Interesting test. I just tried mine with my high fidelity ear plugs and it actually made it clearer when my music is at a lower volume. of course these aren’t meant to block out all sounds though.
With regular earplugs, its a little muffled, but I’m honestly quite impressed by how good it still sounds.
Same, I got mine about 6 months ago and they are a huge game changer. Bought them originally to use while riding my escooter so I could still hear traffic, etc. I ride in about an hour each way to work. They’re incredible I can even still hear birds, but can hear my music totally clearly.
Bonus is that I can wear them at work all the time now and still hear when people are trying to get my attention, and I’m not constantly removing them and losing them like I would with my earbuds.
I also love the sound quality, which you’d expect would be awful, but it just sounds like there’s music playing in the room you’re in. Sometimes I forget that the music is just in my ears. Cannot recommend enough honestly.
Hm that’s true. Rome had a lot going on towards the end and I can’t pretend to be an expert, but certainly the elite’s greed led to a financial crisis, and what I would consider to be a grave dehumanization of poor citizens (and the ongoing reliance on slaves) played a role. It didn’t end the same way with a revolution, but the factors that led to its fall were all quite similar.
Your $5 bill is probably filled with poop, pee, sweat, food, cum, dirt, etc.
So you’re saying extra protein when I use it to shove things in my nose.
That’s a pretty standard sign in most shared pools tbf. People are gross af.
This happens every once in a while in history. The wealthy grow very wealthy and the poor realize they’re being used and chop off a few heads or descend into lots of wars or whatever and then the cycle starts again. Don’t worry it’s not the end of humanity itself but it very often signals the end of an empire.
See: the feudal ages/french revolution or the end of the roman empire
When we first adopted him the foster person said he “nibbles” and he’s “quirky”. This mf-er will draw blood if you’re not fast enough. He bites when he gets overexcited from pets, and he also bites when he’s not being pet enough. If he’s on your lap or chest, he will very purposefully bite your nipples. You just have to be fast enough and read him so you can save yourself from the chomp. I don’t know any other cat with teeth as sharp as his.
His “quirky” habits are that he’s extremely easily startled and that he will always be ON your feet (not at your feet or around your feet, he will sit on them). Today he was shoving himself in the fridge while my partner was trying to get something, and when he went to close the door this dumbass cat got startled and jumped face first into the door. He also will scream, for hours, even if you’re in the same room as him. He screams until you look at him and then he pretends to be cleaning himself if you call his name, but as soon as you look away he starts screaming again.
He’s extremely fucking annoying, like I’ve never had a cat as annoying as him before (and I’ve lived with like 10 different cats). Love him to death and I would never give him up, but goddamn do I want to throw him out the window sometimes.
Oh we had one that was not so good at cleaning himself either. Is he older or has he always been like that? Ours was quite elderly and had arthritis so he got a bit better with medication but he still was never great.
The article on the same site you shared here (https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/royal-canadian-mounted-police) about the RCMP goes over their history as the NWCP, who were created to control “unrest” among indigenous people and settlers (I.e. the people that were stealing their land). You can read about the Indian Act, which exists to this day. That book goes over the laws I mentioned about the police enforcing the potluck bans and how they punished indigenous people who went off reserve (similarly to how Israeli forces keep Palestinians within their own areas and don’t allow them travel outside without a pass). There’s a shorter version of the 21 things you may not know about the Indian act Here, and Bob Joseph is one the most renowned indigenous scholars in Canada. Police officers were also the ones who would “arrest” children and take them to the residential schools. orangeshirtday.org
As for the sixties scoop, there are a few things at play. One, the reservations were kept under-served (meaning in terms of electricity, etc) by the very systems the government had created. Two, as you mentioned, they did not own the land (and legally weren’t allowed to) so they were all “poor” in the eyes of the government. But most importantly, its the basis that the white government workers who were deciding what is or isn’t a good “fit” for the child were doing so based on their own cultural values
The ideal home would instil the values and lifestyles with which the child welfare workers themselves were familiar: white, middle-class homes in white, middle-class neighbourhoods. Aboriginal communities and Aboriginal parents and families were deemed to be “unfit.” (http://www.ajic.mb.ca/volumel/chapter14.html#6)
As a consequence, indigenous children were greatly over-represented in the child welfare system: by your own source, its a low estimate to say that 20,000 children were taken from their homes.
You mentioned that school age mortality was around 1 in 250. In residential schools, that same mortality was 1 in 25 (conservatively). The medical inspector of these schools himself even called out the conditions of these schools in his book A National Crime.
As for the savage comment, I barely even want to respond to that but White Canadians most certainly also had slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries, and I promise you that is not why he was calling then “savages”.
The government itself recognized the actions as genocide, and what is disingenuous is to downplay the genocide of one group of peoples over another just because one was “less effective” at destroying a culture and murdering people.
I know I’m not going to change your mind so I’m going to stop replying after this. I want you to know that I don’t think Canada, or Canadians, are “bad” people, just like how I don’t think Israelis are necessarily “bad” people. The government does fucked up shit. All governments do fucked up shit. None of it is okay, and none of it is “better” just because it is less successful at its goal of erasing entire cultures. Yes, even those slave trading indigenous groups were doing fucked up shit, and no, that also was not okay. That doesn’t mean it’s okay to kill them all and replace them with your own fucked up shit.
Every single candidate should be made to pass a basic grade 8 biology exam.
Personally, I’d argue that was more a matter of cultural integration, with a misguided/mismanaged school system lead by a religious group – and that religious group was definitely keen on indoctrinating people into their faith, as religious groups are, but they’re at semi-arms length from the regular population/government
"When the school is on the reserve, the child lives with its parents, who are savages, and though he may learn to read and write, his habits and training mode of thought are Indian. He is simply a savage who can read and write. It has been strongly impressed upon myself, as head of the Department, that Indian children should be withdrawn as much as possible from the parental influence, and the only way to do that would be to put them in central training industrial schools where they will acquire the habits and modes of thought of white men. " - the guy on our $10 bill, i.e. the first PM of Canada.
Additionally, the Canadian government, even after closing most residential schools (with the last one being open until as recently as 27 years ago), continued to steal children from their families to place them in white homes and further destroy their culture. Look up the 60’s scoop and the ongoing statistics of Indigenous children in the welfare system.
The RCMP was created to uphold genocidal laws (like the law that outlawed powwows and public displays of culture).
Yes, Israel’s genocide is plain to see now, but make no mistake, what Canada did was very clear and very intentional genocide, and we continue to uphold that colonial (read: genocidal) system to this day.
Bonus John A. quote: “The great aim of our legislation has been to do away with the tribal system and assimilate the Indian people in all respects with the other inhabitants of the Dominion as speedily as they are fit to change.”
I’d also argue that 215 bodies is just as bad as “mass graves” whether or not they were put into a mass grave or individual unmarked graves. And that’s just at one school.
Why did he admit to it? It doesn’t seem like they would’ve figured it out if he hadn’t since it was a secret vote.
I learned this the hard way earlier this year when I got lasik. I used to be able to read the clock from across the room in my house with my contacts, but now that I have 20/20 without contacts, I can no longer make it out. So I guess the contacts were giving me a slightly higher than average vision.
God damn the ocean is terrifying.
No way you could pay me to go near Inside Out 1 when I’m sad. I cant even re-watch that at my best without having a breakdown. That is brave.
Instander is an ad-free version of Instagram. Also, you can review all the data they (meta) has on you and you’ll see what websites have been sharing your data (whether you know it or not). You can check you ad preferences to see how they are personalizing things for you. From my understanding it’ll also base stuff off what your Instagram/fb friends view/like so even if you turn it off but your partner has shown any interest in it, you may get it too.
Thanks, I found it. What I understood from going through some of her downvoted content and from the links you shared was that people were posting her (paid) patron content and her (presumably also paid) nudes. I’ve admittedly got very little history on all of this so maybe I’m missing something but it seems understandable that artists wouldn’t want their paid content re-posted, and I’ve seen other artists be upset about the same. I think people should respect that regardless of whether they think the artist is good or not.
I didn’t see it on that post, but which one is the specific misandrist comic, is it in there somewhere? Just looking through her stuff and seeing some anti-maga and anti-veryspecifictypeofman stuff but nothing that pops out at me as general misandry.
The KYM page also just mentioned the BHJ stuff but nothing specific about whatever controversial thing she posted.
One of my first sessions with my therapist, I said something that made them crack and go “WHAT”. They apologized almost immediately for losing their composure but I’ve been chasing that high ever since.
This isn’t hyped by normal people I guess but when I was looking for a better pillow, these custom-sized memory foam pillows seemed like a crazy overhype and a grab for money by physiotherapists. $200 and a year later, still the best purchase I have made for my bed.
Also, peanut butter. I hated peanut butter growing up and never understood how people are so obsessed with it. Man did I miss out for years, that shit is so good and so versatile.