Not only are two of my friends parents not going to Florida on vacation, they’re selling their condos down there, because they can’t keep up with the payments due to the exchange rate… Which has a side effect of crashing the real estate market… Because nobody wants a place in hurricane alley where the home insurance is $1600+USD/month, in addition to condo fees and mortgage payments.

Is it anything like multi-threaded xz – in that you’re trading encoding speed for size?

Some of my best, most useful programs sort data from disparate sources into enormous Hash-Of-Hash structures to produce extremely insightful reports. And I wrote the first version 25 years ago.

The guy who wants to control everything, get the blame for everything that goes wrong.

That’s just how it works.

Goose… Geese.

Moose… Meese.

I do my best to check as I’m putting things into my cart, but also double-check at the checkout. I caught a few things that had ‘Canada’ on the front of the box (“#1 brand in Canada!”) that was actually made in the USA. I put it aside at the checkout. Putting it aside at the checkout and demonstrating to others that you won’t buy American is encouragement for others to do the same.

Just checking back in to see how you’re feeling about the speed-run of America into an authoritarian fascist theocracy.

His history / record shows otherwise.

Like when he promised Twitter an employees a ‘buy out’ package, then stiffed all of them for upwards of $500M dollars, then won the subsequent court battle, fucking over thousands of people.

It creates a cost for spammers. They have to have an account with a Telco, which isn’t free, which in a lot of countries comes with some sort of National ID to register. That’s the reason.

Shocked! Shocked I say!

Well, not that shocked.

Translation: He’s the fox, knows the fox, or is under the influence of the fox, already knows, and he’s TOTALLY fine with it because it confers money or power on him.

Yeah, that’s totally going to turn out to be just great for you and everyone you know.

One of the two options could be petitioned and protested against to effect change. The other tear-gassed peaceful protesters (and clergy) in front of a church that he’d never set foot in, for a photo op where he held the bible backwards and upside down.

Good fucking luck, because you’re going to need it.

I pay $6USD/month for a cloud box that’s encrypted and has been running for years, no outages, no downtime.

For a large organization? Sure. For your family and friends? No.

There are lots of tutorials, and choosing a security-first OS is also wise… OpenBSD is my current favourite.

Honestly, building a mail server isn’t that hard if you aren’t afraid of the command line.

Uh, most Democrats or at least Democrat-leaning voters who stayed home did so because of the America’s involvement in genocide, and the fact that living conditions for the average joe haven’t really changed in the last 4 years. Wall Street isn’t the barometer for success of the economy, Main Street is.

Big picture: Because the cost of living (inflation is just one component) has been increasing for 40 years, with very little increase in compensation or benefits.

Small picture: Canada Post wants to exploit delivery/logistics workers the way Amazon does, and that’s a crock of shit.

My building’s AC failed when it was supposed to be started up in May about a decade ago. The condo ended up buying a portable AC unit for each apartment – some people were pissed because they had to pay the electricity to operate it. We asked them if they’d like us to take the unit back, and 100% of them said no. :)

It was an awful summer, but the A/C was replaced with a new modern unit, and not only was it better, but it used about half the power of the 30 year old unit.

I’d love to be a fly on the wall when CSIS shows him printouts of his communications or the balances of bank accounts he’s been trying to hide.