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I agree with virtually everything you said, and I still stand by my comment, too. This was Carney's only politically-viable response.

We can still respect that anyone's death is hard on their family. His children didn't choose who their father was, and they're going to grow up without him, now. I can empathize with their pain without supporting any of the (many) hateful things he's said and done.

Similarly, condemning political violence is a pretty reasonable take, even if only for the chilling effect political violence has on democracy. Democracy only works with open sharing of ideas, including from those we disagree with. For example, identifying that Kirk was a closed-minded, hateful bigot is important when discussing his legacy, and I shouldn't need to risk being lynched (or fired) for saying so.

It's also fair that politicians may not want to come out openly "trash talking" someone right after their death, as that will just be used as ammunition by their political opponents to increase political polarization. Saying "our thoughts are with the family in this difficult time" isn't taking a stance on anything, while also saying something so political opponents don't spin silence into a manufacturer controversy.

Oh, shoot. That sucks. I was going to get Hogwarts Legacy for my kiddos.

Thankfully, the pirated version doesn't have Denuvo, so I guess there's an alternative, but it's so much easier to just buy it on Steam than pirate it, lol.

My understanding is that businesses have more rules than individuals.

I looked into this ahead of a meeting with my boss a few years ago about my future employment (my contact was expiring). I wanted to record the meeting in case there was something said that I might want to take to my union. Based on my reading at the time, my understanding is that individuals in Canada can record any of their private communication, with no limits, for personal storage and review.

I think that any individual can record any/all of their personal phone calls made anywhere in Canada without informing anyone else that a recording is being made.

I'm pretty sure this is incorrect. I'm not a lawyer, and the person I'm quoting below likely isn't either, but this lines up with my understanding:

In Canada we have one party consent, which means you can record a conversation you are part of. Doesn't matter where the other people are because you are in Canada and Canadian law applies to you at that time.

If the other party is in the USA then US law applies to them and the actions they take must conform with US law.... but US law doesn't dictate what you can do and Canadian law doesn't dictate what they can do.

However, one party consent has nothing to do with publishing. Releasing these recordings may breach privacy laws or if the information is confidential under an NDA you might be sued for revealing it.

Good question; didn't even occur to me this might be a thing, but a quick search confirms that previous demo releases have had Denuvo.

Still waiting on Hogwarts Legacy to drop Denuvo. I've almost bought it three times, when it's been on sale, only to cancel when I did the Denuvo check. It's been cracked for 2½ years, since 12 days after release. Why the hell is it still included!?

Yeah, I installed Enterprise edition on my desktop, which allows you to cut out all the bloat and spyware. But it takes a long time to do, and I'm not sure I got everything since Windows Updates can change anything.

That love of tinkering is why I've landed on not using an immutable distro for my first time installing Linux since the 00s. CachyOS is what I landed on; now I just need to catch up on work so I can take a day to tinker with my setup.

For context, I semi-broke my current Windows 11 install by trying to manually edit the registry to remove all traces of a piece of invasive, uninstallable bloatware (that comes direct from ASRock... the bastards) I accidentally installed. Turns out my sound drivers are from the same company, so when I deleted all entries with that company in the search terms, I FUBARed my Bluetooth audio and 3.5mm microphone. And didn't backup the registry.

I like to tinker, and if I need to reinstall my OS anyway, so now is the time to finally switch!

Do you need to tell them? I never did. I just assumed there's some sort of government system to track which citizens are residents in each province, if nothing else to keep people from "double dipping" in two provinces' healthcare systems.

Then again, BC charges health premiums to seniors, right? So maybe keeping an AB health card is a way seniors might try to dodge that, I guess? (I'm just here on vacation, really!)

Nah. You need to laminate it yourself, which is technically not allowed for some reason, apparently, but everyone does it anyway.

Dementia and Parkinson's. That sucks.

My kiddos love listening to his self-narrated stories on Spotify. ("OK Google. Play Robert Munsch stories.") His love for children is so clear in his interactions with them in those recordings.

The article also suggests the "trade war" is the reason Canadians aren't traveling to the US, and not the plainclothes government thugs who could grab you off the street and hold you without any legal process in inhumane conditions indefinitely. Where a Canadian his died from being denied access to medications.

But yeah, right. It's the tariffs.