Don’t laugh … I’ve personally known two people who died of an overdose, one got turned to a vegetable (he’s still alive, if you can call it that) and several who did overdose but survived.
Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
Don’t laugh … I’ve personally known two people who died of an overdose, one got turned to a vegetable (he’s still alive, if you can call it that) and several who did overdose but survived.
Are you kidding … my best hope is the American people because they are the ones who can change this at any time … but none of them so so it means that there is no hope … in 2026, 2028 or any other year, until the American mentality changes.
Xmas version 2025.12.25 just got released … next incremental release is 2026.01.25, which will work its way up during the year to the final annual version of 2026.12.25
Lucky you … I’m up in northern Ontario and in most of the places up here Sudbury/Timmins/New Liskeard/North Bay … the supply seems to have dried up over the years … we used to see lots, now we see a lot less.
Here in Canada in Ontario, up until about five years ago, they used to sell panettone everywhere during Christmas … grocers used to stock them everywhere and about four or five different brands. Cheaper ones came in all plastic wrapping and more expensive ones came wrapped in plastic and contained in fancy decorative cardboard boxes. And back then, we had the choice of size and they were usually large sized.
Now we have limited supplies and the displays for them are even hard to find. We only have one brand now ‘Massimo’ and they are more the smaller size. Every year now, all my Italian Canadian friends go on a frenzy looking for them … as soon as they come out, they disappear.
Don’t know what happened to the supply but we don’t see much of them any more.
Gives cat a present … cat swats it away


The rules both legally and morally for hiding your identity are very distinct when applied to those in power.


The morality of it is pretty simple
If you want to wear a mask to hide your identity because of what you are doing … chances are you know what are you are doing is wrong and you don’t want to be held accountable for it later.
If you honestly believe in what you are doing and have all the faith in the world that what you are doing is morally, philosophically and politically correct … then you should never have the need to want to wear a mask to hide who you are.
Wearing a mask is the sign of a coward who doesn’t have the conviction to stand up for what they believe in.
If you can’t afford the traditional funeral or even the immediate cremation … there are other “options”.


Gotta wonder what they were smoking in the middle east 3000 years ago to come up with these biblically accurate angels
It should be considered a workplace hazard at this point … and workers should be compensated for it


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.


Hot egg nog can’t melt candy cane beams


Of all the people in the world that need or should have it mandatory to have round the clock public surveillance … it should be our political leaders
They claim to be working for the people … yet the people never really know what the fuck these leaders are doing


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


Really?


Where’s Abe Vigoda? Isn’t he still alive?
lol … I had this kind of argument with my wife for years.
She kept buying the smallest bottles of dish washing liquid for years … if it was smaller, to her it was much cheaper. I kept telling her that the price for the small bottle was more expensive per liter of liquid compared to buying it all in bulk.
I kept telling her that if you just bought one giant bottle for the best price when it went on sale, you’d end up buying more liquid and saving money over time. I’d buy a big huge bottle every year or so and it would last us months, then she’d revert to buying small bottles again.
Eventually, she realized that it was cheaper in the long run to buying big bottles … mostly because when you bought one giant bottle, you’d forget the problem altogether for about six months or even a year.
It’s a code of honour at this point … no one uses A: in respect for all those drives that died for our sins
Same with the Trans issue … or anything to do with sexuality … anyone who is sexually different only occupies about 10% of the population yet politicians have to treat it like some kind of mania.
The most troublesome minority group in the world are rich wealthy oligarchs from all nations.