VIC-20 still going strong in 2025 with a MegaCart from Denial. I think my parents bought it for me in 1983. 42 years… crazy.

Trump definitely has visions, but TACO!

Golden dome, regardless of what it is, whether upgraded NORAD monitoring or an actual shield would be magnitudes more expensive without Canada’s cooperation.

Another 5-D chess move. The administration’s strategy is so sophisticated, no one will ever figure it out!

No one knows, but here is a click bait article headline for some ad impressions!

I think this is misleading. The exchange from with most currencies with CAD look stable.

The US dollar is dropping against basically everything and is how the administration knows they are winning.
Check out this sexy 30 year Treasury rate. The best in 18 years!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/30-year-us-treasury-yield-nears-18-year-high-as-trump-tax-bill-triggers-global-bond-selloff/ar-AA1FiOKw

Take that losers!

They were just waiting for Microsoft to add advertisements to Windows so they can do the same. Now it can be a new revenue channel and will see the light of day.

The Windows Webcam camera settings, when I finally find them on Windows 11 to control pan and zoom, have been the same for 25 years, maybe 30. The thing is, it used to be easy to find the controls, but they keep making Windows slower & harder to use. It’s such a rat nest.

Everyone is too busy doomscrolling TikTok to notice.

I use FolderSync. Works well and I prefer one app synchronizing files than 6. I still use the Nextcloud app for files I don’t sync that I need access to, but overall it’s really bad. The camera upload erased a ton of my pictures on a vacation. I deleted the synced pictures on my phone storage and the Nextcloud app overwrote the images as the new photos had the same file name.

I use Linux, so encryption is easy with LUKS, and Free File Sync to drives that rotate to a safety deposit box at the bank for catastrophic event, such as a house fire. Usually anything from the last few months are still on my mobile devices.

I think OpenAI’s recent sycophant issue has cause a new spike in these stories. One thing I noticed was these observations from these models running on my PC saying it’s rare for a person to think and do things that I do.

The problem is that this is a model running on my GPU. It has never talked to another person. I hate insincere compliments let alone overt flattery, so I was annoyed, but it did make me think that this kind of talk would be crack for a conspiracy nut or mentally unwell people. It’s a whole risk area I hadn’t been aware of.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/openai-says-its-identified-why-chatgpt-became-a-groveling-sycophant/ar-AA1E4LaV

It’s a distraction from all the things for which she should fry for.

Not at all. Another ‘coalition government’, which wasn’t a coalition govt, is rage fodder for the lunatics.

LOL! I grew up around these dimwits, this will go nowhere. Also, Western separation in the past was predicated on BC also leaving. A landlocked and water strapped ‘country’ lead by one of the most stupid and also corrupt people on Earth is laughable.

Trudeau made several major mistakes including appointing a journalist to be finance minister. He overstayed his welcome since 2021 and conspiracy theorists made hay with the idea that he was never going to step down, that there would never be an election, or that he would somehow make himself a dictator. None of these things happened, but the brainwashed now think that Trudeau is controlling Mark Carney with fluoride, chemtrails and a 5G cell phone. Or maybe its been the other way the whole time!!! So stupid, but that doesn’t explain the high number of Canadians that voted for Polievre.

Trudeau isn’t the king of the Liberal party, but for a while he was running it as though he was. Reality sunk in, he finally stepped down, but many people want to punish the Liberals and it’s understandable. Assuming this government lasts 2-4 years, Trudeau will be ancient history.

Carney is not Trudeau, and if his ideas work, then he’ll bring people around. The NDP will find a new leader, they have firm roots and will regain their footing.

The CPC will hopefully realize the reason it has Multiple Personality Disorder is because it is a group of people with conflicting values and ideals.that agreed to bind themselves together to defeat the Liberal party in our first past the post system. Strapping the fanatical right wing fringe of the country to the PC party has failed to win over and over. Its time to give up, perhaps this latest loss will finally tear apart their unnatural abomination.

And if I were to dream a little dream, we’d have proportional representation and never have another majority government ever again.

Koch Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch,_Inc.

No one can touch them

In the great words of Total Bastard Airlines, “Bu-Bye!”

And in the great words of a Canadian celebrity that I won’t name, who asked me over coffee looking for his first job, “What’s a resume”. As in let’s resume looking for a job.

Interesting takes on CBC, but reality is that Polievre is shit. He lost this election because he is terrible, stupid, lazy and inept. He wasn’t ready for an election, he didn’t do his homework, he ran scared of the media, he is stupid (demonstrated by his understanding of electricity and bread). That he believed he could treat Canadians with such disdain and disrespect. He deserves the rest of his life as an insult stuck to the sole of my shoe.

His explanations of where household electricity comes from, and how storing bread in Plastic bags keep it from going moldy should be proof enough this man is a complete idiot. Science, reason, and logic are very dangerous to idiots, so it would be the first to go under his regime.

I’m not a Federal NDP supporter, but what I always appreciated about Layton is that I knew where he stood on a major issue without him saying a word. He had a clarity, set of values and perspective that I understood even if I didn’t agree. I’d say the exact same thing about Broadbent. Mulcair and Jagmeet are different beasts and to me, it’s very simple what happened. They had an idea that the most important thing is to be in power, to become populist and adopt whatever idea and policy that seems like a winner and in that pursuit have become a nothing party. They’re still consistent on easy issues, when the matter is controversial, they scurry away from taking a stand and adopt some nonsensical position they believe will be popular often violating those core tenets.

The NDP has a place they can go back to and rebuild support. From that core, perhaps the most they ever become is the opposition, but a powerful voice, an important voice and a consistent voice instead of this current slop. A great or good leader can revive the NDP.

Should the CPC be served the resounding loss that is now forecast by the polls, it is the conservative reform alliance party that faces an existential crisis. A merger of conflicting core ideals, values, and a sociopathic pursuit of power have resulted in Pierre Polievre. They have no core set of beliefs or values to fall back on, only each other’s knives. There will be a window for an insane cult hero to save the CPC at Canada’s peril, but hopefully it’s the end of the road and they break apart into their factions and become something of value.