratic norms … but we’ll do billions of dollars worth of trade with them and base a lot of our industries around trading with them. But they’re still evil.
Having to apply a new update every week
I’m Indigenous Canadian and my dad was born in the wilderness in a very traditional lifestyle in northern Ontario. His first and only language was Ojibway/Cree, he understood English but seldom spoke it as he preferred his our language only.
As a teen in the 90s I loved watched TNG and I watched it as often as I could whenever I could. I never stuck to a schedule and we only had the most basic satellite TV package we could afford at the time. I was so engrossed and loved the show so much that my dad at one point asked me … ‘It’s amazing that people are up there now that are doing all those things’
I had to explain to him that it was all just as show that was fake and that none of it was real.
To me … this is my favourite TNG moment … that the show was so convincing and well performed that it made my dad believe that it was real.
To be fair, my dad was probably the most intelligent person I’ve ever known and an excellent teacher. In his prime, he often just walked into the wilderness with nothing but a knife in the fall and came back midwinter with a stack of furs to trade and make money and then head back out again with very little to survive on. He just wasn’t that aware of what the outside world was all about.
Unga … (pointing to the distance) …
UNGA BUNGA BUNGA BUNGA!!! … (frantically pointing at the sky)
I try to be careful and selective of the channels I watch … especially when it comes to research, history and documentaries … I prefer actual presenters or at least their voice overs and a description of who they are, what they’ve done and a bit of info of who they are (so that I can go on to research and verify for myself who they are) … if I can’t place a name or identity to them or their background, then I usually don’t watch them.
I’ve gone away from most modern Egyptology channels because they so very often drift into either the super natural, the unbelievable or just outright conspiracy theory territories.
I like watching nonsense stuff like restoration videos … they’re not hard to watch … but I do watch out for the new generation of content creators like the Asian ones who dump a sewing machine in the mud for a month and miraculously find it in a swamp and bring it back to new
For the past few months I’ve been slowly going through ‘Fall of Civilizations’ … a well researched channel with a presenter I trust and the content is well versed and full of details I’ve never heard or read before … it feels like an academic lecture with the most inspiring, entertaining and concise speaker you can find. I find this type of channel very relaxing.