pedz @ pedz @lemmy.ca

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They said such an app could be used for espionage and tracking down locations of federal employees and contractors.

But an operating system by an American corporation, and its office software, and authentication services, used by governments, business and citizens, is just fine.

I understand Twitter is used as a propaganda tool, but if we are also talking about espionage and tracking, then we should also pay attention to how many people and organizations are using companies like Microsoft, Apple and Google.

Might? Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years

However, he's obviously destroying the US government and bureaucracy right now, but I don't think he's destroying his own businesses on purpose. He's just dumb.

In a way it's a good thing that other countries are boycotting US products, they'll avoid getting sick by eating American food.

Honestly, I wouldn't have thought that something with that title could have been an Onion article. And to me that's what "Not The Onion" is all about.

It doesn't suffice that it's simply a real article, it must make people wonder if it's satire or not.

In your case, maybe if it was worded differently, but the way it is, it doesn't make me think it could be something I confused for an Onion headline.

This looks more like paranoia than tips about privacy. Everyone has a fucking giant TV inside their home. Everyone has hobbies.

Unless you are actively targeted by some psycho... or the police. This just makes everyone thinks everyone else around them is out to rob and steal from them. But being from the US and from the police, it's not very surprising. You also need a gun to protect yourself and your family from potential home invaders, you never know because the country is full of robbers and violent people! Don't trust anyone! Just get your kids from school in your giant bulletproof SUV and drive straight to your McMansion where you can barricade yourself with all your precious stuff. In fact you should also take care to hide your McMansion behind a fake facade of poor people's houses to avoid having less fortunate people target it as a potential place to rob.

Every poor person is plotting to rob you! So if you show clues and get robbed, it's gonna be your fault and the police will let you know you were stupid for putting a dirt bike sticker on your expensive SUV.

Anyway, this is all just ridiculous in the first place. If someone wants to know you're not home and steal crap from you, stickers or not, you're already sitting in your fucking car, while not being home. It's already a pretty big clue. Otherwise, are home invaders that diligent in the first place? Are they going to stalk people before robbing their home? Really, the stickers on my expensive SUV parked in front of my big house and the big garage is indicating that there might be expensive crap in my house and in my garage? I'm shocked to see how revealing those stickers can be!

In fact, this being from the police just shows how much they profile and judge the shit out of people before even speaking to them.

Isn't it the goal?! To buy or sell or whatever rich fuckers do when playing the market game, then reassure the markets to secure their gains. Trump and his clique of con artists are manipulating the markets whith government policies in order to make the rich richer.

Nobody wants to buy a swasticar, so I predict it will soon be illegal in the US to buy an EV from any other company than Tesla. Because free speech absolutism or something, whatever.

He just changed his reason to "Make America rich again". Apparently he forgot about the drugs thing.

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/trump-order-tariffs-steel-aluminum-b2695793.html

Depends where I guess. And this also depends on your type of work.

I know that people live year round on narrow boats in the UK, for example. But where I live, unless it's a very very big boat, living on it year round would be very difficult if not impossible. Most marinas will close in fall/autumn and have a service to lift boats out of the water (and wrap them). If a (small) boat stays in the water for winter, it risks being iced in for months, and having its hull damaged by the pressure created by the ice. There are thawing and de-icing systems for boats and house boats but at this point, one may also want to live somewhere else during winter. Or move to warmer climates, if the job allows it.

Anyways, marinas are still full here in summer, even if people have to lift their boats out of the water in fall and wrap them up in plastic for several months.

Are you not supposed to have guns and have a bunch of people in the same situation to supposedly defend your people in case of government tyranny, instead of just letting this happen and apologize?

State parks in a country with no states?

If we win enough hockey games Trump will surely back off with his annexation threats. I'm so proud!!

/s just in case

I must have been around 13/14years old. I asked for it. We had an old PC with the original game on it and I learned there were new versions, so I asked for the newest one. My parents knew about the original game but since it was just blocky DOS graphics, they thought it would be something similar. However in retrospect, it's not at the level of letting a 5 yo play GTA.

Technically he announced a 5/6 years project of 3.9 billion for a study and a plan to have high speed rail. Nothing will get bought or built during that 5 year period. And I doubt anything will move faster once the study is over. Just add it to the pile.

No plans to ameliorate the current VIA Rail service in the meantime. This even kills the HFR plans that VIA proposed.

I'm so tired of those announcements. It's frustrating. I don't have a car now. I need to use VIA Rail now. I can't wait for 'Alto' in maybe 10 or 15 years. Intercity trains, or even buses, are abysmal in Canada. If they exist at all. And it will continue to stagnate or even degrade, while the governments will just keep announcing the same big project again and again and again.

Or when you try to use contactless only to be asked the amount of tip to give to the cashier, before being able to pay.

Go ahead and go through the immigration process only for USA.com to invade us in order to protect and liberate oppressed Canadians.

Ok then. What's the gender of Nutella?

I had never owned a brand new expensive vehicle

You mean a pavement princess?

I have a bike that gets scratched up every time I lock it to a bike rack and meanwhile people buying expensive work trucks are melting down if there is a scratch on their WORK truck.

Writing in the dust is not vandalism. FFS!

I'm now wary of crocs since I sprained my ankle while wearing them.