You can’t even buy a car that doesn’t come with the built-in equivalent of a stalker’s tracking device anymore.

It is allowed to sell a washing machine that won’t last more than 5 years before breaking without possibility of repair.

It is increasingly difficult to buy a TV that won’t spy on you and inject ads.

It is tolerated to sell a peripheral that installs malware on your computer without your authorization.

It is allowed to sell a product that must be always connected to the internet for no good reason and to remotely disable or severely reduce its functionality after it was purchased unless you pay a subscription fee that was not clearly mentioned at the time of the purchase.

It is allowed to sell products that are completely locked-in that you cannot have reasonable control over and that are specifically designed so you can’t even repair them.

It is allowed to gain control of the majority of a market and dictate higher prices and anti consumer practices.

It is allowed for a private entity to gather data on people en masse to a level of intrusiveness that only 30 years ago would have required a warrant from a judge for law enforcement to do on a case by case basis.

And THIS is what they’ve decided they should spend their time regulating? Most of those companies don’t even pay taxes in the country. I so fucking hate that our government has so blatantly turned towards serving lobbyist interests instead of the People’s.

If you think that waiting him out is expensive, I don’t think you realize the extent of the cost of giving in to someone like him who will come back month after month with new demands until we don’t have a country anymore.

The tactic is to buy time until Trump is gone.

He is an F1 fan who secretly likes NASCAR.

Idk I’m just guessing.

Getting the federal government to stop doing things like that begins with getting Big Oil’s political influence and propaganda out of Alberta.

This is the result of them promoting an astroturf separatist movement which they weaponized to force the federal government to let them pollute the planet unhindered, under threat of destroying the country.

A nice life hack to know, straight from the Canada Post website:

How to stop receiving unaddressed advertising mail

To stop receiving unaddressed advertising mail, simply put a note on your mailbox stating that you do not wish to receive it. Place the note in or on your mailbox where your delivery agent can see it, or on the inside lip of your community mailbox, group mailbox or postal box.

I’d argue that if you make a game with a style, story, time period and even what the protagonist is that have entirely departed from the original content, you’re just slapping the original’s name on it to boost sales.

If they ever made a Halo game where MasterChief removes his helmet to reveal that he was an orc all along and that he’s now riding a literal giant warthog in battle wielding a stone axe, people would flip their lids over this. Especially since because of that the style and soul of the game people love is now dead unless they do a hard reset of the franchise. I think it’s the same there, except that the transformation was made gradually since Doom 2016 that people didn’t notice as much. It really looks like Bethesda preferred to do medieval fantasy games so they just turned the Doom franchise into it.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m sure it perfectly capable of being a good game. But is it really a Doom game still?

It started as a sci-fi shooter. DoomMarine was just a human left behind to guard a ship with a pistol and ends up fighting the hordes of hell with an array of modern and sci-fi weapons. The only medieval elements you would see were when you were in the hell world. The back story was essentially he got assigned there as a punishment for punching an officer who was ordering him to shoot civilians. He was a human, representing humanity in a fight against evil.

Now with all the changes they made The Doom Slayer is a demigod being wielding medieval and fantasy weapons in an increasingly medieval-looking armor of alien origin with an insanely convoluted backstory of him being the twin brother of the devil or some BS I don’t know I just stopped caring at that point. He is completely dehumanized. The whole game looks and feels more like a fantasy game in a medieval world of magic than a sci-fi shooter.

IMO the creators of the Brutal Doom mod/campaign came up with a far better expansion of the Doom universe that stayed much more true to the source material. I’d love to see a high budget game made in that universe.

The more Bethesda milks the DOOM franchise, the more it looks like Skyrim

TL;DR: They probably haven’t actually contacted the authorities and it was likely made up by the customer service representative.

But there is a growing realisation that through age verification they are giving Apple and Google the power to decide who can access web services and who can’t and they’re clearly using it to make life difficult for anyone who doesn’t let them have full control of their personal devices.

Most people don’t use GrapheneOS to commit crimes. They use it to regain control over the device that they own and give the middle finger to all that data collection big tech is doing behind everyone’s backs.

And then he comes back and complains that Canadians aren’t spending their money in the US anymore.

The problem I see with that is that this fund won’t last long enough to matter. I don’t even give it a decade before a different administration quietly takes the money from that fund to spend it on whatever.

Every car sold in Canada should have its internet connectivity easily disablable by the user and maintain functionality without it except for features that obviously need connectivity to work such as live traffic data.

We should even extend that to all consumer products.

Especially since if they learn that your house is on fire they will raise the price on you.

I’d argue it has become so bad it is now a problem during daylight as well

“Hey, no fair, they won’t give us free access and control over their citizen’s data”

But will the transponder be able to tell the difference between a vehicle being on a runway and one just holding short of it, waiting? Will it be able to tell in advance that the vehicle will start moving onto the runway after the plane has already committed to its trajectory on the runway and can’t change it anymore like it seems to have happened there?

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As a member of the UN we absolutely have business to support UN resolutions.

Look up “North Korea clandestine ship to ship transfers” and realize how wrong you are. The rest is the usual tankie talk that I won’t even bother responding to because it speaks for itself.

It isn’t enough that I blocked the .ml instances in my feed, you guys try to spread your propaganda to other instances. Go crawl back to .ml you tankie. Your .ml moderator powers don’t work here, you can’t easily silence me.