Official company statements are what they want the public to hear and are often not the whole truth. In this case, I’d bet its not the truth at all.

Why the fuck would they not produce both?

Connections that work at Bioware Montreal confirmed the issue was with trans content in Mass Effect.

This sounds like the studios “official” excuse.

I Don’t buy it.

Matrix, Signal, Nextcloud Talk

Deleted discord when they started rolling out third party AI age verification if someone reported you and round the same time they were doing other shady shit.

But her emails!

Westinghouse and Magnavox TV brands both exist with dumb TV options, Max 32" though

The Westinghouse is unfortunately on Amazon, but I found the Magnavox at Canadian Tire for $200

Is that a Pug mixed with some sort of long hair? How strange.

How to tell someone has never had a woman sleep in their T-shirt as a nightie.

Food Dispenser. Vending Machine.

Not an ATM.

Sure, but the US was still part of the anti-bribery pact until now.

Its also exceedingly hard for CBN to exit a contract quickly. Procurement cycles for things like printing money and DLID systems are years in length, generally two. CBN would need to wait for the next RFC cycle, and then simply not put in an offer.

They can’t just exit a contract for these types of systems, it’s not juice exports.

And if they kept doing business with a country taking bribes, they would lose their contracts in Canada, NZ, Australia and others. But those three are huge contract holders. It would kill CBNs business.

Well, it’s a bit more complex than that. As a company that prints money, they are required to audit and vet countries before doing business with them, and terminating business with countries that accept bribes, because they print money.

They also do drivers licenses, passports, and border control systems.

Doing business with one nation that accepts bribes could cause the anullment of contracts from every nation they deal with.

If the US starts taking bribes officially via moves like this, CBN will have to exit the country.

Wonder if this means Canadian Bank Note will cease business with US State governments as there is a strong policy against doing business with countries that take bribes.

Strange. I never see that on Lineage, didn’t see it on e/OS either.

I do recall that behaviour on Graphene, but its been a couple of years since I had a pixel. Figured that was just an old version of the app.

All I can say is, https://droidify.app/

Once I installed it, I never used the official Fdroid store on any device again.

Trump should stop breathing

In many countries it is legal to promise a tax rebate when you are in office. Many cons (oops, I mean conservatives) use this as voting bait for people with no critical thinking skills, and then turn around and give their corporate masters and billionaires huge tax cuts that make those same voters loose critical services that makw them pay out of pocket.

In other words, “Heres $200 to vote for me so i can make your life way more expensive on a yearly basis through medical care, less regulation, less infrastructure repair”.

This is the same grift, but more blatant and obviously something that would never get fulfilled, which is why the number is so big. Bigger numbers make critical thinking fail harder, especially when times are economically tough. It tends to get cons reelected even when they are not doing well in polls, speaking from the Canadian experience in this.

Matrix is the proper space for a privacy focused community. Discord as an application is privacy invasive and requires ID to be provided. This has nothing to do with a public community not being private. It’s the wrong technology choice for what they claim to be focused on and there is no getting around that.

My thought it was over blown until I saw them claiming that anyone on Mastodon is “not a user” and them saying that any real users are on their Discord and not complaining.

Uh, OK - Discord was semi-excusable up until 2025, but at this point anyone using it to communicate with their users is certainly not considering how bad that channel is for user privacy. Im a Graphene User, I will not use Discord, and I am not going to continue to use an OS thats supporting the rapid expansion of datacenters through the use of AI.

Just what we needed, a little Minority Report salted into the dystopian salad of this fucking timeline.

You’ll fall behind in the race to the lowest IQ as they all turn their thinking over to AI and get lazier while you continue to exercise your brain.

Fuck 'em.

I lost a few IQ points reading this ad.