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

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  • I’m indigenous Canadian and I’m the first generation in my family to be born in a modern hospital. My parents were born and raised in the wilderness and lived a very traditional nomadic life for about the first 30 years of their lives. They had a bit of education and they were very bright people but they had no understanding of many modern things … things like feeding a baby caffeinated drink. All they understood is that it was nutritious and filling.

    And it didn’t do me any damage … I think?


  • Turn off all electrical power, even the emergency lights, to any building, especially large multistorey or sprawling buildings and everything instantly turns into a deep dark neverending cave.

    It’s only the bright lights that make it all feel like it’s a modern living space.

    Without the light, everything and every covered space is a cave.





  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoTumblr@lemmy.dbzer0.comTea. Earl Grey. Cold?
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    I agree, restaurant tap water can be very hot … there is even a faucet in some places I’ve seen from coffee machines that can dispense hot water. But all of them fall just below the threshold of boiling water which is 100 degrees C.

    Tea needs boiling water at least for a moment in order to brew properly. I don’t know the science of it … I just know from experience and having had tea all my life. If you place an orange pekoe tea bag in anything but boiling water, it will never steep properly. In any other heated water, orange pekoe tea just comes out bland and not as tasty. Like I mentioned in my early comments, my family used to throw tea bags into boiling water and let it stay in rolling boiling water for about 30 seconds and it immediately brews a potent mixture of dark red liquid that has as much caffeine as coffee.

    The only other great sin to steeping tea is to place the tea bag in boiling water and immediately mix it all with milk - that guarantees a ruined steeped tea. You wait about five full minutes for the tea to steep before mixing anything with it.

    I’ve been frustrated by friends and family all my life who didn’t grow up drinking tea because they’ll boil some water, leave the water sit for a minute or two until it cools off from 100C or even wait several minutes until it cools off to 80C and then try to make a cup of tea. It drives me nuts when they serve me luke warm tea and then pour in a bit of milk into it all and everything turns white.

    As you might have guessed … I love my tea.







  • Take it as a life lesson … if anyone says or does anything abusive or manipulative, stand up for yourself … always.

    And a step beyond that is … if you see anyone being treated that way, also stand up and say something. Sometimes all it takes is for one person to say something to stop any abuse.

    The more you do things like this in a kind respectful and thoughtful way of protecting yourself and others, the more you will be recognized as a strong individual that everyone can rely on or respect. It builds a shield around you that will allow fewer people or systems to want to abuse you.

    Sometimes, just the act or saying you don’t like a behaviour or you don’t accept that is more than enough to stop someone from starting any abusive behaviour.