DishonestBirb, dishonestbirb@lemmy.world

Canada’s housing and healthcare infrastructure is unable to keep up with even the current population. There are current issues with record high wait times for ERs and surgery, etc. as well as a homelessness crisis.

Not to mention the current issues with imported organised crime, such as foreign extortion gangs that are currently a huge problem in BC and Ontario. If you keep up on the Canadian news at all, you’ll know that many members of such a gang was recently arrested, all of whom suddenly claimed refugee status so that they then conveniently couldn’t be deported for their crimes without literal years of legal proceedings. And this was reported by the CBC, which is about as left-wing as a news source gets in Canada, so its not a case of the National Post or the Sun pushing right wing propaganda.

It is commendable to want to help people, but the fact of the matter is, unchecked record high immigration has led to more than a few problems over the last decade that are now coming home to roost. Canada simply doesn’t have the capacity to absorb these people without it further exacerbating domestic issues, not to mention that the Liberal Party’s record-high immigration numbers and TFW-related employment issues are wildly unpopular politically. They are a large part of the reason that the conservatives were on track to win a majority in the last election after Trudeau was forced to resign, before Donald Trump’s 51st state comments and tariffs sent a wave of anti-american sentiment through Canada (and thus, anti-anything Trump-like voter sentiment, and Trump is a US conservative) and cost them that lead - but that only goes so far.

If Canada tries to absorb all the migrants trying to go there now over the USA due to America’s current political climate, there will eventually be a large backlash that pushes Canada far closer to the current US political climate than anyone wants.

Having just double checked with my Canadian family, and then checking their sources, nope, inflation directly affecting cost of living is not getting under control there. Food price inflation is up 4.7% for 2025, which is more than double the rate of inflation for the last year.

Meat, Coffee, Fresh Fruit, and Fresh Vegetables are apparently the worst hit categories. Also, I got to listen to a mini-rant about Shrinkflation.

So serious question, how is the US Navy chasing down and seizing these ships different from piracy?

Thats nice and all, but none of this apparent success is helping cost of living in Canada. According to my Canadian family, grocery bills just keep on rising.

The way India had things set up, I think you basically need it for daily life at this point. They have their weird Aadhar system and such that all use.mobile phones.

Are we sure that Trump isn’t actually a Chinese asset? They’re the big winners in all his tariff and trade chaos.

The US is entirely schizophrenic trade-wise, and unreliable. Every country ought to be shifting away from trade with them, as tarrifs and tariff threats vary with the wind, or what the McDonald’s value menu of the day is, or some other inscrutable variable.

That’s what the waffle stomp is for.

This is confusing. So killing a woman is now criminally worse than killing a man? That seems absurd.

But not Asahi Linux, oddly (Given that codeweavers main product is Crossover for MacOS) This was developed on a System76 Ampere Arm PC with Nvidia GPU

If you care about actual functionality (accurate HR, fitness tracking, GPS tracking for runs) but still don’t want to be spied on, using GadgetBridge with a commercially available watch (Huawei/Garmin/Amazfit) is probably your best option. GadgetBridge being the controller/gatekeeper app to the watch means all your data stays on your device and isn’t going to the watch manufacturer, but you still get the benefit of the actual functionality working well (which, unfortunately with Pebble or PineTime isn’t the case right now - pebble being very old iirc and pine time just… Not being good.)

This isn’t awful advice, but used Pixel prices are vastly out of whack with used prices from just about any other android manufacturer. On Amazon I can currently buy a refurbished Galaxy S25+ for $300 less than a refurbished Pixel 9 Pro XL - when the Pixel is a worse phone by every metric but its ability to run GOS.

Also, in some markets (US I believe? I think its a company called Verizon that does this) Some pixels just cannot be OEM unlocked, at all. So that’s also a risk buying used online at least - there’s usually not a way to tell if you’d be getting one of those if you live in a market that has this fucked up “feature”.