The total amount of money that’s spent on roads and driving in car-oriented cultures is absolutely fucking astounding when you add it all up. Counting only “highways” is just the tip of the iceberg.

Strange how Denuvo being cracked doesn’t change how I feel about it at all.

It would probably be similar to a PC from 5 years ago. The consoles don’t have any real advantage over their more-functional PC counterparts any more. Even the GPU is not much different than an RX 6800 or something.

the high-speed rail, the gun buyback program, external consultants, the federal bureaucracy, and foreign aid

If we vote hard enough can we get an opposition leader who attacks the government for the stupidly wasteful things they do — i.e. the gun buyback and consultants — and doesn’t just reject every single normal Canadian thing including building trains and funding the CBC?

Some people are just more comfortable with good old familiar units like baby elephants per corgi. What do they even use for that in the metric system? Millihectares per decilitre or something? Whatever.

You know, I hear there are several things other than electric cars that Canada also imports from China. Enough so that all the focus on EVs looks a little sus.

It’s Wab Kinew so I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that his intentions are noble and good. Presumably he acts out of ignorance, led to a policy he doesn’t understand by people he shouldn’t have trusted. He probably thinks the only consequences will be that children aren’t allowed to use social media and AI any more.

It’s like “zed” of course, because I’m > 30 years old. I don’t think it’s a regional thing, more of a “zoomer” thing maybe?

“The cloud” is just somebody else’s computer.

If disk space is a problem, why don’t more instances delete old stuff? 99% of what’s posted doesn’t need to be archived forever.

Okay great, but steam engines from the mid 19th century could probably outrun humans too.

I was using mullvad a couple years ago. Configs didn’t change often, I updated it once or twice a year or whenever the old one stopped working.

They did have a “killswitch” type option available, I think. But it didn’t seem really useful since normally when wireguard fails (on linux at least) it does not “disconnect” — it just stops any traffic getting through until it’s working again.

You stick the config in /etc/wireguard and then it’s just wg-quick down endpoint1 ; wg-quick up endpoint2 to switch locations. (Being wary that the VPN will be down for a moment.) You can name them whatever you like of course.

Setting up DNS properly is not that hard and only needs doing once.

I may have exaggerated a little with “double” the price. But there are plenty of rich people willing to pay a little more to avoid the company that’s primarily known for being unethical and abusing its employees.

It’s really amazing this talent Doug Ford has to be absolutely wrong about every single thing.

Somebody needs to set up a company that charges double the price of Uber but exists only to give all of the money directly to the drivers. Pretty soon Uber would not have any drivers.

If they make the fediverse illegal, then it will be illegal. There’s not much that can be done about it. Obviously we cannot do “age verification.”

It would look really bad, politically, so they probably won’t go that far right now — they’ll just slowly push things in that direction until it seems feasible.

Those licenses are not free or open source, and thus it is not relevant to this community.

Even if they succeed in temporarily nudging the price below equilibrium all it will do is result in shortages.

Better things they could do include taking 10% of the money that’s spent on highways and putting it towards restoring passenger rail service in this country, creating a crown corporation that makes and sells utilitarian electric bicycles, having the civil service and everyone else work from home as much as possible, prohibiting the sale of new vehicles powered fully or partly by internal combustion engines, and taking six months off to re-evaluate their life choices.

It’s a bad move, even on a temporary short-term basis. In the short run the amount of oil available will be the same, the amount of oil products people want will be the same, and thus the amount of “price rationing” required and therefore the price will be the same, whether the money goes to the federal government or to the oil companies.