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What fixes tho? The banks are running wild and everyone is like “ya it’s needed to control inflation.”

You’re taking money from all the consumers to try and force business to control their prices? How does no one else think this entire system is absolutely insane?

This is actually terrific news! Before this, every province had their own suicide hotline which were understaffed and so poorly supported that I wonder if they didn't cause more suicides than prevent them!

A friend of mine had called them 4x between a three month span during 2021 and only got through to one helpful person. The rest were hang ups, or under qualified staff (he said one of the counsellors spent the entire time talking about his experience on the job and how hard it was).

If this is properly funded and they have qualified staff, I think it'll make a real impact!

And so it begins. If mortgage rates don't drop within the next year or two before too many people's renewals come up, it's going to be a bloodbath.

I'm pretty sure that's what most banks are waiting for and have learnt to better exploit the housing sector thanks to the collapse back in ~2008 (where they suffered zero repercussions). And where they picked up billions in foreclosed homes thanks to the crash, all for pennies on the dollar.

I mean think about it, it's these guys that artificially make the economy. Absolutely fucking wild the system is so broken and corrupt and everyone is just throwing up their hands like well that's life hur dur.

Hugs mullvad

Yeah despite Yahoo trying like hell to kill the platform, its user base has steadily grown since. 2014: https://www.statista.com/statistics/183857/unique-visitors-on-tumblr-in-the-us/ (about half of its user base is in the US).

I’m sorry when you say most, you mean all right? Right??

iMessage definitely has more hooks in than those listed. It’s an integral Apple service that’s hooked into your deeper iCloud account. And because of that, they know a lot more than just a mere “chat” app would get access to. Which likely makes it harder to quantify.

Moreover, Meta and Alphabet also cross reference a lot of data points from all the other sources they have (cookies, IP logs, etc.). Again making actual data points fuzzy or incomplete.

Fine: $300m Profits: 52b

shockedpicachu.jpg company did something illegal.

lol. Amazon itself should be “sparking concerns”

No protocol is illegal in and of itself. BitTorrent wasn’t created solely to aid in piracy. Most Linux distros have their OS seeded. Same goes for lots of the internet archive. I used to transfer work files all the time using it.

Oh they don’t want to kill it, just own it 🙃

If you’re in Surrey, red lights and stop signs are “suggestive”.