Have you seen his new heterosexual look?

As a rule of thumb, you want to give the least of your personal information to the country that will violate your country’s independence. Its a rational choice.

Its not, China is preferable atm.

How many millions of people will die because those morons in Washington destroyed USAID and disrupted global food and energy supply chains?

Russia is right there with the US doing the same illegal wars of aggression and murdering civilians.

Would make sense, if there’s a decline, prices will drop and attract new people from elsewhere.

Are you sure about that? Every metric I’ve seen show considerable reductions and returning growth is relatively minuscule.

A 25% drop is quite catastrophic for an entire sector like tourism.

https://fortune.com/article/how-are-canadians-snubbing-us-travel-tariffs-tourism/

Motorola/Lenovo gets a close to pass for me for being a Chinese/American conglomerate. Lenovo is preferable to HP or Dell in my eyes. Especially because of BDS.

For phones I buy from Nothing/CMF. British company, made mostly in China and India I believe. I suspect they might drop a Graphene compatible device sometime. It seems to fit their brand.

Thanks for the watch recommendation. Ill look that up!

For me a major concern was American surveillance and law enforcement backdoors. A country with no concern for international law or human rights should not have that kind of supranational power. I’d feel safer with Chinese electronics in all honesty.

Here’s some alternatives I’ve been using:

-Routers: Mikrotik, Latvian company, mostly made in Eastern Europe

-Cloud Storage: Tresorit, owned by Swiss Post

-VPS: Ovhcloud, French company with its North American Datacenter in Canada

-Linux: Anything but Fedora which is owned by IBM. Using it contributes to their RnD for their Redhat corporate services and distros.

-DNS: Quad9. Switzerland based non profit. Don’t give Cloudflare your precious traffic data.

-Dropped every single US owned social media and subscription service.

Still working on migrating my email and search off Microsoft and Google. Going to drop Android and Steam at the first viable opportunity.

Credit Cards and Youtube are literally the only two that are unviable to switch from… for now.

Dude, the American imported oranges have been going moldy on the grocery store shelves since Biden left office.

People will go hungry before they buy fascist.

It has to do with rail connections and port capacities. If stuff comes in by ports, even air freight, rail hubs in the Eastern US are more central.

Otherwise it has to come into the port of Montreal, inland ports beyond the Seaway don’t accommodate every ship size and are lower volume.

In Ontario, I believe it’ll be more likely for products to come into Canada through both Montreal and Eastern US ports. Whereas in Quebec it’s usually not the case. New York and Montreal are similar distances to Toronto by rail.

It’s probably something you have to consider via carriers.

Yeah, I’m annoyed at a lot of transformed food products saying “made in Canada from imported produce”. Basically American diarrhea spreaders. Ain’t buying food that will kill us.

I’ve successfully cut the use of nearly every American product or service since last year. Genuinely worth it and enriches your life. You just realize how enshitified everything is.

I don’t think the American public has understood how these are permanent lifestyle changes. Any trade agreement, getting alcohol back on the shelves, will make these people change that. Tourists are gone. People will not cross the border with the risk of being sent to concentration camps in chains over minor bullshit.

Just tell yourself that at the same time this was happening, the smartest people working for the Canadian government were planning how to best sanction all the red and swing states to deliver the most hurt.

Cool nice shit costs money sometimes. You can’t really consider this device from a regular value standpoint. Its unique.

They also give you 24 games within the price of the device. At say $5-$10 a pop, its decent value for the games alone.

Yup its exactly this. And with supply shortages, itll take a while to filter down in price unfortunately.

Why? Its a phone that supports Graphene where Google isn’t trying to kill it?

“GrapheneOS has supported Pixels because Google’s Tensor chips provide the necessary security features, but not all Qualcomm chips offer the same capabilities. Only Qualcomm’s most expensive 8-series processors are comparable from a security standpoint, and those only go in expensive flagship smartphones.”

The price has to do with cpu types. As long as those particular chips remain expensive and top shelf, it won’t reach more budget devices. Its not a malicious choice.

Lenovo is just always killing it. Guess I’m getting one of these next.

Damn straight. Upgrade Interac, nationalize it if needed.

Yeah, I think the future is bright. We need to cut out Microsoft, Google and Oracle from public service use. Hold Amazon accountable for its labour violations. Remove our data from US owned or located datacenters. Ban Facebook for its criminal activities. Force Netflix and other streamers to pay into our culture production funds and create/promote more Canadian/French Language content. We need to become food independent from the US. No way we should die from eating their bullshit.

We’ve allowed our sovereignty to be eroded by these companies who do whatever the fuck they want with no consequences.

And quite frankly, I think the Auto Industry in Ontario can die and then be replaced with military industries: small arms, drones and missiles. Enough fucking around.

In a sense, its the system functioning as it should. If you have a healthy democratic society with good principals, juries should acquit people for things that may be crimes but are perfectly reasonable and justified.

In general, any large vehicle like a pickup truck, will do horrific damage to animals (or people). It has far more to do with speed and weight, than the “hardness” or “sharpness” of the materials used. Crumple zones are more there to protect the occupants than whatever they hit.

High speed car accidents and roadkill are some of the most violent injuries one can witness.