When I switched to a new CPU I got a bit locker message and it was one of my biggest computer scares ever. I couldn't remember if the shop that assembled my pc would have enabled it or not. And wasn't available to contact.
I had to take a risk. If I continued there was a 50 50 chance my shit would have been bricked. Thankfully. That shop had the foresight to NOT randomly enable features the client didn't ask for
Im not upgrading my OS, and im not building or buying a new computer.
Im just going to ride it out until it explodes. the tech market is so messed up right now that I'll end up paying more than what I did for my Machine in 2019, and it will be comparatvely, nowhere near as much as a performance jump as when I made the last switch from my 2012 build.
There's been a mod that adds motorcycles and ATVs too but it's clunky. I haven't bothered to test the new versions but it used to be that you could only get on and off the bike from one side
48 hours after the election there is now open talk of seperatism of Alberta. Because of a minority of albertans.
In an age where where there is precedence to hold sham referendums. Invade your neighbors with shadow armies under the guise of regional separatists. And ultimately annex territory.
The window for Canadian Crimean crisis is still very much open
North Korea is bordered by two nuclear powers who both consider themselves rivals of the western democracies. They aren't interested in bullying the DPRK because they both see the DPRK as an asset in their fight against the west. Look no further than north korean troops and equipment being brought to fight in Russia and Ukraine
Russia is as far as I know. A full military ally of north Korea. And China tolerates them all the while.
Update. That election ultimately did end up in a conservative loss. In no small part to the trump attitudes on geopolitics and the nonexistent "culture war"
this outcome has less to do with trump's actions, and more to do with how the conservatives behaved in spite of those actions.
I think enough people were like me, ready to vote conservative, but then lost faith in the party since they didnt really seem to have a plan on anything once trudeau was gone early. Pollievre's stock tanked once people saw that Trudeau was gone, and what was happening in the world
Trump didnt cause the Conservatives to lose, they did that themselves with how they acted in spite of how Conservatives across the world were acting... and the fact that most of their platform revolved around just screaming "we're not the liberals, we're not trudeau"
they acted with an extreme amount of entitlement. that because the liberals had ruined the country for 10 years, it was now their turn. couple that with a lot of snide, childish shitposting, and an absolute bombardment of anti-trudeau ads and rhetoric, they basically bullied trudeau out of office, and once he was gone, they didnt have a platform anymore.
then enter the Trump , Trade war, and threats of Invasion shit. The conservatives basically waffled during this foreign policy crisis that pissed a lot of people off. the reality had changed and a lot of people felt like bringing a party that was polluted with the far right, was now no longer tenable.
any party will do everything they can to remain homogenous (and not split) as long as they think their primary opponent will do the same.
practically, both liberals and cons have signifigant factions that could split away, realistically, they probably wont.
when I said there'd be a war in the conservative party, I didnt mean that it'd split. I think one mindset will drown out the others. and presentley in 2025, Right wing populism and Anti-Establishment attitudes are what is looking like that mindset will be.
Im a moderate. I thought that the Trudeau Liberals had gone too far left back during the Scheer and Otoole days. Come this time around, I just lost any confidence I had in the Conservative party because they built their identity on "we're not the liberals". and failed to convince me they werent just going to kowtow to American Corpo-Fascist interests.
But if you would have asked me about specific policies that irked me to turn Conservative during the past .. its been a long time, I'd probably just point to specific times and incidents over the gun policy, immigration, corruption with the SNC lavalin scandal, and maybe foreign policy. I live in a very ignorant and uneducated town in a NS riding that had been pretty hardcore conservative the last 2-3 elections, and my peers probably played a hand in influencing my issues. I thought our riding was solidly going to remain Conservative, CTV projected Cons won, but several hours later they reversed it and Libs have apparentley won it.
Foreign Policy has always been a major "issue" of mine too, Until 2025 when we were faced with the nonzero possibility of actual aggression and conflict with America, the biggest thing that would influence my vote was how seriously the party was going to take the issue of us being more or less, de-facto at war with Russia, Because the "shadow" World War III is something that in my mind took precedent.
When I switched to a new CPU I got a bit locker message and it was one of my biggest computer scares ever. I couldn't remember if the shop that assembled my pc would have enabled it or not. And wasn't available to contact.
I had to take a risk. If I continued there was a 50 50 chance my shit would have been bricked. Thankfully. That shop had the foresight to NOT randomly enable features the client didn't ask for