When Canada retaliated to Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs, she basically threw us under the bus and said we should have more respect.

I think Jacobin is seeing what they want to here.

As usual with BRICS projects, I’ll believe it when it’s both functioning and of any significant size.

That’s where I’d go too. It was really the calm before the storm.

Security is a lot better in most respects. Used to be most traffic on the Internet wasn’t encrypted.

This is so true, although I kind of wish I had more time to fully explore the prank potential. The shit I could have convinced people of with a spoofed Wikipedia article…

About which definition of the word to use, or that one possible definition applies?

I feel like Russian support is pretty much a rounding error when it comes to Chinese power.

If this is true, the EU better be figuring out how to change that price calculus for them. Which makes me doubt an open admission actually did happen, since China would understand the possibility for blowback.

Honestly good in general if you live in a place that’s sometimes night.

I’m guessing strict gender rules about who does the washing up and a very zealous interpretation of ritual purity rules has something to do with the preference for disposables, as well.

Whether that falls under self-righteously lazy, I’ll leave as an exercise for the reader.

Ah, look at that post history. Openly fascist troll, never mind.

These negative reviews make me really want to watch it. Most TV glosses over all uncomfortable truths.

I mean, this is Lemmy, it’s a show about making fun of us.

And honestly I’d respect that if they put effort into it, but “lol nerd” is like 90% of the plot.

I fully don’t get why people like that. It looks mean and dull and it’s not even reality. The sexy ones also look like a shit stand-in for actual porn.

How do you lose a family doctor? Like, they quit?

I mean, in most of the cases on the map it’s actually brown people afraid of other brown people. America invented racism, or at least the main kind of racism, but being a bigot in other ways is ancient and ubiquitous.

I’m not actually sure there’s been a time and place where all three of these coexisted, and named ideologies can mean pretty massively different things depending on context.

I mean, did Starlink allow it? They got caught.

Because it’s their money……

So? There’s lots of restrictions on what you can do with your money. Most people agree this is a good thing.

It has also already been taxed.

Kind of the same answer. Governments can legislate whatever they want, including tax number n+1 in addition to the n you paid while alive.

Are you against having a government at all? Do you believe in a certain natural right that would restrict inheritance tax specifically? You came in here with a bombshell take and it feels incomplete without some context, haha.

I was literally in the ER on Tuesday.

You must be in one of the provinces that are on the privatisation slippery slope. Alberta isn’t really yet.

It’s pretty impossible not to be tangentially connected with someone bad somewhere. Unless I have reasonable grounds to think the production of something was directly unethical I can’t and don’t worry about it.

For example, if you buy a thing from a poor country, there’s a chance a slave made it, but a greater chance it was part of somebody’s ticket out of rural poverty, and there’s no way to tell. On the other hand, meat is always meat (unless it’s lab-grown I guess, but that technology doesn’t work very well to date).