60 year old Canadian here...

One of our primary identities is that we are NOT American. Usually it's just a quiet thing. A "Yeah, we like you as friends but we aren't you" sort of thing.

Americans have been our friends, our allies, our brothers in arms, the people we help and are helped by when the other is in a jam.

Never before have I seen us come together like this in utter fury at the US. It isn't just the trade talks. It's the betrayal of a trust and friendship that went back generations. Three quarters of the country approves of what Carney has done.

Try to find 75% of the US united on any issue and you start to realize how big this is. Trump has destroyed America in the eyes of every one of its allies, and at this point Canada isn't feeling sorry about what happens to them anymore

So... You are one of those folks who get off in being downvoted? I can only assume you get some sort of enjoyment from the response to your trolling.

If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.

Coming from that era myself, buying a VHS tape absolutely gave you ownership of that copy of the movie. Same with music, which is why homemade mixtapes were such a popular and permitted thing.

Studios didn't like it, but no one went after the guy with the little vinyl briefcase of 100 different mixtapes for every sort of occasion.

Open sourcing of operational licenses.

Only one nation has ever invaded Canada, and we taught them the error of their ways. If necessary, we will teach them that lesson again.

True, there are idiots everywhere. Btw, if you have never done so, I highly recommend Pierre Burton's two part book series on the War of 1812.

Contrast this to Trump blocking disaster relief for California and Puerto Rico when he was President.

The day I can't get around youtube ads is the day I stop using youtube. I already refuse to use it on my mobile device or my TV, due to the ads.

Good. I hope they get the book thrown at them. Their stated purpose, which they put on their website, was the overthrow of our government and it's replacement with a junta with them forming 2/3rds of it.

Costco evening employee here:

Yeah, we check those at closing time. As well as behind the mattresses, the bathrooms and anywhere else someone might reasonably hide. There are generally people stocking stuff for 3-4 hours after the store closes and from 5 hours before the store opens in the morning.

There's a small window when the place is completely empty, but it's only from about midnight to 4am.

uninstalled Chrome a looooong time ago on my Win 10 machine

I'm relatively sure that the shooter will turn out to be someone who had a loved one suffer and die because they were refused health care coverage. This may turn out to be only the first of similar incidents.

If 9/11 taught us anything it is that there is nothing a man cannot do if he no longer fears the consequences.

Absofuckinglutely not.

And I say this as a dedicated Windows user who spent a year on Ubuntu Linux a decade ago and hated it. Windows does this, and sign me up for penguin lessons.

Frankly, I don't care.

I'm going to keep using Windows 10, updates or not, until I absolutely have no other choice, hoping against hope that the cracks in the Recall/AI monolith with have spread wide enough that a future Win 12 or 13 won't have them in it. I don't run a business. I don't keep sensitive information on any internet capable devices and my work uses the AS400 system.

I know Linux is a thing, and about a dozen years ago I spent a year using Ubuntu exclusively. While appreciating the OS, I got tired of chanting magic spells at computer every time I wanted to use software I liked on it, and so went back to Windows.

These days, despite being a reasonably tech savvy person approaching 60, I'm getting to the point where I'm just not up to learning/relearning an OS unless there is a critical need, and using Windows 10 there just isn't. At least not for me.

It's also called being ready for anything. It's what you do when you aren't entirely sure what the idiot on the other side is going to do.

The world's best swordsman isn't afraid of the second best swordsman. He's afraid of the world's worst swordsman, cause he can never be sure what the idiot will do.

Same principle.

Let me put this in a way you can understand:

Death to Putin.

Death to his generals, his officials, his administrators, and his bureaucrats.

Death to every member of the Russian military on Ukrainian soil.

Russia will never know peace until it leaves Ukraine in peace, for even if Russia were to conquer the land, still would the people fight on.

What they did to that developer is why I quit reddit and refuse to go back.