It depends on who “we” are.

If you’re in the US, then bad news buttercup - you’re already under the thumb of a ruthless insane dictator, and the economy is the last of your worries.

I guess I’ve just given up and assume everyone would just cut us off. I’ve really only seen negativity twords the US, so that colors my view. There’s also my buddy from Japan who advised me to say I was Canadian when traveling internationally due to the negativity he’s seen directed at the US when he’s traveling Asia and Europe.

Speaking as a Canadian, your friend from Japan can fuck right off.

Even the good people from the US (and there absolutely are some - some of my dearest friends are from SoCal) are not Canadian, and either (a) can’t pull it off, or (b) skew the rest of the world’s view of Canadians.

So please don’t.

Oh, there are two simple answers to this:

1. He will NEVER accept accountability for his actions. If he feels like it, he’ll eat a live baby on TV and walk away untroubled.
2. He will be held accountable when (and ONLY when) the people hold him accountable.

He will never stop until he is in jail or dead. And the same is true for most of his sycophant followers.

Even republicans don’t want fascism.

Um, sorry but have you been paying attention for the last eight years?

The people left in the GOP are driving at full speed towards a fascist dictatorship. It’s not Trump, it’s the entire cadre of sycophants and Nazis he’s set up to protect him.

Laura Loomer’s “Alligator lives matter” didn’t suggest that? Nor the fact that she was celebrating the creation of a new concentration camp to round up and possibly murder ALL Latinos in the US? (And selling merch to go with it!)

What about Kristi Noem filming propaganda in front of cages full of prisoners in El Salvador?

The six SCOTUS judges who are eagerly giving Trump every immunity and power he wants?

Ron DeSantis creating a second one-stop deportation centre?

The US Republican Party ARE fascists, and are ecstatic over how things are turning out.

If you call yourself a Republican and are against this, you’re either a hypocrite, or a liar.

That’s true, but some of your dystopian ideas require the entire planet to fall into collapse and ruin. Eventually the odds are pretty good that the rest of the world (assuming we’re in decent shape ourselves) will start to provide humanitarian aide to the US.

And stating that “most of the world hates the U.S.” is definitely a sign that you don’t quite understand how we feel about the US.

Strikes me that you’ve forgotten about the rest of the world.

…southern US…

I’d say that fundamentally it’s because it’s culturally accepted in those areas.

“Everyone does it” is a frighteningly strong impetus to do something.

I didn’t consider hard drives (spinning rust or SSD) because they’re generally internal/permanent devices. (although I do have a SATA dock sitting on my desk.)

Hmm. It gets more complicated the more I think about it.

Absolutely not.

We all have to make personal decisions about safety and risk, for our own unique situation.

While not in the US, I’m a straight, white, middle-aged dude. My risk in loudly speaking out is probably still orders of magnitude lower than yours is by staying quiet. If there are any moral decisions to be made, I’d say that it’s my moral duty to use my overly-consequential and protected voice to stand up for the vulnerable and suffering.

There is no moral flaw in trying to survive within your means - and if that means keeping your head down, then hopefully I and many others will have your back.

Just a brain fart. I’ve edited my post to reflect them.

I’ve got a full-height 5 1/4" 1GB hard drive around here. Thing is massive.

I’ve also got most of the storage devices I’ve ever used over the decades:

• 5 1/4" floppy
• 3 1/2" floppy
• 4mm DAT tape
• 8mm DAT tape
• 1/4" QIC tape
• Zip disk
• Cassette tape
• Punched tape

I’m missing the following:

• DLT tape
• LTO tape
• 8" floppy
• IBM 2315 disk pack

Never used 9-track tapes, punch cards, or removable disk multipacks.

EDIT Don’t know how I forgot about cartridges (Atari 400 and 2600 - still got em!) and CDROM/DVD/WORM. I have CDROM, DVDROM (in various formats), but no WORM media (i.e. IBM 3363 - a CDROM in a rigid case, before the official CD standard was created).

I’m just here to say my god, that article was horribly written!

If this is what humans are cranking out, maybe I should reconsider my opinion of LLMs.

Kind of misleading to say that shaw.ca has been “shut down,” because it still is resolvable but now redirects to rogers.com.

Interesting that Rogers is redirecting everything to “.com” rather than “.ca”, which they also own.

I worked at Shaw for 11 years. It started out fantastic, and slowly slowly went downhill. It was only after I got out that I saw how shitty of an experience it had become. Then along came Rogers, and my friends still at Shaw universally said it had gotten immeasurably worse. Toxic work environments, incompetent micromanagement driving everything, a sense of fear and dread carefully cultivated by the executive.

Rogers could be the worst company in Canada to work for, if they weren’t competing with BCE.

Canadian telecom sucks.

FUUUUUUUUCK!!!

Stop bending! Stop caving! Stop acquiescing to the fucking deranged dictator baboon running the shit show down south!

I ask my friends. Well, friend.

Honestly, the recommendations from Spotify are often terrible, but occasionally give me something I like. I believe that free Spotify still has recommendations, does it not?

The other thing is radio. Yes, radio! Find a station you like and stream it, since they’re all streaming now as well as broadcasting.

Our local station is awesome.

Danielle Smith and her government are:

• Anti-vaxx
• Anti-science
• Transphobic
• Separatist
• Corrupt
• Evil

Portal I and II.

Psychonauts I and II, with the caveat that there used to be a HUGE skill spike in the penultimate chapter of #1. I gather they’ve softened it, but don’t know how much.

It’s just a typo.

She meant to call it the “Alberta Nazi” panel.

“Premier Smith says…” lies.

No article that starts with those three words can be called news.

…named Jason Kenney.