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Cake day: June 7th, 2025

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  • 👆 This.

    “Oh you’re inciting violence.”

    Yes I am. Because MAGAts are already shooting up gay bars and clubs, assaulting and killing elected democrat politicians and holding fucking neo-Nazi marches against the LGBT. The Trump administration is already using violence. They’re sending ICE to kidnap both legal and illegal immigrants that have constitutional rights and sending them to prisons in foreign countries without a warrant or even a trial. They’re sending the fucking national guard and the matines against your asses and building alligator Alcatraz to hold you there. And Trump and his goons are saying the Supreme Court judges can’t stop him if he does anything illegal or unconstitutional. He’s gone full dictator.

    If that’s not reason enough for people to start bearing arms, then I don’t know what does and you guys and everybody else in the world are fucked.

    If YOU don’t bear arms, soon I’ll have to, in order to kill your asses when you start invading Canada. And I swear to you that I won’t hesitate to pull that trigger.










  • I have Win 11 at work and I hate it so much for so many reasons I don’t even know where to start.

    I know it’s the trend right now, but I hate rounded corners for one. I like having my whole desktop real estate to be used. And the shrunken floating taskbar is a GUI ergonomic nightmare. I want to just throw my cursor into a corner without looking and click with the confidence that it will open my start menu.

    Speaking of which, my task bar keeps freezing every day I use it so my system tray and even the time is never accurate.

    The start menu is a fucking mess. I really loved the Windows 10 start menu with its tiles and groups. Now you have to manually pin everything, it’s all small icons and you can’t have them in groups. You have to create sub-folders to put the icons in, adding an extra click for nothing.

    I hate that it comes with an integrated AI and I hate that it has this privacy nightmare “recall” feature or whatever the fuck that takes sreenshots of your monitor to feed its AI.

    I went 100% Linux last fall with Kubuntu. I added a tiled menu and even added Windows 10 style window decorations to complete the look and feel.

    With the latest advancements in Steam, Wine and Proton, which has been able to play every game I threw at it so far, it’s become such a powerful OS.

    I’ve never been happier!






  • I’ve been thinking of starting one in my neighborhood for a while. There’s a grocery store that closed down and the space is still available. Fridges and all!

    But it’s quite the enterprise. And you have to deal with disagreable people who want control. I have some experience working with groups in clubs and things like that.


  • The tax was announced in 2020, but the legislation to enact it didn’t pass until last year. While it has been in effect for a year, the first payment, retroactive to 2022, was to be submitted on June 30.

    The government intended it to overcome what Canada saw as a tax loophole, with big tech companies operating in Canada digitally, making money off Canadian users and data, but not paying tax on it in Canada.

    The tax was to apply to companies that operate online marketplaces, online advertising services and social media platforms, and those that earn revenue from some sales of user data.

    It meant companies such as Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb, would pay a three-per-cent levy on revenue from Canadian users.

    The tax was only to cover large companies, those that have worldwide annual revenues greater than 750 million euros per year and Canadian digital services revenue greater than $20 million per year. The parliamentary budget officer had estimated it would bring in $7.2 billion over five years.

    That seemed fair. He cancelled it to appease Trump, clearly. This is extremely disappointing. And we’re also losing $7.2 billion in revenue over 5 years. This could have helped fund Canadian cultural projects, artists, or finance our struggling media industry.