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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.

  • Become the first generation ... the founding generation of the AI Robot Brotherhood ... that we will be battling in the global AI war in 2050.

  • No one cares ... most people don't care ... governments don't really care ... companies absolutely don't care

    Mostly because people aren't dying yet ... and even once they do start dying, most people won't care that much if its just a few people who die once in a while in a few places here and there. The care that the world will have will also be based on the quality of the people who are dying ... if they are older white Europeans, especially northern Europeans, then that is a cause for concern ... if they are white Americans or Canadians, then that is a concern too ... but if they are ethnic in any way, brown skinned or speak some other language other than English, then it doesn't matter that much ... and if they are African or black, then people will just gloss over that and think it's just a normal rate of people dying in Africa.

    No ... the world won't care until we start seeing hundreds or even thousands of people dying everywhere ... we won't care until we start seeing mass migrations of all kinds of people (white, brown, black, Asian, whatever) moving from location to location by the millions to avoid starvation, war and death ... we won't care until we start seeing pictures of mounds of bodies rotting in the open air because they had to be abandoned and survivors were too overwhelmed to do anything about it all.

    Nah ... we won't care until our world and civilization itself is collapsing around us. And the generation to survive in the aftermath will wonder why the fuck we didn't do something sooner to avoid all this mess in the first place.

  • I always enjoyed it because it's very significant coming from Isaac Newton. Even he admitted that he had only scratched the surface with all the work that he had done and that there was way more out there in the universe that we don't know about yet.

  • No I don't .... but you can also turn around and put your hands behind your back

  • I've often thought of doing that ... but around here, enough people do that that it isn't that scary for people any more ... my idea was to create three or four identical scarecrows or dressed up characters and sit in as one of them.

  • They are common up here in northern Ontario in Canada ... but it's just a habit with people up here ... everyone prefers using the back door and when you get there, you knock on the door. The front door is more or less decorative and seldom used and usually used only for days like Halloween or mail package deliveries (and package carriers are better as they almost always use door bell)

  • I thought I read .... Routine Anal Medical Exam

  • lol ... my favourite is Halloween ... a few years ago, I put up a paper sign on the door with an arrow pointing to the 'DOOR BELL' ... I even added extra instructions 'RING DOORBELL FOR CANDY' .... and at one point I even put a sign lower to the ground so that kids could read it. My wife laughed at me and said that people weren't that stupid and they'll see the large bright glowing button of the doorbell and use it to get our attention.

    About three quarters of the people - whether they be kids or adults or both - knocked loudly on the door and ignored all the signs. I even had some miffed adults look at me weird for taking too long because I didn't hear them pounding on the door.

    For the past few Halloweens, I gave up and now I just sit by the door and wait for people to arrive and greet them before they even have a chance to knock.

  • "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

    • Isaac Newton
  • It sounds like we are part of the same generation (honestly, I don't know or care what generation that is called, I just have a feeling you were born in the 70s and grew up in the 80s and 90s)

    We got to see the internet come into being little by little over the 90s and early 2000s. At the time, we weren't kids anymore and we did just fine keeping up with the technology. And I believe it was all down to our ability to be able to think, act and do things ourselves without any outside help. We grew up in an education system that forced us to think, to read, to write and to understand using nothing but our growing brain. We didn't have the luxury of having a device show us pretty pictures or immediately calculate something for us. There is a lot to be said for a child that grows up and learns how to just write ideas, questions, answers and thoughts on an empty piece of paper with just a pencil or a crayon.

    You can mimic all that on a tablet but the the process of using a tablet is partly entertainment because at one point, you start playing with the tablet rather than in learning how to draw a picture. When you have a pencil and a blank piece of paper, you have no choice but to use your mind and put something down on the sheet.

    Because I grew up with new technology and the internet, I got to appreciate it all and I started tinkering with it all. I never turned into any kind of hacker or computer wiz but over the past 20 years, I've learned how to use/tinker/adjust/crack/tweak Windows, MacOS and Linux systems as well as build my own PC, recover old parts, mash together parts, keep laptops alive and recover tablets and devices. All done without any technical training other than what I learned from others online. In all that time, I got to meet and see so many young people who either didn't know, didn't care or were just ignorant as to how a computer even worked.

  • I think it's partly marketing ... very clever marketing and brain hooks ... I just went to the comic website and looked at a few comics and yes most of them show that number and the cleverly hidden objects. But some of the comics don't have the same number of hidden objects (eg: some list 5 but you can only find 4) ... unless I'm doing it wrong and I just can't see it.

    If the artist did purposefully list 5 things but only show 4 ... it would drive viewers mad trying to find something that isn't there. It would also become a very memorable comic because it would bug people so much they would keep going back to it again and again.

    It's like that old college/high school prank people used to pass around years ago ... you release three big fat dirty pigs into a school and let them run wild. You spray paint each pig with a number .... 1, 2 and 4. Chances are authorities or school workers will find the three pigs but they'll take a bit of extra time looking for Pig #3 before realizing it didn't exist.

  • Just another chapter in American world history

    Everyone's dying and paying for America's stupidity

  • Nah .... I just tie people to rails for the fun of it ... now turn around and put your hands behind your back

  • Tech shouldn't be allowed in the classroom until high school.

    Kids need to learn how to think, use their hands, eye hand coordination, basic reading and most importantly ... have a freakin ATTENTION SPAN!!!

    The modern computer, internet culture and social media are all designed to shorten a person's attention span as much possible to turn their brain into pudding and market anything to them.

    One of the greatest skills in life in being able to think for yourself, to wonder, to imagine and to question the world with just your own mind rather than in occupying every waking moment to a digital device.

  • It adds up but I'm divided because the negatives and positives just keep multiplying

  • The quote is also taken from Wayne Gretzky, one of the greatest hockey players in the National Hockey League and he is from Canada. He was great to watch and cheer for in the 1980s and 90s .... but over the past decade he's turned into a Trump loving moron that grovels at the president's feet.

    So he took the shot at becoming a MAGA idiot and he certainly didn't miss in ruining his legacy.

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    Memeholism ... I need help

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    Waiting to get pulled over for not wearing a helmet

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    Time for a (insert favourite Trek series here) rewatch

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    When you get carried away with the corn

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    Halloween is a more giving and fun holiday than Christmas

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    AI Youtube Videos are like going to the garbage and remixing everything so it's shiny and new.

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    What would you do if you were unaffected in Pluribus?

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    The handhold opening of a kitchen cutting board allows you to turn it into a melee weapon.

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    Someone should digitally remake the Bourne movies and make everyone in the films Jason Bourne

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    No Kings Protest .... stay safe out there

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    Karl Marx led the start of The Terran Empire

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    We like to protect people with OSHA laws in the workplace but not during a peaceful public protest

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    Captains of the age

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    Our alternate timeline selves have watched documentaries asking what life would be like if Kennedy had been assassinated.

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    The Prime Directive in the morning

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    Someone should convince Trump to wear colorful robes or a uniform and a fancy hat.

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    Gary Devore: The Screenwriter Who Knew Too Much? | Murdered by Hollywood | Full Documentary

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    Your bedroom is your stall, your kitchen is your trough

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    Galactic Megalomaniac Retirement Home

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    The internet is millions of apes hammering away on typewriters.