They are rehashing Rockefeller’s method. Rockefeller got ahead in oil by making it impossible for his competitors to do business. He would buy all the available drilling equipment and oil barrels even if he used only a fraction of them. Basically denying his competitors the ability to properly drill or store oil for processing and sale.

Pretty much.

You can read duck.ai’s terms of service.

I used to be saving a lot of money. But with this shit I need to buy another 8tb HDD while I still can.

I know, when I immigrated to Canada Harper was at the start of his administration. I would rather have his setup than what is happening now.

But we can’t roll back the clock.

Carney is honestly contradictory at many moments. On one hand, he is anti-Trump and wants an anti-Trump trade alliance and to prepare for a possible invasion by the US. On the other hand, he is pushing through and expanding information sharing with US intelligence and corporations on Canadians and seriously impeding Canadian civil rights. He also at times seemed to be trying to work with Trump while also speaking in opposition.

I’m going to say that Carney is a servant of money and nothing else. Even if Trump somehow lives another 10 years and is still able to get shit done with his soup brain all the bluster about deals and resistance will be for nothing as he continues to work with US companies like nothing is happening and nothing has ever happened.

Mark Carney (who I voted for) is a banker and is seriously going to scrap everything to appease his other banker and corporate friends.

In all honesty, seeing how many allegedly ‘liberal’ people are acting around the world made me question where and how the term ‘bleeding heart liberal’ ever came to be by conservatives. They are being just as brutal with people’s well-beings as many others.

Harper isn’t Pierre. Also he wasn’t running again last time. Harper had his own set of problems, and I won’t get into them.

The Chinese don’t give a damn what you do outside of China (unless it is a universal crime like robbery or murder). But one thing I would suggest you do is that if you go, get new clothes to take with you and new shoes. I live in a place where marijuana use is fairly common, and while that is no big deal, if they find marijuana residue on your clothes they might still arrest you even if you don’t use marijuana and are unaware that it was on you.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL26929115/

This is what happened to someone in Dubai who was sentenced to 4 years for 0.003 grams of marijuana on his shoe. China is a country that similarly has a zero-tolerance policy regarding drugs, and Chinese media portrays drug smugglers and users in ways that would make an 80s action movie hero blush. This is probably owing to the cultural trauma they had with the opium wars and opium use (which was primarily introduced to them by the British, but the world then acted like it was an age old problem that they needed kind white folk to help them with. The CCP after the Chinese Civil War adopted such a draconian anti-drug war that drug manufacture disappeared… they would basically massacre entire villages if they found any drugs being produced or grown).

Canada is one of the last few countries where you can get a burner phone with no issue. They sell prepaid SIM cards at dollar stores and even supermarkets really cheap. Once my current phone is paid off and I get a GrapheneOS capable phone (or see if I can fully refurbish my water damaged Motorola G5 Power) I will still keep my shitty Samsung S23 with a prepaid card for ‘burner’ applications if I ever need to travel and still not draw unwanted attention for having a privacy based OS. I will shred all files and free space on my Samsung first before giving it a factory reset when that day comes.

Pierre is a Trump ass kisser and would have done all of this stuff and far worse stuff.

It is astonishing at the sheer amount of civil rights infringements and authoritarianism rising in countless formerly ‘free’ Western nations was orchestrated by Israeli interests. Basically you see all the anti-privacy survellience laws that are being passed left right and center over the past few years? Many of them (if not all) were advocated by Israelis and the software to do it is developed by them.

It is just incredible that they’re doing all of this shit for a spit of land that they claim some guy in the sky gave them 3000 years ago.

Alcohol can result in some nice ideas and visions, but it can’t explain shit like that.

But then again, maybe this guy discovered magic mushrooms? There was nothing against them back then.

This is why I sometimes think ‘should I give up bad habits X or Y?’ part of me does, but the other part reminds me that my generation (elder millennials) are probably the last that will reach old age.

The problem is the massive opposition to all this by oil and automakers, and as time passed the Libertarians and worldwide conservatives all joined forced against the ‘bleeding heart liberal/Politically Correct/Woke’ forces to basically make it a point of their identity that they are as opposed to the environment and anything to help humanity. It is how we get people like RFK Jr. who makes a point of patronizing a burger joint that fries their stuff in beef tallow and uses disposable plastic straws (those straws have their uses for some people, but most people don’t really need them. I almost never use straws myself).

Not only is solar dirt cheap and getting better (thanks China!) but battery technology is improving so drastically that any surplus energy we have can be easily stored for those (sometimes literal) rainy days. Wasn’t there a town in China that produced such a glut of electricity that they were exporting it to neighboring communities for free?

It is genuinely disgusting how all of this is happening and how there is little alternative (Except maybe the NDP under new leadership, but it’ll take a miracle for them to be able to get someone as PM). I voted for Carney because I was terrified of PP. I didn’t know much about Carney other than he was in business and banking before. I either should have just voted NDP symbolically or not voted at all.

No I am someone who wants a better society. I am a leftist. How can you expect me to support Carney when he is doing shit like this?

Thank you Carney. Doing your damn best to ruin Pierre Elliot Trudeau’s groundbreaking changes to Canadian society that made it one of the best places on Earth to live. Doing your damn best to make sure we have all the negatives of the past and none of the positives.