Personally, I’m a brown skinned long haired Native Canadian. I fluently speak English and I’m as Canadian as anyone that’s lived in this country all their lives.

I’ve also done quite a bit of traveling over the years. My wife and I have been too Europe over a dozen times, Caribbean, Asia and South America.

She’s white and always breezes through immigration anywhere. About half the time, I get held up, questioned longer and a few times taken aside to be searched.

My favorite was arriving for a transit stop in Halifax on our way to Toronto. Almost the entire 300 passenger flight was older retirees … all of them white Canadians. They all got through security, but four people were singled out to be searched … myself, a black couple and an Indian woman … we were the only ethnic looking people on the whole flight. The Indian lady was a second generation Canadian who grew up in Toronto and she gave everyone shit and berated them as they made us open up our luggage.

We delayed the flight to Toronto and when we boarded, they all looked at us like it had all been our fault.

This is the reason why I asked about your ethnic background and sex. Racial profiling is a very normal thing in security and immigration … and most people don’t notice it unless you are part of an ethnic group that is considered questionable.

I don’t mean to presume your political leaning or anything about you or your beliefs.

But are you a white Caucasian male?

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?

They were trying to get him to stop drinking coffee during the signing

I just don’t value Christmas much any more … I do give out gifts but at this point, I just hand out money to the people I want to gift to because I never know what people want, especially kids and teens … and when you give them money, they know exactly what they want to do with it.

Halloween however, I do spend a lot more on. And I don’t spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on big ugly props and blow up things or store bought crap … I spend quite a bit of money building up a supply of candies, chocolates and chips. I take the month leading up to the holiday and steadily buy a little bit at a time. Then by Halloween, I’ll hand out handfuls of stuff to every kid that comes to the door. This year I had 100 kids and they each got a bunch of stuff. Then I have a tradition at the end of the night of waiting as long as possible and then giving away whatever I have left to the last kid. This year, it was a couple of teen boys who looked to be about 15/16, I filled one guys bag by dumping my box of chocolates into his sack … the other kid was just messing around and didn’t even have a bag, so I gave him a supply of old pillow cases I had ready, handed him one and told him to open it up as I dumped the rest of my chocolates and chips … those were two of the happiest guys I got that night … the bonus was that I didn’t end up with all that candy that would have made me sick anyway.

I GOT IT! I FIGURED IT OUT!!!

We make a single straight pipe the diameter of earth’s orbit, and just slightly offset it to go near the surface of the sun.

We pipe water at one end and send it off while earth continues it’s orbit. We wait six months and we’ll meet the other end of the pipe which will have nice hot steam arriving from the sun. We use the hot steam for six months until it condenses back to liquid water, then restart the process when we meet the other end of pipe again.

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If the developers of Lemmy are so terrible … why would anyone want to use their software, support them or even have anything to do with them?

Conversely with the Lemmy developers, if they are made out to be so hostile and unlikable to a vast part of the Lemmy community … then why are the Lemmy developers even making any of their software available and open to everyone else? If there is so much animosity between people, why would any group share their software or their products with anyone they are opposed to?

I get the hate that people have for anarchists and communists but if there really was a full on hatred between groups … why would the developers make their stuff available for others … and why would others want to use the software?

I’m balancing my opinion here because I do enjoy using Lemmy but at the same time I’ve been looking in who the developers of Piefed are and what their history is and I’ll be joining their software as well.

A few trillion dollars under the table should work

Starts? … I think Google has been sharing our data behind our backs like a school girl that promised to keep a secret

Then we have to wait until the purple PVC glue goes on sale

But America also has a long history of being the bully on the block that no one should mess with … but the bully keeps provoking everyone and when someone hits back, even if it doesn’t hurt the bully, the bully’s going to bring his baseball bat and brass knuckles, beat up the person who fought back and argue that they were just defending themselves.

What a great period of American history to leave behind … a war in South America to hide the child sex crimes of their leader

Couple of years maybe … maybe longer

Then we have to get rid of the clouds

We just have to pipe it faster

Bingo! … that is why Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol as a series of ghosts that visit Scrooge … it was a tradition of story telling of retelling scary ghost stories during the longest day of the year … the moment in the year known in pagan religion as the moment in the year when the dark forces are at their strongest and highest … the winter solstice, the longest night of the year when the darkness is at its strongest … but also a moment of hope, as the light has started to return and the days grow longer.

Why don’t we just pipe our water all the way out to the sun and pipe the steam back to earth.

I do spend a lot of money on Halloween … more than Christmas … but it also means I don’t go crazy either. Almost all the money I spend just goes to candies, chocolates and chips … the Halloween serving size … I’m not going to start going further than that. I also don’t spend much on decorations, I put up enough to make people and kids know I’m celebrating Halloween … and I decorate five or six real pumpkins. That’s it … I put on a sound system with scary music and Halloween songs and serve candy all night long.