Say what you will about Will Smith, but his movie iRobot made a good point about this 17 years ago.

(damn I’m old)

I doubt Trump cutting off Intel would have made any difference. Russia already reclaimed 40-60% of Kursk before Trump backstabbed Ukraine. It was only a matter of time that Russia recapture Kursk territories from Ukraine.

Edit: the bigger question is, how will this affect Ukraine in the negotiating table after they pull out from Kursk.

I have been following the war in Ukraine since the beginning. From the look of it, I think Russia ran out of steam. Their offensives slowed down in Kharkiv and even on eastern Ukraine. These areas would be reinforced after Kursk is done and I doubt Sumy will be attacked. In some sense, the attack in Kursk worked a little bit to draw Russian resources away from other fronts.

Maybe some of our “leaders” should take note.

That’s the thing, many politicians don’t care.

Another worth noting is if an antivaxxer says “we don’t know what they put into vaccines”, respond with “we don’t know what they put in painkillers and yet you take them no problem”. Nine times out of ten, these antivaxxers would take painkillers willy nilly without question. Saying this makes them question their line of thought. Heck, the same could be said just about anything. We don’t know what cooks in restaurants put into the food we ordered, and yet there is no significant movement advocating to stop ordering takeaways or eating outside of home.

After college, I realised this after working in a stressful job. Much of what they teach us in school about being on time, wearing uniforms, obedience to authority and meeting project deadlines, it is to prepare us for the cut throat working environment and conditions. Of course we have to be taught common manners, how to be polite and all other basic things, but a lot of it is to train us to be efficient and unquestioningly obedient workers. The legacy of Prussian education system still lingers.

“Vote with your wallets” is a common expression among Americans after all.

TFW when I rarely use Amazon anyway.

It probably depends what you’re looking for, but I find DDG to have fewer up-to-date results than Google.

I still use my Gmail account and proud to say that I will use it forever. Even though Google have gone to the dark side, I will keep my Gmail mainly because my email address was created way back before they forbid anyone having a strange sounding email address. My email address is a relic from the olden fun days.

Could a Canadian governor have the power to stop electricity being exported to another country? I imagine that this has to be discussed and enacted on the national level.

Leta acts as a proxy to Google and Brave search

Great! As much as I love DDG, Google is unfortunately still superior and I had no choice but to suck it up and use the latter from time to time. If I could use Google by way of proxy to preserve privacy, then this is great news!

I heard of how nice Canadians are, but where I live, all the Canadians I met so far are a bit of douche. Maybe it is just coincidence on my part, or the nice ones stay in their country.

As someone with limited knowledge of Canadian politics, who is Doug Ford? If he isn’t the prime minister, how does he have significant power and influence to go against the US?

Also, if he is that powerful, he can teach us how to!

I just find that hard to believe because I am in the exact same situation as OP, and I definitely noticed I lost some weight in addition to going to gym. You definitely need to eat more than what your body is burning.

I am by no means expert on the topic but I am also in the same situation as you. If your job is a 12-hour shift pattern, that means you have 3-4 days off in one week. Use those days to cook food and do meal prep for your job, and also to eat as much as you could. Eat food high in proteins and calories. Chicken is the usual go-to meat because it is low on salt and fat, but high on protein and calories. Lean beef is also great. Moreover, it is also important to eat fruits and vegetables to provide nutrients that amplify the muscle intake of proteins, such as spinach, quinoa, lentils, avocado, banana etc.

If you are really skinny though, you have a licence to eat. You could “dirty bulk” by eating as much junk foods as possible to accelerate the weight and muscle gains.

Again, I am no expert but these are what I had been advised and researched on. You should find more information on the Internet.

Both leading Canadian parties are not going to allow it, they are still both economically conservative. The last 14 years of Liberal Party rule allowed for housing crisis to spiral out of control because both wealthy liberals and conservatives benefit from it. So, why would they even allow to tax the wealthy more? Canadians have the same duopoly problem as the US, as well as having the same oligarchy problem.

I can’t remember the details, but if I remember correctly, Firefox used to get a lot of cut from hosting Google’s ad. But Google cut that deal and Firefox lost 90% of its revenue as a result. That’s why I can’t blame Firefox for doing what they are doing at the moment.

Us users want services for free but we can’t have our cake and eat them in the current paradigm of the internet. That’s why we have to think outside the box and I advocate for a publicly funded internet. It is the same model as NPR and BBC and that is why they have little to no ads unlike private broadcasters. The same principle should be applied to the Internet if we want to keep using it for free.

We are still in a capitalistic. Money still prevails.

This is why I am an advocate for publicly-funded Internet, like how people fund NPR and BBC.

I don’t blame Firefox because at the end of the day, they are still a business and need to cover the operating cost. I blame the system that we’re in and the elites will tell you there is no other alternative.