Makes sense given that AI has been trained on all the prejudiced blatherings of humanity so far, and it just tries to imitate what it has seen. Yet it’s being used to make decisions as if it’s some wise oracle.

There’s not a lot of hope when you look at the list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession

It’ll be hard for Democrats to decide between the existing center-right capitalist status quo party and the new center-right capitalist status quo party. Meanwhile most Republicans just know they love fascism.

Do not let this weasel anywhere near power. At best, he’ll send Canada down the fascist drain like the USA, and at worst he’ll hand Canada over to the USA.

Tariffs came in last Tuesday, were removed on Friday, came back on Sunday. I expect Tim Apple is loving the daily surprises.

It’s a part of the wider right-wing war on empathy. They see it as a weakness, not as fundamental to what we are.

Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy

Yes, Musk said ‘The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.’ Here’s context

She’s a woman. It’s not a sure thing.

There’s always a problem proposing that social media companies be held legally responsible for the content their users create. If they can get sued for anything anyone says in a post, it could become impossible for anyone to run a social media site or even a web forum.

Its a question of the process and the criteria. I’m a Canadian citizen. I want to know that citizenship is a status I hold securely, not something the government can revoke if I do something they don’t like. There would have to be a rigorous process for it. But it would be better, I think, to deal with citizens under Canadian law and not to consider undoing their citizenship. Any power to remove it is ripe for abuse and a likely slippery slope.

The problem is that, as people say, the people who are rich enough never lose. They can parse any situation into greater wealth. It’s us little people who always lose.

No, I’m on Fastmail. It’s full-featured and has a slick web UI, but it’s not as good for privacy as Tuta, Proton, etc. Also, although Fastmail is Australian they apparently host their servers in the USA.

My email provider will auto-generate aliases with no limit, and I also subscribe to Mozilla Firefox Relay, which allows me to invent email addresses on the fly and have them relay emails to my inbox. The advantage of the Firefox Relay is that it isn’t tied to the email provider so if I switch provider the aliases can still work.

Florida will sink either way.

I’m not the person you were asking, but:

Cash back credit cards reward you by refunding a percentage of your purchases made using the card. You can use this refund as a credit towards your monthly balance or as cash deposited into your bank account. Some cards offer a flat percentage on all purchases, while others offer higher percentages on select categories.

Source: https://www.ratehub.ca/blog/best-cash-back-credit-cards-in-canada/

Of course, they wouldn’t be doing this if you weren’t paying them at least the refunded amount somewhere else - through fees, or through people’s average interest payments, or through price increases applied by the stores to cover the fees they pay to the credit card companies.

Yes, Interac debit is an alternative in many situations, and that’s a Canadian company.

That standard should still deal with plenty of the fascists, if consistently applied. Only the decent, honest, law-abiding fascists will slip through.

If you’re in the USA don’t you dare say abducting medics, handcuffing them, executing them and dumping their bodies in a mass grave is bad, or you’ll be abducted, tortured and disappeared to permanent prison in a random country. This is called free speech.

I don’t know, most middle schoolers learn and grow out of it. MAGAs are not up to that level.

Well played. This made me laugh.

Bad guys are endorsing the bad guys. Don’t vote for the bad guys.