Just a reminder that Canadian ownership of Bombardier’s rail assets were lost because of the previous Trump administration sabotaging the C-Series on behalf of Boeing. We lost ownership of most of the C-Series program to the europeans likewise.

Then the same government still bought into the F-35 project as an appeasement, only to withdraw 10 years later.

I really hope the lesson was learned.

I thought you were going to say Ai… but then maybe you did.

They then started “evacuating” them to the east: Poland. There they had a military government outside of civilian oversight. Started with the ghettos, then work camps, then extermination camps. Evacuation became code for killing over time.

Doth protest too much?

Listen I do the same and think its a worthwhile effort. I just have been hanging out in these virtual spaces long enough and I know what people run.

Did I say we should normalize anything else? lol

Oh that’s ok then! Good on you!

Honestly, it’s a tough case to defend. Sure game servers are fine and a bullshit claim by lobbyists, but who isn’t using their home server to stream pirated media?

I think we should normalize buying media again. I’ve been getting more and more albums off Bandcamp and buying DVDs and Blurays. It would be nice to see digital releases become decently abundant for TV and Film. I sometimes rent hard to find movies off Youtube. Always comes in clutch. Who else rents you a movie anymore?

The real thing even has benefits. I enjoy having the ease of getting both english and french dubs to my favorite shows. Means I can watch them with my family.

Rent or finance, just like a car.

Honestly Quad9 is the best. Its non profit and switzerland based.

I know people want adblocking DNS, but Adguard is fuckin suss with its Russian ties and for profit motive.

Honestly, I just stop using stuff full of ads. Simpler.

Is there a cheat sheet somewhere to know what projects are run by lunatics?

I only know of it because I was on Distro Watch this week looking for top mention distros I never heard of. The mentions position is likely because of this donation. lol

Billionaires like racists?

Red makes it faster

That doesnt even make sense lol

I mean… that’s why manufacturing moved oversees in the first place.

Good luck convincing all those Ontarian auto workers to stop buying “american” cars.

I don’t care myself, I don’t buy none of that shit. Just not helpful to target people who are probably on your side.

Most of that crap is just licensed American IP produced locally. Cutting it out isn’t even going to be as impactful as other things and will harm local manufacturers and suppliers.

Boycotts need to target direct things. People have been making those choices at the grocery store quite effectively. Liquor and oranges. Web services need to be the next target with government support. Tax Netflix and friends into paying into our culture as they always should have been.

Even with tariffs, employing Canadians remains cheaper as wages are lower overall, and you don’t need to pay for obscenely expensive medical insurance for your employees in Canada.

I don’t think Americans grasp how uncompetitive their labour market is specifically because they don’t have single payer healthcare.

These “food cookies” could be used as compost or animal feed no? Just transforming it into something that can return to nature is really cool.

Also opens up the door to possibly finding a way to remove microplastics from people or animals. If it was possible to safely get those yeast into people, would break them down.

Have you seen his new heterosexual look?

As a rule of thumb, you want to give the least of your personal information to the country that will violate your country’s independence. Its a rational choice.