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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  • Write everything in digital form … use text only because it’s easier to archive, manage, organize and refer to in the future

    Encrypt as much as you can and keep a copy locally and in as much safe keeping and off line as much as possible whenever and however you can.

    I wouldn’t worry about having the state come after you and use the information against you … or worry too much about intelligence agencies cracking your encryption and reading all your writing … really … who cares because if the state does want to come after you, they wouldn’t care what evidence was available … a journal might make their case easier but in the long run, they wouldn’t care any way.

    I would think about the journal and writing from an archival point of view. You’re not writing and creating all that content for yourself … you’re writing and creating it for future generations to see and read. Sure, it might get destroyed or erased … but it also might have a chance of being stored, shared, archived and rediscovered in the future. It would be like reading journals and content written by people before the first or second world wars and historians would gain a valuable insight into the minds of people during our time period. The information we produce now doesn’t matter much to anyone right now whether for good or bad reasons … the information we create now will mean so much more to people far into the future.

    So go ahead … write, write often and write as much as you can … the more you write, the more you leave behind for someone in the future to find.





  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldFound money. What do?
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    5 days ago

    Your story needs a lot more context for anyone to provide reasonable advice on here.

    If it’s a nice clean park in an affluent neighbourhood, chances are someone accidentally lost the money.

    If it’s in a sketchy part of town with higher levels of crime nearby … chances are it was drug money that was tossed for one reason or another because something bad happened.

    So the resulting answers will be different … if this all happened in a law abiding neighbourhood, then you should take your time and official avenues to figure out if someone lost their money. If it’s in an obviously rough place where drug dealing or other illegal activity is happening, then I would probably say to just keep the money and don’t talk about it too much. It’s not easy or advisable to return money to criminals or people engaging in criminal activity.


  • It was always a sight to see this time of year … there’s only one highway in this part of the province - Highway 11 - when you are driving north past Kenogami Lake (which is near Kirkland Lake) and you go over the bridge there, you can see this little yellow car on the ice.

    It’s more or less a tradition for northerners now … we expect to see Herbie on the ice when we are driving by in the late winter / early spring.


  • I’ve got friends in the north near Kirkland Lake, Ontario and they do a similar annual fundraiser with a Volkswagon Beetle - they’ve been doing it for years with the same car. I think it’s for fundraising for their local fire department.

    Kenogami & District Volunteer Fire Brigade - Herbie Car Fundraiser

    The car is cleaned up and cleared for environmental pollutants and then fished out every spring and repeated again the next winter. I always thought it was funny seeing that old yellow car on the ice.





  • Newspapers, magazines, TV, film, movies, broadcasts are all regulated nationally and internationally

    The same should be done for corporate social media companies who basically deliver all or most news content and information to people everywhere today.

    The current state of the world is like being in the 1900s and only having six major newspapers in the world owned by big corporations and none of the content they publish or share is regulated or controlled.


  • This was also about 15 years ago so I don’t know of limitations, regulations, vehicle type or anything else had to do with it all

    We did that 260 kmh for about five minutes in the south of the country driving to Nuremberg and it was just that once. We were too afraid after that and just drove the same speed as everyone which was an average about 140 to 160 kmh


  • I don’t know honestly … all I know is that the A6 had about 5,000 km on the odometer and everything was pristine new … it was the most luxury brand new car I ever drove. We had to haggle the rental guy to upgrade our rental from a standard rental to one size up … he didn’t have anything in our range but said that he would look into upgrading us further and we ended up with the A6.

    Like I said, we were on a nice long downslope in the country side. It was easy to floor it and build up speed but the car seemed to max out at 255 260 and I couldn’t get it any further. The best part was that Mercedes flashing us from behind and wanting to pass.

    Later on on the same trip, we noticed two helicopter flights overhead carrying cars away from an accident … they don’t seem to bother calling in tow trucks to carry things away because the pieces of cars that are left from a high speed crash are small enough to be carried away with a chopper.


  • We traveled to Germany years ago, rented a car and drove on the autobahn with no speed limit. We were on a long down hill in a brand new audi a6 … beautiful car and I floored it in the passing lane to 260 kmh … I was scared shitless because I knew that all I needed was a rock on the road or a little bump and we’d both be dead. I looked in my rear view mirror and a guy was flashing me from behind. He wanted me to move over and he passed us just seemingly floating right past us in a luxury Mercedes.

    That was the fastest I’ve ever driven anything and it was scary. The car was fine, it’s just knowing that if any small thing came in our way at that speed, the car would fly, crash, crush us to death, rip apart and blow up in a blaze of glory. You can survive a crash at 140 kmh … it would be a miracle to have your body remain in one piece in a crash at 300 kmh