“afford fewer and fewer things” needs correction: most “things” are being turned into “services” so people end up owning nothing and being forced to overpay for “service” they never asked for

you’d be one of few. Most people don’t mind compensating others for services, but when services turn to extortion and lock-in with sub-par digital content players piracy becomes a lot more attractive. Not many can afford 4-5 subscriptions (with Prime you need sun-subscriptions too) and all of it’s expense and complexity. Singular aggregate platform with a cost equaling today’s single subscription cost would probably eliminate good chunk of “piracy”. We can only watch so much in a day so given that streaming companies price things out and provision for that there’s no more impact on them if multi-service subscription costs the same as a single-service and it will reduce need for piracy, as it’s also a hassle to look for content and get all twitchy whether you going to get trojaned or swatted for doing so.

Based on experience south of border or in AB - all the dissent goes out the window and everybody falls in line come election time. I’d like to believe that any of the major Canadian parties has members genuinely caring for their constituencies but given our electoral system and governing system that is out the window as hyper-partisanship is a natural step in current system’s evolution. Parties prevent democracy by forcing their members to follow party line and not their electorate needs.

they can have PP we can even gift-wrap him and send as a Xmass gift, just please no returns.

it’s not his picks, it’s POTUS45: https://lemmy.world/post/22065845

Facts:

• POTUS45 knew it was a one-time grift so there are no repercussions for him for abandoning his electorate.
• POTUS45 repeatedly stated his desire to help Israel and not even once hinted at idea of peace for Gaza.
• Haris clearly was trying to evade direct answers to Gaza questions which left significant room for after-election change
• Democrats suck (at messaging, at fighting back and at playing hard ball)
• Putting up ultimatums in the middle of election is doomed to failure. I can’t recall one instance where it was successful. I can recall however when existing administration, outside of election cycle, yielded to public pressure…

so with just more obvious facts on the table the entire notion of giving Dems middle finger and literally helping Republicans win was not merely misguided but malicious. Being surprised by the outcome does not speak highly of people involved and their priority. If their priority was stopping the bloodshed they would’ve acted differently, by all means that priority was mainly middle finger to Dems.

I am acutely aware that people are dying and between two administrations the difference is at what scale and whether public has any sway with administration. Present choice out of the gate pointed for larger scale suffering and no public input.

US elections are not pragmatic - they are spectacle of emotions, which is why public elects showman.

(para)quoting History of the world part 1: …f@ck samsung?

But seriously? Working people into their graves? For what? For “MORE” that nobody needs or wants, just to fill landfills with more yesteryear devices? Ugh. Capitalism was fun for a while but now it really became very self-centered : profit for the sake of profit whereas we need to move humanity forward, end poverty ( because technically we can ) and start looking at each other with respect and be able to live our lives with dignity.

Biden could’ve used Trump’s own tool - presidential impunity and either fired judges or plain locked up Trump or worse, first: forcing republicans repeal the law, two eliminating threat, and three - potentially painted as villain in history. I still marvel at how little Dems care for “the idea” and how much they care about their own bottom line 🙁

well, it’s not just Teams and not just MS. Have you worked with Zoom lately? I do agree that Teams occupies that very special dark space in my heart right next to hate and loathing.

couple of details though: Canada right wing is a long ways away from US for the most part. Also AB almost got NDP elected last election which is, after 40yrs of unbreakable concervative hold on province is telling. So yeah right wing is correct but you’ve got to pay attention to nuances. Calgary and South of Calgary are good places to live with decent infrastructure. You go most places BC you’ll be surrounded by a lot of conservative minded folk. In both provinces I’ve been surrounded by conservative minded folk which were persistently calling POTUS45/47 a nutcase. So… don’t get too hung up on labels.

…so whoever didn’t vote Haris effectively voted trump… we’ve been saying it along that all of that moaning about Dems would lead to Rep win. here it is on display

gotta love conservative-minded crowd: they are all about “privacy”, personal freedoms etc. but at the same time can’t keep their hands out of others’ pants (proverbially and literally) and are nosy about everything. Isn’t voting a personal choice? If my spouse doesn’t tell me who they vote for I’ll just say it’s their right and move on with my life… but not cons… noooooo. Gotta stick their noses everywhere

Russian ties, if present, are indeed dangerous. Laying unsupported claims to “russian connection” is just as bad as any other libel or damaging unsupported claim. Should we spend time eradicating russian influence - absolutely. How do we do it without turning it into a witch hunt? I don’t know how.

any time you buy DRM’d content you’re subject to revocation of rights to use it. So buying such content along with purchase of devices geared specifically for DRM-only content is doomed from the beginning.

time to make it stick. from now on I shall reference Musk as Dipsh*** Musk.

that’s not good news for her. Even in best case scenario when they do not want anything in return - optics will be that she’s about billionaires and not commonfolk. Whereas POTUS45 supported by Koch brothers and such on a Qpaints him as folk hero… bad news to start, now we mix in the part where they want something in return… it gets worse yet.

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then support for other parties should’ve been declared much earlier, never dangled like carrot in front of Dems, 'cause by now you should know it won’t work. I get it. In present system there’s very little chance of third party getting to power, but look at Canada - NDP was able to wield power with much lower representation. How? Minority government forces compromise and concessions. In other words it can be done, but work needs to start right after prior election, not before current

did you try Blush lane or Community Foods?

funny that nobody argued opposite: all the new services are primarily streaming/hosted and otherwise “not here”. New crop of tech solutions requires crap-ton of bandwidth. So caps prevent those companies from doing ripping off customers in other areas. How un-Republican is that? They are getting in the way of enterprises making a living! So the most Republican thing to do would be to let foxes watch the henhouse. Ask ISPs to regulate themselves so that “everybody”'s (and I mean every enterprise) happy. In other words getting in the way of this proposal is very much just “polid’ticking” trying to undo what dems are doing regardless whether it’s actually a conservative thing to do or not.