Where’s the fun in building an Apple IIe if you use a flash drive instead of the hard drive?

Not to be that guy, but the Apple IIe didn’t have a hard drive. External tape or floppy were your only storage choices. The real cool kids had two floppy drives, so you could pirate games directly disk-to-disk.

Thomas Midgley Jr is the same guy that invented leaded gas and also invented freon (chlorofluorocarbons). Imagine being the architect of not one but two of the greatest environmental calamities of the industrial age.

I humbly direct you towards the raw milk crowd

Can I please buy a car that’s not smart? I don’t need my car spying on me.

His mistake was making doors that go like this instead of like this. If you want to be iconic like the DeLorean, the doors have to go like this.

That said, I’m definitely curious but I wonder how can I feel any empathy for them

Don’t worry, you won’t. They’re all pretty terrible human beings. But fuck are they funny.

I quit caring a while back so I could be driving up the numbers.

Buy Canadian isn’t always an option. But buying non-American almost always is. And since a huge part of the protest at this time is about putting the US in the penalty box, it’s an acceptable tradeoff.

I read the headline and went “what, are they going to start drinking their own piss?”

And the answer was yes. Yes they are drinking their own piss.

I’m repeating myself a lot in this thread, but everyone seems to be sleeping on Telesat Lightspeed.

All of that seems perfectly reasonable.

And it’s also perfectly wrong. Because Telsat Canada has been working on its LEO constellation for about 10 years now. And it goes live in about 2 years.

And yes, it will be superior to Starlink in multiple ways.

Saying cut starlink out is fine and all but there are lots of places and communities without any decent broadband options at all (in Canada and beyond).

You may be unaware, but Telstat will have their LEO constellation and subsequent high speed satellite internet up and running by 2027. A Canadian solution to a Canadian problem.

Existential threats have a way of crystallizing one’s priorities.

I believe that they’re deliberately provoking dissenters into the slightest bit of violent action so that they can do exactly that.

Not as far as the state is concerned.

I have two superpowers:

Mosquitoes don’t find me delicious. When everyone else is getting hammered, they generally leave me alone. When I do get bit, the bites barely swell and they don’t usually itch.

Rock star parking- Anywhere I go, I always check out immediately in front of the place I need to be. There’s almost always an empty spot, and if there isn’t there’s someone just leaving that I pull into. I dunno how that helps me fight crime, but it sure would be useful if I were a bank heist getaway driver.

While not officially asylum seekers, both Canada and the EU have taken steps to recruit in-demand Americans wishing to leave. BC is overtly wooing US health care workers, Canada as a whole is courting scientists and researchers, and France has made statements welcoming researchers as well.

That was a very compelling speech that Representative Howell gave. That there were 40 that still voted in favourite after having the obviously dangerous language in the bill is kinda frightening.

I yearn for that one M1 Abrams in a column of them to focus its turret on the tribune as it passes.

Damn, I’ve heard jokes about quebecios being snobby with their French but that seems excessive

It’s not snobby. From an anglo perspective, here’s how it plays out in reality:

WAITER: Qu’est-ce que vous voudrais? ME: Huh? WAITER: What would you like? ME: {proceeds to order}

…And life goes on.