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  • What they should be doing instead is give a percentage discount for not using a credit card.

    Every time you pay with your credit card it’s like you’re paying a 2-3% tax to the US. The credit card company gives you a part of that back as “rewards” to motivate customers to continue using it but really it’s just raising prices for everyone even those who don’t pay by credit card. Meanwhile Interac’s processing fees are significantly lower.

    We’re sending hundreds of millions of dollars to the US by using our credit cards to pay for everything. I wish people realized that.





  • The only lesson Canadians are learning is to never trust the US again.

    This rich spoiled shit bag has spent his entire life feeling entitled to get anything he wants, often using any means at his disposal to get it. And now he decided he is entitled to getting full control over Canada’s natural and human resources. He thinks that by inflicting pain on our people it will allow him to enslave the entire country. He doesn’t give a crap about the suffering he is causing on either side of the border.

    And the dumb thing is that it will obviously never work. Trump is treating the country like it was a business or a property he wants to acquire because he’s too dumb to understand the difference. It doesn’t work the same way at all. Look at Ukraine. What Canada is going through is nothing compared to what the Ukrainians have endured for years now and they’re still not giving up. Canada will be the same. Canadians are increasingly hostile to the idea of making any concessions to the US now and they will go through any hardship that is necessary to avoid their country to be taken over because they know they’re still better off that way. All of that pain and loss of productivity will amount to nothing good.

    This is an unprovoked attack. When this pedophile finally leaves the White House one way or another and someone who isn’t absolutely batshit insane takes over, I hope Canada will demand reparations for the damage that the most corrupt and incompetent person the US government has ever allowed to preside over the country has caused.




  • I wouldn’t. Why conduct the destructive mess that is a war in our own living room?

    I’d contribute to any effort to make long range drones that strike energy and electronic infrastructure deep inside the US instead.

    Keep the destruction over there. Watch American arrogance melt away as they realize that fighting a war isn’t just some thing they send troops elsewhere to die over while they get to stay comfy and safe at home anymore.




  • Trump attacks Canada that because he’s a rich narcissist spoiled manchild who spent his entire lifetime getting what he wants and surrounded himself with people who will tend to every one of his caprices and Canada dared to say “no” when he demanded the country to be turned over to him.

    He is a freak of nature of a combination of pure shamelessness, narcissism, confident incompetence, ability to lie like he breathes and megalomania. It is statistically improbable that whatever shitbag replaces him will be anywhere nearly as bad as him. I expect his replacement to do nothing less than immediately try to mend relations with Canada because they will want to fix their country’s economy.




  • For North American English speakers who don’t get it: Imagine that Fox decided to replace the original Simpsons voice actors that you grew up with with British ones who sound nothing like them, have thick British accents, use British slang and make local references to things only the British know about in the show. For the sake of the example the decision would have been made by a panel of extremely ignorant non-English speakers who think that the viewers wouldn’t notice the difference because “it’s also English therefore it is the same”.

    That’s essentially the effect replacing the Quebec voice actors with the French ones would have had.


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    Payment 👉 Use Interac instead of credit card.

    Seriously that should be #1. They charge 2-3% transaction fee to the vendor, give you 1% back as a “reward” to give you the impression that you’re not being screwed over and pocket the rest. Meanwhile Interac charges only 1/10th of that and it is Canadian.

    Paying with a credit card is like playing a 1-2% tax to the US. I’m sure if someone did the math they’d be horrified by his much of a drain it is on our economy while it boosts theirs.

    Also Krita has become extremely capable and easier to approach coming from Photoshop than GIMP IMO. If should at least be listed along it as an alternative to Photoshop.