Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
Personality, presence and confidence
Natural self confidence, but NOT an arrogant selfish confidence.
Some people naturally have confidence and presence and some people need to build it as a skill.
I know guys and gals with little to no knowledge or skill build up careers because they just knew how to talk and connect to people.
I also know guys and gals with years of education and degrees but have little to no way of politely or easily getting along with people.
I’ve been on Linux for about 15 years now … I’m no pro and I’ve never really advanced in anything with the terminal
I tried doing stuff years ago but then I came at a crossroad … either spend my life learning the dark arts of the terminal and all the details of how every major system works … reinstall every time I have a new problem that I caused … or just leave everything alone and never tweak or adjust anything.
For the past few years, I just install the latest stable version of anything I use and never bother touching or tweaking anything … never had a problem since.
We’re all going to be held hostage by these dumb wars until the US election is over.
They’re turning Palestine and Ukraine into forever wars now because they are convenient distractions for all of us from ever having to deal with the fact that we are zombie walking into our collective global environmental disaster.
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.”
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.
I grew up in a very unorganized town that wasn’t really regulated with traffic laws. I learned to drive a truck at about 12.
When I was 14 I was driving my dad’s truck around town. I suddenly had the urge to see how well the brakes worked. I drove fast down a gravel road than slammed on the brakes as hard as I could. Within seconds it blew both front brake lines.
Later that same year in the winter I got the truck stuck on some ice. It wasn’t bad, I just happened to stop on a very slippery patch of ice and couldn’t move forward. I got the idea that as the tires spun, they were getting hot which meant it was melting the ice. If I did it long enough I would eventually get down to the gravel. I got impatient and spun the wheels faster smoking them like crazy while the engine roared. In the middle of the noise and smoke, a tire exploded and the truck jumped and deflated. I had blown out a tire.
Dad wasn’t happy with me for a long while because the truck went to the shop and we had to pay a lot of money to get them fixed.
At the very least, I never made these mistakes again.
Of course they’ll say that … from the dawn of time, part of military strategy is never to show your opponent your worries or concerns, even if you have any.
Me fail English? … That’s unpossible
Theorists and futurologists refer to it as the ‘Great Filter’ … a series of challenges that civilizations go up against which determines if they make it past the filter or not.
Our current filters are climate change, nuclear war and artificial intelligence … will we use nuclear tech or AI to benefit ourselves? Will we work towards dealing with climate change? or will us acting negatively with all this be the cause of our regression … or destruction?
We have equal capability at this point … we are just as capable of collectively solving these problems … or using them to destroy ourselves.
Our collective futures are most definitely in our own hands … whether or not we use those hands for good or ill is up to us.
If a civilization chooses not to be civil … why call it a civilization?
I’m stocking up on potato chips and soda … I really don’t care what anyone does any more, I’m just gonna watch the end of the world from my front deck until someone murders me in the food riots.
It’s like we live in two different realities.
One for the US and Israel
And another for the rest of the world
I don’t think anyone believes what the US says
BSOD
Blue Soda Of Death
Submits a photocopy of someone’s homework to the teacher
At this point, they should just add a Star of David to the 50 stars of the American flag
People’s mentality after waiting at the airport for six hours for a six hour flight …
THIS IS THE LAST HELICOPTER OUT OF VIETNAM!!!
As an indigenous person who grew up without running water or modern plumbing for the first ten years of my life in Canada … I always appreciated this quote …
Will Durant Quote: “From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.”