If that's the only option and the local provider is the same final price as Amazon, that still would mean more money stays in Canada and less goes to bozo. Not perfect, but better.
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And there has been. I also joined Lemmy after the API shutdown and even then there were hardly any new posts, and barely any discussion on them. Now it seems that I have a brand new front page at least once a day and there's plenty of discussion on the posts.
Yes, but also being the reason for most of the Geneva conventions. We may be polite, but we also invented the sport of strapping knives to our feet and getting into fistfights over a frozen lake.
Basically fanfic commissioned by King James VI/I
Depending on where you are, a valid driver's license is usually the simplest and most accepted form of ID, which goes beyond just driving. If you need to rent tools, check out a hotel room, buy alcohol, etc. then having a driver's license for ID makes things much easier. Driver's licenses are usually more recognized abroad as well for ID purposes.
Kind of Dr Who meets James bond meets BOFH in a way, there's a lot of build-up with tons of details that come together by the ending.
Charles Stross The Laundry Files - It's a good read
Software dev in general needs unions IMO, not to mention other tech work like IT who tend to work piles of overtime.
You think "most of us" will be dead in .... 7 years? That's pretty doomer if you ask me.