It would put us all in a great environment where we could have access to our feces and an available target to throw them at, especially after a heated debate with some jerk.
They should create a communal toilet for all political discussions and public political forums everywhere.
It was actually worse than that .... a communal towel that was given a quick rinse with water, quick dry and handed back into circulation in the communal toilet where you all sat in one room staring at each other.
Isn't that basically the mechanism of how early complex cells formed millions of years ago.
First it was just basic cells ... they fed off one another and at one point ... one cell became incorporated into the other and essentially evolved into an organ of the cell ... like mitochondria inside the cell, isn't it basically thought that it was one it's own organism at one point and just evolved into an organ inside other cells.
Same with the human body. I think the estimate is that we are only about 50% of our own generated cells and the rest is just other beneficial cooperative bacteria our body has evolved to take advantage of.
So the Sarlac taking you in is just incorporating you into it's body for some function and keeping you alive to fulfill that role ..... you just happen to be conscious of it and unable to escape the entire time over a thousand years.
I insist with my Irish Canadian wife that we watch it every St Patricks Day ... she's getting sick and tired of it because she thinks its so cliche ... but once we watch again, she thoroughly enjoys it every time with me.
Fionnula Flanagan .... one of my favorite Irish actresses, she's amazing.
Played in my favorite Irish film ... Waking Ned Divine
I was totally blown away when I realized I had already seen her in TNG years before when I first saw 'Waking Ned Divine'
+1 for The Chrysalids .... read it on English class in high school and loved it
They used to fire the shot gun randomly all over the place.
Now they fire it more in our general direction.
And they keep walking closer and closer to us with every shot.
It's a shot gun approach ..... they blast you at medium range with buckshot .... most of the little pellets will miss but a few will hit you where it hurts. Then they just keep blasting you like that over and over again until you bleed to death
This is like Satan offering you a glass of water in hell and everyone patting him on the back for doing something good.
For added entertainment they should sell a souvenir tear away t-shirt that you can rip off when you exit the polling booth.
Everyone who suddenly realizes we are all inside O'Brien's permanent pattern buffer gets immediately erased from existence.
I'm a guy and I don't swing that way (but I do appreciate people who do) .... but coming from one straight man ...
That is one glorious Sunset Beach Mullet, the colours, neon see through shirt and fanny pack just tie everything in ... beautiful! .... I can actually hear 80s pop music for some reason
We were all aiming for Patrick Swayze hair in the 80s but it just ended up looking like this (not my picture)
.... I'm not ashamed to admit that I once aimed for this dream but failed in my attempt
but Swayze and his great hair will always be my personal hero
WTF ... that was a great place and a classic restaurant I always went to when I was in the city. This is an historic place that shouldn't even be allowed to close.
I would rather see places like this in a downtown core than another fast food junk joint or another over priced coffee shop.
It's about as close as you're going to get to visiting a country German restaurant outside of Germany.
If a leading Nazi could easily go into the ranks of the US government and kick start its space program that eventually led them to land on the moon and everyone was perfectly OK with that ... then it would become much, much easier to ignore every lesser Nazi that ever came out post World War Germany.
Look up Operation Paperclip and look up the history of Wernher von Braun
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/chasing-moon-wernher-von-braun-and-nazis/
In post war Canada as many critics have pointed out ... it was far easier and more acceptable to be a former enemy Nazi and Fascist ... then it was to be a former war ally socialist or communist.
Our ancestors and relatives who fought in this war against one ideology came home after the war to mix with the same people they fought against supporting the same ideology they had just fought against a few years prior.
The worst part of this history is that Nazism and Fascism is like a cancer that we allowed to stick around after the war and we literally fostered and grew it ever since and now we are dealing with it all again .... all because a small group of entitled morons, millionaires and billionaires were afraid of a bit of socialism that could have spread the wealth a bit to everyone else.
When I get beamed in by O'Brien
And the guards give out a warning
I don't think l'll ever make it back to my time
By the time I meet the Dims and Gimmies
And I give myself a look
I'm at the corner just in time to see the riots fly by
It's alright 'cause I'm saved by Gabriel Bell
In The Original Series in the 60s, people had no idea what the future would look like or what technology would look like. In one of the early episodes, they had a paper print out machine on the bridge that looked like a fax machine, which was considered futuristic in the 1960s.
Like the example of the Enterprise fax machine, what technology or system do you think are we displaying in the current Star Trek shows that will show how dated we will become in the future?
I didn't see it posted so I thought I should.
I'm Indigenous, full blooded Ojibway/Cree from northern Ontario. Both my parents survived the residential school system in the 50s and I attended the last vestiges of Christianized schooling when I was growing up. We saw a lot of discrimination against us in my family and we were always made to feel less than every other Canadian we ever knew.
Even with all that ..... my dad always enjoyed celebrating this holiday because he just thought it was fun and a good time to celebrate with family and friends. Maybe he just didn't know but whenever this time of year comes around, all I can think of is how much he enjoyed just having a bit of fun today in the middle of summer.
In my own experience, I've travelled the world to 34 countries so I got see and compare how our country compares to the rest of the world. With all its shortcomings and blemishes .... this is still a great country and a prime example of decent democracy. It isn't perfect and it is very problematic and unequal in many ways ... but its on the top of the pile of mostly or more democratic places on the planet. I may be wrong on that but that is just my opinion.
So with all that said .... to all my Native, non-Native, nation born, immigrant, brown, white, black, and every shade in between ....
Happy Canada Day to all of you.
I didn't see any one mention it here but today is the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy and what has become to be known as the beginning of the end of the Second World War.
James Doohan who famously played Scotty in The Original Series in the 1960s was a veteran of this famous battle. This was also the day he famously lost his finger which he always did his very best to hide from the camera.
Read about him at this webpage provided by the Juno Beach Centre.
https://www.junobeach.org/canada-in-wwii/articles/james-doohan/
For those who don't know Juno Beach refers to one of the five named beach areas of the D-Day landings. Juno Beach was the landing area for the Canadian Forces of which James Doohan was part. And also for those who don't know, James Doohan was a Canadian.
This is one of best commentaries I've heard recently about indigenous fraud. I've stopped referring to it as "Pretendians" because this isn't a cute joke, this is serious fraud and can sometimes add up to tens, hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars worth of lifelong fraud.
At first I watched this woman's video as a laugh because I watch lots of indigenous video blogs. At first I thought she was messing around but soon realized she was completely serious ..... as she was doing her hair and makeup.
This Passover, we don’t need or want the false idol of Zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name
Is it possible to just upload MP4 to Lemmy? As long as file sizes are kept to a minimum small size.
Yet another video test using a GIF from a Pixelfed server at pxlmo.com
Let me know if this works any better or worse
and also, Happy Vulcan Day .... lol
Another video test to see how well this one works ... this time a MP4 coming from a Pixelfed server at pxlmo.com
I hope it works
attempting to find out how and where I can post short video content and how it appears and works on Lemmy and the general Fediverse
for your info - this was posted via the Lemmy webclient on Firefox running Linux (Ubuntu) in Canada ... and the video is being posted and hosted on a Pixelfed server on pxlmo.com
if you have a moment let me know if this works or doesn't work or looks or acts strange depending on what service, app or set up you have
Thanks
I just finished watching this German produced Netflix film and it was completely awful. If you are looking forward to this film, go watch it first if you want and skip my little review below.
spoiler
If you don't care and want to just take my word for it ... it is a waste of four one hour episodes, a total of four hours of content.
Everything inside the film and its marketing is an AI like production with all the sci-fi alien contact cliches and movie tropes from the past 20 years. A mysterious woman in space having an epiphany, hearing voices; a father with his daughter, a daughter with a disability, a father with a truckers hat, construction worker garb running in a cornfield, mysterious no-name SWAT team/soldiers, a nuclear explosion, helicopters, jet fighters, astronauts, the ISS, scientists, the desert, cityscapes, car crashes, car chase, secret agents, a plane crash, .... input all this into an AI program and ask it for a script and you'll end up with 'The Signal'
There is so little soul, sense or common logic in the film that to me it has all the hallmarks of a script and writing that was all generated by AI tools. If you look at the writers who put this together it is a group of four young writers with almost no prior experience in major film, yet they were handed the keys to a multi-million dollar production.
I like watching new films and I regularly take my chances at watching something new and different. This one was interesting but the more I watched it, the more I became suspicious that it was either written by a terrible dyslectic writer with little life experience ... or it was mashed together with an AI text generator.
One of the biggest giveaways that it most likely was an AI generated script was the corny voice over wrap up at the end of the film. I felt like I had just watched a four hour version of those Youtube auto generated AI fake film previews that are popular right now.
Don't worry .... it's not what you think it is ... I'm just getting into posting video content because I think it's fun.
Everytime I look at small problems or big global problems, if you follow the money trail, it all leads to some billionaire who is either working towards increasing their wealth or protecting their wealth from decreasing.
Everything from politics, climate change, workers rights, democratic government, technology, land rights, human rights can all be rendered down to people fighting another group of people who defend the rights of a billionaire to keep their wealth or to expand their control.
If humanity got rid of or outlawed the notion of any one individual owning far too much money than they could ever possibly spend in a lifetime, we could free up so much wealth and energy to do other things like save ourselves from climate change.
I know many other seasoned Star Trek fans out there have probably experienced this one many times before. But I just watched this episode for the first time and the writing, acting and story just blew me away. So far it is by far one of my favourite scenes and episodes of the series so far. The dialogue between Bashir and Garak at end the of the episode is a classic.
I don't like giving too many details ... all you Star Trek pros already know what this episode leads up to. For those who don't, or haven't watched it yet, it is completely amazing episode to watch just for the writing and acting alone.
This is the first time I've been able to watch DS9 from beginning to end and although I'm still in Season Two, I'm completely loving it. So much of the conflict and complexities of war and its aftermath are still very relevant today and its amazing to see. Then they give you a breath outside of the politics and give you interactions like this with Garak and Bashir and I find it completely enthralling.
I know this may be kind of a fan favourite that's probably been stated many times before .... I was just so happy to see it that I had to share my enthusiasm.
For anyone wondering ... this is a regular daily post by Mr Stevenson Two over at !the_kids_in_the_hall@lemmy.ca ... a Canadian comedy show that appeared from 1988 to 1995 and starred actors Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson
I love these daily images as they consistently remind me of the show.
But today's image reminded me of a renaissance painting.
Is it possible to place permanent info on newly created and existing communities?
Specifically just two small items:
- date stamp of when a community was created
- stamp of who created the community
I think it is helpful to permanently place a date stamp on when a community was created. It's also helpful to note who initially created or established a newly created community.
Just these two pieces of information let's everyone know immediately if a community is a long time well established base ... or if it is just a newly created alternate community that people are jumping on because of new developments. Sometimes communities are organically created because of real interest and they grow over time. Other communities appear suddenly when events are happening, like the Gaza war, middle eastern conflicts, or popular topics where there are many opposing sides.
I like being able to verify and check on instances and communities wherever I go now. Every time I see something new, especially when it comes to politics and news, I do a bit of extra work to verify the information and check who created it, when, where and why.
As of now, every new community just appears with very little information other than what is written by the community creator, or creators. There are some metrics on users but its a guesstimate as to when the community was started (there is no start date). And there is a listing for the current Mod (but no indication of who created the community).
The Mod log gives some information but again it is all info that is posted and generated by the creators and existing mods.
Creating and establishing a 'date created' and 'created by' permanent stamp on communities would give them more legitimacy and accountability to everyone that reads content on them. This info is also very important when events are unfolding and people are actively debating with one another in different communities.
I'm in Ontario and this past week I got a couple of messages from family and friends in southern Ontario that their sons/nephews/friends who are in the army are going to be sent to either Poland or Ukraine in the next few months.
It's really upset myself and my family because I have relatives who were war veterans who either died or were traumatized by war (in WWII and WWI). Most of my family and circle of friends all agree .... no one in Canada should be sent to any war / conflict / fight / aggression / whatever you want to call it in Europe.
One of them said that they were going to be deployed to Poland but then that recently got changed to Ukraine. The messages about this one soldier came from a mother who is a friend of mine. She said that her son told her that it would be a combat role for him.
I am not certain if the young son is making up stories for his mother (as they have a difficult relationship). I'm partly wondering if the young guy is doing some strange path of going to Ukraine just to fight in whatever capacity (whether as a Canadian soldier or just a plain mercenary) just because he wants to.
So after hearing two separate families suggesting that they thought their relative was going to be sent to Poland or Ukraine in the next few months ... is Canada sending ... or going to send troops to Poland or Ukraine? Or is this something that their families have to worry about because some dumb kid is wanting to join a war on his own?