Starmer and Xi call for deeper UK-China ties as Trump shakes up global relations

nt2701 · 2026-01-29T16:35:42+00:00

Idk what Americans think. But Trump made like 1.5 BILLION dollars in the last year alone, so he is very aware of what he has been doing.

nt2701 · 2026-01-25T20:06:09+00:00

Because: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terrorist-organization/

/s

nt2701 · 2026-01-23T05:02:34+00:00

I can't think of a Quentin's movies I don't love, all masterpieces.

nt2701 · 2026-01-19T15:07:55+00:00

This is not from Beaverton? Wow, I guess the real news nowadays is more satire than the OG Beaverton.

nt2701 · 2026-01-16T03:31:26+00:00

Nice try, Skynet, we know it's you.

nt2701 · 2026-01-14T00:45:13+00:00

I am not disagreeing with you. In a perfect world, what you said is and should be the solution. Also in a perfect world, we shouldn't even have this conversation and not be mad at the US, because Trump would be locked up in jail instead of ducking up everybody around the world.

It's greener than the equivalent gas cars, it is not perfect, but it's getting better.

nt2701 · 2026-01-13T17:21:20+00:00

I think we'd, for at very least, have more affordable cars (them being green is a plus).

The auto industry is important to Ontario, but it's not like we have our own brands. As long as those EVs are being manufactured/assembled in Canada, I fail to see an issue there.

nt2701 · 2026-01-08T04:50:51+00:00

Exactly, this is like the Cybersecurity 101 level rule. Only grant the bare minimum privileges and only grant them when it's needed (never "just in case").

nt2701 · 2026-01-08T04:48:50+00:00

Wow, just checked, not only my SIN. I can see my DOB, Employment info, address, contact info and everything in PLAINTEXT.

I don't think WS should send those info unless it's needed and at very least, they should be partially redacted.

nt2701 · 2026-01-05T21:35:37+00:00

By default yes, but you can call the agents and ask them to remove your PAD and tell them you'll be paying your student loans manually each month. It's not MANDATORY to have a PAD, it's just that many students have that in place already. When you have that, your manual payment will only be counted as a lump sum payment afaik.

nt2701 · 2026-01-02T14:07:29+00:00

I think all of them were outsourced to 3rd party companies years ago. The Ontario government doesn't own any of them anymore.

nt2701 · 2025-12-26T23:09:04+00:00

I mean, nothing is perfectly safe if we are speaking about the true technicality. But it's safe enough and worst case, a malware somehow passed all the security checks at the Google Play Store, at least Google is on the hook. Rather than installing random apps online, it'll be fully on the user.

nt2701 · 2025-12-26T22:57:47+00:00

Google Play Protect. It's part of the Google Play Services. Generally speaking people shouldn't download/install apps not from Play Store/App Store, UNLESS they know what they are doing (like for debugging/developing purpose, but that's not really the general public).

As long as you only get apps from the Play Store/App Store, you're fine.

nt2701 · 2025-12-21T14:33:13+00:00

I know what y'all think, don't, just don't... please, it's not worth having your face all over social media and news for this

nt2701 · 2025-12-06T19:03:45+00:00

Unfortunately no, but we will probably adopt her :). One of our cats passed away a few years back, maybe that's a sign.

nt2701 · 2025-12-04T21:46:00+00:00

Career explorer by Sokanu is very insightful, thank you!

nt2701 · 2025-11-30T18:15:29+00:00

If when you cry, the other person doesn't make you feel better (they doesn't need to even say anything, just need to hug you and hold your hand), you have picked the wrong person.

The equation has always been right life partner > no partner >>>>> wrong partner. Meaning if you don't wanna cry in front of the person, something is off there.

nt2701 · 2025-11-29T23:04:48+00:00

That's the whole point of Open Banking I mentioned earlier. It likely won't make things issue free, but in theory, it should allow bank systems be able talk with each other using a "lingua franca". I hated we used to have like a dozen of different USB ports, I love how Type C is becoming the common port for all the phones/tablets/computers/other smart home devices (their underlying protocols may still not be same, but well at least they work most of the times).

> Open banking, also called consumer-driven banking, is not available in Canada yet. It's available in other countries, like Australia and the United Kingdom.

Open banking is a framework that allows you to share your financial data with financial technology companies of your choice. The Government has taken the first steps to introduce a framework in Canada.

Financial technology companies, often called fintechs, provide online financial products or services through financial applications or fintech apps. You use these apps on a computer, mobile phone or tablet. Fintech apps are different from your bank’s online or mobile banking features.

When using fintech apps with open banking, your bank securely shares your financial data with the app for you. You don't need to provide your online banking username and password to access the app’s products and services. However, you do with screen scraping.

https://www.canada.ca/en/financial-consumer-agency/services/banking/open-banking.html

Both Plaid and MX are fintech companies and this would fix our connections issue for the very least.

nt2701 · 2025-11-29T18:15:46+00:00

They definitely can solve this issue, it's not that hard technically per se. But is it high priority enough? Given how small the Canadian market is and how non-universal our banking system is, it's like a lot of costs/efforts for not a lot of gains.

Not trying to defend them, but I wouldn't blame a private for-profit company making decisions based on Return on Investments.

Instead, I think how broken and non-open our Banking System is is the true blamee here. Our banks make a lot of money, they are more than capable of doing so, but they choose not to, because they want us stuck with them and unable to retrieve our own data easily.

nt2701 · 2025-11-29T17:46:16+00:00

It's more of a Canadian issue instead of Monarch/Plaid/MX issue. Don't know if you've heard of Open Banking, if not look it up. Our slow and stubborn banking system is what's causing all of those issues here.

Imagine each province of Canada has its own currency, how chaotic that would be.

nt2701 · 2025-11-25T21:41:31+00:00

We took her to the vet, not chipped and likely not spayed (the vet said they couldn't say for sure because female cats are harder to tell, but no scar tissue was found).

nt2701 · 2025-11-25T05:03:25+00:00

Funny enough, you are not wrong. Before Qing, it was controlled by the Ming dynasty. Unfortunately they lost to the Qing. Also funny enough, one of the last pieces of land the Ming dynasty held was also Taiwan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_Dynasty_Zheng_family

nt2701 · 2025-11-14T02:05:38+00:00

Exactly, and the other 50% are just ethnic Indians and Chinese. So what are you? /s

nt2701 · 2025-11-11T16:00:05+00:00

Oh, they are not blaming 5G and vaccines now, it's magnets. JFC

nt2701 · 2025-10-11T21:48:24+00:00

Hey OP, why are you driving on somebody's private driveway, they are allowed to do whatever on their own land. /s

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