Oh they have responses. Just shitty ones. Some will tell you that they are arming themselves, while others will tell you that it's the fault of those that didn't vote enough.
Best of luck to them at the next election. Meanwhile they can just buy more guns. They will be totally useful when the militarized fascist authorities will kidnap and deport them to El Salvador.
I do first level tech support for a living and help people with Windows and Microsoft products.
When I come home, I turn on my Linux PC and it just works. I don’t want to maintain a Windows system at home because it feels like work and I don’t want to work at home.
Yeah, the brave Canadian resistance fighters that defended Canada in Afghanistan. Or the brave heroic American resistance fighters that defended the US from the invading Iraqis, by killing and torturing thousands of civilians. So noble. Thanks for their service.
I know it's more complicated than that but this post gives me this kind of vibes. The soldiers invading on the other side are being told the same thing and are willing to kill others for the same reasons. How noble their sacrifice is! All soldiers! Thanks for fighting amongst yourselves and doing little bits of "collateral damage" in order to save your country from the barbarians.
If the US ever invades my country and I somehow need to kill Americans, I won't be a fucking hero, I'll be a murderer, just like them. It's nothing to be praised. Even if I just help others "defending" my country using my tech skills, it'll still be helping to murder others. I really really can't understand doing that willingly. If you have to, yes. But those doing this willingly are also those willing to invade other countries and take the lives of others based on what they see on their side. Again, nothing to be praised.
If there is anything that life showed me at a young age, during gym classes, it's that sports people and competitive people will not stop for compassion or ethics.
They can come from the most democratic country, but those athletes will have trained all their life for this moment, and they would still go even if the Olympics were held in a North Korean torture camp.
Again, they trained all their life for this, so what's a few human rights violations, or even a little bit of blatant corruption, if you can say you won the Olympics?
Yeah. My parents live in a rural area and coverage has been abysmal for years. They barely even get 4G/LTE signal outside the house. They see ads promising them more speed and more coverage but in reality, it's going the opposite way for them. And they don't understand it at all.
Now that the telcos are turning off the 3G network soon in that region, it's going to be even worse. And because there's not a lot of people in that rural region, it's not worth it for the cell companies to improve anything.
It's so disappointing when you live in a region that has had multiple providers with even some that are offering decent services and competition to the monopolies, only to be bought by the monopolies a few years later.
For a while, I lived in a rural region in Quebec with a "big" town of 5000 people surrounded by small villages. Because the big telcos were considering the villages too small and were always late to offer any service in the region, multiple small providers (and even a cooperative) started offering phone (and later internet) service in their own village. So around 2010, when FTTH was not even offered in big cities, the small municipality of Béthanie, with 300 people and no village, had FTTH from its local cooperative.
Unfortunately, from the 4 local ISPs I knew growing up there, they have all been bought by Bell, except the cooperative. And villages that had plans to get FTTH now get nothing because they're not important enough anymore.
My parents still live on a rural road in that region and surprise, the monopolies are not offering broadband, but the local cooperative is offering them FTTH. It's always been a bit surreal that my parents living in the middle of nowhere have FTTH before me in Montreal. The power of cooperatives!
DB doesn't hold a candle to VIA Rail. Germans and Europeans in general like to mock DB, and with reason, but as a Canadian, I'm still so very jealous of DB.
Due to [these] restrictions, 80 per cent of trips suffered delays of more than 10 to 15 minutes in February between Quebec City and Windsor, where the majority of Via trains operate. In January, 67 per cent of trains were late on the same corridor. Delays have been even greater between Quebec City and Ottawa this year, affecting 94 per cent of trains last month and 86 per cent in January.
I wish it wouldn't be that complicated just to sit. I'm a short man (5'6") and it's impossible to sit correctly in most office chairs, as the seats are simply too big. My knees can't bend if my back is against the backrest.
Also they are often too tall and my feet don't touch the ground, so I need a foot stool.
Even fucking desks are too high.
So I have a chair that's too big and too high, and a desk that's also too high when I'm sitting.
I hate that the world is standardized around an average. Finding an appropriate desk or chair for smaller people, at an affordable price, is a pretty good challenge.
I still have an IRC server but the eggdrop's usefulness has pretty much been reduced to fetching YouTube titles and the URL of images on tenor. Its main use was to fetch titles for all URLs pasted on channels where it is, but because me and most of the users are now using TheLounge as a client, there is no need for that anymore, except for a few exceptions. At one point it was also displaying all the things my friends upvoted on reddit, but since reddit closed its API and I came here...
Oh they have responses. Just shitty ones. Some will tell you that they are arming themselves, while others will tell you that it's the fault of those that didn't vote enough.
Best of luck to them at the next election. Meanwhile they can just buy more guns. They will be totally useful when the militarized fascist authorities will kidnap and deport them to El Salvador.