The US president already shits himself on live TV, so he’s already got us beat there.

I’m willing to bet that it’s lack of enforcement. It really seems like in the last 10-15 years or so, enforcement of driving laws in US and Canada has just… stopped. And, ultimately, making all sorts of new rules and regulations to stop fatalities/injuries means nothing if they are not enforced.

I’d imagine each of us here in North America can think of at least a couple urban centres that have become lawless free-for-alls on the roads.

According to Statistics Canada, 264,000 EV’s were sold in 2024.

50,000 of those potentially being Chinese EVs is not a small percentage. That is a significant chunk of our yearly EV sales.

AI, for the vast majority of users (and especially in the ways Microslop has pushed it) is completely useless at best and a malicious hindrance at worst. In order for Microslop to even begin to reverse course on their reputation they are going to have to accept the cold hard fact that AI is fetish for shareholders and is not actually what their customers want.

And once they do that then they are basically admitting that AI is overvalued and they overinvested in it and wildly overspent. The fragile house of cards might begin to wobble and the bubble might even pop, so naturally every tech company refuses to acknowledge the pushback against AI outside of rare cases of “We’ll revaluate our approach” like Windows did recently. They’re going to have to sink a lot lower before they’ll even consider budging on major changes to their business strategies.

The US was built on a foundation of genocide and slave ownership. It was never great.

It sadly doesn’t matter. Smith could slaughter a school bus full of infants on live TV and she would still win the next election.

Conservatives, both Canadian and American, operate in a post-truth mindset where facts no longer matter. Their manufactured hatred for “the other side” will drive them to act entirely against their own interests and wellbeing entirely out of fear or just to spite their perceived foes. This is further amplified by the conservative tradition of attacking education and free press so people can’t even learn the truth if they wanted it.

We can see it very clearly with the MAGA cult in the US. They are in so deep that the only way they will ever get their heads out of their ass is to lose everything they’ve ever held dear and even then it might not be enough.

That has basically been the status quo for the past year. If you want something to succeed you have to keep it on the down-low so Trump doesn’t notice otherwise he’ll rip it to shreds in a tantrum.

The US is being governed by someone who is much alike the insane kings you read about in history books and fantasy novels.

They will when Alberta votes out the UCP.

And when giraffes can fly.

I’m glad there are official studies being done to document this, but also it’s vary obvious if you’ve spent any time around people in the past few years. The degradation of critical thinking and research skills is highly tangible and disturbing. Any country that isn’t addressing this significant intelligence gap is going to have an entire generation (or more) of brain-drained, unskilled citizens that can’t meaningfully contribute to the national workforce. For western countries that have already surrendered most of their manufacturing and innovation overseas, this will be even more devastating.

I have a trunk bag that has a 2nd zipper like a suitcase so it can expand upward for larger cargo items. Also the sides open and drop down into large pannier bags for bigger items.

Keep it out? Smith herself has been flying down to the US to meet with the Heritage Foundation. The entire thing is backed by US fascists.

We all know he’s insane and is going to attempt to rig future elections. There isn’t anything the world can do about that, though. Trump is America’s problem to solve.

Surprise! The members of a defensive treaty aren’t jumping for joy when one of the members begins an invasion and commits war crimes and then calls for the aid of the other members. Especially when said member previously lied before and got many killed for their false cause.

If the purpose of NATO is lost on Rutte then he should step aside and let in someone who actually knows what the organisation is supposed to do.

I’ve been tempted to get one of those handlebar-mounted car horns for use when cars cut me off or nearly run me over.

I have a bell on my bike but I actually don’t use it that much. I don’t often encounter situations where I need to pass a person that is occupying the width of a trail and if I do then usually a “Passing on your left/right!” will suffice.

Breaking news: Iran’s allies help them against an invading force.

Hello. Am atheist and don’t celebrate Christmas. It’s just another day to me.

A 16 year old niche display tech that has seen next to no use is not the epic zinger gotcha you think it is.

If I were to cover every single niche display tech that wasn’t strictly RGB then I’d be writing a damn novel. Nearly every device that people interact with will be RGB. That is the common standard.

They only care about their shareholders and investors. They haven’t given a shit about their customers in a long long time.

No, that is incorrect. Modern displays have subpixels of red, green, and blue and they are only ever producing various brightness levels of those exact colours. In the case of an OLED or LED displays, they would be perfectly monochromatic colours. The colours do not combine as coloured paint would to produce a new colour. That isn’t how they work nor how you view them. We are looking directly at the subpixels and they are activating your rods and cones directly.

Yellow does not exist when a monitor displays a yellow colour. Your brain thinks it does because its red and green cells are being activated. This is also how you can see the colour magenta despite your monitor display red and blue, colours which are on the opposite ends of the visible spectrum. Magenta never exists during the process of displaying magenta on a screen, it only does in your brain.

Technically it doesn’t display yellow at all. In fact, yellow never exists during the entire process. It displays red and green and that activates the red and green cells in your eyes and makes your brain think it saw yellow.