Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
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.”
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’m Indigenous Ojibway/Cree from northern Northern Ontario and I speak my language. The word we use to describe white people or Europeans is ‘Mistikoshoo’.
It’s a two part word … Mishtik is the word for ‘wood’ … or ‘stick’
adding the ending ‘ooshoo’ to the word changes it refer to or describe a person.
So in all … the word just translates to ‘man with a stick’
When we made first contact with Europeans, they were all so preoccupied with their religion that they just looked like people wandering around with a stick in their hands and around their necks which was very, very important to them.
Then they taught us this strange religion and all its rules and regulations that everyone glorified but no one seemed to follow. When you look at the Middle Eastern religious traditions and what they preach and teach and what kind of culture they have evolved into, you begin to realize that religion is just another tool to control and manipulate people.
I always enjoyed reading about the history of European colonization … especially by the Spanish
Before he was burned, a priest asked Hatuey if he would accept Jesus and go to heaven. Las Casas recalled the reaction of the chief:
[Hatuey], thinking a little, asked the religious man if Spaniards went to heaven. The religious man answered yes… The chief then said without further thought that he did not want to go there but to hell so as not to be where they were and where he would not see such cruel people.
Reminds me of The Office
I’ve been involved in a number of cults both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower but you make more money as a leader.
Creed Bratton
… and I love the fact that with Creed Bratton quotes … they could be made up fiction or based on actual real life experience.
The only difference between religion and a cult … is time
They’ve been doing that for six thousand years
The nightmare isn’t Trump … the nightmare are the Americans who support and enable this crap.
Once they’re done with the Cheeto Mussolini the same culture of people will move on to the next wannabe fascist.
Isn’t that what those supporters are there for? … to be scammed
*Windows won’t take screenshots of everything you do after all (that the company will admit to without you knowing)— unless you opt in
Great idea because the merch acts as an advertisement to support the project and create awareness. It’s the main reason why corporations like Adobe are so successful - they have a pervasive marketing campaign. We should do the same and wearing a hat, t-shirt or bag would help do that.
Now you got me thinking about what to buy from the projects I like to support. Thanks
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.
Throws old man cane to the side and starts dancing
Hooray I’m young again!!!
… breaks hip because he is actually still old
Throws old man cane to the side and starts dancing
Hooray I’m young again!!!
Yes they have … there were periods in human history where some individuals were so enormously wealthy and powerful that we referred to them as kings, queens, emperors, or living gods that had ultimate control over the life and death of everyone in their sphere of influence.
Today is no different, we just call them billionaires now.
Humanity outgrew the idea of all powerful monarchies and God kings … we’ll eventually outgrow the notion of any one individual owning so much wealth they don’t need in one lifetime.
Unfortunately, we are just dumb animals that by then, we’ll invent some other selfish method of concentrating power to a small group of people.
If we ever make it that far.
At one point even putting the government up for sale
Imagine starting or rallying towards a civil war
… for some dumb, stupid, meaningless, ignorant, arrogant and self serving politician like Donald Trump.
They would have burned out faster if they had the internet and social media 1750 years ago
Didn’t the world go through this same scenario about 1500 years ago with the Roman empire?
Any change no matter if is too late or too inconvenient would be a better change for the DNC than to allow Biden at the top position. Seriously, any other DNC politician would be better than Biden even if they changed right now or in the next few months. All you need is some politician who is about 50 years old to fight Trump every day until the election and the orange menace would suffer a heart attack trying to keep up.
This is insane … it’s almost as if the powers that be want Trump to win and the only way they can ensure that is to put him up against an 80 year old competitor because it is the only candidate he could possibly beat.