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RayRayRah··on GiveSendGo Has Been Hacked
Go to /r/ottawa. Read the megathreads on what's going on. Maybe you'll start to understand why many are celebrating this hack. Why so many Ottawans are very angry about what's going on.

There's been non-stop noise at all hours. Residents downtown who've faced constant harassment. Attempts made by the occupiers to lock residents in. Businesses forced to shut. Roadways and highways blocked for days. They're terrorizing the residents of downtown. And in the face of all of this, the police have essentially surrendered.

They're calling for Trudeau to be overthrown and arrested. They're not only occupying the center of the capital, they spent 6 days blocking the most important economic transport line in Canada. They've blockaded border points in the West too. Closing some essential crossings. If this was a poor, developing nation, you'd be labeling this as an insurrection. And you'd be correct.

And about the nazi thing, yeah, that's probably an accurate label. Many of the leadership are white supremacists. The connections to far right groups are clear. Hell, there's many of these idiots carrying Confederate flags in Canada of all places. If you're proudly waving the Confederate flag in 2022 in a place that's far far from the South, I think it's pretty clear what you support.

And on top of all that, there's clear evidence much of this was engineered by people in the United States. From the near constant Trump flags flown in the occupation, to the trail of money, to the organizational efforts spearheaded by Americans. Not to mention the organization done in FB groups led by hacked accounts.* There was some serious effort put into this. The fundraising hack will give a little sunlight into those efforts. Not enough sunlight, but it's a start.

Seriously, start reading about what the people of Ottawa have endured for the past 3 weeks. You apparently have no knowledge of this. Get back to me and tell me "who the bad guys really are here."

* - And do look into the weirdness of the FB organizing. Some Canadian journalists have dug into it. They wondered why the more popular Canadian trucker FB groups had a woman from Missouri as the only admin. And then they discovered the woman from Missouri hasn't been in control of her account for several months now.

https://www.grid.news/story/misinformation/2022/02/08/the-ha...

RayRayRah··on Every M1 Mac is due for a 2022 refresh with faster M2 chip, new designs
Parallels on M1 will run many games well, and some near perfectly. There's also Wine / Crossover which does better on some games and worse on others. If you had both, you could probably run the majority of Windows games out there.

Apple Gaming Wiki has a list of games and gives a general idea of how they perform. Reddit's /r/macgaming is also helpful.

https://www.applegamingwiki.com/wiki/Home

RayRayRah··on Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations
1918 had some cities implement lockdowns as a response to the rapidly spreading Spanish Flu. And then there were anti-lockdown protests which caused some cities to lift their lockdowns early and the virus surged. Business owners also railed against the lockdowns, and were sometimes successful in getting them lifted.

There was a similar situation with mandatory masks, and then loud anti-mask protests which resulted in the lifting of some mask mandates.

What happened over the past two years has happened before, and will probably happen again. You can find examples of lockdowns in other pandemic eras. Venice partially locked down in 1575 due to the plague.

You may disagree with lockdowns, but there's plenty of precedent. Your "fact" is incorrect.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/how-citie...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/breaking-poin...

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/historical-precedents-lock...