Nik282000

Your company implements ai tools, you make sure it is the most ‘disruptive technology’ they have ever seen.

Ya’ll aren’t actively sabotaging this shit?

He’s a banker. Not an industry know for its charitable behaviour and history of being tough on big business.

No, not really. Giving legal exemptions to businesses is solidly in the right wing, keep the rich getting richer, play book. Canada has no liberal party, we don’t even have a left leaning one at this point with the NDP backing some very anti-citizen policy.

The shitty ones do this. Or you get stuck behind cNAT.

You think business wont just pick up and move to a part of the world with less regulation?

Criminals? What about politicians, advertisers and law enforcement?

Why? We are, and have always been, an economic appendage to the USA.

People already, incorrectly, assume that VPN == Safety thanks to a ridiculous volume of advertising, no need to make that worse.

A VPN only hides your traffic from the people running the equipment between you and the VPN. If your VPN provider is evil, or just lazy, it’s the same as not using one at all.

Other than USB killers a flash drives are no more dangerous than a CD. No OS autoruns any more and you can always inspect a file before opening it. Better to teach kids to think before they open any file from a source they don’t trust rather than to just avoid one type of media.

I was never excited for Carney

Politicians gonna politician. They will all will be in favour of this kind of citizen tracking because it makes enforcing policy easier, doesn’t matter if it is Liberal, Conservative, or NDP.

“Ban Website” sounds good in the news but those words together barely even parse to an idea.

A website is just a bunch of files hosted on a computer, put them behind some kind of access control and the outside world can’t even know that they exist. Unless ISPs decide to block all inbound traffic to subscribers you can always just apt install apache2.

Looks like it’s time for a more self hosted and distributed web.

Anyone with a few braincells working knows that it is all bullshit this crusade against porn “for the kids” .

Normies think “for the kids” is a 100% reasonable excuse to restrict freedoms and install authoritarian policy. That’s why it works.

I know it’s bullshit, you know it’s bullshit. Go convince someone who doesn’t understand that it is bullshit.

There is no reason to be expanding oil exploitation as a fuel source. Whether you think it’s ‘woke’ or not, electricity is the only sustainable way to power industry, transportation and residential loads (with the exception of some chemical gotchas, blast furnaces use coke because it is a reducing agent and can convert rust into iron). And with a shift to electricity for energy all of our remaining petroleum needs (plastics, chemical precursors, etc) are more than met with existing mining operations.

Not to mention extracting, separating and refining oil sand is one of the dirtiest processes out there. Oil sand is nearly solid and needs to be steamed to get the sand out, then the oil/water mixture has to be separated leaving an absolute fuck ton of contaminated water.

At this stage pipelines are just another way to line the pockets of Canada’s politicians and foreign business owners by selling the future of the country.

For sure Canada is not worse than the US, but I’m also not a worse driver than most 80 year olds. We should be comparing ourselves to countries like France and Norway not the circus fire to our south.

Politicians gonna lie and steal. Literally their MO for hundreds of years.

I cant believe that you think I don’t want to spend 12 hours, every other day, being exposed to carcinogens, 600v electricity, and moving equipment, for fun.

universal healthcare

As long as you don’t have teeth, eyes, mental health troubles, require medication or take an ambulance.

How the fuck do they have MORE than 800 management staff?