I’m taking a bit of time out for myself for the next little while … I’ve had some family loss that was very close to me and I’m taking time doing other things at the moment … it’s not anything or anyone that happened here on Lemmy or Piefed (they’re all great communities) … my life has just made a drastic change right now and I need to take care of myself for a while … I’ll be back later on but for the time being, I won’t be around much if at all.

I still love this space and everyone in it … I just need to take some time for myself right now.

During the worst of the fighting in WWII, allied ships when they could still took the time to pick up and rescue enemy sailors in the water.

So I guess, unless you are able to give a Nazi war salute to the German Fuhrer, you might have a chance of being rescued.

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.

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.

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.

Unless they can pull out their gun and shoot at something or someone … or tackle someone … they aren’t very good at doing anything else.

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

… also the price of things.

Corporations especially grocers just got a big chance to raise prices … even if the tariffs go away, none of them will bring the prices down again. They’ll just pocket the difference and let everyone pay the new high prices which will stay in place.

Where’s Abe Vigoda? Isn’t he still alive?

It’s more like …

“Merry Chr…”

“What are you doing? It’s Easter”

This is just another daily reminder of this quote …

“Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich”

I remember reading years ago as well that there is more than enough food and water to make every living human comfortable and fed … Africa alone could be able to self sustain itself by producing its own food and providing clean water for every person the continent if all its resources and services were organized in the most efficient way - instead the finances of African nations is organized in such a way that they spend more on paying for debts and selling all their resources to first world nations.

In this day in age, with the amount of knowledge, technology and ability we have on the planet … every living human should have proper drinking water and they should have all the food they need … there should be no excuse for anyone any where to be starving or lacking water.

The fact that there are starving people in the world means that we all accept a world where thousands and even millions go without.

Do it as a group … get several parents together and get all the kids to huddle together like penguins … if penguins can survive -60 degree weather as a group, kids can do the same

Either that or just teach the kids how to smoke.

I think God would want to meet them just to see the look on their face when he told them they were going to hell.

When American Christians get to the afterlife and meet god …

Friend of mine in southern Ontario labels his

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Scully … you do know we live in America right?

WHAT?

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whhhhhirrlllllllll … plink, plink … AHH, MY TEETH (in some Asian language)