"I guess it's suicide again"
A baby crying
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a young woman's scream
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a grown man screaming in agony .... (something along the lines of saying something like 'OH GOD, MY LEG, MY LEG, OH GOD, GOD NO, MY LEG!!!!, OH GOD, HELP ME, MY LEG!!)
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There was a lot of people asking questions about the previous war and current wars, including the Vietnam War which was happening at the time.
I think the combination of veterans of Second World War, Korean War and the terrible experiences they had meant that they were more than willing to ask pertinent questions about any war.
For example 'A Private Little War', episode 19 from season 2 of TOS which aired in February 1968 is seen as an allegory of the Vietnam War ... the powerful federation and the Klingon Empire trying to manipulate and affect control over a weak neutral planet, which then leads to conflict on the once peaceful population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Private_Little_War
It's really striking when you realize that the episode aired in February 1968, a month after the Battle of Khe Sanh and the start of The Tet Offensive which all happened in January 1968. Major battles and events were happening in Vietnam and the writers and producers air an episode on Star Trek asking and displaying why two great powers (Soviet Union and the United States) are fighting or starting conflicts in once peaceful places. The episode didn't provide any answers but it certainly asked a lot of important questions for everyone to think about.
There are a few other examples like this from the TOS series but this episode was one of the most obvious ones.
A SIDE NOTE: .... I took two trips to Thailand, once in 1999 and another in 2015. We did a lot of budget travelling when we were younger and stronger in 1999 which meant we stayed in a few shady places, including one little bungalow rental place near Trang in the sound of Thailand. We met a middle aged man who was about 50 at the time but built like a muscular 20 year old and as lean. He was a veteran of the Battle of Khe Sanh and he's the one that explained to me that the Americans regularly used any Southeast Asian looking person to fight as a Vietnamese soldier. The old guy told us in his broken English how he watched RPGs fly onto their base and how he stayed up for days avoiding these rockets to stay alive.
During that visit to his place in Thailand in 1999 we came back to his place very late one night at around 2am, I can still see him standing at the gate to his place asking forcefully who was there. It was hot and he stood there shirtless shimming in a layer of light sweat over his tough frame and holding a machete ready to fight. Once he knew it was us, he quickly turned into his nice friendly self and helped us into his property again. The man was scary but also one of the kindest people we met on that trip.
and the greatest lesson I've learned about any and all wars and the veterans that were left behind and survived is to always ask 'why wars were started in the first place'
The biggest humanitarian crime I've come to learn is the lessons of the First World War and why that fiasco was even started. The more history you read into that conflict, the more confused and complicated and senseless it becomes.
And those question lead into WWII and the reasons why the second conflict started and how it could have been prevented. Because even as the world watched the fallout and the rise of fascism, no one really did anything to stop it and in many cases, helped to enable it to become the thing that everyone fought against.
The more history you read about every conflict, the more you realize that every conflict is preventable, which leads you to realize that every conflict is senseless.
Which is why I always believe that we have to remember ... remember the fallen ... but also remember the reason why they fought in the first place ... and to remember the reasons and causes so that we never allow this to happen again.
Yes I do ... and a great bit of history to learn when I first read about it. Funny part was is that it was actually shot off by his own men! who were terribly afraid and on edge during that period.
I have a relative who was a Canadian veteran who landed in Normandy as the second wave of troops in late June / July 1944. That first landing was terrible but equally horrible was what the Canadians went through from June 1944 to about December 1944 as they fought their way into France / Belgium / Germany. These were mostly teens and 20 year olds with a year or less of army training and no combat experience fighting against German veterans that had come back from the Eastern front fighting Russians for the past two / three years. They were kids fighting battle hardened soldiers.
There is a famous battle in Belgium called the 'Battle of the Scheldt' where German soldiers couldn't believe how easily it was to kill newly arrived Canadian soldiers. It was a massacre before Canadians could turn it around .... which is why their participation in the war declined as the Allies moved to Germany. The Canadians literally died out to help the Brits and Americans make their way to Germany.
Walter Matthew Jefferies (August 12, 1921 โ July 21, 2003) was an American aviation and mechanical artist, set designer, and writer. He is best known for his work on the original Star Trek television series, where he designed many of the sets and props, including the original Starship Enterprise, and the bridge and sick bay
After a devastating mid-air collision with a German fighter over North Africa the B-17 bomber "All American" landed safely at a remote desert airfield. It was methodically rebuilt, striped of all armament and flown by a new crew of four. Among these crew members was Matt Jefferies, who served as flight engineer and co-pilot. No longer a bomber, unarmed and incapable of defending itself, the All American was assigned to carry out special secret missions over enemy held territory.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Matt_Jefferies
DeForest Kelley, who played Dr Leonard McCoy in the Original Star Trek series was a veteran of the Second World War. During the war, Kelley served in the United States Army Air Forces in a non-fighting capacity from March 1943 onward, as he, having a theatrical background at the time, was assigned to the First Motion Picture Unit, responsible for the production of propaganda, and training films.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/DeForest_Kelley
Mark Lenard, who famously played Sarek in Star Trek, was a veteran of the Second World War, joining the US Army in 1943 and becoming a paratrooper in Europe. He rose rapidly through the enlisted ranks until he was discharged as a technical sergeant in 1946.
Gene Roddenberry was a veteran bomber pilot for the US Air Force during the Second World War
He was posted to Bellows Field, Oahu, to join the 394th Bomb Squadron, 5th Bombardment Group, of the Thirteenth Air Force, which flew the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
I've been watching TOS with my wife over the past year slowly as we know there are not that many episodes from this period. Every time I watch, I have my laptop and I do a bit of research on the actors and trivia about the episode.
There are many actual WWII veterans that make appearances in the show. It is interesting to note that with the show being made in the late 1960s, many of the returning veterans of the war at the time were in their 40s/50s which means they were still able to take part in shows like this.
James Doohan was a prime example ... a veteran of the front lines of the war and he was still able to build an acting career.
Just a friendly reminder of the November 11 Remembrance Day ceremonies.
Here's a photo of James Doohan, 22nd Field Battery, 13th Field Regiment RCA of the Canadian 3rd Infantry Division. He was part of the famous D-Day landings of June 1944.
You can read more about here:
https://www.junobeach.org/canada-in-wwii/articles/james-doohan/
It's been frustrating for me too .... I use mostly my PC and secondly my Android using Sync to go on Lemmy ... I have been interested in exploring other fediverse clients like piefed (I tried Kbin for a while before it died), was thinking of mbin, I've been trying to wrap my head around mastadon and tried exploring misskey but discovered that it is almost all Japanese (and the instafeed I logged into looked like the scrolling matrix data stream from a crack addict on meth, it was just way too much too fast)
Lemmy for me has been the best balance between content, speed and depth ... the frustration of posting images and especially short videos reminds me of the early frustrations everyone had when reddit was just starting out ... I don't really mind the frustrations because it kind of regulates everyone to slow down a bit. We don't always need to be blazing fast and faster all the time.
And when it comes to posting, its mostly about volume and quantity. If you post twice and you don't get good feedback on both ... it doesn't mean you failed, it means you have to try more and more often. I've posted a few hundred times now and most of them were misses that didn't get anything but about a dozen got great reactions from people. So the idea is to post and post often (or as often as you can) and don't be afraid or self conscious. Sure you might get no feedback or even negative feedback, it only teaches you to figure out what works and what doesn't.
If anything, your post and your contribution has raised my interest in looking into PieFed and that is a win in my books and definitely cheered me up.
Stay well my friend and I look forward to more.
Same problem for me here (I'm on Firefox) ... and I also got issues with seeing the other images posted
A better way I find is to just download the highest quality and largest image you can get on your phone / device / pc ... then reupload it with your post onto the Lemmy instance you are on
Cross linking images from other sources especially most big social media like FB/IG/X or whatever inevitably leads to those services wanting to lock up their content and make it as hard as possible for anyone to link anything.
The more I read into Cheerfleet ... the less cheer I felt :( ... the link was too small, the link was to FB, the link does or doesn't work, the event refers to a cheer event scheduled for 2017!
Then what happens if you are a Klingon in Stoโvoโkor with a single heart and you suffer another heart attack after celebrating your arrival?
That's not Spock .... that's Leonard Nimoy, a great American TV actor and director.
Kill Spock definitely .... because we all know he'll be resurrected and come back anyway or reappear in the future or time travel or enter a new dimension or alternate universe and come back.
... and it doesn't matter if you marry or f**k either Kirk or Bones.
Nope ... it's correct ... last known million nauga migration occurred in 1984, just a couple of years before this image was taken.
Don't know how you all feel about Gene Roddenberry who kick started the whole Trek franchise and everything that came after it.
He is definitely someone that has affected a lot of lives beyond the work that he did and the life that he led.
For all his shortcomings, he is someone I look up to that has made humanity look at itself in the mirror and seriously think about what we all see in each other through all the shows and characters that he helped to create.
... btw ... this post is another Trek thing where in chatting with all you led me down to a page that noted that today is the memorial of Roddenberry's passing in 1991.
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> BACKGROUND > > Joanna Berry is a Canadian immigration and refugee lawyer in Ontario, Canada. On October 2, two Niagara Police Officers, one of them a sergeant detective, paid her a visit to her home. They told her they were there on behalf of the Ottawa Police Department because of her "personal social media." They begin to tell her that "10 lawyers who are of the Jewish faith" have filed a complaint with the police about her social media. As you can tell from the video, Joanna Berry, is outraged by the visit and clearly distraught. I reached out to the Niagara Regional Police for comment but they did not respond to my inquiry. I spoke with Joanna Berry also and she gave OTL Media permission to publish the video. She told us that she wants Canadians to see it and for the video to be a warning. > > "This is very Orwellian" > > On The Line Media is run by Samira Mohyeddin, a multi-award-winning journalist, documentary maker, and producer at CBC Radio Oneโs The Current.
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> BACKGROUND > > Joanna Berry is a Canadian immigration and refugee lawyer in Ontario, Canada. On October 2, two Niagara Police Officers, one of them a sergeant detective, paid her a visit to her home. They told her they were there on behalf of the Ottawa Police Department because of her "personal social media." They begin to tell her that "10 lawyers who are of the Jewish faith" have filed a complaint with the police about her social media. As you can tell from the video, Joanna Berry, is outraged by the visit and clearly distraught. I reached out to the Niagara Regional Police for comment but they did not respond to my inquiry. I spoke with Joanna Berry also and she gave OTL Media permission to publish the video. She told us that she wants Canadians to see it and for the video to be a warning. > > "This is very Orwellian" > > On The Line Media is run by Samira Mohyeddin, a multi-award-winning journalist, documentary maker, and producer at CBC Radio Oneโs The Current.
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Joanna Berry is a Canadian immigration and refugee lawyer in Ontario, Canada. On October 2, two Niagara Police Officers, one of them a sergeant detective, paid her a visit to her home. They told her they were there on behalf of the Ottawa Police Department because of her "personal social media." They begin to tell her that "10 lawyers who are of the Jewish faith" have filed a complaint with the police about her social media. As you can tell from the video, Joanna Berry, is outraged by the visit and clearly distraught. I reached out to the Niagara Regional Police for comment but they did not respond to my inquiry. I spoke with Joanna Berry also and she gave OTL Media permission to publish the video. She told us that she wants Canadians to see it and for the video to be a warning.
"This is very Orwellian"
On The Line Media is run by Samira Mohyeddin, a multi-award-winning journalist, documentary maker, and producer at CBC Radio Oneโs The Current.
I thought I should take the responsibility to post this and remind everyone about what today is.
National Day For Truth And Reconciliation
Both my parents are survivors of the residential school era and my family have had to live with this horror all our lives ... whether we knew it or not.
For me the day is not to shame anyone or lay blame on those around me.
But rather to let everyone know about this history and never allow anything like it to ever happen again.
Every phone call you make with just the mic near your mouth and the speaker near your ear, you are whispering into the ear of the person you are calling.
If the person who answers with the mic near their mouth and the speaker near their ear is doing the same thing. It's like having a conversational 69 where both of you are placing your mouths next to each other's ears.
It sounds sexual and sensual if you are talking to someone you might be interested in ... but it gets a bit awkward if you imagine doing this with a random stranger you would never usually want to get close to.
In The Original Series in the 60s, people had no idea what the future would look like or what technology would look like. In one of the early episodes, they had a paper print out machine on the bridge that looked like a fax machine, which was considered futuristic in the 1960s.
Like the example of the Enterprise fax machine, what technology or system do you think are we displaying in the current Star Trek shows that will show how dated we will become in the future?
I didn't see it posted so I thought I should.
I'm Indigenous, full blooded Ojibway/Cree from northern Ontario. Both my parents survived the residential school system in the 50s and I attended the last vestiges of Christianized schooling when I was growing up. We saw a lot of discrimination against us in my family and we were always made to feel less than every other Canadian we ever knew.
Even with all that ..... my dad always enjoyed celebrating this holiday because he just thought it was fun and a good time to celebrate with family and friends. Maybe he just didn't know but whenever this time of year comes around, all I can think of is how much he enjoyed just having a bit of fun today in the middle of summer.
In my own experience, I've travelled the world to 34 countries so I got see and compare how our country compares to the rest of the world. With all its shortcomings and blemishes .... this is still a great country and a prime example of decent democracy. It isn't perfect and it is very problematic and unequal in many ways ... but its on the top of the pile of mostly or more democratic places on the planet. I may be wrong on that but that is just my opinion.
So with all that said .... to all my Native, non-Native, nation born, immigrant, brown, white, black, and every shade in between ....
Happy Canada Day to all of you.
I didn't see any one mention it here but today is the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy and what has become to be known as the beginning of the end of the Second World War.
James Doohan who famously played Scotty in The Original Series in the 1960s was a veteran of this famous battle. This was also the day he famously lost his finger which he always did his very best to hide from the camera.
Read about him at this webpage provided by the Juno Beach Centre.
https://www.junobeach.org/canada-in-wwii/articles/james-doohan/
For those who don't know Juno Beach refers to one of the five named beach areas of the D-Day landings. Juno Beach was the landing area for the Canadian Forces of which James Doohan was part. And also for those who don't know, James Doohan was a Canadian.
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This is one of best commentaries I've heard recently about indigenous fraud. I've stopped referring to it as "Pretendians" because this isn't a cute joke, this is serious fraud and can sometimes add up to tens, hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars worth of lifelong fraud.
At first I watched this woman's video as a laugh because I watch lots of indigenous video blogs. At first I thought she was messing around but soon realized she was completely serious ..... as she was doing her hair and makeup.
This Passover, we donโt need or want the false idol of Zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name
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Is it possible to just upload MP4 to Lemmy? As long as file sizes are kept to a minimum small size.
Yet another video test using a GIF from a Pixelfed server at pxlmo.com
Let me know if this works any better or worse
and also, Happy Vulcan Day .... lol
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Another video test to see how well this one works ... this time a MP4 coming from a Pixelfed server at pxlmo.com
I hope it works
attempting to find out how and where I can post short video content and how it appears and works on Lemmy and the general Fediverse
for your info - this was posted via the Lemmy webclient on Firefox running Linux (Ubuntu) in Canada ... and the video is being posted and hosted on a Pixelfed server on pxlmo.com
if you have a moment let me know if this works or doesn't work or looks or acts strange depending on what service, app or set up you have
Thanks
Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women's rights and do not support war of any kind.