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ininewcrow

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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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ininewcrow ,
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Thank you Mr Sutherland for everything you've given us.

I also hate these announcements because it's a subtle reminder of how old we are all becoming.

ininewcrow ,
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Isn't that what those supporters are there for? .... to be scammed

ininewcrow ,
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https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/363aafae-368e-4982-a67a-3f378725b4c8.jpeg

ininewcrow ,
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Rich people telling poor people they can be put in charge of taking care of everyone's money

kde , to KDE
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You heard . Deep down you knew this was coming. Now all your art are belong to them. Time to move on to better things...

Kreative Suite

  • Krita is your new design/painting app
  • Kdenlive will give you video-editing powers
  • glaxnimate adds 2D vector animations to you videos
  • digiKam organises your collection images

https://kde.org/for/creators/
Also:

  • Inkscape - create sophisticated vector-graphic designs
  • Scribus - layout like a pro
  • GIMP - need we say more
  • Blender - ditto

@kde

Kdenlive, KDE's video-editing app.
Glaxnimate, an app for 2D vector animation that integrates with Kdenlive.
digiKam, an app that helps you classify and tag large collections of images.

ininewcrow ,
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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.

ininewcrow ,
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It's called a plutocracy .... a system built on power and those who hold power.

Whatever it is .... it isn't a democracy.

ininewcrow ,
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How about we just tax the hell out of the rich people and billionaires in the country and use their money to pay for all our problems?

Then we can talk about national service after if that doesn't work

ininewcrow ,
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Pharmaceuticals are a money making business .... their secondary role is medical care ... if we allowed them and gave them the patents, they would be happy to sell and distribute cocaine and heroin if it meant they could profit from it.

ininewcrow ,
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Blackfly

my skin crawled and I started scratching my back when I read that .... also, I can't wait to get back to my cottage in the north Ontar-i-o.

As an Indigenous person who grew up in the north ... skimming off the bugs from your hot cup of tea in the wilderness was a completely normal thing growing up.

... and the Logdriver's Waltz was a fun tune when I saw it as a kid ... and I appreciated it even more when I met my wife's family who were all from the Ottawa valley and had come from the log driving culture a hundred years ago.

The song they loved was the Log Driver Song ... here's a modernized version of it by Mac Beatty ... https://youtu.be/UnKmPCrqYDE

‘We will be your human shields’: Why unions are showing up in force to support the U of T pro-Palestinian protest encampment ( www.thestar.com )

https://web.archive.org/web/20240529042737/https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/we-will-be-your-human-shields-why-unions-are-showing-up-in-force-to-support/article_562a3da0-1c62-11ef-91f5-2f4615a0758e.html...

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They have to speak up and defend those that are standing up for the rights of others .... because that is what unions are for!

Good for them and I'm so happy to see them up there fighting for the freedom of people.

Right wingers will chant freedom in the streets without ever being fully aware of what freedom means or just generalizing their message of freedom to only being about their own personal freedom to be idiots.

Unions are the real freedom fighters in our world ... they fight for freedom .. they fight for everyone's freedom, especially for those who don't have it or have lost their freedom.

Unions are representing the people in our country more powerfully and morally that our government is. They are the real leaders in our country. Those in power only represent power and money ... unions represent the people - all people - everywhere!

This makes me so happy to see. Good for them!

ininewcrow ,
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And even if there were catastrophes and nuclear fallout somewhere, it would negatively affect life for a century or two in some areas but eventually everything would normalize again .... and in a thousand years there would be a few signs that we had been here. And in a few thousand more, there would be no visible signs except for a few strange hills and humps. After that, archeologists would have to dig and study the soil to know that someone was here before.

Loblaws, Sobeys owners under investigation by Competition Bureau for alleged anti-competitive conduct ( www.cbc.ca )

Canada's Competition Bureau has launched investigations into the parent companies of grocery chains Loblaws and Sobeys for alleged anti-competitive conduct, court documents reveal, with Sobeys' owner calling the inquiry "unlawful."...

ininewcrow ,
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Arsonist sets fire to five buildings, tells everyone, everyone knows, there are pictures of him setting fire to buildings, arsonist has posted multiple five minute videos of him saying he committed the fires, thousands of people have reported him as the arsonist .

Competition Bureau: we are launching investigations into who may have set these fires

A commentary on Pretendians by an indigenous woman from Norway House - YouTube ( youtu.be )

This is one of best commentaries I've heard recently about indigenous fraud. I've stopped referring to it as "Pretendians" because this isn't a cute joke, this is serious fraud and can sometimes add up to tens, hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars worth of lifelong fraud....

ininewcrow ,
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welp ... my thighs were in more danger than I realized

ininewcrow ,
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If the lake is drying up .... the land is becoming bone dry and ready to burn in forest fires

None of this looking good

It's May and northern Alberta and NWT is starting to burn ... they are supposed to have a ton of spring run off to saturate the forest for a month or two and they had none of it.

Wait until June and July come around, we're all going to be wearing post apocalyptic full facemasks with oxygen and buying bottles from the biggest corporations that we will have to pay to breathe enough air.

Broken teeth and infected gums: 46K claims filed so far with Canadian Dental Care Plan ( www.cbc.ca )

Massive cavities, mouthfuls of broken teeth, bleeding gums and abscesses — they're just some of the serious dental issues Dr. Melvin Lee has treated in less than two weeks of providing care under Canada's new public dental insurance plan.

ininewcrow ,
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I really don't understand why they went with a private insurance company to deliver this program ... they really had to shoehorn a private company into a public service in order to make it happen. Cut out the private company and it would likely save more money in the long run ... money that could be turned around to hire government staff and a new government department to run the program. Instead of having a private company partly work to deliver the program and partly work to try to turn a profit by degrading the service for their monetary benefit.

There will always be fat to the system no matter who delivers it ... the difference is that if you allow private companies into these situations, they'll do everything in their power to deride the new system and turn into something that will only benefit them.

ininewcrow ,
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Always amazes me how stories of murdered Indigenous women fall to page three or four in the news .... increase the body count to 12 and everyone generally shrugs their collective shoulders.

If it had been reported that it was 12 Caucasian women .... it would have made headline news and reported round the clock for a week.

I'm somewhat relieved that something is being done about this .... as an Indigenous person, it feels sad that stories like this are not that terribly important to the rest of the Canada.

ininewcrow ,
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I'm up in northern Ontario near Sudbury ... and I've been driving around Timmins and Cochrane for the past few weeks. The forests don't have enough moisture ... we didn't get enough snow last year ... even my friends and relatives up north on James Bay are reporting a lot less water than years before. No one noticed that none of the James Bay communities reported emergency evacuations for anticipated floods this past spring like they normally do. There was about half the amount of snow here than last year.

It all means that the spring run off was a lot less than in previous years ... which means that our forests are already drying out and it isn't even warm or hot yet. As soon as that heat arrives, our forests are going to turn into tinder fire starter. Normally, we should have so much spring run off from our annual supply of snow and ice that it would keep our forests saturated long enough for them survive the summer heat and make it less possible for forest fires. Without that snow, we're doomed up here.

Take in a deep breath of fresh air everyone ... I hate to say it but I'm really worried that the whole north - everything north of North Bay, Sudbury and Thunder Bay - is going to go up in flames this summer. It won't be good for us in the north and it won't spare the south either because it will send clouds of smoke over the entire province.

ininewcrow ,
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Same here and I felt the same way when I saw the story in the news.

I'd rather see tens of thousands of dollars spent on taking care of the medical needs of a human being than in paying tens of thousands of dollars on another bureaucrat or politician flying around the country attending conferences or expensive meetings.

We have more than enough money and resources to pay for the medical needs of everyone in the country regardless of their status or situation ... it's the creeping privatization of our medical system and institutions that makes it so unaffordable and needlessly complicated and difficult to maintain.

ininewcrow ,
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On a case by case basis for the moment

if the person needing help needs a non urgent medical care ... then you can spend the time and energy defending the merits of legality and funding

if the person is losing, has lost their limbs for whatever reason and treatment will further affect their long term well being ... then treat them due to compassion and don't send them into a bureaucratic hell hole

ininewcrow ,
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Any time you read an article or headline that intentionally wants to incite either .... FEAR, ANGER, HATE

It's a sure sign it's not good journalism or public information .... it's just plain old propaganda

ininewcrow ,
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That's the funny part .... of all the born and bred Canadians within Canada ... how many have actually gone out to visit a National Park (either paid for or for free).

I was born and raised in northern Ontario, I'm Indigenous and I've been to lots of wilderness sites in the north on James Bay and Hudson Bay ... but I've never been to a National Park that I know of.

ininewcrow ,
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Simple and to the point, everyone should know and follow this. One of the best pieces of advice from the Dalai Lama

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."

ininewcrow ,
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It's all based on geography.

If the school is located in a mineral rich area or underground oil field, then that wasn't a school, it was a military base and those weren't students they were terrorists.

If the school is located in aa area that lacks any natural wealth, then the robots have become autonomous and acted without control by anyone. It was an accident.

ininewcrow ,
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I guess it's better than .... "On your knees meatbag"

ininewcrow ,
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I'm up near Sudbury Ontario and our forests don't look so bad yet .... but everyone here knows and is aware of how much snow we got this winter and it wasn't much. We are not having as much spring runoff as we did years before. It all means that our forests will dry out in a month or two and by then, the hot summer weather will be here and ignite everything.

We're not looking forward to the summer.

Enjoy it while you can. I think we'll be breathing in a lot smoke in a month or two.

ininewcrow ,
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Is this a critique .... or a political party slogan?

Canadian military should turn to private sector for space surveillance tech, MPs told ( www.cbc.ca )

The Canadian military could have modern satellite coverage in the Arctic a decade earlier than envisioned if the federal government is willing to follow the example of other countries and embrace commercial options in space, a House of Commons committee heard Monday....

ininewcrow ,
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At this point .... it would probably be cheaper for the government to just throw them $100 million in cash and tell them to not bother anyone.

Otherwise, government will just spend the next ten years wasting away a few billion dollars on hot air making someone extremely rich and raising share holders profits for no real benefit to Canada at all.

ininewcrow ,
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Authoritarianism doesn't just happen from the strong arm actions of a minority group in power.

Authoritarianism often takes hold because the majority of everyone just doesn't say or do anything to stop it.

ininewcrow ,
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Gladiatorial arenas .... where investors can fight one another to death for ownership .... broadcast the events on pay-per-view and make money on the events

ininewcrow ,
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https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/67f4c452-437b-44b8-947f-c6ed705805c5.jpeg

ininewcrow ,
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Another example that demonstrates that change doesn't come from corporately controlled governments

Change comes from the collective voice of the people who march in the streets

Great changes don't happen because we politely ask the ruling government to do as they are asked by the people ... great change comes from the combined voices of thousands and millions of people shouting in the streets until they are heard and listened to.

ininewcrow ,
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It's like a slow moving tide. People keep asking if there's going to be a flood while walking around in waist deep water.

ininewcrow ,
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If they aren't the problem ... then the boycott shouldn't be a problem for them then.

If you've done nothing wrong, then nothing bad should happen to you.

ininewcrow , (edited )
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If anything on Weston's part ... it's an admission that they do have something to do with all this. If their profits are so good, a boycott wouldn't be so threatening to them. But the possibility of a boycott has them scared so they have to make a statement about it all.

And a boycott to his business wouldn't exactly hurt his wealth or endanger his life any way. A major well organized boycott could probably severely affect his businesses to the point of shutting some of them down ... but I don't see that happening. More than likely, the boycott will be a half-hearted attempt by Canadians and it will just mean a small decrease in the company's profits.

In the end the boycott will just mean his family wealth will be $8,399,000,000 instead of $8,400,000,000

I don't think it will cause his family to lose their ability to eat .... unlike many Canadians across the country who can't afford to buy their own food.

ininewcrow ,
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It's also psychotic when you think about it .... his family is already worth $8 billion ... but they all have a perpetual need to make even more profits regardless if it means starving people have to pay more for the food they sell.

If I had $1,000 and a box of food and someone with little money came up to me wanting to buy some of my food for $1 and I instead told them it was $2 just because I could .... everyone would look at me like a stingy heartless prick.

A billionaire does it with millions of people every day and it's just called business.

My example is an imaginary hypothetical .... Loblaws and the Weston family do it in real life ... and somehow that is more acceptable than some imaginary story I could come up with.

ininewcrow ,
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“Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.”

  • an anonymous quote from the internet
ininewcrow ,
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In about a hundred years ... shareholders will weigh the dead bodies of consumers to see how much more profit they can render from a lifeless corpse.

ininewcrow , (edited )
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beautiful .... great organization and advocacy group to tag too

https://www.badassteacher.org/

We should be celebrating and promoting a world where we encourage those at the bottom rather than giving away our wealth to those who need it the least.

ininewcrow ,
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... and I wouldn't mind if our Canadian government wants to keep the damned oligopoly if they could just tax the hell out of it and stop giving them government hand outs

ininewcrow ,
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The biggest problem with emerging AI is that we are absolutely terrible parents.

Humanity has a child that going to become an amazing prodigy and instead of teaching them to be decent, open, honest, compassionate and helpful ... we are raising an entity that is learning that making money and concentrating power is the motivation for everything in life.

We are trailer trash parents who are raising a child that will grow up to become more powerful than we could ever be. Or at the very least become a monstrous pet that will be controlled by whoever has the most money and power.

I wonder what could possibly go wrong.

ininewcrow ,
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Boycotts work if you isolate one company or one brand .... then they would either be forced to change ... or go out of business.

Once one company or brand is severely affected or goes under, then everyone moves on to a new target.

ininewcrow ,
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Car stops on the street in front of the house .... Garrison at attention!!!

Car starts backing up towards the driveway .... All forces on high alert! Man your stations!!!

Car starts moving onto the driveway .... Cease all operations!! Men at your stations!!! We're dispatching a warning party!!!

Car drives away ..... Cancel all alerts!!! Go back to your patrols!

ininewcrow ,
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Cashier: YOU'VE WON A NEW CAR!!!!!! ..... just kidding, your credit card was declined.

ininewcrow ,
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That's MAD

ininewcrow ,
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Or everyone is starting to figure out that the garden looks just as good outside the fence as it does inside the fence. Technology has been converging for many years now to the point where most devices especially smart phones have reached a bottleneck and no one can make things go any faster and there is really no big need for even more massive storage space for the average person. So phones have hit a ceiling and the place that Apple once had where they were one of the few manufacturers that made good phones is now overshadowed by lots of other companies that are comparable or near comparable. Does the average person really care if they have a high definition 20MP camera or a 22 MP camera. All they care about is being able to scroll through Tik Tok, FB or Instagram and no one really seems to care what device they use to do that any more.

ininewcrow ,
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From a technical point of view I agree .. I have a few friends who work in music and visual arts and they swear by Apple products and software

But to average users and people who just want to go online with social media, snap a picture, share it, forget it and do it over and over and over again ... they really don't care if it's an apple product or not. The family and friends I know that are not technically minded only understand one key technological specification when it comes to devices ..... PRICE and COST.

If they can't afford a $1,000 apple phone .... they'll buy a $500 android phone ... or just stick to their five year apple phone and won't upgrade until they can buy a used $500 apple phone.

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