softcat

hell yeah

We'll throw you into a Syrian CIA black site to torture, just ask Maher Arar 🇨🇦

I've used EaseUS's free partition manager to clone Windows 10, in order to move from an hdd to an empty SSD. It handled setting up a place for itself to boot into while cloning, and managed to get the partition table etc right as well. There are alternatives for sure, but the nice UI put me at ease(...) for some reason.

You'll probably be fine with the proprietary Nvidia driver aside from minor annoyances, assuming you have a relatively new card- on one PC with a legacy card waking from suspend doesn't work, on a relatively new 960gtx waking results in glitched fonts until I log out of the user. Steam under Wayland occasionally has UI glitches with the top drop down menu for me, though a) supposedly it's better under flatpak b) supposedly it was fixed recently broadly, waiting to get that update.

And remember to back things up before making changes!

Continued the tradition of hollowing out the middle class for wealthy donors like any other politician. The man represented Delaware for God's sake. Economy got "better" while people continued to get gradually poorer, materially.

I guess that's better than having every index in the world crater because chatgpt said tariffs on everyone though, so.

he looks very determined

CRTC: no, don't use the lube

This seems completely uncritical of Carney and Canada for that matter. The future isn't going to be lead without force because a middle power elects a prime minister with some good ideas about markets.

We don't need to rely on wars? We rely on exploitation even without it- ask any country where our mining firms operate with lax regulation. Hell, we've participated in "coalitions of the willing" in invasions and aerial bombings for corporate giants too. Most of this country is content to think the first Nations just decided to give us the land.

I'm happy to vote for more years of basically Trudeau lite and I have no illusions about it.

Superpower? Alright no need to chug the Kool aid this hard, let's wait until you find a chapter where he wants to develop a nuclear triad.

He's a traditional liberal which means not all that progressive beyond what's popular socially. Good for the wealthy fiscally, and maintained decline for everyone else. If you want to see what it'll be, look at the UK while he was heading up BoE. Or any Canadian Liberal government through the 90s-00s.

Despite all this he and his party obviously remain the superior choice to PP, but let's not kid ourselves. He's not going to neolib us into utopia.

Say "McDonald's!" to continue ride

I'm not sure the answers so far get to the gist of the problem- how to create these institutions in balance of power, where they can't just co-opt or capture one another.

I don't think it's possible to prevent one institution from actively deciding to give up and relinquish its responsibilities, without constraining or bolstering them to where they can't act as balances.

If they want power they find a way.

Making the same joke about the senator will result in the FBI breaking down your door. Funny how that works.