FRAH-GEE-LEH! … must be Italian!

The fact that you were able to participate and still work within HOA regulations is an accomplishment onto itself.

I’m Indigenous Canadian … 100% Ojibway on all sides of my family

As soon as I saw the first movie, I knew immediately it was just cultural appropriation … the blue space smurfs are modeled around jungle tribes … then their fighting is reminiscent of western Native tribes like the Apache, Comanche and Navajo … the war tribes are also modeled around African tribes … then all their spiritual stuff is weird space version of native mysticism from many Native cultures around the world

It wouldn’t have been so bad if they had left it like that … but the worst part is that they portray the Natives as being naive, childlike, simplistic beings who are incapable of defending themselves … so the story needs a white saviour who takes on the suit of one of the Natives … essentially, the Natives are too dumb to save themselves so they need one of the white colonizers to save them.

And we also have to feel empathy and sympathy for the white saviour who tried to save the natives … even though he volunteered for the mission and it was his people who wanted to kill them all.

As an indigenous person I’ve absolutely hated avatar because its cultural appropriation disguised as a space opera … love the cgi and effects but not the writing … probably better to watch it on mute.

Happy to discover that many people see it the same way and refer to it as …

DANCES WITH SMURFS

This is just another daily reminder of this quote …

“Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich”

I remember reading years ago as well that there is more than enough food and water to make every living human comfortable and fed … Africa alone could be able to self sustain itself by producing its own food and providing clean water for every person the continent if all its resources and services were organized in the most efficient way - instead the finances of African nations is organized in such a way that they spend more on paying for debts and selling all their resources to first world nations.

In this day in age, with the amount of knowledge, technology and ability we have on the planet … every living human should have proper drinking water and they should have all the food they need … there should be no excuse for anyone any where to be starving or lacking water.

The fact that there are starving people in the world means that we all accept a world where thousands and even millions go without.

I always love these guys … if what you are doing is morally acceptable and you truly believe in everything you are doing and think that it is patriotic, honourable and just … then you should never have the need to mask your identity, drive around in unmarked cars or go wandering around making arrests without a warrant or documentation.

Good to see Americans standing up to this stupidity … any respect I have for America is embodied in what these neighbourhood people did … they are more American than any political office holder in the US.

This reminds me of all those latest youtube videos that AI channels have been pumping out of AI generated Star Trek actors dancing and moving to disco music or 80s rock anthems … all AI generated. I know it’s frowned upon in most social media, especially when it’s not labelled … but some of those productions are unbelievably well produced. It’s freaky because it makes me wonder how much further this whole AI generated content is going to go. In about five years, we’re going to have fully AI generated TV shows being produced as a series.

Why not both?

Third for Summit

That looks amazing and I bet it tasted just as good.

For anyone wondering if it looks terrible … just because it doesn’t look pretty doesn’t mean it tastes bad. This type of cooking ensures everything is cooked through evenly and at the same rate.

It reinforces the idea that the only way we can understand meeting any new culture or group is through conflict … that one or the other has to overpower one another and win … that everything is automatically a contest of winners and losers.

We can’t imagine a world where we actually cooperate with one another and live in some kind of harmony. Partly because we as a species have seldom been like that and the other being that we find that story kind of boring. We prefer a world of constant conflict and fighting.

We also enjoy cheering for the underdog and listening to fanciful stories of them winning over the oppressor … the classic David and Goliath story … where the little guy gets to win. Only problem is, all throughout our actual human history, the big guy, the strongest and most wealthy always wins and destroys the little guy. It’s a fantasy we like to perpetuate to make ourselves feel good about the terrible reality we actually we live in.

As an Indigenous Canadian, I think the whole Avatar series is sickening

An invading colonizing force of foreign people invading a native people … but the natives are incapable of helping themselves so they need a white saviour to lead them in the fight against their oppressors

It’s basically cultural appropriation masked as a space opera

The worst part of it is how wealthy European people are still able in the most imaginative ways possible are able to monetize the misery and memory of oppressed people. Not only did they destroy entire cultures, they spend a good part of their time making money off of that memory and history.

The only thing I enjoy about the films is the AI, CGI and special effects … beyond that, the writing is just another continuation of white people fantasizing about what it would be like to be a heroic Indigenous person who wins over colonizers … a fantasy that has never been allowed to exist in reality.

Probably more reliable than in listening to these morons make up their science off the top of their pointy heads.

Secret Service had to tackle and restrain the White House head Chef who confused the Thanksgiving main dish for the President’s turkey neck

We used to do quite a bit of travelling ten years ago and we used booking.com quite often. In those early days of booking online, there was a period when you could call the help line and actually talk to someone from America or Canada. And they were always helpful. We got messed up bookings back then and we always got help and figured things out. At one point, we were booking so often, we got to know one or two of the operators we kept talking to in London, Ontario.

Fast forward ten years later and I would not recommend any of them any more. All of them send you to a call center in either South / Central America, Philippines or India and like your comment said, they do absolutely as minimal as possible to do anything and keep you waiting on the phone as long as possible.

None of them work any more and it is far better to use them to shop around for quality, reviews and recommendations … then book directly with the hotel.

Use the sites and services as a guide, then find a direct phone number to the hotel and book directly with them.

You have any fake gnus?

Who gnu?

They start stocking the shelves with Christmas crap a week before Halloween now

You have to buy and prepare your Halloween gear by the first week of October and buy all your candy two weeks before Halloween because there will be little to no Halloween stuff by Halloween … and anything you can buy the week before Halloween will either be no good or way overpriced and in that week before Halloween, you have to search for the Halloween stuff among all the Christmas stuff they started displaying.

Or else Carlton has been dancing for the past 35 years

Top 3 are still the same from previous years

1. 12345
2. 123456
3. 12345678

It’s official: “123456” has once again claimed the controversial title of the world’s most common password — and one of the weakest. That marks six out of seven years this password has topped our chart