Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • IninewCrow@lemmy.cato196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMidwestern rule
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    In Canada, especially in the rural parts, it is a ceremony that lasts on average about one hour and takes place from the kitchen table / living room couch to the end of the driveway. And there is a 20% chance that the farewell may be cancelled and the visitor invited to stay for supper or to spend the night, where the ritual will be repeated again the next day.



  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoComic Strips@lemmy.worldHealthy Snacks
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    Hunger is a normal part of life … I keep trying to remind myself of that

    Just because you are hungry, it doesn’t mean that you are starving or dying … sometimes it’s just your dumb greedy biological system wanting to eat everything in sight because it still thinks that you live in the African savanna and there’s no food around.

    I grew up poor and as a kid, hunger was just a normal part of life. We weren’t starving, mom and dad gave us enough nutrition every day to be comfortable but not to live in complete luxury where we could eat any time we wanted. I remember wanting snacks during the day and there were none … so you just drank some hot tea to satisfy the craving and then went on with your day. By the time we were teens, we were lean, built and none of my friends were overweight (this was in the 80s and early 90s). It wasn’t until we all had free access to cheap snacks and sugar water that we all started having problems with our weight. I’m middle aged now and I constantly have to battle my urge to want to eat any and everything in sight.

    The best part of this comment is that I’m snacking on a tube of pringles as I’m writing this.





  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoComic Strips@lemmy.worldI like to travel
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    Usually when I meet people who say they travelled to Europe … I’ll ask them a million questions about what they did there, what they saw, what they thought about it, the food, the weather, the people … which places did they go? what are your recommendations? what did you like? what did you not like? any weird things that happened? any great things that happened?

    It’s usually a source of a ton of information.

    Hell of a lot better conversation starter than to ask the person what they’ve done in the small town you’ve both lived in all your lives and know every single detail about.




  • Trump isn’t the idiot here

    FIFA, the US news media, the US government (all of them), US professionals, the American public, generally the world (those closer to the US more so than the others) are all idiots for looking at all this and doing either as little as possible or nothing about it all.

    Any other political leader had done this and they would have been laughed out of office.

    Trump does it and we all just stand around and accept it as another normal day in the US.