We had that ready to be implemented. Then the current government killed it.

https://www.canada.ca/en/services/taxes/excise-taxes-duties-and-levies/digital-services-tax.html

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Check with your local library. They might provide free access to some online journals.

So I can receive an Email but if it has a link to a website I can’t click it?

It says “Email and work apps are not offered through the Commostore app store”. So you can’t receive email unless you sideload an email app. And you could also sideload a browser as well to open a link. At which point you just have a smartphone.

An analog watch. Nothing fancy, just a cheap Casio or Timex or whatever.

I don’t know if doc or odt files can be used

Much easier to keep the content in plain text as markdown/LaTeX/whatever markup language and then use pandoc or pdflatex to convert it to docx/odt/pdf/HTML/whatever as needed.

Maybe Uber should be responsible for background checks of their drivers and hold them accountable for their actions and be able to fire them for misconduct. But that might require hiring drivers as actual employees. And then Uber could issue company vehicles.

Oh wait, I’m describing taxi companies that already existed before Uber.

The fact that we allow Uber/Lyft to operate as a way to skirt regulations that were put in place to keep people safe, and then trust Uber will implement work around solutions like this is ridiculous.

Same goes to AirBnB

An analog watch and a paper journal have been the biggest upgrades to my life I’ve made in years.

Nut butters with tons of added sugar, oil, and stabilizers don’t need to be refrigerated. But nut butters with an ingredient list one item long do.

I live in croatia, and I did overexagarate the price a lot

Yeah, I just put on a VPN and picked a random address in a random town. Seems like iFixit will sell the battery replacement kit for €39.95 and shipping is €9.80

That sounds like you just got a dud of a battery. Because phones dying in a few months is not normal. A quick look online and it seems like smasnug has a 24 month warranty (in regions other than North America). Have you tried a warranty replacement?

If battery degradation is the only problem, why not just replace the battery? You can probably find a shop that will do it, or iFixit has a guide and sells batteries for $55.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Samsung+Galaxy+S24+Battery+Replacement/175612

Seems pretty wasteful to throw out the whole phone because of a dead battery. Do you also get a new car instead of changing the tires when they get worn?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification

Funny you compare fire arms to cars, because I believe that both fit in the category of “things your average person should not have in public”. I want more regulation on guns AND cars.

And just because nitrous mods are illegal, doesn’t make your average car any safer.

Unlike the rest of the rifle. Which is perfectly safe.

if you “own” a piece of land in the middle of the planned rail route, the Government will just kick you out.

That’s how the interstate system and urban highways were built. But people being displaced were mostly black and/or poor and/or immigrants, so it wasn’t seen as a bad thing at the time.

The first public electric tramway used for permanent service was the Gross-Lichterfelde tramway in Lichterfelde near Berlin in Germany, which opened in 1881.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tram

So if your city shut down its streetcars in 1951, like mine did, then what you said is true. If you city had streetcars in 1953 or beyond, its not. Not to be too pedantic about it.

My point is that is less than 1 human lifespan. There are people that rode the streetcars in my city when they were kids that still live here. Its not ancient history, its living memory.

Oil companies literally killed electric trolleys wayyyyyyyyyyyy back in the day.

In most cities, this happens around the 1950s. So not that long ago, if you think about it.

Amtrak: “At least we’re not VIA Rail.”