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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  • I saw this during the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York city

    We’re in northern Ontario in Canada and I was with my wife and her mother. My mother in law was a great lady, tiny, Irish Canadian completely and with a heart of gold. She had lived through the second world War where she lost her husband, her husband’s brother, three other of her husband’s brothers who were in the war and a long list of friends she saw leave school to take part in the war and don’t of them not come back, some completely psychologically destroyed and others just surviving life.

    She was making chili that morning when we got up. I turned on the TV and couldn’t believe what we were watching. It was like a movie. We watched live the first burning building and then soon after watched the second plane crash on live TV. It was surreal.

    My mother in law came in and watched with us for a while. We were glued to the TV and waited for more … all day! My mother in law got up after five minutes and went back to her chili.

    We told her this was historic. You can’t miss it.

    She said she’s already lived through wars, near wars, threatened nuclear war, end of the world predictions, fall of the Soviet Union and a whole bunch more.

    She said she felt bad for everyone but we can’t do anything right now.

    She went back to cooking her chili.





  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldMammal
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    6 days ago

    Reminds me of a terrible factoid I read a long time ago … they feed young calves they raise for veal a steady diet of cow’s milk mixed with liquefied rendered cow blood and other bio fluids.

    We might not have the matrix or dystopian futures yet … but we sure are on our way to building one.






  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldWhy is lemmy so political?!
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    8 days ago

    Exactly … I wouldn’t be talking about politics if politics had just stayed out of affecting my life in so many stupid, terrible and sometimes horrible ways

    I prefer politics remain just plain boring press conferences from a dumb politician trying to figure out how to raise finances to build a highway or fix a bridge or upgrade water services.