It’s true, while being harvested in Canada and maybe even made in Canada, sometimes the companies selling paper are American.

I use the Buycott app on my phone to track the family tree of companies and find out who to avoid.

It’s a fine phone, nowhere near flagship though.

Screen is only 750px wide.

Make sure you update to latest iOS. 5 years old is okay but expect to lose security updates as soon as next year.

While I agree with the sentiment (fuck Apple) and understand your basic concerns, many of these gripes are just discomfort based on lack of knowledge, or old ios, or particular to your situation.

• cables: most people have this issue in different ways with different devices anyway
• the tradeoff is security (not privacy) vs convenience; but in the end ‘no random APK’ is a huge convenience as someone who has to worry about security all the time
• you can mess with home screen layout now in ios, and just make sure you go to the right screen before installing a new app to conserve layout (or change settings)
• App store sucks as bad as Lotus Notes ever did, but even worse, how sleazy is it that all of the in-app costs are obfuscated deep in the app description–it’s so so so unethical from a retail design perspective
• unless you’re embedded in apple tech with multiple devices that need to sync core apps, there’s generally no requirement to sign into an apple account device-wide, which means an updated iphone is probably as private as a basic graphene install without much effort, and probably more secure
• if I didn’t have to use apple products, I would probably just run GrapheneOS, but with the full knowledge that it will take more effort and money to maintain where an iphone would just be easier to get a similar level of security

Nah, a lot of us around the world just use The Four Ingredients, and prefer bread that is simpler yet tastier. Your numbers might be very regional.

I only know of a couple in Calgary, Brassica and Cian’s, but I am from BC. Still, it shows that we should be transporting raw goods less.

Oh the irony, so much mustard is grown in Alberta!

cf. “teachers”

You are a hominid. We are a troupe species. We are susceptible to social manipulation which can overwhelm our reasoning, because we survived based on trust.

Some of us have overstimulated amygdalas because of biology and various kinds of anxiety. This enhances the vulnerability to manipulation by another minority, the sociopaths.

For the species to continue to survive, we must keep the sociopaths from manipulating and the amygdaloids from falling into cults.

If you accept it, this is your mission.

Hm, I guess an encyclopedia article is more relevant than a dictionary definition, so sure. I was using the looser secondary definition… in this case an elision that references a dialect in order to call up regional relevance to the opinion expressed.

I dunno, cf. 1.b definition of idiom in the OED: dialect usage, and 2.a is dialect usage for effect. Maybe the definition is changing with the ages, or your usage is overly strict.

Well we can argue over the niceties of the word idiom, but as it’s referring to the way the word is pronounced in specific regions of North America, it qualifies as meeting one of the definitions of idiom.

Elision refers more to the absence of an understood word, such as saying ‘my bad’.

My bad, elision can also refer to slurring syllables together, so it’s both.

OK so who’s being judgy here?

I haven’t analyzed this or studied it properly, but I suspect that the bias referenced here is more “settler state good” and “colonialism by allies is fine”, and it’s particularly acute in this context because so much money and ideology and geopolitical fuckery relies upon Israel.

That speling gave me eye twitches.

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In the English language, specifically North American dialects, this is a form of idiom.

So your bitter sarcasm suggests that a person can’t be simultaneously hopeful and actively struggling, that you must always be immersed in your own local suffering and ignore the success of others as false hopes, that we must universalize our own experiences, and that an emotionally complex life is not possible?

Nah, the commenter calls out Israel in other threads.

I thought it was just a troll account but madlian has posted 200+ comments on a 1 week account and is not agitating or a contrarian, is not even wrong most of the time, just contemptuous and enjoys being an asshole.

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Try and find a non-American credit card that actually works. It’s fucked.