Okay, but given your original comment that the people who “are already here” (eg. Canadian citizens) should be the only ones to vote, you do seem to be lending weight to the idea that people who were already here should be making the decisions.

Do you think that the first immigrants (settlers) to come here from England and France should also not have been allowed to decide on how the country was run? Or is it only new immigrants that shouldn’t be allowed a voice in government? What’s the cutoff?

The Blackfoot nation on which Maslow based his hierarchy of needs would actually have a celebration each year where they’d give everything they’d amassed away.

The actual basis for the “hierarchy” of needs is essentially that a community takes care of each other so that all needs are met, and this is found not just in Blackfoot but along the majority of indigenous cultures. (I write in quotes because it was never really a hierarchy, it was more of a cyclical chain of getting needs met)

There’s a really good read on what inspired the Hierarchy of Needs here. Most of the changes that Maslow made to his findings were actually due to him wanting to make it more palatable for his individualistic colonial audience.

I’m Canadian. I don’t mind accepting American refugees as long as we also learn to accept refugees from other countries and value them all equally, but our current government isn’t doing that.

Why would you assume that every single (non American) immigrant that comes here would want to change the way Canada is run? Considering the vast majority come here because they like the way it’s run. This is such a wild take.

Besides, the politics of this country were built on genocide and do not reflect the values of the land’s original caretakers that were here for tens of thousands of years. But I guess those first immigrants were correct in changing the way things are run here and so we should be upholding their values and their values only??

I waste my time on a website I found years ago on r/beermoney that pays pennies for installing and playing shitty games. Most of them are the garbage match 3 or dominoes or whatever. I figured out most of them still pay out even with my ad blocker on so I just dissociate with that instead of doom scrolling sometimes.

It’s not the greatest thing ever and I know it’s bad for privacy and capitalism and for many other reasons, but I’ve made like $600 on it in the last 3 years so that’s been cool.

I don’t know what face scan as I haven’t flown into the states in a very long time.

In Canada we have a machine at customs that takes your picture when you come into the country. This isn’t optional. I take the opportunity to make the absolute most ridiculous face I can every time and it brings me copious amount of joy. It then prints out a little slip that I give to the customs person at the gate who is usually chatting and doesn’t even look at it. I imagine those slips go somewhere, though I couldn’t really care less where.

This is a bit different than what I think you were asking but when I was a kid my dad would lift me up by my ears as a fun game. He’d essentially hold me by my head and lift.

When I was around 18, I went to play this game with a kid, and then I said what my dad always said before he’d lift me up by my ears: “okay, but you have to hold on to my arms for safety!”

Gotta say I felt a little betrayed when the realization sunk in.

I know Carney’s not even close to as bad as Trump but he literally just called for a “Zionist Palestine”

Also, have you ever heard of Doug and Rob Ford?

I think We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (Modest Mouse) and Give Up (Postal Service) would be my top full albums.

Sounds silly but Enema of the State (Blink 182) also causes me to have a strong emotional reaction mostly because of Adam’s Song but it’s also just one of my favourite albums of all time so it brings up lots of emotions, good and bad.

Also you can probably tell what kind of childhood I had given these choices LOL.

I will defend my rubber flavoured twizzlers til the day I die. Do they taste like you shouldn’t be eating them? Absolutely. Will I still eat an entire bag of twizzlers at the movie theater every single time? You betcha.

That’s quite rude. I’m lucky at my work they just throw the food out and wash the Tupperware.

I’m on vacation and I stepped on a red anthill, and by stepped on I mean I sat on a ledge with my foot hanging over the anthill for about 10 minutes before stepping down onto it.

Stuck my foot in the pool to try to get rid of them only to ruin my only pair of pants and walking shoes I had for 3 days before we could do laundry/get the shoe dry. Also they just do not sell afterbite where I am so I’ve been trying different shitty creams that haven’t done much for the ~15 ant bites I have on my leg.

Also this was a few days after I forgot one of our travelling phones on a bus and it was not recovered.

Also, it was my only pair of pants because I had ruined my other pair of pants when I slipped and fell into a puddle.

Is it illegal for ICE to wear them? What about people experiencing medical symptoms or people with immunodeficiencies? Or was it aimed at protesters trying to protect their identity?

I don’t like that ICE or people pretending to be them wear masks, but this seems like a dangerous precedent.

Can you tell me more about data hoarding? Do you just like download shit off the net and archive it all?

Like 4-5 years of ancestry resources access, or maybe like a short trip to my grandparent’s homeland to do my own research.

Or I can buy like A LOT of thread and cross stitch material. A lot.

Okay, well I’m not sure what language you speak but that’s interesting. I’d be curious to know what your native tongue is.

LGB refers to orientation. In English, the word “sex” does not mean this and I would recommend you do not use it in that context when trying to get your questions across. Orientation refers to the same thing as attraction, and neither of these terms exclusively have to do with sex (neither the act of sex or what gender someone was assigned at birth).

People use these terms and share them so they can find other people like them. At its base, it’s important to know if someone might be attracted to people of the same gender for the sake of finding a partner, but it can also help for finding community and like-minded individuals and people will share it for those, among many other reasons.

People who are trans may choose to share this fact either for community building as mentioned above, or if they’re finding a partner, it might be important for the partner to understand that the person may not have been assigned the same gender at birth than they are currently presenting as.

People share their pronouns so that others know how to refer to them. For example, for some people, it’s very hurtful to be referred to as “she” instead of “he”, so they will tell you that straight up. This doesn’t necessarily have to do with being trans either - a cis woman who dresses masculine and might be perceived as a man might make it a point to tell you her pronouns.

Other people share their pronouns because they believe nobody should assume. If we all share our pronouns immediately, nobody has to make any assumptions.

I’m a bit confused here. Sex and gender, in any language, refer to the equipment a person has (sex) and the way they present/identify (gender). It’s possible that in your language or culture, these two are conflated as they often are.

Sexual orientation, in any part of the world, refers to who someone is attracted to. It has nothing to do with their equipment or what the person’s gender is.

For example, a cis man (someone assigned male at birth who identifies as a man) can be attracted to men or he can be attracted to women (or both or any or none). The fact that that person likely has a penis and looks like a man doesn’t affect who he likes.

While there are cultures that might make assumptions about how men should like women and women should like men, you do seem to understand that that’s not how humans work, so therefore, you understand that someone identifying as a man or woman has nothing to do with who they like. You understand that gender =/= sexual attraction.

I guess I’m just unclear as to why you’re saying that in your culture/language they’re the same things, does your language assume that gay people do not exist? Do you use the exact same word for a man who likes women (eg a straight man) as you would for a woman who likes women (eg a lesbian)?

Yes, I’m saying it would be totally okay to hold a space for Lemmy that was explicitly for men, as long as it (like the community you’re referring to) explicitly banned hate speech. Because it’s okay to hold spaces for certain groups sometimes, especially when it’s in order to hold safe positive spaces to connect.

If we had more positive men-only spaces, men would overall be happier and healthier, which would be a win for everyone. Unfortunately, since a lot of spaces online often don’t ban negative or extreme takes, they often just lead to worsening mental health for their members. This isn’t exclusive to men, I’ve seen women’s spaces do the same, which is why I mention they need to be well moderated and ban hate speech, again, like the community you mention here does.

You seem like a bit of a dunce but thanks for helping me find a new community!

Feel free to make a positive men’s space on Lemmy explicitly banning hate speech if you’d really like to support and uplift other men :)

Probably because they made a comment saying “as a man” or something to that effect, especially considering they hadn’t previously realized it was a woman only space