“new”. Fucking scum.

I am only one data point. But I left a well-paying job working for a US startup primarily due to the current climate at the border. I will definitely take a pay cut once I find something Canadian or European, but I think the peace of mind knowing I will never be put in the position of risking my job for refusing to enter the US will balance it out. I hope…

Get a nice bar-sized cylinder of CO2 (sometimes called beer gas) and a 15 dollar adapter. Get you that (nearly) guilt-free bubbly water by never sending them a cent for gas!

My retort to this standard ‘ai has no place in leftist spaces’ is pretty straightforward

I ‘stole’ a model that has now been fine-tuned on my own hardware, which is powered by solar.

I use this model primarily to write letters to judges for leftists, lgbt+, and street kids, to use when they go to court for small infractions. These will usually contain some old case law, some cultural references, and historical references, as well as the statements from these victims of a police state gone mad, and character references from their neighbours/community.

I am not a lawyer, nor a scholar. I live in the woods and maintain a mostly off-grid lifestyle. I do not have access to lawyers, or community spaces where leftist legal scholars might hang out. The closest damn grocery store is an hour away.

I would not have the time nor ability to source these cases, check on outcomes, and write eloquent letters tailored to each case, but I do have time to prompt my model a few times with the standard template I used to use pre-LLM and then check that any mentioned cases or historical stories are real before sending the letters.

I can say with certainty that 4 of those letters resulted in people going home free who would have likely spent time in jail for simply existing in a manner not approved by the state. And at least 3 more were a significant part of the judge’s decision.

Dogpile me if you want. But if you shit on this usage without offering an alternative way to achieve the same thing I will discard your comment as worthless and not reply.

IMO - The small harm done by my local model is VASTLY outweighed by even one innocent person not being confined by the state.

Someone in this thread had mentioned ‘We do not simply destroy the means of production, we seize them’. And that feels a lot like truth to me.

This area contains the town that my wife grew up in and where I went to high school. PP would be shunned in any of those small towns for being a highfalutin City [homophobic slur].

I would love to see him show up at the A&W in hanna or the bar in three hills unannounced. Nobody would recognize him and everybody would instantly hate him.

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Just fyi. That downvote was not me. But seriously, a little inconvenience should not stop us from supporting shiity businesses.

Maybe consider going to open those two accounts.

Don’t.

There ya go. Now you’re thinking with gasoline!

Thanks for replying. I don’t disagree with the complexity, but I do think it is feasible. Especially for a behemoth like amazon, with their ability to demand basically anything from the stores that rely on them and their access to some very talented engineers.

It would probably be the most point and click on one of the gaming-centric immutable distros. I think nobara is basically a shell for gaming that just happens to have a linux kernel so that might be a good one.

I, myself, am old… And I use standard distros due to ancient muscle memory and shell scripts from the age of dinosaurs. Usually debian based. Right now I’m on PopOS for my daily driver and really digging it.

Lutris is a GUI app with normal point and click interface. So even on a ‘normal’ distro I think it may be like 6 clicks to get the battle.net client installed, and then inside bnet you can install wow or hearthstone (and probably the others, but I can’t vouch directly) just as you did in windows.

Lutris will even give you a nice little bnet icon if you want :)

I have played wow on linux since vanilla. Maybe we can help you? These days you can just open lutris and type battle.net and hit install. honestly it is dead simple and my FPS i better in linux than the same hardware in windows.

[edit]And now I see this was already answered. By bad. Long day today…

Why not?

Have wood, need hands. Sounds like we have a start!

You said ‘your liberal party’ as if I would ever vote liberal. Swing and a miss there. Liberal is basically an insult to me.

And then you claimed that I would somehow be uncomfortable with what you consider to be the truth. If that isn’t plainly passive aggressive tone then I am a wombat in need of a martini.

All I was asking was if you thought of run-of-the-mill canucks as right-wingers, or if you meant the govt. From that you assumed my position and blithely attacked it.

You are cute though, I’ll give you that.

You know damn well that 60+% of that 45% have no idea what you are talking about if you say the words “51st state”.

I am all for shitting on conservatives and liberals alike. But let’s at least be honest with ourselves before smugly wiping.

I love how everyone answering this question is taking an aggressive posture like I was defending or attacking something.

Fun stuff. Thanks for answering anyway.

So, when you generalize canada in your mind right-wingers is what comes to mind? Or just the govt?

Yeah, sorry I was a bit harsh there. Sincerely. Pre-coffee commenting is never smart for me.

That person is just wrong. Language is not only fluid, but geographically distinct sometimes.

I broke up with my wife. The divorce was the legal proceeding that followed.