And the best part? The private hospitals are sucking up more tax payer dollars than the public hospitals AND they're delivering poorer service (and wait times aren't very good either). So basically they're wrecking one system and offering a worse one as a solution.

Bill C-22 and others that are being forced through and almost law basically increase dependence and sharing with US government and private companies, and we are going to be seeing Flock cameras in Canada... more than we already are.

The first one in Quebec was torn down. every government agency except local police said they didn't do it. The local police said 'we have no idea' instead of 'we didn't do it'. Which probably means they did do it.

The only reason why he got into power was because PP was such a detestable imbecile. If the Cons picked a slightly less insane Trump ass kisser he would still be in Toronto working for whatever bank he was working for.

In 2024 I bought my dream machine just before this insanity happened. I am probably going to do my best to make it the final machine I buy...

Selective enforcement. Basically if they want to do shit to you they will prosecute you, otherwise they won't bother.

They don't care. They want your face, retina, fingerprints, DNA. All for their LLMs and so they can sell you something else.

Also to blackmail you later if they think they can or just feel like it... because they will put all that shit on an insecure server and some 13 year old hacker in Turkmenistan will leak it and make a killing (literally and figuratively) with it.

He is going to cause a famine, isnt he?

A very common thing even back then. Finishing a game was not a given. It was an achievement.

Yes. Yes they do.

They will make exceptions for themselves. Like how none of the laws passed in the UK apply to the military, politicians, and police. Even for their own personal use.

This new nobility sucks.

People wonder why I am a stickler for privacy and have been for a very long time. Shit like this is why. While my opsec is probably far from ideal, I at least try to maintain some level of it.

But shit like this is EXACTLY why privacy is such a critical thing that it is the bedrock of all other rights. Free speech is useless if you are under constant surveillance, especially by people with bad intentions. Unwarranted searches and seizures? Forget it, without privacy and companies wanting 24/7 live information on all sounds, images, and movements in your home? Yeah that shit is pointless. A single heated arguement, muttering something in your sleep, or anything, anything at all, is going to fuck you over.

I am going to give one example of what I mean. I knew a guy a long time ago who once told me that he stopped drinking alcohol for months. Yet when I visited the guy, the guy had beer in fridge and also had a habit of drinking a beer or even two at a bar before driving... at night. He wasn't drunk and was within the acceptable BAC for driving, but just him making one statement online to me and me seeing another when visiting made me think: What if a random ass company had access to that information? Someone trying to pass themselves off as a teetotaller but actually drinking? Would they sell that information to insurance companies and his premiums would go up? What if the guy did say he drinks a little, but actually drank a lot more than that? And might fit the definition of a high functioning alcoholic? In some places being a diagnosed alcoholic can incur a lot of penalties. Like in Canada if a gun owner was also someone who HAD to have a few beers every day, but otherwise was OK, the addiction might be grounds for their firearms license to be revoked.

Going on that, what if any cop could randomly pull that information on drinking. Let us suppose someone likes to drink, but never drives after drinking, instead when they get home they crank open a few cold ones right away. There are new laws (or have been on the books for a while, I am not sure) that police can knock on your door up to 3 hours after you've been driving and give you a test to see if you have any alcohol in your system. So our guy who maybe downed 3 or 4 beers within the two hours of arriving home, that guy is going to show a decent BAC and the cop could charge him with DUI or a citation. An asshole cop could do this to fill a quota or just be an asshole to someone, and if they could get a hold of that information due to a company having full surveillence from multiple companies (credit card purchases, CCTV tracking, car telemetry tracking, etc, etc) all combined and made available to any 'authority' then live will be unbearable.

I could go on forever. But shit like this isn't some DUI or marketing. This is a matter of life and fucking death for many people. Transpeople (and gays soon enough) will be in very real danger from this if they aren't already. Remember that the average cop and ICE agent is dumb as rocks, but they system they work under isn't. He is basically a caveman with access to tanks and drone strikes.

This is why I really, really hate Carney. He talk about how the new world order and how the old order is breaking down and how Canada and the rest need to abandon globalization as it demonstrates its potential for abuse (gee, right now? Some people have been saying it for decades). Yet at the exact same time he kowtows to US tech companies, is trying to pass (and probably going to pass) massive surveillance and control over civilians that will destroy any semblance of privacy, and those same bills are going to 100% share all that information with not only US governmental agencies, but also private companies. Don't get me started on Bill C-15 that wants to make Canadian companies (and probably many US companies working in Canada) exempt from civil law. Maybe those bills will be amended to make them less 'extreme' but they will still ultimately pass and have a lot of the bullshit they want kept in. I wish those bills could be thrown out all together, but they won't, they never are.

He is also increasing the military budget but wants to focus on 'unconventional' warfare since Canada will never be able to defeat the US military in a straight fight. Good idea... but why is it making it so much more difficult by still having 100% intelligence sharing with the Americans that will make pockets of resistance (both regular and reserve military and maybe civilians banding together) far less effective and easier to quash?

Edit: One of the unconventional war aspects he says is a 'civilianized' fighting force. Basically meaning militias or discharged soldiers taking up arms out of uniform. This is already going to be VERY difficult. The Americans already have a list of everyone with a RPAL/PAL (but maybe not what firearms they have registered in their names) and probably already know who is and who isn't military or ex-military. I know this because I have a valid RPAL and a long time ago I was stopped by a cop in the US (accidental traffic violation) and after the guy took my license and registeration, he called for backup and I had several other police cars with lights on. The whole thing didn't result in anything other than the usual ticket for me, but I was very confused by the delay and the fact that several other police cars showed up for what was a very minor traffic violation. He told me that he saw that I had a firearms permit and needed time to talk to the RCMP about it.

it was really fucking weird and kinda unnerving as to how much they know.

The NDP needs to be as radical as possible and draw attention to the fact that both parties on the top are fucking us over equally.

I'm honestly fucking sick of that shit. Wasn't the kid in that pic his grandchild or something? You can affectionately kiss your young relatives and not be a pedo for fucks sake!

France considers grapheneOS to be a sign of illegal activites. I am going to be spending the weekend working my new Pixel 10 on grapheneOS. I realize that some apps won't work and I need to find workarounds for others but like Linux Mint on my desktop and laptop I will get used to it and make it do all I want it to do anyway.

Being under 18 and in compromising situations make consent impossible.

They literally have JFK assassination games and even columbine shooting games. Why not one for Chuckie?

THIS! This is why I am not going to the US.

They already have my fingerprints (as does the RCMP) when I entered the US prior to becoming a Canadian citizen. After becoming one the process was so streamlined and quick it was a non issue.

But I will not subject myself to this kind of indignity.

If you are wondering why the RCMP has my fingerprints, it is because part of the process of obtaining a permanent residency you need to submit your fingerprints. All immigrants going through that process have to.

No DNA or facial information is required, at least not when I did it.