Writer, retired lawyer, urban hiker, knitter, bookworm, Scottish Country Dancer. 320.23 ppm.
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Last Notes npub1r5e22vrr3zzjxfjsny6e6ychfq73m9ugps5lcmxs2e7upts3nd9qx5lz5q Lynn D 🇨🇦 @nprofile…926n it almost feels like 7 people years too 😱🙄 npub1r5e22vrr3zzjxfjsny6e6ychfq73m9ugps5lcmxs2e7upts3nd9qx5lz5q Lynn D 🇨🇦 @nprofile…dc6s @nprofile…tnl6 I’m sure they do, just like Napoleon and Hitler had plans for Russia. The thing about plans though, is that they rarely, if ever, survive the first engagement. Funny thing is that people don’t like being invaded and rarely react like the bullies think they will. npub1r5e22vrr3zzjxfjsny6e6ychfq73m9ugps5lcmxs2e7upts3nd9qx5lz5q Lynn D 🇨🇦 @nprofile…dc6s @nprofile…tnl6 there still is the USA factor, and an empire is at its most dangerous when it’s rapidly crumbling from within. npub1r5e22vrr3zzjxfjsny6e6ychfq73m9ugps5lcmxs2e7upts3nd9qx5lz5q Lynn D 🇨🇦 @nprofile…wuyc and a lot of those same people who want to buy EVs, oppose cycling infrastructure at every possible. ETA, I guess that my musing is what do we do, now that most governments in Canada are abandoning the field - somehow we have to change the narrative to get individuals to act in great enough numbers to make a change and obliterate the power of the fossil fuel lobby. And, no, I have no idea how to overcome the nihilism. npub1r5e22vrr3zzjxfjsny6e6ychfq73m9ugps5lcmxs2e7upts3nd9qx5lz5q Lynn D 🇨🇦 @nprofile…wuyc the thing that I keep thinking about is how much of the rhetoric that “individuals can’t make a difference” comes from the fossil fuel industry to stop us from doing anything. If enough of us in wealthy countries reduce our fossil fuel consumption (heat pumps, solar panels, geothermal, consuming less and buying local when we buy things), we could make it unprofitable to keep drilling. It’s not the only thing that has to happen, but it’s a piece of the puzzle. npub1r5e22vrr3zzjxfjsny6e6ychfq73m9ugps5lcmxs2e7upts3nd9qx5lz5q Lynn D 🇨🇦 @nprofile…wuyc I think that it’s more nostalgia for the “old-time” department store where you could buy pretty much everything. I do miss Eatons, and Sears, but the Bay, meh. The fact that it continued to actively celebrate its colonialist history/mindset with its endless celebration of “HBC stripes themed products” is just one of the biggest example of how tone-deaf the company has always been. npub1r5e22vrr3zzjxfjsny6e6ychfq73m9ugps5lcmxs2e7upts3nd9qx5lz5q Lynn D 🇨🇦 Could we propose a trade to the US. We’ll give you Stephen Harper in exchange for a million undocumented immigrants. npub1r5e22vrr3zzjxfjsny6e6ychfq73m9ugps5lcmxs2e7upts3nd9qx5lz5q Lynn D 🇨🇦 @nprofile…args @nprofile…e0gf oh, come and join us! Think of it as your time of meditation (or catharsis when you have to frog back, and can legitimately curse like a sailor 🤣) #knitting npub1r5e22vrr3zzjxfjsny6e6ychfq73m9ugps5lcmxs2e7upts3nd9qx5lz5q Lynn D 🇨🇦 @nprofile…u3wt @nprofile…wuyc I actually think that having a little bit of “friction” in the sign up process is not necessarily a bad thing. It may help keep some of the bad actors who just want to “hit and run” away. npub1r5e22vrr3zzjxfjsny6e6ychfq73m9ugps5lcmxs2e7upts3nd9qx5lz5q Lynn D 🇨🇦 @npub189n…satx I, a Canadian who is not in favour of guns at all, think that you are wise to do so. 😔. npub1r5e22vrr3zzjxfjsny6e6ychfq73m9ugps5lcmxs2e7upts3nd9qx5lz5q Lynn D 🇨🇦 @npub1mmf…eknq that explains a lot. npub1r5e22vrr3zzjxfjsny6e6ychfq73m9ugps5lcmxs2e7upts3nd9qx5lz5q Lynn D 🇨🇦 @npub1mmf…eknq but heck, what do we know? We aren’t political “consultants” who get paid big bucks. We’re just average folks who actually talk to real people and listen to what they’re saying. npub1r5e22vrr3zzjxfjsny6e6ychfq73m9ugps5lcmxs2e7upts3nd9qx5lz5q Lynn D 🇨🇦 @npub1mmf…eknq and a lot of Hindus won’t vote for a Sikh either, and in a few GTA, this is critical. npub1r5e22vrr3zzjxfjsny6e6ychfq73m9ugps5lcmxs2e7upts3nd9qx5lz5q Lynn D 🇨🇦 @npub1mmf…eknq it’s a phenomenon that’s sweeping most of Europe as well, and there it’s also young voters who are joining the fascist train (granted, mostly young, white men, but still). npub1r5e22vrr3zzjxfjsny6e6ychfq73m9ugps5lcmxs2e7upts3nd9qx5lz5q Lynn D 🇨🇦 @npub1mmf…eknq it is the top story on CBC News App. npub1r5e22vrr3zzjxfjsny6e6ychfq73m9ugps5lcmxs2e7upts3nd9qx5lz5q Lynn D 🇨🇦 @npub1mmf…eknq I can’t help thinking about how similar in substance, if not form, this is to the appeasers in Munich in 1938. npub1r5e22vrr3zzjxfjsny6e6ychfq73m9ugps5lcmxs2e7upts3nd9qx5lz5q Lynn D 🇨🇦 @npub1mmf…eknq I think it was a $200k Ferrari, and this completely tracks with his general and awful f$$kuppery. npub1r5e22vrr3zzjxfjsny6e6ychfq73m9ugps5lcmxs2e7upts3nd9qx5lz5q Lynn D 🇨🇦 @npub1khx…geyg Betwixt the Sheets is a great podcast. Looking forward to listening to this instalment. npub1r5e22vrr3zzjxfjsny6e6ychfq73m9ugps5lcmxs2e7upts3nd9qx5lz5q Lynn D 🇨🇦 @npub1a0m…ljpw I’m not sure that it’s a lackadaisical attitude, as much as arrogance. The idea that humans are somehow “superior” to other living things has been so ingrained into our culture (and I would argue that this is particularly true in healthcare) over the past 60 or so years, that many people cannot comprehend that a simple virus can kill or debilitate them. When they are confronted with the reality they simply cannot accept that a tiny virus can somehow “defeat THEM.” /1
