I keep trying to look up any relevant information that discusses where this teen might have acquired this infection and no one has been able to figure it out. There is no obvious vector ... no farm, no farm animal, no connection to being around any kind of animals or direct contact.
My biggest concern I have is if the teen was exposed to the virus through the food supply .... eggs, poultry and poultry products.
I trust farmers and I trust farmers to take care of their animals to not expose people.
But it only takes one desperate or inconsiderate farmer who is trying to save money or finds a way to make an extra buck that takes a chance and decides to get rid of a batch of potentially diseased birds.
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world .... your squid signal has been shone into the fediverse skyline
Wait until he opens his mouth and starts talking
ahhhhh .... I really don't care any more ... I'm nice and respectful and open to everyone ... I accept everyone no matter race, gender, identity, nationality, background, religion (or non religion) and I do my best to respect everyone for who they are .... beyond that, if people give me a hard time to be around them just to give me a hard time or show authority or try to be above me or control me - I really don't want to be around you.
... or marketing, plain old marketing, advertising and public relations.
You can blast the airwaves with the same message over and over again eventually people just believe it ... either because they are lazy, don't care, it doesn't immediately matter to them or they just don't want to be bothered learning the details. It's the same process of convincing people to either like Coke or Pepsi.
Goebbels and the Nazi party easily mastered it in the 30s .... tell a lie, repeat it often enough and eventually it will be come true ... if you tell a lie, tell a big lie, the biggest lie you can make and everyone will believe it.
It all boils down to money and marketing ... whoever dumps the money into one party, politician, political movement will get the votes eventually and convince everyone of whatever reality they want them to believe.
How about farm workers .... I'm up in Canada and I know because I've seen entire farm communities in southern Ontario base their entire business on immigrant labor that was either legal, illegal and everything in between. Around Norfolk (a region southwest of Toronto), entire towns are filled with Mexican, Haitian, Dominican and more recently, African workers as labor for the planting, management and harvest.
We all have cheap vegetables in North America because of cheap immigrant labor that our governments allow into the country to work (for little to no money) but not to stay.
I spent about ten minutes trying to figure out if this was just an Onion headline ..... only to realize it is indeed an Onion headline ... this is beautiful
. . and a few of us get impregnated, violently give birth to new monsters that live off of us hosts and leave us for dead.
I think the relevant question is whether the aliens will fuck us .... and whether or not it will be any good.
Is this the origin story of Johnny Bravo and why he ended up with sunglasses.
Alright Dr Wells, here's a boyscout knife, let's see you try that operation again on Martha
You forgot the part where we just kept mashing in the gun, over and over again, into the hole even as it poked through the wall and aimed the barrel at our forehead.
So we got 454,999 more moons to go ..... OK people let's get to work!
The latest Star Wars films have million dollar CGI and special effects budgets but all these guys had was a lamp and a plaid blanket and they made a film that was way better.
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/
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.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/30385203
> 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 One’s The Current.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/30385203
> 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 One’s The Current.
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 One’s 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.
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 don’t need or want the false idol of Zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name
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
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
IninewCrow @lemmy.ca Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women's rights and do not support war of any kind.