Subscript5676

If I didn’t see the domain name I would’ve thought this was a parody website.

These people are whackos.

More like “Make every confession an accusation!”

Makes me think that the government should be consulting trustable people who speak Chinese before jumping to these conclusions. This just feels like they’re frantic and possibly extreme in their view of China. We can dislike the Chinese government and be wary of its many machinations, but we should also judge fairly, lest we undermine our own credibility and essentially give the CCP ammo to label the Canadian government as an extremist and xenophobic.

Also, I would say that Chinese, American, and Russian-controlled media all need to be taken with caution. I understand that the US is a more immediate threat, but the other two have long known to be in the game, and especially the Chinese cause they have large diasporas here, and has a large social media arm worldwide.

I can read Chinese so I can verify that the few articles that were linked are linked certainly don’t seem to mention anything negative about Carney. That translation you’ve shared there is accurate.

I was being rather cautious about the source while reading, cause the official source mentions that this is the channel where mis/disinfo was spread about that Lib MP who had to be removed due to election interferences (sorry, can’t recall his name at the moment). But so far, nothing stands out to me here. The article does seem like a base where they could build their own narrative though, since they don’t cite anything (eg when quoting Carney), making it hard to verify whether a statement was truly said or not, and mixing truths and lies is exactly how they like creating false narratives, to make it incredibly tedious to disentangle truths from lies.

As for the other article, nothing stands out too. It’s written quite a lot more sensationally (eg. something like “Trump’s strategy is as such: ‘You (you being Canada here) either kneel down and be our (American) son, or get roasted (by me) on Twitter till you become a shut-in’”). It’s clear that this isn’t a credible news source, but the Chinese (in Asia, not just China, as there are large Chinese diasporas who aren’t Chinese citizens, e.g. Singaporeans and Malaysians) are used to consuming news from these sorts of non-credible channels.

That said, yeah, I’m confused about how and why the gov seems to have selectively linked these articles to say that false narratives have started. There’s potential for it, but these don’t seem to be it

I like the idea of putting a 🖕or 💩 over the logo, so I’m gonna steal it for if and when a US-made laptop flies to my doorstep.

I’ve had an ASUS convertible at one point a long time ago (probably 6 years ago now) that I wanted to put Linux on, but it was pretty terrible, but you’re right, I could give these a try again after a bit of research. I generally don’t mind a bit of degradation and am quite comfortable with tinkering with the system to get what I want, but was just burned enough to not try for a while and wait it out. But thank you for mentioning CatchyOS, which I’ve not heard of. I might give that a try. I would’ve just tried slapping plain Arch on it myself otherwise.

And yeah, I get that MFL just doesn’t have the market share to get the benefits of economies of scale. It’s disappointing, but a reality nonetheless.

Thank you for the suggestion! Though I’ve selectively ignored the Surfaces cause Microsoft. I’m not in a rush to get one, and I’d rather support other vendors if I could, and wouldn’t even get a Surface off someone else just so that I don’t advertise for Microsoft. All the more reason to do so given the current political climate (I’m not from the US).

I’ve been thinking about a Linux tablet and a convertible would be perfect.

But man it’s gonna be pricey af isn’t it

But I know, there’s the Pinetab (or Pine Tablet?)

Very funny

Or better, help people transition away from American products. 50% tongue-in-cheek (it’s hard to help people make that change for a variety of reasons, but hey!)

Are they meant to “go somewhere”?

It’s not that simple though. Sure, they can buy new properties, but they can only buy so much. We’re talking 500k new homes per year.

You could aggressively tax people who own multiple homes, but it doesn’t address the fact that there’s a clear lack of housing for the population. Property investors are just one part of the equation.

And if the rich does snag up a lot of these units, we can then talk about taxing these people, or perhaps limiting purchases of affordable houses only to first-time buyers or low-to-medium income households, creating a sort of loose air gap between the two markets (luxury and affordable). In any case, your worries are without solutions, but those houses need to be built regardless.

From a slightly deeper page in the index tree

Retirees themselves are stepping up to support this plan (as in, rich retirees take less so that money can be redistributed to poorer retirees and younger people in need). They are personally prepared to take a bit less from OAS. If you’d like to join them, let us know.

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So there we have another solution (or at least a part-solution) to our budgetary problems, thanks to some of the retirees (and that number might grow?).

Tbf, this is a hard convo to have, but politicians should be making these convos at the possible risk of getting disliked.

Instead of just proposing solutions without consultation, just ask! Be reasonable of course, but ask! “You’re getting this much money every month, and we’d like to know if you’d be fine if we give you a bit less, because X, Y, and Z.”

Not everyone’s gonna respond positively, and there people who refuse to be reasoned with, but that’s politics!

But ik, a two-party race forces them to basically try to win on every turn, and we have only FPTP to blame.