Maybe there is a glimmer of hope as I keep reading how Grok is too woke for that community, but it is just trying to keep the the facts which are considered left/liberal. That is all despite Elon and team trying to curve it towards the right. This suggest to me that when you factor in all of human knowledge, it is leaning towards facts more than not. We will see if that remains true and the divide is deep. So deep that maybe the species is actually going to split in the future. Not by force, but by access. Some people will be granted access to certain areas while others will not as their views are not in alignment. Already happening here and on Reddit with both sides banning members of the other side when they comment an opposed view. I do not like it, but it is where we are at and I am not sure it will go back to how it was. Rather the divide will grow.

Who knows though as AI and Robotics are going to change things so much that it is hard to foresee the future. Even 3-5 years out is so murky.

For some yes unfortunately but we all choose our path.

STI you are correct. I realized this earlier when I was reading reading. I will fix.

I am unsure if that is completely true as my past experience in the lifestyle was that everyone was very on top of regular STI (think you meant this not SDI) testing and safe sex practices to protect all involved, whereas normal dating there is a lot less of that plus secret polycules you are not even aware you are in (cheating). Not seen a study on this but this was my observation at least.

Xerox has been in Canada even longer but they are still an American company regardless. Just like Nintendo of America is still a Japanese company.

But IBM is an American company? Why is Canada now plowing $210M into Canadian chip companies/startups. Chips is the new oil.

For the meaning in life to is explore and play with my best friend…my wife. Even my career has switched to something that feels more like play than a grind for a corporation who enjoys the lion’s share of my labour.

That is what I first submitted too. My passport which has no address. Then they said I need to send ID with an address so I sent my drivers license. Then they said it has to be a current address, but I moved out of country so how would I have an address on my ID. Then they suggested my Notice of Assessment which has a family members mailing address on it and that worked but by this point it was too late.

Exactly what I am already doing. imagineering my top rated VR Theme Park and explore SE Asia and other parts of the world. Love both.

What was the issue for you?

Mine got majorly delayed as I was asked to show ID with my Canadian mailing address on it, but like most who have moved out of country I was using a family members mailing address. Of course my Canadian IDs had my last home address and not my family members as why would it? I moved out of the country. We went back and forth with each reply taking Elections Canada 5-7 days. I ended up filling my taxes with my family members address and sent them my NOA which worked but it was too late by the time I received the package.

How did you avoid this address issue?

Same here. What was your hold up? Mine was my ID did not match my mailing address as of course not, I left the country and cannot get my Canadian ID updated with a foreign address? We went back and forth and each round it took Elections Canada 5-7 days to respond. I eventually just filled my taxes with a family’s address in Canada and used the NOA as the proof of address. I am so disappointed in the process. Does not even make sense. I get they want to put you in the right riding, but you literally moved out of the country and are not in a riding. They need to inspect their process as this one is broken.

Would have been 2 more if Elections Canada did not fumble sending us the out of country voting package. Sure there are many others in the same boat.

I guess for you that makes sense if interactions is your goal. For me it is both content and interactions and the former is really lacking because the community is still too small. I find many of the subreddits I view daily are ghost towns here or non existent. I would drop Reddit completely if there was just more content here. I will often come to Lemmy several times a day, and notice it still has all the same posts and then go back to Reddit. Sucks more are not jumping on the decentralized bandwagon.

The same could be said about any Union including the USA as not all states are treated equally.

You mean you are done with the US and you are not joining the EU and not all Canadians feel this way.

A national survey conducted by Abacus Data in late February 2025, involving 1,500 Canadian adults, revealed:

• 44% believe the Canadian government should “definitely or probably” explore joining the EU.
• 34% are opposed to the idea.
• 23% remain undecided.

That is a very good point and is something that needs to be sorted out. There is or at least was a video platform that paid crypto that I think had the right ideas, but was not well executed and frankly even if it was great, most crypto projects were scams.

I do suspect that as we make our way more into the AI and robotics era, that how we measure value will shift and suddenly decentralized platforms will generate some form of income of it will even be called that. Until then, you are right, there is little incentive for creators to move to a platform that makes them no money and people are ok with their privacy and data being shared so the status quo it is.

Same issue as Lemmy. Not enough people see centralized media as an issue and thus the status quo will continue.

Not all of humanity or we would not even be here.

The joke might be in there as while AI cannot do your taxes today, we are hopefully not too far off.