Unclescar

Are there any initiatives to show support for Russia? You are expecting businesses to pick a side, I don't think its particularly wise to do so because the only possible outcome is a massive decrease in potential customers. You might feel morally superior in your convictions but that is based on your assumption that your moral convictions are correct.

Facebook "fact-checking" isn't even about checking facts and displaying truth, it is about narrative control and telling you what opinions you are allowed to have and what you are not, what 'truths' you have to accept and which ones you should not. The "facts" are intentionally politically one sided opinions and has been admitted so in a court of law.

*eyeroll...* more thoughtless condescension dripping with smugness. Oh the world would be so great if we all just thought like you. Life has been so good you cannot even comprehend why anyone could possibly think differently. I don't mean to be condescending, I mean to be insulting. You want people to just accept things and comply. I want people to be left alone. Sometimes the only way to be left alone is to be capable of harming those who would bother you. Capability does not imply intent. Hypothetically, if your question was sincere (which I know its not, but anyway..) then I would suggest you do some digging into history. legality and morality are not mutually inclusive.

Lol canadian flag is not a hate flag. There is nothing wrong with being armed. I encourage it actually. For everyone. Armed minorities are harder to oppress and victimize. That's the point. Anyone wanting to remove tools of self-defense should be assumed to have bad intentions, especially a government. get your eyes checked then. right.. making noise in defiance of authoritarianism is terrorism, but according to the official media narratives of the US and Canada, literally burning down cities, attacking citizens and chanting for the abolishment of the country is just a mostly peaceful protest. clown world goes Honk Honk

Lol didn't Canada just shut down their banks at the request of the government to stop people from making perfectly legal purchases that the govt didn't like? Have you not noticed people had their bank accounts closed on them over the last few years because they did not tow the propaganda line? Cash is the method of finances that you can have complete control over and purchase anonymously. I recognize no argument to take that away from other people as legitimate. yay great for you, so speak for yourself and stop acting like you assume everyone else similarly has little reason to use cash.

The concern is not that they can view financial situations, the concern is that they would have direct power over those financial situations and also remove all methods of finances that they wouldn't be able to have direct control over. If you don't think that, given the chance, a government wouldn't close down your bank account if you refused to inject yourself with an experimental medicine, you should reconsider. No government should have the authority to rip your ability to live out from under you, they already do a liquid butt ton of terrible things to people and we can't do anything about it because they are the authority. Digital currency is cool. Digital banking is hella convenient. I like these technologies. I use a lot of them. I don't like the idea of a government being in charge of running them with no other options.

My experience is that lots of stores won't even do actual refunds they'll just do store credit on a gift card that you can use towards your next purchase.

Thats your subjective viewpoint and my subjective viewpoint based on objective observable history is that governments should not just be blindly trusted. I don't want an unaccountable force to have its hands in my finances. period. you do you, but don't tell me how I must also do.

I was responding with a point about privacy to a question about downsides to the government (which has a long list of terrible behavior without being held accountable) having total control over the medium by which we exchange goods for survival. People who are not concerned about privacy are welcome to share their info, but they do not get to dictate that everyone else shares their info too.

You are welcome to change your clothes by the window with your curtains open for all your neighbors to see, but you do not get to come to my house and remove my curtains. Not having anything to hide does not mean that my business should be publicly available or that a government with a history of bad behavior has any right to watch. Unrelated, if 'people cheating on their taxes' is of concern for you, look no further than the government officials ("Public Servants"... LOL!) that write the tax laws in the first place. THAT is supposed to be publicly available, with the sole purpose of being scrutinized by the public they are allegedly serving.

Right now I'm on a decade old 27" Dell 1440p 59hz screen. Its starting to show its age and regularly glitches the bottom 25% when turning the screen on or waking it up. This issue eventually corrects itself but the computer is mostly unusable until it does (can take up to 20 mins sometimes). My second screen is worse, a 24" Asus 1080p 120hz screen with absolute garbage color accuracy and terrible contrast even when manually adjusted; the higher refresh rate does not redeem it. I've been wanting to upgrade for a long time now, but my increasingly failing main screen tells me I need to prepare for it. I don't mind spending a lot for quality and features, I obviously don't upgrade often, so whatever I upgrade to is going to be my screen for the next decade. I've been looking at the Odyssey G9, it has pretty much all the features I like. I don't need super fastest refresh rate or response time, I'm a fairly casual gamer, but anything is better than 59hz and 15ms response time.. Gsync/freesync are huge upgrades too. I've wanted an ultrawide for productivity for a long time (I do CNC programming and toolpath modeling, some autocad and a touch of photoshop and video editing) and a super ultrawide is even more enticing. I am already very comfortable with 1440 vertical resolution at roughly 110ppi, and the higher end of color accuracy is a must. What other ultrawide 1440p high-color-accuracy 'gaming' options are there that might be better value that have a good balance of these higher end features? looking sub $1200.

lol across the board. they are literally being sued because these are not true.

no. I'm not only under no obligation to do so, but I am obliged to tell you to fuck off if you try to compel me. I will not waste my effort trying to memorize everyone's preferences, nor will I misgender them by calling them something they clearly are not. Yes I just used They/Them to refer to a non-specific person of either gender, not a specific person of one of them; I was grammatically correct. its not a matter of difficulty, its a matter of principal. I don't intentionally upset people, but I refuse to live by the demands of their subjective feelings. Google (and everyone else that uses feelings to demand certain behavior or other people) can fuck right off

its not necessarily more that is necessary, more appropriately the correct resources need to be allocated. You can do a lot with less if the tools you are using are adequate. One major problem is that many tools have been mandated through law and its literally illegal to upgrade some aspects of infrastructure without it being approved by our wonderful overlords who despite their obvious superiority know very little about the subject in the first place.

well shoot that basically solves my problem. I had no idea this existed. Thank you much!