It might be the correct deal, but it worries me. I can only imagine the people saying he wants to be a dictator are those that want a Putin style election to install another puppet. I know they have to have elections at some point - it’s just a worry!
Yep - me too. I had to go to our “mainframe room” where we had our only Sun workstation - the only thing that would run the first versions.
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Oh shit. I’m not a citizen yet, only a PR. Was planning to apply as soon has I reach 3 years. I’ll struggle with that. I’m Australian, so I was born with an allegiance to the British monarch, but to actually say it - urgh.
Yep, it’s just evil to their own staff. It seems every time I have to call some call centre these days, when I finally get to a human the conversation starts something like “I’ve just spent 40 fucking minutes trying to get to talk to a person and I’m really pissed off. I know that’s not your fault and I apologise in advance if I struggle to contain my frustrations while we talk. Now…”
When you say “applied in the other direction” - I read that as granting, rather than revoking, citizenship. Which doesn’t really make sense? I assume you mean an evil government revoking citizenship of good people, rather than this proposal for a good government to revoke the citizenship of an evil person.
It sucks that you’re right.
That was my first reaction too. Did you read the text of the petition? What he’s doing isn’t just politics, he’s actively working to erase Canada. There must be some level of anti-Canada behaviour (really bad phrasing, but I can’t think of anything better and you know what I mean) that warrants revocation of citizenship?
I hate airline delays as much and anyone, but “$2,079 to cover toiletries, make-up and clothing he and his wife purchased after landing in Vancouver without the one suitcase they had packed for a weekend getaway” - really?
I’m open to suggestions for what else I can do. I’m already not buying anything made in the US.
I get what you’re saying but, as someone observing from outside, stuff like this is all I can do to resist.
Facts, by definition, are devoid of context. They don’t change depending on who states them! How can you have a reasonable conversation about anything at all if you can’t agree on some baseline facts. That’s how the fascists operate - everything the orange turd says is a fact, so you can’t reason with them.
I’m in Nova Scotia and only drink Just Us - it’s roasted here and both Sobeys and Superstore carry it.
I wouldn’t say he admitted it either. I’d say he’s bragging about it.
This is me too. I’m still on Facebook for some family contacts and a couple of useful groups. Years ago I could spend hours a day there. Now I spend maybe 15-30 minutes each morning scrolling for friend/family updates and group content - and hitting “Hide all from …” on every single bit of unsolicited content. I was reporting and blocking them, but I’ve decided it probably doesn’t achieve anything and it was too many taps/clicks.
Instagram is similar - I used to spend hours there too but now I only go to check if there’s progress on one car build I’m following and scroll for maybe 5-10 minutes and I’m out for the day.
Which is really really sad. When I was younger I used to think we just need these old people to age out of the system and my generation can do things better. We seem to be doing significantly worse.
This isn’t a generational thing. For a start, he’s technically Gen X, not a boomer. And secondly, I’m older than him and I’m just as happy about that as everyone else.
It might be expensive, but still worth a short visit. I’ve got a shockingly bad memory, but I’ll never forget the awe I felt waking up to a view of the Alps.
I can’t understand how someone hasn’t explained to them that it’s impossible to enforce. I can only see two possible ways:
Require every social media platform operating in Australia to do rigorous ID checks on all users to ensure no-one is under the legal age, or
Somehow lock down the whole Australian internet so that users must login and then validate the identity, and therefore age, of all users. Then maintain a huge filter table to restrict under age users from social media.
Both of these are clearly never going to happen. Have I missed a simpler way to do it?
From a consumer perspective it’s a good solution for internet in remote areas and Ontario has a lot of remote areas. I used it for a couple of years when my only other option was a local wireless provider with an expensive high speed plan with advertised downloads up to 10Mbps, but actually never got anywhere near that. I’m lucky that I now have fibre and my starlink hardware is collecting dust in the shed.