No. I swear it doesn’t matter.

I’m in Québec. Here we have 6 years of elementary school, 5 years of high-school, 2 or 3 years of Cegep (college) depending if it’s pre-university or a vocational degree, then 4 years university to get a bachelor’s degree.

I was pulled back from advanced math to regular math back in my last year of high-school because the teacher hated my guts for some reason, and had to redo my advanced math to get into Cegep in computer science. Then, when I graduated after 3 years, my degree wasn’t good enough and I had to go to university. At uni we had 3 semesters a year instead of 2 because it was an engineering degree and because of internships. But I worked in the summer to get some money to pay for my school expenses. Ended up finishing uni in 5 years instead of 4.

Yeah I got set back a couple of years, but it’s okay. And honestly nobody cares if you failed a year in high school. As long as you finish, that’s all that matters.

I’m in that picture and I don’t like it.

❤️🤝❤️

We can’t give up. We just can’t. We don’t have a choice. I’m doing my part here in Canada. I hope you guys do yours. Because there’s so much at stake.

Point being: good or bad, violence is the only thing that works here. We’ve dipped our toes into it, but we haven’t gone full guillotine, which is what desperately needs to happen. Protests aren’t going to accomplish shit until the ruling class has a healthy fear for what happens when the protesters’ demands are ignored.

You know what? I motherfuckin’ agree with you 1 000% on this.

That’s the thing… NOT the majority elected him. A lot of people abstained from voting because they didn’t like Kamala. The majority didn’t vote for Trump.

Besides, even those who voted for Trump have remorse.

As for the black panthers, you can still form local armed militias to protect protesters. This is a second amendment right. I’d love to see the republicans go against that.

No. Absolutely not. The ship ain’t sinking. It’s being hijacked.

No! What the fuck kind of defeatist analogy is this?

THEY are the captain of their ship, but it’s being hijacked. It’s up to them to regain control over it.

Bro just let’s his hands down saying “what do you want me to do?” Fucking fight! Organize protests. Go to town halls and yell at them. Run them the fuck out of building. Others have done it.

The French do it all the time. Are you saying you’re not as capable as those you call “cheese eating surrender monkeys”? You keep making fun of them, but if you don’t act, they’ll be making fun of you.

Fix your own damn country. You actually have power to fix it over there. The rest of the world doesn’t.

You’re right. Sorry, my age is showing showing. LOL

Install Linux. Use OpenOffice. Problem solved.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Good riddance!

Welp. A small inconvenience is the price to pay if you want privacy from the authorities.

I keep telling friends and family to switch browsers, switch text messengers, even switch social networks and they just complain that it’s all just inconveniences. But then they complain about their privacy.

C’mon.

I heard somewhere that authorities can’t ask you for a PIN but can ask you for a pattern because of the way the law is written.

I’d love for someone to confirm that though.

That’s worrying…

SSSSHHHHHHHH!!! 🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫 Don’t give anyone any ideas.

I’m so glad I sold last week at 140. I’ve been meaning to get rid of them as soon as Trump got in office because I had a gut feeling he might fuck something up.

But surprise! China pops up with its own AI and shit hits the fan. It probably won’t last though, but I ain’t buying nvda anymore. Not with their CEO falling in line with every other techno fascists.

No, Proton actually just went from being a company to a non profit recently for the purpose of remaining a privacy focused organization whose mission won’t change.

This is extremely disappointing. :(

Because I looked at the discussion threads for this post and I saw a few early comments where people mentioned they would go back or stick with Google.

I’m not trying to shut down or discourage any discussion. Just pointing out to the people who said they’d go back that it’s not the best solution.

Before you decide to go back to Google or close your account, keep in mind that Proton became a non profit organization with the main mission of protecting your privacy. And as a non profit, they’re not trying to profit off of you in any way.

Going back to Google is the worst solution you can use. Remember that Google donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund. Google also doesn’t care about your privacy. On the contrary, they’re selling your data and using it against you.

While the Proton CEO may be a nut case, he’s only praising the choice that Trump made as the candidate for the antitrust department. While that’s understandably stupid since I don’t believe Trump is going up stick up for the little guy now that he’s got Musk and Zuck in his pocket, at least he didn’t actively donated and enabled Trump either personally or through his platform and spread misinformation.

Think about it.

At least with proton, the fact that you’re different, that you’re 2SLGBTQ+, is safe. Or at least substantially safer than Google.