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To use Wero, both the sender and recipient must have an account at one of our bank members in Germany, Belgium or France (source)

No Canadian bank or credit union offers JCB cards.

Basically the only option is Interac, but it only works inside Canada. If you want to use your Canadian debit card internationally, it's going to go through an American payment network like Cirrus, Maestro, or the Plus network (ie. MasterCard or Visa's network).

Super insightful, thanks. Didn't think about any of that.

Dude you need to chill out, make friends with some women, and touch grass in the real world. You're a left-wing incel basically, from what you've written, you just don't realize it. Just unplug from the internet for a while and chill out. Whatever happens on the internet is usually not reflective of the real world, just keep that in mind.

Edit: I wrote exactly 12 words to you, and that makes you think I'm an "ignorant idealist" and have blood on my hands.............?

I'll take the opinions of this highly regarded local Ottawa resident over your bullshit anecdotes any day.

It’s deliberate social manipulation by 3rd wave feminists and conservative think tanks and they spend a lot of time and effort making sure everyone sees it all the time

You get downvoted because your conclusion is "let's blame it on women!"

I don't disagree with you, but you've put some thought into this so maybe you can help us understand your logic and rationale more.

as soon as they deem profitable

What's profitable about losing sales of adult games?

Also, what leverage do these groups have over banks and payment processors? If you have leverage over Visa and MasterCard, some of the most profitable companies in the world, I could imagine doing way more nefarious things than this. I just don't get it. Some random group in Australia has leverage over Visa and MasterCard - American companies - is that what we're saying here?

Those are things that should be handled by a government in defence of the public interest of everyone

I think you might have too much faith in government. Facebook and YouTube shouldn't be hyper-polarizing brainwashing machines either, but here we are 20 years later and governments have done jack shit to address that. If anything, we're going the wrong direction - Governments are seeing that and the TikTok model as tools they can have at their disposal to suppress dissent. But ironically, I think YouTube and many other platforms quietly accept that if we want to live in a somewhat harmonious society, we can't leave it to the government to make all the rules. (eg. YouTube banning vaccine misinformation and disinformation during a public health emergency.)

On a tangent here, maybe the only potential upside from this situation with Steam is that horrifically misogynistic waifu simulators aren't going to be 1 click away from the new Call of Duty. Seriously, Steam is just full of super gross anime shit that kids shouldn't see, but the main audience of the platform is kids. The way Steam puts that content beside everything else is really gross and they really should get called out for that.

I've used them a bunch of times too, always a good experience, and I plan to use them more as an Amazon replacement. They offer a lot of random knickknacks. (Their sister brand, Prime cables, is good too.)

Braun is German and my cheap Oral B electric toothbrush (same company) was made in Germany.

Beanfield owns the fibre in the ground too so they're one of only truly independent ISPs.

This law sounds good in theory, but there's a lot of lawful content that is really undesirable (scams, spam, deepfakes, hate speech, etc.) and platforms need to be able to deal with that. The law isn't fast or flexible enough to keep up, and every country has different (or laughable) definitions of some of these things.

The YouTube community guidelines are a pretty good overview of whatever shady shit people are trying to pull these days: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9288567?hl=en

I'm too lazy to argue against you, but just be grateful you have a job because I couldn't imagine any company hiring someone in IT with your perspectives. You're missing the forest for the trees.

running fsck is how my IRL horror movie starts somedays lol