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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  • It was partly to save myself … we got rained on for Halloween this year so we had half as many kids come to the door. I had stocked up on a ton of candy and I wanted to get rid of it as much as possible. I really didn’t want to get stuck with several boxes of chocolates and chips at the end of the night. You should have seen the two teens that I decided were going to be the last ones I served for the night at 8:50pm … I had about a hundred little chocolate bars and about eight bags of little chips … I told them they were the last two I would serve for the night and I gave them everything. They were tall kids about maybe 14 or 15 and I could see myself in them. I thought, if I were them, I would have been very happy to meet an adult like me on Halloween night. Felt great to give all that stuff to them. Their eyes were wide and amazed as I filled their bags. They’ll enjoy it more than me.


  • Had some teenagers come to the door at the end of the night with really lame costumes, with cheap capes and a bit of face make up. I don’t think they cared what they were dressing up us and they were going through the motions of collecting candy.

    From my own experience as a kid on Halloween, I’m pretty sure they had been to a few houses where people weren’t nice to them.

    I made them laugh and asked them if they were having fun … then gave them several handfuls of chocolates, candies and a bunch of chips. They were surprised and said mine was the best house they’d been to. Told them they were great and to have fun. Waved them off and saw them running down the street.

    It’s great to be a kid … but it also feels good to make kids feel great too.



  • This will be the template of what is to come for all of us all over the world.

    Climate caused catastrophes and instead of working together, having patience with government, trying to figure out solutions, working cooperatively … we’ll all protest, fight, get angry with one another and make the situation worse for one another.

    We won’t be working together to deal with the problem or admitting to one another that we are causing the climate catastrophes or doing anything significant to lessen the effects or even change our behaviour … we’ll just protest our governments for not having magical instant solutions to impossible problems.




  • A time capsule

    Place photos and some small objects maybe even a usb key, dvdr or cdr with a video of you explaining everything and telling the viewer who you are, what year it is, what’s going on and what’s important to you right now. Place it all in a water tight container, maybe even an iron case and weld it shut.

    If you have small kids, tell them what you’re doing and show them … maybe they or their kids or your descendants might dig it up some day.

    Of all the places I’ve renovated, I would have enjoyed finding something from someone else’s life.


  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldRoad trip!
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    I’ve always wanted to try a pu pu platter. My wife kept saying it was a dumb idea and for years we never ordered it. My local Chinese restaurant advertised a ‘Flaming Pu Pu Platter’ and I never cared what it would have tasted like, I just wanted to say I ordered it.

    I finally decided on just ordering it one day and I told my wife I didn’t care, I’m getting it.

    The lady who owned the place then told me that they got rid of it a year before because no one ordered it any more.

    Greatest disappointment in my life :(

    I’ve never been able to find a ‘Flaming Pu Pu Platter’ again.



  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlHow do adults find happiness in life?
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    By remembering and being fully aware of who you are in this world … by being grateful for the good fortune you had by being born in the situation and family you have now.

    You could have been born in an African village and lived for a year before dying of something. You could have been born in the slums of Mumbai. You could have been born in Gaza. You could also remove the time constraint and you could have been born a peasant in medieval Europe.

    Out of all the billions of human lives that have existed so far, there are many that were born during this time but only a small percentage of them were lucky enough to be born in a family with wealth and privilege enough to enjoy the modern technologies we’ve created so far.

    I am lucky, you are lucky and anyone who is able to read this is lucky to have been born at this time to enjoy this online chat.

    Remember where you are in this world and this time. As unhappy as you think you might be, there are millions of people that wish they could have the life you have now.

    Be happy because you are a winner of the cosmic lottery of existence.





  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldMega-Dosing
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    I joke about this with my old friends who grew up in the 60s and 70s and tell me their wild stories of doing drugs marijuana, LSD, MDMA, and whatever else they had.

    I tell them they’re still there and the trip hasn’t ended yet and they’ll wake up soon. I’m an illusion, this is all in your mind … you’ve been hallucinating the past 40 years.