Canadian Tire?

Why am I not surprised.

How exactly does one suck a fuck?

Neat.

Thank you for your unsolicited opinion.

Idk, I’ve never tried to run 30 year old games on modern systems.

I’m just not that nostalgic.

And? How does this indicate the daily active player counts for the games supported and not supported?

I’m not going to throw doubt on the 90% number. Statistics are made up and generally don’t mean anything. “90% of games” … In what context? Games on steam? Games ever made? I don’t think I’m going to be playing sierra titles from the 90s… What about Flash based games that used to run in a browser? Do they count?

I don’t know and it doesn’t matter.

The only thing I want to say is that the “10%” that don’t work are usually pretty popular.

I’d like to see this metric based on average player counts. What percentage of gamers, playing games right now, could play on Linux.

IMO, that would give a much more relevant indication of how viable it is for most gamers to switch to Linux.

I’m still using Windows 10 and no, I didn’t buy their extended bullshit. I don’t even run the latest version of Windows 10. I also have an update server setup so I don’t usually get updates often because I need to go approve them. But I also work in IT and I’ve seen every social engineering attack type that’s been used since the 90s and I know when to not click on something. I haven’t needed an anti virus on my personal system in 20 years.

To say I’m not worried about it is an understatement.

My area is pretty heavily conservative. I think this riding has been won by the conservatives on every election for at least 10 years.

I’m very aware of the email alternatives.

My problem isn’t with email, it’s literally every other service that I log into using my Google/Microsoft accounts.

Drive is one of those…

I agree that Microsoft and Google are difficult to get rid of.

I haven’t yet decided what I’m going to do in this regard. Good luck friend.

You made an assertion about his motivations, and I think his motivations are different.

Did that not come across?

That’s pretty much me too.

I’m with you. The whole strategic voting thing… Even I’ve been victim of it and it was no more obvious than in the last election.

A lot of people voted liberal because they wanted to shut out the conservatives, and liberal votes had the best chance of doing that.

The problem is organization and agreement.

If we all agree to drop the strategic voting and just go with who we actually want, for a single election, I’m sure things would massively change. The trick is, getting everyone to agree on anything.

You’re so angry.

… And I’m not sure I follow your point.

People are making it a what?

How did you take the leap from Carney not standing up to Trump about trans people to straight up fascism?

I’m more confused than anything.

You won’t find an argument here

Oh, I agree, but unfortunately I think I know how that will go.

He’ll continue to spout his bullshit and shit talk whomever gave him the dressing down, whenever he is put in front of a camera for at least a few weeks afterwards, probably calling whatever country they’re from a shithole, his supporters will buy it up and nothing will change.

If that was done by Carney, it would just politically burn any credibility in trade negotiations, and put Canada under the gun for further punitive tariffs.

I really really want to see someone call him out too, but I also understand why Carney wouldn’t.

He has to be as focused on the topic at hand and stay away from any side tracked conversation, as much as he can; he’s representing so many Canadian interests and companies that he can’t take the risk. I wouldn’t want him to take on that risk.

I can shit talk America’s tariffs all day long, and call Taco any manner of names, but at the end of the day, the (almost entirely) free trade that Canada and the USA had before now was always beneficial for both countries, and getting back to that point would be beneficial for everyone.

We sell a lot of material to US companies, and so they make up a nontrivial amount of the GDP. We’re working really hard right now to change that, but it’s still the reality of the situation.

Personally, I’m rooting for international trade with allies that are not the USA. That’s what I want to see. As much as I feel bad for our American neighbors who don’t support drumph, it’s up to them to rally together and fix this crap. I support them in their efforts, but more diversified international trade is only going to benefit Canada.

I’m aware that the feds have been working on more international trade with our allies in Asia/Europe/anywhere that isn’t the USA…

I was commenting the other day to my SO that most products don’t even need to be “made in Canada” for me to want to buy them, they just need to say “not a product of the USA” and I’ll consider it a viable option to buy.

Anything made in the USA, I try to avoid or find non-US made alternatives.

I’m just surprised that people think Carney, our prime minister, should antagonize Trump, who is currently master and chief of one of the largest, if not the largest military force in the world, over his stance on trans people. And to do it when he’s there for trade talks.

I’m just surprised that people think that Carney sitting there and refusing to engage in Trump’s bullshit, when the purpose of his visit is to negotiate trade on behalf of our entire country.

I’m not sure why anyone thinks Carney’s priority should be arguing with Trump over trans people, when we currently have a trade war going on, that can easily devolve into an actual war…

I live near Niagara falls, I’m in the nuclear splash zone if it gets nuked, and if a war breaks out, the power plants will definitely become targets.

Good luck everyone. I probably won’t be alive to see the outcomes if war breaks out.

I think you’ll be hard pressed to find disagreement on this around here…

Though, I have been wrong before.

I disagree with this assessment.

I think that Carney was there for trade talks and refused to be side tracked from that and engage in discussions that were unrelated to the goal of improving trade relations between the USA and Canada.

He just sat there, and let Donny boy run his fat mouth, and when they got back on topic he suddenly had something to say.

Honestly, when I’m trying to have a productive conversation about something with someone and they veer off into insanity mid conversation, I usually just let them talk themselves out, then redirect them to the topic when they seem like they’re done, so we can have productive discussions on the matter at hand.

Bluntly, there’s no point arguing with the senile about their insane positions on anything, even if you get them to agree or change their viewpoint, in 15 minutes they’ll forget and go back to their original bullshit.