It’s not an issue of him ever thinking of choosing to wipe it during his travel, he clearly had no initial intent of doing so, which is why he didn’t do it before departing . What’s caused all the legal issues is that he decided to give his duress pin when his actual pin was demanded by the US border guards. The border guards entering that pin caused the device to reboot and factory reset. That’s why he’s in trouble. They’re claiming he purposefully caused evidence to be destroyed when an investigation was already underway.

It literally is. Read the constitutional amendment outlawing slavery in the US. Slavery is outlawed in all cases EXCEPT as punishment for crimes committed. Penal Slavery is literally explicitly legal under the US constitution.

Stop. Playing. These. Games. That. Have. Zero. Respect. For. Your. Digital. Autonomy.

It’s not fucking hard. These people don’t give a shit because you sheep keep playing them anyways no matter how horrible they treat gamers. It’s like watching a fucking abusive relationship where the victim always returns to the one doing horrible things to them.

I find myself unable to comprehend why anyone would do this, as it clearly will not alter the situation with Tibet.

• China just won’t care at all
• No other country is going to negatively engage China on Tibet because of one man’s act of suicide
• Self-Immolation was likely shocking the first few times it was done, but now only warrants a short, quickly forgotten news article
• Just like hunger strikes, it harms no one but the person doing it, and so effects zero actual change
• So he basically died to accomplish nothing whatsoever

I can only assume his last moments were spent in extreme pain and regret (which is what I think likely happens with most suicides that last long enough to allow for such a thing).

Unless the guy was severely depressed or was otherwise planning to off himself regardless, and just took this as a ‘justified’ way to end everything, this act is bizarre and nonsensical.

These heat waves have been basically yearly and yet my family in France and the UK for some reason remain allergic to just getting an air conditioner. Sure, I get it, you don’t need it most of the year, but this at this point not at least buying a portable unit is ridiculous (and yes I know about European windows, that’s why I suggested a portable, way easier to rig a temp mount for a hose with some thick plastic sheeting at the worst case of all of the windows in the house won’t work as needed for the typical mounting set up)

Okay, as someone who owns both Linux PCs and a MacBook, while I fully don’t think anyone should ever get a Mac for gaming specifically, what on earth are you talking about with “restrictions on what software you can install”?

You can 100% install anything you like on your Mac. Yes, if it’s not signed, the OS will decline to run it by default, but you can very much bypass this if you choose to (one time authorization - I.e. clicking ‘open anyways’ and entering your password - in privacy & security settings is all that is needed).

The ‘Mandatory Fee’ for App Store access and the code signing (to prevent users needing to ‘open anyways’ as I described above) is $100/yr, which may indeed shut out some indie game devs, but isn’t any sort of contributing factor to actual game studios not supporting macOS (in fact, many game studios that support iOS still don’t support macOS even though they’ve already paid the fee and macOS can straight up run iOS apps by default). No, the general lack of macOS game support is all down to other policies and priorities at Apple.

So let’s criticize Apple for stuff they actually do (like iOS App Store lock-in, in most markets, and not caring about giving more than the bare minimum of support for any gaming that isn’t mobile generally) and not invent specious claims that aren’t accurate.

Not that Canadians can currently reasonably afford beef. Prices are insanely inflated.

Denouncing accomplishes nothing. It’s the “thoughts and prayers” of politics.

That’s hardly why. More like many Canadians don’t want to go and visit/financially support an actively hostile country with a leader that repeatedly talks about annexing them.

People here going to US to snowbird are kind of considered some low end tier of traitor by many, in fact.

I’m fairly certain a big reason behind Amazon doing this is that older kindles make it trivial to pirate kindle unlimited books. Check out 20, move them off the reader into calibre, decrypt, return the books, get 20 more, etc.

(And before anyone says that the drm removal doesn’t work on kindle unlimited books, that check is two lines of python to fix.)

We’ve known high end android phones can run Cyberpunk for a while now. Look into Winlator, x86 gaming on Android is already a whole thing. Apple didn’t just do something new here.

Canada’s housing and healthcare infrastructure is unable to keep up with even the current population. There are current issues with record high wait times for ERs and surgery, etc. as well as a homelessness crisis.

Not to mention the current issues with imported organised crime, such as foreign extortion gangs that are currently a huge problem in BC and Ontario. If you keep up on the Canadian news at all, you’ll know that many members of such a gang was recently arrested, all of whom suddenly claimed refugee status so that they then conveniently couldn’t be deported for their crimes without literal years of legal proceedings. And this was reported by the CBC, which is about as left-wing as a news source gets in Canada, so its not a case of the National Post or the Sun pushing right wing propaganda.

It is commendable to want to help people, but the fact of the matter is, unchecked record high immigration has led to more than a few problems over the last decade that are now coming home to roost. Canada simply doesn’t have the capacity to absorb these people without it further exacerbating domestic issues, not to mention that the Liberal Party’s record-high immigration numbers and TFW-related employment issues are wildly unpopular politically. They are a large part of the reason that the conservatives were on track to win a majority in the last election after Trudeau was forced to resign, before Donald Trump’s 51st state comments and tariffs sent a wave of anti-american sentiment through Canada (and thus, anti-anything Trump-like voter sentiment, and Trump is a US conservative) and cost them that lead - but that only goes so far.

If Canada tries to absorb all the migrants trying to go there now over the USA due to America’s current political climate, there will eventually be a large backlash that pushes Canada far closer to the current US political climate than anyone wants.

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Having just double checked with my Canadian family, and then checking their sources, nope, inflation directly affecting cost of living is not getting under control there. Food price inflation is up 4.7% for 2025, which is more than double the rate of inflation for the last year.

Meat, Coffee, Fresh Fruit, and Fresh Vegetables are apparently the worst hit categories. Also, I got to listen to a mini-rant about Shrinkflation.

So serious question, how is the US Navy chasing down and seizing these ships different from piracy?

Thats nice and all, but none of this apparent success is helping cost of living in Canada. According to my Canadian family, grocery bills just keep on rising.

The way India had things set up, I think you basically need it for daily life at this point. They have their weird Aadhar system and such that all use.mobile phones.

Are we sure that Trump isn’t actually a Chinese asset? They’re the big winners in all his tariff and trade chaos.

The US is entirely schizophrenic trade-wise, and unreliable. Every country ought to be shifting away from trade with them, as tarrifs and tariff threats vary with the wind, or what the McDonald’s value menu of the day is, or some other inscrutable variable.

That’s what the waffle stomp is for.