Librem 5 is what you’re thinking of

Let me say it this way, you propose some convoluted technological way to fuck with someone’s car, but you can already just go under and start cutting vital lines. But again, that’s extremely rare because most people aren’t inclined to doing that kind of harm.

But that would be silly, because the easiest way to kill someone without consequence is to get behind the wheel and run them over. People could also be putting bombs in product boxes and poison in medicine. A coherent society doesn’t have these problems.

One joke

Everything about the way the news works is wrong and hurts our society. For-profit news should’ve never been allowed to exist.

You know those are the exceptions, not the rules. Capitalism means that you play the dirty tricks everyone else does or get left behind. Legislation is the way out of this, not the delusion that we can convince people to just “choose better”. I tried to convince people for the better half of a decade. People simply do not have the knowledge to understand why they should care.

I don’t know why people keep saying this. You either pay for a service, or you get a company extracting as much data as they can from you for advertiser or VC money. Servers and bandwidth cost money

I don’t know about you but as a lifelong Albertan my life would improve if my city had even a little bit of the culture of like, Seattle. I’m not guessing, I have been there and it would be a place I’d consider moving if they weren’t under fascist dictatorship keen on eradicating my people.

Didn’t you know? There’s a War on Christmas!

Marginally, compared to the large detriment that car dependency objectively is, and the raw materials extraction required for everybody to own 1, 2, 3+ cars. My comparison isn’t with ICE cars, it’s with functional public transit systems. I don’t wish to argue about the particulars because inherently cars are the wrong solution to moving a lot of people around, because it’s bad for society and doesn’t even scale well, evidenced by the 401 and many other major highways.

I’ve always said that electric cars are basically a red herring for improving society. I don’t really care much because it’s a lateral move. Call me when we start getting electric cars of the train variety.

+1 for thrifted laser. Just look for replacement toner before checking out.

Yeah, I think laser with viable third party cartridges is the actual answer. No matter what brand. Individual model is more important than the brand too, because my Brother was actually still kinda annoying to get working properly.

Inkjet isn’t appropriate for somebody who prints infrequently, especially refillable inkjets, because they dry out even faster than cartridges. Toner is powder and stays good for basically as long as the printer is functional.

It might depend on climate, because I live somewhere semi-arid, but it’s worth keeping in mind.

For buying food at one of my last jobs, I had a choice between fast food and the save-on-foods food bar. Once I started getting sandwiches for less money that were healthier, more filling, tasted better, and were CHEAPER from save-on-foods there was no going back for me.

Yeah, I got a phone at 12, and I now think that might even be too young for an internet-connected smartphone. Too many young boys getting radicalized into the far right by Tiktok and Instagram reels. I am not advocating for Life360, just making the internet a time and place rather than something that’s on and available 100% of the time.

Whaaat? Neoliberal policies that are focused on keeping capital happy aren’t good for people?

Sorry. Real tired of the news cycle feigning ignorance. Either the government makes capital upset or the problem continues to get worse. The ultra wealthy LOVE that housing keeps rising. Real-estate is a problematically large part of our GDP.

Yes, we don’t need to exaggerate, Carney’s neoliberal austerity doesn’t have to be fascism to be overall bad for us.

Carbon capture. What a fuckin joke. At this point I’m expecting all-weather roads to be solar freakin’ roadways or equally as delusional.