Shout out to Turbohaüs in Montreal

I do like the slow down, cowboy think and I’m pretty sure reddit had that extremely early on as well

For videogame essays, my two faves are Jacob Geller and Powerpak

Canada too, apparently

I don’t disagree with you that euthanized people instead of treating them is fucked, but that’s definitely a side effect of capitalism, because it’s cheaper to just euthanize than have the system support them.

About the “forcing schools to observe gay pride”: it appears you posted an article from national post, which has a known centre-right bias, so i read the article to see if the headline is actually accurate, and it very much isn’t.

Aside from this, what I see is laws prohibiting discrimination, and people being allowed their right to protest a perform “walk-outs”, which doesn’t sound like forcing them to observe gay pride at all.

The requirement was for them to not discriminate and to not make queer people feel unsafe. A lot of the teachers chose, on their own accord, to celebrate pride. This headline is clearly intentionally emotional and grossly misrepresents a situation that deserves far more nuance.

I’d argue that right now, Canada is nothing more than very slightly centre-left, maybe. But it is far from “the other extreme”.

Explain

I would honestly be stoked

I think a lot of people that think the UX is different from reddit weren’t on reddit 14 years ago when it did look very similar to this.

I’ve seen it a few times but it’s really easy to avoid tbh

I’ll look into it, thanks!

I wonder whether it has changed in the last 16 years

Yes but this works a non-zero part of the time

Fair enough, but it does help for telephone companies in my experience

It’s very on-brand

The only difference between that and the US is that China calls itself communist (china is communist in the same way the states is a democracy).

Oh, and the Chinese actually have socialized healthcare.

That’s not the threat you think it is

Thank you so much! I really appreciate you going above and beyond to provide me with some literature! :)

Thanks for clarifying!

My understanding is very basic, but from what I understand (please anyone feel free to correct me if you know more), it uses newsgroups, which is, historically speaking, an extremely old computer network communication system (conceived in '79) that was used for sharing news and files (it used to have forums and stuff on it too), and it works by transferring files in parts, then unpacking/assembling them at their end point.

Because they are in pieces during transfer, it’s very difficult for ISPs to know what you are downloading, therefore no VPN is necessary.

There is also no seeding because it’s a server-client model, not P2P.

I’ll have to talk to my brother because he’s the one that set it up, but i think we use dognzb and it seems to work quite well.

I’m working towards a better understanding of it so if that doesn’t answer your question please let me know and I’ll get you a proper answer :)