I remember reading something like that years ago … that there are some historians who think that we haven’t left the dark ages yet. In everything else with technology and information we’ve progressed but we still think and act the same way we have for the past 2000 years.

And the more I read about the subject over the years the more I realized that as human animals, our modern species have only been around for about 50,000 years. In all that time, we’ve only ever been fearful, short sighted, frightened creatures that wanted everything as quickly and as much as possible all the time. We couldn’t do it before but now we can.

In that 50,000 year timeline we’re only on the very tip of history … it’s going to take us millennia to change.

Don’t do drugs

Don’t do sex

I’m indigenous Canadian and both my parents survived residential school in the 50s. Residential school for indigenous people back then was forced on us, especially for children where they were systematically abused by Christian missionaries. Mom was not so abused but dad was terribly traumatized to the point where sex and anything sexual or remotely sexual was forbidden. Just about everything in life to him meant burning in everlasting hell. Drugs were no different but less so.

So our indigenous Christian home just dealt with it all by forbidding everything.

How did it turn out?

I have seven siblings and we all ended up with alcohol and drug addiction by the time we were teenagers. I cleaned up early and I’ve been sober for 29 years, all my other siblings never fell off the deep end (thank God) but I’m the only one who got officially ‘sober’.

I didn’t have kids but everyone else in my family did before anyone was married. One of my younger brothers picked up the slack for me by having children with four women. I have over 40 nieces and nephews, some by the family, some brought in, some married in and others illegitimate.

We’re all one big happy family … but we’re all gonna burn in hell. Lol

And this is the Holy Hand Grenade of Andorra

HELP! HELP! I’M BEING UNASSIMILATED!!

I got to know a bunch of people in a small town in northern Ontario … a place where a few old farms were still around. A lot of old time folksy people.

I was at a local restaurant one day and one of them said … “hey, there’s John the cow fucker”

The story was that he was caught one day when he was a teen in the barn jerking off or doing something sexual with himself near the cows. People didn’t care about the details and the story quickly turned into John practicing beastiality. That was about 40 years ago but the story, the myth and the nickname stuck with him forever. John hated everyone in town because he would easily get mad with people … then people would just say under their breath ‘yeah, that’s John the cow fucker’

John was actually a nice guy … he just hated his nickname and that stupid story.

I think it’s “Bev the Bong Slayer”

Alien porn with William Riker is usually what comes up on my search when I type in “Star Trek Disco”

Maybe we were all dead inside to begin with … and then we created an internet that offered nothing of value in return.

Imagine swallowing it

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing and you mean your mother.

When all powerful bosses who think they control everything and everyone realize who has the most power.

Good for the workers … now watch government lackies step in to support big business.

Whatever happens it should show the country that solidarity matters … hopefully it spreads everywhere else.

Doesn’t he eat shit for breakfast?

The living will envy the dead

General rule of thumb for me to interact with a website and read or watch whatever I want … if you require me to do more than two things to show me the content I came to see, I’m closing the tab or windows and moving on.

If it’s really important and security related, I’ll take my time and carefully examine everything I do.

Otherwise I’m not clicking more than twice and definitely not using my keyboard to see your dumb website or TikTok video.

The Simpsons and Super Nintendo Chalmers had it right decades ago …

Racists always mean what they say

It’s only when they’re caught or called out on what they said that they want to back track on everything.

It takes a coward to say terrible things anonymously and it’s only a coward that pretends they didn’t mean what they said.

Now I know why these things stink so badly

It’s really weird … after the war, it was perfectly acceptable to call out, accuse and point fingers at communists or communist sympathizers as enemies of the state … many of these people had fought as our allies a few year prior and helped to win the war.

At the same time, we were welcoming Nazis and Nazis sympathizer into the country - many of whom were the same people our veterans had fought against a few years prior - and then allowed them to gain wholesome productive and wealthy lives in complete secrecy because government knew that it no one would like that.

It was far easier to be a Nazi or a Fascist after the war than it was to be a communist or socialist.

The stigma is so great that no one even wants to admit it even today.

It’s no wonder that far right ideology is so prevalent these days. It’s a cancer we never wanted to fully immunize ourselves from. And now its coming back and we still won’t admit we suffer from it.

Outside Toronto? … how about over 50 remote and semi remote Native reserves in northern Ontario that either have undrinkable, almost undrinkable, distasteful, questionable or downright dangerous running water for their household.

All this in a supposed first world modern province of Canada.

Lemmy on Android running Sync?