settinmoon

Fellow Canadian here. Aside from the obvious troll farms I'm wondering shouldn't Indians be more concerned of these kind of conduct than others? If the world turns a blind eye imagine in the future if the Indian state label you as a "terrorist" for saying something they don't like, you are not even safe even if you managed to get out of the country.

In 10 years the West would probably consider India to be too powerful and needs to be contained just like China is today. This may eventually push India to form a close alliance with China and Russia (assuming those two hasn't collapsed) and the West will have a much bigger problem to deal with than the China Russia alliance today. This is very similar to how China was used as a counterweight to the Soviets during the cold war, and now is forced to ally with Russia to counter western containment measures.

Canadian currently living in the US here. The problem is that these high skill jobs usually pays close to double in the US after taking forex into account. More than enough to pay for the extra cost for healthcare. Not to mention our healthcare system back home isn't in it's best shape at the moment. If some of these folks don't like their red state politics, they can easily move to a blue state instead of Canada where they're likely to get a massive pay cut.

I second this. Got an open box pixel 6 pro this year for $400, still blows most non-flagship current year phones out of the water.

When I quit mainstream social media platforms half of my friend added me on signal and the other half agreed to just text me. Would I miss out on some group events? Maybe, but I don't need to be in every one of them. If I want any sort of group gathering I'd just organize one.

Your cousin just sounds miserable and it's really her loss for judging people by a tool of communication.

Because it works, has okay configurations out of the box, and I just don't really care enough about the points mentioned in this article to make the switch. I only use it for cases where I don't expect privacy like government websites. As soon as you open an account there they got all your info anyway.

I use Brave as a secondary browser mostly for government websites because sometimes my firefox privacy settings breaks them and since many of them are poorly designed a technical issue over your account may result in hours on the phone to resolve.

I hate meta and I actually went out of my way to get my family and friends off of their platforms, but in this case I don't think they're in the wrong. Even if we roll with the logic that they should be paying for these links, then what is wrong with them deciding to not profit off of the links now by not showing them? Isn't that the right thing to do?

It seems to me the news agencies and the Canadian government just wants extra revenue, and when their plan didn't go as expected they're now just crying and bit**ing about facing consequences of their actions.

I consider myself right leaning but I don't think subscribing to right vs left wing ideology is nearly as important as supporting liberty vs authoritarianism. A lot of folks on both sides claims to believe in liberty but in actually they're authoritarians in disguise because they just want the government to step in and eliminate dissent. I have a close friend who's an anarcho communist just like you and whenever we have these discussions it just stays on a thought experiment level and has never harmed our relationships. Since at the end of the day we agree that people should be left alone.

I agree. I work in tech and having a secret back door opens you up for potentially billions of dollars of lawsuits and all it takes for everything to blow up is one whistleblower.

My mom is tech illiterate and I buy all her devices for her. If I gave her a Mac she'll just use it without knowing what OS it is.

This is very true. I lived in a big city for a couple years and I still ended up ordering a huge batch of groceries on the weekend instead of visiting a local store every other day. It's an extremely hard habit to break off.