the quality and selection are better on certain websites with weird little cartoon character avatars
Ukraine had to start banning Russia funded slop after the invasion…
Maybe doing it before the invasion would have been better.
Just a reminder to use your local library, they’ll often have plenty of movies and TV shows to rent either at a very low price or fully free. Perfect complement for the seven seas
Local library here has streaming services with lots of classic movies (watched some Akira Kurosawa flicks). And other streaming services thru there have educational kids’ stuff. Also, free museum passes. Telescopes. Musical instruments. Video games. Online newspapers and magazines. Pretty badass.
some libraries even have a small streaming service, so you don’t have to leave the house
Local libraries rock.
Hey Canada, just so you know: I’m an European, and I watch “Son of a Critch” and “Shoresy”
“Set the tone!”
ha?!
Canada here! Literally cancelled Netflix last week and talked to my SO about using the money instead to pay for a seedbox lol.
Also trying to do a grocery run without buying any American products is a challenge but doable! Loading up on Dr. Oetkers pizza and Romanian pasta
WTF, I always thought Dr. Oetker was just another brand of some American multinational. It’s apparently German.
Are there some good Canadian seed boxes?
Not sure yet, I’m looking into it! I’ll report back if I find a good one though
Yeah lettuce seems the biggest challenge to me. All the heads of iceberg lettuce come from the US. What pisses me off is that under the romaine lettuce it says “Product of USA or Mexico”. Which is it? I have no problem buying it if it’s from Mexico (they’re in the same situation as we are) but not getting it if it’s from the US.
I have noticed on some products the grocery story is putting a maple leaf beside the price when it’s made in Canada, but it’s not universal yet.
Dr. Oetkers
You guys get Dr. Oetker over there? Extremely jealous!
Safeway had them on sale for like $3.50 so we loaded up lol
You have Safeway in Canada? Doesn’t that defeat the point of not buying American?
The Canadian stores have been owned by Sobeys since 2013!
Oh fantastic, nice to know!
the CBC celebrates
Netflix is really shit as a subscription anyway, it’s gone downhill with the amount of ‘tiers’ and constant slop production that encourages cancelled 1-season shows over longer, fan-driven works.
Thanks for the reminder. Just cancelled
Eco-Max makes good dish soap and other products like that here in Canada…free shipping in Canada and you can get it at Walmart:
Did you mean to comment this somewhere else? Or am I just not getting something?
I too am confused by this streaming to cleaning connection.
really? I thought the canadian connection was the relevant part (shop and promote companies in your area), but the walmart drop kinda confuses me lol.
Made sense to me. Canadians dropping American goods in favor of Canadian made ones.
oh, that would make sense 😅
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regardless, this would be a good time for countries to strengthen laws protecting against foreign ownership of media companies and heavily regulating foreign media companies operating in countries instead of opening up the floodgates and letting american companies control the culture.
I started cancelling all American subscriptions back in December (all Google services out, Facebook+Instance out, Amazon out…) I’m down to Netflix but currently building out my movie library daily. Plex server is next. Long live Torrents!
Canadians were some of the OG tv pirates. They were the hookup for hacked satellite boxes in the 90’s.
I tried searching for this but only found recent news. Anywhere I can read about this? Wikipedia, article, or book?
I love tech history.
There’s a little bit in this Wikipedia article but I can’t find much either.
IIRC it mostly stemmed from a lot of US tv channels not being available in Canada at the time. So to make them available, they started hacking satellite descramblers and Direct TV cards. Then they found a giant market in the US willing to buy these boxes and cards to get free tv.
There were people in the US making them too, but the Canadian stuff was more reliable and updated quicker when Direct TV changed codes.
This is great! Thank you.
We had a big ass satillite dish in the backyard when I was growing up, and I remember my dad needing to input these codes every so often to unlock a bunch of channels.
It’s why most of the shows I watched as a kid had the maple leaf in the corner.
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Sadly The Culture decided to skip earth.
Do you really blame them?
Best of luck, Canada. I’m seeding for you.
The only thing holding us back at this point are our shitty internet companies lol.
Fuck you Telus!
I cancelled two weeks ago expecting it to be difficult, but I don’t really miss it. Maybe something happens when you get old, but I just don’t have the will to commit to a series or a binge watch anymore. What I’ve started doing is borrowing movies at the library, which is free and takes forever, but is oddly charming.
