Military service is a hard concept to grasp when you're sitting comfy at home, not a care in the world and all the conflicts are "over there".
It's a very different story when there is an existential threat looming over your head, weighing on your shoulders like a mountain. Canada's armed forces is already meeting its yearly recruitment targets due to repeated threats of invasion from the United States.
"Tell me of at least 5 privacy laws you've violated in the last month or you're fired"
America's unstoppable thirst for short-term profit is why they currently have a corporate-backed fascist in office that is threatening to invade US's (supposed) allies to pillage their resources and economies.
Whether they do or not, the US as we have known it is in its death throes. They have surrendered nearly all of their soft power and made themselves a trade pariah. Entire industries are going to crumble as megacorps swoop in like vultures to devour the carcasses as the walls of their economy close in and the whole building collapses. It is in everyone's best interest to move their interests and money as far away from the US as possible.
trying to flush a turd but it keeps floating back up to the surface.
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X competitors like Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon have so far remained active and accessible, giving X users alternative platforms to jump to while X works on its issues.
Why wait? Jump ship and never look back!
That explains all the AI crap they've been chasing for a while now. They've been trying to juice up the value to make it look appealing to potential buyers because you can basically slap "AI" on anything and it instantly shoots up in value.
Discord is effectively dead if this goes through.
There are. Heaps of them.
The US is just a big place and very spread out. And the ruling government and its media conglomerates are trying to keep them out of the media.