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As an indigenous Canadian I can confirm this.

Both of my parents were born and raised in the wilderness. I don't mean that they were born in a modern hospital and later raised in the bush. They were born in the 40s in a teepee with the help of traditional midwives.

Dad was a great hunter and trapper and did all the things you could imagine a hunter and gatherer could do.

Mom did the same as well, not as much or as well as dad but good enough to survive on her own or with children. She hunted birds, fished and could bring down gut clean prepare butcher moose, caribou, bear, wolf, lynx and any other large animal if she had to .... when she was a young woman that is. She could also travel, walk, snowshoe, use dog team, paddle a canoe, portage, sail, and survive alone in the bush for weeks or months on her own. In her prime, she was a far better hunter and gatherer than most men I know now including myself.

It only makes sense .... prehistoric hunters and gatherers didn't sit around and relegate women to only do certain things. Everyone no matter what gender had to be capable of doing everything in order to ensure and secure the survival of everyone.

By remembering and being fully aware of who you are in this world ... by being grateful for the good fortune you had by being born in the situation and family you have now.

You could have been born in an African village and lived for a year before dying of something. You could have been born in the slums of Mumbai. You could have been born in Gaza. You could also remove the time constraint and you could have been born a peasant in medieval Europe.

Out of all the billions of human lives that have existed so far, there are many that were born during this time but only a small percentage of them were lucky enough to be born in a family with wealth and privilege enough to enjoy the modern technologies we've created so far.

I am lucky, you are lucky and anyone who is able to read this is lucky to have been born at this time to enjoy this online chat.

Remember where you are in this world and this time. As unhappy as you think you might be, there are millions of people that wish they could have the life you have now.

Be happy because you are a winner of the cosmic lottery of existence.

So dressing up as an IDF soldier would be scarier than Michael Myers?

Fuck that's depressing

Reminds of a quote about rape during war time from a writer ... I think it was Vonnegut but I forget

"There are two types of women in war .... those that were raped ... and those that will be raped"

Of all the supposed civilization and modernization that we claim to uphold as a species ... the fact that this is still part of our world means that we are no more civilized then we were a thousand years ago, we just have computers, fast cars and nuclear weapons.

No, no ... don't worry about it. It's a condition called Pulmonary Fibrosis and it is actually rare-ish

It's also not tied to any one fungus, virus, bacteria or whatever. It's just a chance infection of whatever kind that invades your lung system, and causes a run-away reaction with your immune system. The infection turns on the immune system and for whatever reason, the immune system goes haywire and can't turn itself off so it just keeps attacking even after the original infection is gone. It's common in the lungs because when you think about it and study it, the lungs and lung tissue are very delicate and intricate biology that exists in a very narrow balance between being healthy and abnormal. As soon as you upset that balance, its either very difficult or impossible to get it back.

Infections like this can be caused by colds and flus but also from funguses and mold and dust spores. A well known condition is called 'Pigeon Lung' from pigeon breeders who breathe in a lot of dust from pigeon droppings.

I have a doctor friend who warned me years ago .... 'do your best to avoid colds, flus, viruses and bacterial infections' .... even if you are fit and healthy and young. Every infection in your lungs is a lottery and if you get lucky and get infected with something that screws up your system, it will affect your life forever.

My wife got infected with a viral infection on a trip to Morocco about six years ago. We both got sick with it. It was bad but not that bad. I got over it but she just never stopped coughing. A year later she was still coughing and we looked into it and she had lung scarring. The doctors then told us all about these conditions and now she has Pulmonary Fibrosis. She is perpetually coughing, she lives with it but it is a constant worry we have to live with now.

So next time you go out in public remember that any flu, cold, covid, virus, whatever is a lottery that can screw with your life.

It actually escalates over months or years ... my wife had it and since then we've learned that any lung infection you get - fungal, bacterial, viral, chemical, mineral - is all like playing a disease lottery. Chances are pretty high for everyone to not get anything and no after effects when you recover. However every once in a while, you get lucky and whatever infection completely screws the immune response in your lungs and it turns into a permanent infection. When that happens, it may or may not be the original infection but it could just be your own immune system that has just lost balance and is now fighting against your own body. Whatever it is, it causes permanent scarring and the scarring grows over time until you lose the ability to breathe and drown to death.

All because of a chance infection in an unlucky lottery you happen to win.

It comes back as a fungus that drifts deep into your lungs causing a permanent infection and scarring.

Nothing really changed because technically tomatoes are a fruit

Captain: .... get ready for battle ... hoist the flag!

Crew two hours later: ... ready captain!

(that is one huge freakin flag!)

SUPER FLY BERNIE SANDERS!!