Bluerendar

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[–] Bluerendar@kbin.social 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Access to independent grocers/co-ops/etc is also not necessarily a given if you're not in the right areas. Mostly more remote areas without much local agriculture tbf, although there may be more I'm not thinking of.

[–] Bluerendar@kbin.social -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Each one of them uses the Robellus network, and can only provide to some residential areas since that's what the CRTC can regulate.

Robellus charges them all the same price, which is why all of them have nearly identical plans - because fundamentally, they are. You get even worse technical service since Robellus controls that and they drag their feet on it (not customer service, that's often better).

CRTC has been increasingly toothless too on actually forcing competitive prices or service down. If you got recent fiber connection, you might be screwed as then there's a moratorium on Robellus being forced to share service, so you might end up with no third-party options for a while.

And if you're looking for a commercial zone connection, well, more likely than not RIP since CRTC doesn't regulate that, so you're stuck with whatever shit service at inflated prices Robellus offers.

[–] Bluerendar@kbin.social 47 points 5 months ago (4 children)

If you are detained at foreign border security, unfortunately, you don't have guaranteed legal rights to a lawyer. They can unilaterally ask for statements, seize property given up for search, or deny entry on any grounds.

[–] Bluerendar@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, absolutely bizarre that he made it out to Belarus with a sympathetic Lushenko, reportedly to Africa with Wagner having overthrown governments there, then returned to Russia ?!?

I do wonder if Putin guaranteed something - then Shoigu and Gerasimov finished him off, with or without Putin turning a blind eye. Surovikin did get removed relatively recently too.

[–] Bluerendar@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

A quick check found some (admittedly dubious) stats claiming 71% of visitors are from in-country, presumably meaning 29% are not. Can't really be bothered to check further.

[–] Bluerendar@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone coming from out of country is probably flying, which is a significant amount. Anyone coming from the eastern half of the continent is probably too.

[–] Bluerendar@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

In all seriousness, given how much these AI tend to just make shit up that sounds vaguely believable, this is exactly the kind of thing that it is dangerous for.