Thanks for the tip - hadn’t heard about the Avast news, and wasn’t aware Windows Defender might be sufficient. I’ll look into it.

I’ll confess to still using WhatsApp, cause I don’t have it in my heart to force my 80 year old mother to learn signal.

Oh - and I’m replacing gmail (email and calendar) with Proton. I think the CEO isn’t great, but it’s a very similar service, and it’s not US based. Any recommendations for alternatives to Android and Apple? I’m getting less comfortable with how much data Google has (and I don’t like iOS).

Canadian here - canceled Amazon Prime, and deleted Meta’s Facebook and Messenger. I also canceled my Norton subscription and will be replacing it with Avast. I’m canceling Google One cloud storage and have changed my default search engine to Quant.
I know I’m just one family, but if we all do this kind of stuff, what a world it would be!

Lol

He’s gonna gitchya, gitchya, gitchya, gitchya…

No need to make anything up. We share a land border with Denmark (Hans Island), and we have two little islands off of Newfoundland that are the territory of France (St Pierre and Miquelon). We’re really just far, far, western Europe. 😀

I absolutely agree this will impact all of North America, but equating the US with North America is simply incorrect.

I don’t mean to belittle your justified concerns, but Mexicans and Canadians would like to remind you that North America != USA.

Is there evidence for this? Because I’m inclined to believe it. I joined tiktok when they first threatened to ban it, and saw so much Palestinian content that I really have to assume that it’s being actively blocked on other platforms.

I just like how Americans always seem to think they have the freedom to move to any country they want.

Will this ever not be appropriate?

Can it break down and/or be recycled? No thanks to plastic v2.0.

I can see it.

What kind of time range is “x”? Days? Weeks? This looks awesome! Could you point me to some general instructions for someone who knows nothing?

Can someone explain how the PM has both a yea and nay vote? I’m genuinely confused.

As a Gen X - fuck this guy. You have to be an ignorant ass to write off all the issues faced by everyone trying to make a life for themselves these days. We’ve all been fucked by capitalism, and we shouldn’t be blaming each other.

LOL. Thanks for the sneetches comparison!

I would, but I’m on console.

How about something like Overwatch 2, but 6v6, and no battle pass. Maybe it doles out rewards like skins and sprays and stuff for playing? Just spitballin’ here.

Heck, add an annual subscription to pay the devs, but don’t go all in with the overpriced cosmetics…

You should play Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice. I’ve finished it and it’s awesome. Wear headphones. It’s on Gamepass if you have an Xbox.

The game’s narrative serves as a metaphor for the character’s struggle with psychosis, as Senua, who suffers from the condition but believes it to be a curse, is haunted by an entity known as the “Darkness”, voices in her head known as “Furies”, and memories from her past. To properly represent psychosis, developers worked closely with neuroscientists, mental health specialists, and people living with the condition.

During Overwatch (solo queue), some guy was all pissy, saying that everyone on our team was throwing, and generally being a jerk. He gets fed up, and says ,“fine, since you all suck, I’m just gonna sit in spawn”. And he does. So now, we were 5v6 (OW 1).

But the minute he stops participating, we start winning. And we cap the point. And we start capping the next one too. And I just start laughing and tell him how he must be so bad that he was actually making us worse by participating. He quietly start playing again, but he was so toxic, that I kept teasing him while he waffled for non existent explanations.

He never stopped being a jerk, but I had a really good, memorable match.