Love (cannot emphasis how much sarcasm there is in that word) that an official Canadian government response to high cellphone rates is to switch carriers.
Switch it to what? We basically have three companies since one was allowed to eat the forth (with the government saying it wasn't anti-competition and the company eating the other pinky promising they wouldn't jack rates up). Even the smaller companies have to rent infrastructure from the Big Three so there's only so much they can do if that rent costs an arm and a leg.
And that's not touching on how many "small companies" are actually just subsidiaries of the Big Three. You may save $5 but you're still with Telus/Rogers/Bell.
Or that the actual small companies tend to have shit coverage because they don't have the infrastructure available to them and are prevented from getting it. Or their traffic is throttled in favour of the Big Three's customers. Or both.
Or that they're extremely regional thus aren't an option for a huge chunk of Canada's population.
We have no true options and the government has shown time and again that they're fine with monopolies, in multiple industries, and don't care when said monopolies jack up prices to make shareholders and the c-suite more money at the expense of everyone else. At most there will be a verbal slap on the wrist and a giftcard for $25 that people have to register for, for a decade and a half of price gouging.
It's not talked a whole lot about outside the country from what I've seen and heard but Canada is a country of monopolies. A handful of companies own nearly everything, every province has a family or two that owns a hell of a lot (Nova Scotia is basically owned by one family at this point), and our government ignores it. Even the branch that is supposed to be against monopolies is fine with mergers and takeovers in most cases.
Because, you know, the company said it totally wouldn't use consumers' lack of options to increase prices.
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Like I genuinely feel like a lot of fans of like late 70s/early 80s new wave and post-punk especially the 'weirder' and more artsy and high concept stuff would love early they might be giants Like can you not get enough of elements of the avant-garde in pop music do you love when music is sarcastic and irreverent and witty and surreal and absurd and DARK do you like when music sounds a bit scary and challenges and unsettles you do you like when its been made with DIY production on the cheapest crunchiest instruments and is performed in gritty underground clubs and presented to audiences in novel ways do you like when artists seek to play with and redefine the relationship between artist and audience or do you also just like when frontmen get down autistic silly and sensitive style and freak everyone out with the way they incorporate performance art into their live shows like just. please contact me so we can listen to the 1983 demo tape while holding hands and I tell you all about it and then I play you a bunch of hissy staticy recordings that were ripped off of an answering machine 40 years ago and you will be changed
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What if Vic caught Kiv hurting Sahota? How quick would Kiv go from tough to freaking out?
pretty fast lol
usually when he's violent with the others, it's a 0-10 "you made me mad for xyz", him being intoxicated and more prone to lashing out, or him seeking control after a chewing out or punishment, so there's not a lot of thought behind it
which means sometimes he's wrapped up in the moment and either won't stop until Vic has him pinned (and then he realizes and starts begging for mercy and saying he's sorry) or he'll actually swing on whoever tries to pull him off (also will usually result in begging and apologizing if it's Vic)
sometimes he'll get a little brave and continue to not listen, or outright tell Vic off or try to hit him on purpose. Kiv always ends up regretting it
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Just Breathe
Did some doodle fanart for @kakita-shisumo's Bookstore Max AU, more specifically a scene from Breathe! It's such a heartbreaking series in some ways, but also cute in others, especially the fic I linked! Highly recommended read!
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Lionel Messi 🤝 Timo Boll
Wonder child
Lefty
Can effortlessly switch hands/feet and still make incredible shots
Stayed in one club for nearly all his career
Is/was the mvp of said club
Loved by everyone
A true players’ player
Has won pretty much every trophy there is
Has been no 1 with 36 +-1 years old
True sportsmanship
Humble
Introverted
Can't separate him from his respective mate/coffee
Really cares about and takes time for his fans
Just a guy™ with some massive talent and a hobby
No drama, unproblematic king
Married to childhood sweetheart
Been a pro athlete for way longer than normal people
Getting retirement questions in interviews and answering them with “I’ll play for as along as I enjoy it and haven’t thought of that yet”
Most importantly: adorable af
I rest my case.
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