It’s already a 1.5 party system. Our liberal party is just conservatives who aren’t openly racist or bigoted.

Fuuuuuuuuuck Bell. They hand internet usage data to the US, in bulk, so bottom feeding lawyers can send copyright infringement notices. The only think they are interested in is monetizing yet another shitty situation for Canadians.

Also, fuck SAP. It has all the features anyone could ever want in the year 1995. Thanks to their wonderful software they only way for me to find inventory is to Ctrl-f a 40K line xlsx and I can’t submit work orders between midnight at the head office in Europe and midnight local time.

It means stop using, investing in, pumping up the fucking AI bubble.

Personal computing is gonna be set back a decade because people are too lazy to write their own documents or make a 30 second search.

Sooo don’t buy in. Steam, Itch and GoG have covered all my gaming needs for a decade. Why look anywhere else?

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You’ve never requested your data from google. I did a while ago and found a dozen recordings of my voice from my pocket despite having the voice assistant turned off.

No, because I run GrapheneOS.

I have seen a lot of online chatter that starts with ‘but he was a white guy’. Tells you a lot about the average american’s view of the world.

WTF, I’ve been doing this for years. I buy a new pc every 10 years, shoes when you can see through them and clothes when mothers start covering their children’s eyes as I mow the lawn.

Weird, most of those mouthbeathers look like they are having a blast.

“Eat sand, assholes?” Or “Eat sand-assholes?”

I’m ok with either one.

I have an Xbox 360 controller that has been awesome, takes AA batteries.

He really is the president that america deserves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_government_interference_in_the_2019_and_2021_Canadian_federal_elections

China does not want a strong Canada. A strong Canada might speak out about Taiwan and demand change before making trade deals. A strong Canada will look for more ethical but expensive trade partners in Europe.

The US wants Canada directly for resources, China wants a scared Canada who is willing to take any deal just to get some stability.

Remember that whole thing where they interfered with elections and were policing expats from China? That never stopped.

I do around town but a 30km commute to a 12hr shift is not really viable.

The US could conceivably do the same as I suspect China is doing, but the US government has to approach each manufacture and request or just take the data. Then they have to correlate it and so on. There was a recent writeup where someone found they could make themselves an admin (oops forgot to finish a sentence) on a US manufactures dealer network and use it to locate any vehicle sold since ~2015.

China has full access to any data collected by any business without red tape, and they are able to compel manufactures to include any feature they want.

Sure we can trade in raw materials and simple manufacturing but we need to stick to importing technology that was not designed by a country that has and will continue to be hostile to Canada.

Europe, Japan, Korea. They have their own problems too but it’s the USA and China that are actively threatening Canada.