That quote just reminded me of a Bertrand Russell quote:

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

I’m literally installing windows right now. I feel disgust, but I need it for one application that I know will never have a Linux version. I got tired of the slow as shit virtual machine I used for it before. I can’t replace it with an alternative either, for business reasons.

Yeah, if AWS and Cloudflare alone go down, most people will think the whole internet is gone.

My crusading teenage ass posted this in 2011 on social media. Nobody cared lol

I bet Pocahontas itself is also a version of something older, but I’m not versed enough in classical literature to know what it might be.

Not for president Musk.

San Pellegrino does taste good, but I don’t feel particularly great buying it. Literally coca cola feels morally better than Nestlé.

It’s not FOSS, but the Jetbrains suite has a bunch of IDEs and now an editor and it’s I think either a Czech or Polish company. Of course going from electron to Java isn’t gonna make things any less bloated. But the specialized IDEs tend to provide slightly more tooling then just vs code and an LSP.

If he’s under investigation there, he’ll probably never visit Canada again.

I’m gonna have to agree with you here.

There’s a better special tax carve out: Don’t require tax for the primary residence. The owner MUST be registered as living at that address. Not a family member. The owner.

Okay if you have family you can have a few more homes, but realistically, if you own 10 or 20 homes, how many people can you REALLY trust to have full ownership of them instead of you? You’re going to have to start paying tax at some point.

Every 3 years due to forced upgrades or just old style deprecation over 3 years.

iPads don’t deprecate in 3 years, nor require forced upgrades. They get nowhere near as much support as a regular Linux laptop (which is what schools SHOULD be using) and even less than Windows laptops pre-11, but if they’re being replaced every 3 years, that’s just policy, not an actual need. Currently the oldest supported iPad is going to hit 8 years since release in a month. The newest unsupported one is going to hit 9 in a month. So yes there’s forced upgrades, but that’s in like 8 years.

I work as a software engineer and most companies have had a minimum 3 year lifetime policy for company laptops. Reasoning being, after 3 years there’s a higher chance of failure, and there have been enough advancements in hardware that upgrading might save SOME dev time. If it fails before 3 years, you get a new one. If you want to keep it longer, you can keep it. But if you want a new one, it should be 3 years old first. I don’t get why school iPads need to be replaced this often, but I reckon there might be a lot more wear and tear and THAT could be the reason for a 3 year replacement policy. It’s simpler than just replacing individual units every now and then.

They said company car and lease. That would mean brand new usually.

It might also surprise you to learn that Dacia is actually a large French conglomerate.

They’ve been fully owned by Renault for more than two decades.

They might but only if they’re building something new for their entire range.

Hmm, maybe. I still don’t like the fact that some rich dude could just go and say “Hmm such a nice home they’ve built for themselves, I think I will forcibly buy it”. There’s so much more value to a home than the land it sits on and the building materials. There’s a lot of sentimental value once you’ve lived somewhere for years or decades even.

If there was an exception for primary residences, your idea might be a lot less horrible. Again something that could likely be schemed through, but at the very least, it’d just be investment properties that get targeted. I don’t give a fuck about those.

Note: Ignore my entire rant below. The E-up has been replaced by the id.1 in its lineup. We don’t know pricing yet because it’s planned for 2027. The cheapest VW you can buy is still around 23 grand, but it’s a crappy crossover thingy with a dinky petrol engine.

23 fucking grand for a car with no cargo space, no crumple zones and not all that much interior space. It’s meant to be driven only in cities - which are the one place where cars are inferior to other modes of transport. The batteries really do make small cars a lot more expensive, because a similarly sized and powered hatchback would’ve been like 11k from Toyota, which is also a bit more expensive than competitors, a decade ago, just with a petrol engine.

Hell even today, with car prices being what they are, Dacia will sell you a Sandero for under 15 grand. New. THAT is cheap for 2025. 23 grand for a supermini is not.

they don’t even offer manual transmissions on high end luxury cars

Honda

Hmm.

If price is your chief concern, you can look right away from VW. Not even Škoda is cheap anymore.

You might want to look at something like a Dacia maybe?

It’s a bit of a long drive to Aldis for some of us, I don’t know which country the closest one is in. Most people probably just buy what they grew up on. For me that’s Felix so I guess you could say it’s European, but Orkla is publicly traded so it sorta loses all meaning.

Technically yes, but the problem is that they can afford to hold their investments in many small companies so they won’t even have to pay that much tax.

Just adding government oversight for this idea is going to be a costly nightmare.