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

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  • The greatest thing that social media ever did for humanity was in its ability to allow all of us to talk to each other in an open platform.

    Those private corporate platforms have slowly been eroded and controlled to only waste our time and designed to keep us all angry, afraid, anxious and confused.

    Open decentralized social media is bringing us back to that era 20 years ago when social media was just starting and people just talked and openly discussed the issues of the day with one another. It doesn’t matter what kind of platform we have or can create, as long as it is decentralized and controlled by people, everyone will always find value in it because it allows us to talk to one another. The greatest thing I’ve ever found in taking part in the fediverse was in connecting to like minded people who want to talk about the important issues of the day without all the distractions of advertising and without having having to give up my privacy or security and have my identity sold to the highest bidder.




  • You can’t regulate or eliminate human greed … because there will always be a highly motivated, intelligent idiot that thinks they can become King of the Universe.

    We just need a way to outlaw billionaires and keep everyone under an upper ceiling of wealth.

    It won’t solve every problem but regulating wealth will sure allows us to deal with every other problem on the planet rather than the current state we are in.









  • Like others have said, you can’t take back or nothing can really be taken if what was there was never yours.

    Instead of thinking of it as a house we were once invited in to enjoy (and we are still allowed to visit) but never own … we should concentrate instead on building a little shack in the woods for ourselves. I really don’t care if it looks pretty, is modern, or even has any running water or a toilet … all I care about is that it’s ours and under our control. I’ll help build these little shacks and support those people who are maintaining them. And I’ll stay in this little unpretty place and enjoy it because I know it’s not controlled by a big corporation.

    I grew up jn a poor indigenous family in Canada. We didn’t even have indoor plumbing in the 80s when I was a kid … in first world Canada! So I feel perfectly comfortable living with little or nothing.

    I will always prefer going to things that are not owned and controlled by corporations because I know that people or even I own the things I use.

    I will go visit the fancy house once in a while to see old friends who don’t want to change but I’ll spend the majority of my time in the woods.

    I can try to change people or try to change the world and I may or may not have any success but the only person I can actually ever change is myself.

    EDIT: Another added analogy that reminded me of all this was the company town. I have a very old friend who grew up in a mining town in northern Ontario, a place where a big mining company owned multiple homes and maintained them for employees. As long as you were a good worker, you kept your house and paid minimal expenses to stay there. As soon as you fell out of favour, didn’t do good for the company, said anything wrong, retired, grew old or just got too sick and unwell … you were asked to leave and if you didn’t, you were forced to move. Meanwhile, the majority of every other worker who wasn’t a well paid employee of the company, took the little money they had and built their own home in the outskirts. These workers built shanty towns with tiny little homes with leftover lumber and covered over in tar paper and sawdust insulation. They were terribly built, leaked and cold in the winter … but it was theirs and no one could throw them out. People in the company side of town came and went and no one ever owned anything there. They lived the high life when things were good but when they fell out of favour, they lost their prestige and their money.

    The point of this story is that in the long run … the shanty town became more developed with activity because of people. Those little houses turned into renovated spaces that evolved into modern houses with people that happily lived in them. The company houses meanwhile all disappeared or almost all disappeared, were demolished and forgotten and the spaces turned into strip malls, grocery stores, parking lots and hotels.

    I’ll keep building my little space with my friends in the woods. Hopefully, someday, we’ll end up building a long lasting thriving community of activity maintained by people that will outlast big grand mansions owned by a company.




  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoFediverse@lemmy.worldwhat are your news sources?
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    15 days ago

    Publically owned or controlled (or at least majority owned and controlled) news services in major countries

    CBC - in Canada (where I’m from)
    PBS - in the US
    NPR - in the US
    ABC - Australia
    BBC - in the UK
    France 24 - in France
    NHK - in Japan
    DW - in Germany

    Although there are criticisms for each, at the very least, they give a good guidance to relevant straight forward news without too much spin.