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Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women's rights and do not support war of any kind.

  • lol ... the story of invention of Worcestershire Sauce

    a bunch of guys were trying to recreate Oriental fish sauce in the UK .... the thing they came up with was terrible so they put the barrel of the stuff in the basement and forgot about it

    They went back and rediscovered it a year later and tried it again ... they had created Worchestershire sauce

    .... the fun part of these stories is that this is all based on survivalship bias ... these are all stories of foods that actually turned out. It makes you wonder how many instances there were throughout history of people trying to eat things they thought were unusual or forgotten foods and they tried eating them and it ended up killing them instead.

  • It's the removal of responsibility and it was a feature of the Nuremberg Trials of Nazis after the Second World War

    Officers and high ranking people argued that they only gave orders ... anyone could have disobeyed or refused their orders so it wasn't their fault

    Low ranking officials and soldiers argued that they were following orders .... they were ordered to do things under threat of punishment so it wasn't their fault

  • Always love the history of the invention of Cheese

    Some people thought it was a good idea to drink milk from a cow because they saw that babies drank from a mothers breast .... why not the cow?

    Then a few hundred years of that, some guy kept a bunch of milk in a goat's stomach they used as a storage bag .... the milk curdled and turned into big solid chunks .... hmmmm ... might as well try to eat it ... what could go wrong? that it might kill me!? hahahahahahaha !!!

    Few hundred years later, a bunch of Europeans kept cheese in a cave and it started to get affected with a mold giving it a series of blue streaks and spots .... hey Hans, what happened to the cheese? .... don't know, let's feed to Gunther and see if it kills him

  • Shake your fist harder son!

  • The difference between a Legal System and a Justice System

  • Nightmare? ... I thought it was the American Dream .... either way, you have to be asleep to experience it

  • Great! .... the solution to our problems ... let's all trust edgemaster72

  • Capitalize profitsSocialize expenses

  • My rule is to actively avoid any public places for all of December

  • Americans suffer from Stockholm syndrome

  • The problem is not the system or the idea of age verification

    The problem is that no one on earth can be trusted with that level of monitoring, control and power.

  • People who go to the store to buy things at the last minute on the busiest days of the year are the ones at fault for not being able to find or get the things they want.

    If you know a big holiday event is coming up .... you should be buying things a week or two ahead of schedule to prepare for the day when things are going to happen.

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  • Political leanings are always influenced by wealth

    If you are wealthy and have a chance of becoming even more wealthy ... being a conservative is great because it ensures you keep your wealth and probably gain more

    If you are not wealthy ... you have to support socialism because it's your only chance of having a life or even gaining any bit of wealth or control of your life.

  • My parents were born and raised in the wilderness and they thrived there most of the time. But they also reminded us that their lives were very precarious. Mom had an uncle that died as a child because he ate the wrong plant. Dad had a relative die of infection from cutting their hand with an axe. Both of them remember a period in the 1950s when they were children when a famine occurred in the wilderness when animals literally disappeared everywhere - it's a natural phenomenon where animal populations rise and fall over periods of years or decades. The animals in the forest just disappear, birds migrate elsewhere and even fish stocks deplete. It's not so much from overhunting, it's just a cyclical thing that happens due to weather, environment, disease or other factors. When animals grow scarce in the wild due to natural cycles, people just starve. Dad had stories of seeing people boil hide moccasins to make a soup just to eat anything. Women became so frail they couldn't produce breast milk anymore so they resorted to spoon feeding babies fish broth.

    So they were both always quick to mind me and my siblings .... life is good today, no matter how bad you think it might be.

  • The greatest point of failure to any new technology will always be the human

  • They've covered just about every inch of this pig in lipstick at this point

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  • The Greek was sneaking a look from across the table .... which is why they reoriented the symbol

  • Two Sentence Horror @sh.itjust.works

    I had been alone in space orbit for the past five days.

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    A strange white orb lingered high in the sky and stayed there for days.

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    It took four or five days.

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    The men of the German SS Tank Division cheered and celebrated up and down the long column.

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    My body moved and talked on its own.

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    As Death led him away by the hand, the more he asked, the more he forgot.

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    I lay in the dark wondering what to write.

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    It was 500 years ago when the massive star system had collapsed in its final death throes and randomly threw out enormous jets of radiation into the vacuum of space.

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    I felt my face hit the floor, heard the roar of the crowd and saw their wild faces.

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    I could hear the doctor speak to his staff and give directions for the work ahead.

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    My breath grew slow, my chest became calm and the tightness let go.

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    I could feel the sand around my hands and feet.

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    I could feel the cold air, the heavy wind and the seatbelt tight around my waist.

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    I could feel the sunlight on my face as I drifted towards the moon.

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    The blinding flash of sparks and light mixed with the broken glass and jagged steel.

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    Trailer Park Space Boys

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    Klingon Hell

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    Aliens decide to communicate with us

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    Thanks Shane you beautiful Irish Bard