ininewcrow

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 points 18 hours ago

Sure would be a shame if he tripped / fell and broke a hip….

... then they'd have to turn the West Wing into a hospital

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 41 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Bigger? .. it just means you need more booze and junk food .... infinitely

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 142 points 18 hours ago (15 children)

If you live in a northern climate, you have to rely on a very complicated and expensive delivery system that will supply you with this fruit that can only be grown in the tropics. And the only way to keep it economical is to create an economy where food prices are artificially kept low because first world countries systematically suppress developing countries that grow bananas into becoming stable economies that would actually provide better wages for farmers and workers who would raise the price of bananas.

We have cheap bananas because we don't mind living in a world where we abuse farmers and workers to work for pennies to supply us in the first world with cheap bananas.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 19 points 19 hours ago

Try .... only if the high ground you have

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 6 points 19 hours ago

Hwat is now officially a Klingon word

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 70 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

The Epstein Ballroom ... it has a nice ring to it

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 6 points 20 hours ago

This is the scary thing about the development of any kind of AI we are building as a society generally .... it will be heavily biased according to our general ideas of race, identity and beliefs ... no matter how you cut it, develop it, influence it or deal with it, the AI will always take away our human based general ideas of right, wrong, biases, beliefs, and perceptions.

When you think about it, we (humanity as a whole) are trailer trash morons who dropped out of school years ago that shouldn't have the responsibility of raising a child ... but we went out and got pregnant anyway and now we're raising a baby ... sure, there are instances of trailer trash parents who do go out to raise decent people but I've seen my share of down and out people who raise children in absolutely the worst ways possible and churn out a whole generation of maladjusted people who end up with drug addictions, and their only hope is in doing the absolutely dumbest things possible to get by in life.

We're dumb parents and we're raising a new being-AI-intelligence-whatever into existence. What do you think that new child (or growing AI) will become?

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 33 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

That's why the AI was triggered in the first place .... the kid is BLACK!!!

How many white kids with crumpled bags of chips in their pockets went away without any notice ... as soon as you have one black kid in that situation .... BOOM ... call in the SWAT Team!

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 30 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Or better yet .... more and more people will start to realize that it's cheaper in the long run to just skip your loan payments. Even if you lose everything, how much more can you lose?

And when enough people lose, the banks and corporations start losing as well. So it's in the best interest of the banks to keep everyone afloat as long as possible to keep up the illusion that the system is still working.

It's a precarious balance between making people believe that they need to stay in the game and stopping them from thinking that the game is rigged.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 26 points 22 hours ago

A great educator and language teacher as well ...

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago

Local politician ... a member of town council but also a character that just hung onto any and all political positions related to local politics. He never did much expect make money for himself. If he didn't get on council, he would try for mayor, and if he got neither, Financial Controller, Administrator, Manager, whatever, as long as it was with the town. He was in essence a salesman because he could talk circles around most people with political language and a bit of education, especially when he dealt with the uneducated or gullible people. It was basically his entire career and he's well on his way to retiring after having done nothing for anyone else or the town.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They vet ICE agents?

 

I happened on a bit of TV trivia a while ago. I enjoy watching a Canadian TV Show on CBC called ‘Son of a Critch’ … great show with great writing and acting … it’s simple, holky, funny, endearing … reminds me of the 80s show ‘Wonder Years’ … and it’s all based on a family living in the 80s in Newfoundland … all things I really love and enjoy.

One of the show regulars is Malcolm McDowell … who played Soran in the Star Trek film ‘Generations’ ... I also found it amazing that someone like McDowell was co-starring in this little Canadian TV show.

In the episode ‘Old Friends, New Friends’ - Season 2 Episode 10 … one of the guest actresses was Alice Krige … who played the original Borg Queen from the Star Trek film ‘First Contact’

It was really neat to see McDowell and Krige together in the same scenes in this episode … Soran, a mad man in search of eternity and the Borg Queen in search of eternal slavery.

The addition of text to the image (and inspiration for this post) was thanks to @ummthatguy@lemmy.world

 

My wife likes watching America's Got Talent with all their highlight reels and it got me to thinking, there's a business out there making a ton of money from parents allowing their children to perform for free.

 

EDIT: ... changed title from 'monkeys' to 'apes' ... thanks to @Diddlydee@feddit.uk for pointing it out

 
 

Did everyone notice how this election wiped out all the previous leaders and now we're faced with being introduced to a new crowd of political leaders.

Elizabeth May with the Green Party is the only one still standing.

 
 

Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 2 Episode 23 - Regeneration

The episode starts in the 22nd Century in the Arctic .... and the first thought I had was .... WE BEAT GLOBAL WARMING!!! Because there's still ice and snow in the Arctic.

 

Scott Thompson, a Canadian comedian famous as a member of the TV Comedy series 'Kids In The Hall'

Patrick Stewart, as Captain Picard with hair

 

Every call I've ever had that was a wrong number, misdailed number, pocket dial or whatever that wasn't supposed to be for me turned out to be a spam call or marketing call for something. Most of the time, it was a way for me to confirm my number to some dumb marketer.

For the past year or two, I answer all mysterious calls I don't recognize and put it immediately on 'mute'. If the person calling doesn't identify themselves ... I let them hang up first and then I just block the number. If they identify themselves with some weird marketing message ... I let them hang up and then block the number.

 
 

I just lost two close relatives who were also friends today. We grew up as kids and they were about a year or two older than me. I've always been aware of death and accept it but when stuff like this happens, it's a really strong reminder of how we're all moving along in the line towards the end.

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