Don’t laugh … I’ve personally known two people who died of an overdose, one got turned to a vegetable (he’s still alive, if you can call it that) and several who did overdose but survived.

Are you kidding … my best hope is the American people because they are the ones who can change this at any time … but none of them so so it means that there is no hope … in 2026, 2028 or any other year, until the American mentality changes.

Xmas version 2025.12.25 just got released … next incremental release is 2026.01.25, which will work its way up during the year to the final annual version of 2026.12.25

Lucky you … I’m up in northern Ontario and in most of the places up here Sudbury/Timmins/New Liskeard/North Bay … the supply seems to have dried up over the years … we used to see lots, now we see a lot less.

Generally the fediverse on lemmy, piefed and mastodon for me … lots more out there and it’s fun to explore new branches and directions of the fediverse and the communities of people they attract.

It’s daunting, challenging, confusing and complex … but that’s the beauty of it … it feels like wandering around and exploring the early social media internet from the early 2000s and this strange feeling that its going to become a whole lot more as time goes on.

Trading in existing items is not exactly capitalism … that’s just plain old bartering.

Capitalism, especially the modern form, is when you use your existing or inherited wealth to buy or develop companies who generate wealth from the work of other people to create brand new products or services. It’s exploitative because capitalists take the hard work of many people who create brand new products and then claim full or majority ownership over those products without having done anything except claim ownership.

What you are doing is taking old discarded things that either have no more value or lesser value and taking your own effort and time to recreate value and barter it to someone else. The only person you’ve exploited in the transaction is yourself … but you reap all the benefit. And no one can go back and say that the product that you just traded is stolen profit from the previous owner … the previous owner had thrown it away and didn’t value it any more or even considered it trash to be thrown away.

Flipping isn’t capitalism … it’s just good economic sense for the individual.

Unless you turn it all into a multimillion dollar business with employees, real estate and a corporation … it isn’t capitalism.

Buy stuff on ebay and start trading to bigger and better things. If you work at it hard enough, you’ll end up with trading items worth thousands without having spent more than $75.

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/steven-ortiz-porsche-trade-craigslist,news-7544.html

or it was purposeful to feed the public another thread of distraction that we can all entangle ourselves with for the next few months.

At this point, the controversy is not Trump … the controversy is the American government, the American media and the American public just rolling over another chapter of this absolute stupidity.

Here in Canada in Ontario, up until about five years ago, they used to sell panettone everywhere during Christmas … grocers used to stock them everywhere and about four or five different brands. Cheaper ones came in all plastic wrapping and more expensive ones came wrapped in plastic and contained in fancy decorative cardboard boxes. And back then, we had the choice of size and they were usually large sized.

Now we have limited supplies and the displays for them are even hard to find. We only have one brand now ‘Massimo’ and they are more the smaller size. Every year now, all my Italian Canadian friends go on a frenzy looking for them … as soon as they come out, they disappear.

Don’t know what happened to the supply but we don’t see much of them any more.

Gives cat a present … cat swats it away

There are still plenty of websites and even news websites that either avoid this or break reader mode to prevent people from using it.

If all you want is to read 5000 words of something you were looking for … just display those 5000 words and nothing else.

We don’t need graphics, pictures, images, blocking, ads, pop-ups, videos or any other suggestions … just give us the content, it’s all we want sometimes.

Depending on which group you ask … He is also his own father

So God gave her an Immaculate Conception … and Gabriel gave her a golden shower?

If you can’t afford the traditional funeral or even the immediate cremation … there are other “options”.

Gotta wonder what they were smoking in the middle east 3000 years ago to come up with these biblically accurate angels

It should be considered a workplace hazard at this point … and workers should be compensated for it

I was at an underground parking lot in the city in Toronto once. We got caught in a long lineup of cars because some idiot in a jacked up F150 with no sense of scale thought it was a good idea to park his enormous truck here.

A bunch of us guys helped him out by hopping onto his bumper and weighing down the back end so that he could barely pass the height limit. I imagine he had the same problem on his way out.

Don’t judge … that poor man needs that large vehicle in order to accommodate his extremely large penis and enormous testicles … the loud engine sounds are to warn others of his condition and let everyone know everywhere of what he has to live with … that poor man … it’s a real problem

Hot egg nog can’t melt candy cane beams