justOnePersistentKbinPlease

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Cake day: September 6th, 2024

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  • As I understand it:

    The existing bridge is a toll bridge that was sold by Michigan/Detroit to some fuckwit billionaire. He collects all of the tolls, spends nothing on upkeep.

    Ontario and Detroit/Michigan notice the existing bridge isnt enough for the traffic, and forces all of the traffic through residential areas.

    Detroit and Windsor worked together on plans for the new bridge that connects directly to Ontario’s 401 highway system. Fuckwit went to extreme lengths to block the new bridge, even buying the votes to block it at the state level.

    The Canadian side works with various US interests to secure a US side of the new bridge, then later gets an exemption from the Fuckwit’s state law from the Obama era government.

    The agreement reached says that Canada pays for the entire bridge, with the caveat that Canada will see 100% of the toll money until they recover the money spent building it. After that I am not sure what was planned with the toll money. Edit: 50/50 split to Michigan and Canada.

    The fuckwit and Trump clearly want to steal the bridge and keep the toll money.






  • A long, long time ago, there was an online messaging tool called ICQ. You didnt even have callsigns in it, you had a randomly generated number you shared with your friends. You chatted. Had fun. Life was good.

    Then there was AOL instant messenger. It largely replaced ICQ in the US. It added emoticons.

    Then there was MSN Messenger. It tied into the MSN gaming zone(Before MS killed it to make Xbox Live. You could play games with your friends through it. You could do rudimentary video chats.

    Then you had Skype(pre-MS. Better video, not tied to MS).

    MS makes MSN Messenger into Lynx and adds it to office. Its not good.

    Then you had Google Hangouts. Better chat, fun features, tied to your google account.

    Then you had MS owned Skype as Skype for Business. Largely replaces Hangouts because Google enshittifies everything, not because it is good.

    You also have former Vancouver startup Slack. Its fantastic. Until Salesforce buys it.

    Now we have the bastard officespring of Skype for Business: MS Teams.