YES, I ain’t even Canadian but been saying this since day, those 2 companies are such a huge factor in how much leverage this 2 party dictatorship has over majority of the world, that and Microsoft, Apple, Google etc. This is why Cash is King, and using American payment processors just feeds their power and leverage over global finance.

You can see how its affected Russia when US payment processors halted operations as part of sanctions. The only viable alternative is using Monero for online transactions and physical cash.

Monero is the only realistic and promising way of paying people online without relying on the two largest payment processors on the planet, fully under the control of the US. The ONLY crypto that’s actually treated and used as a currency, rather than a stock like btc, and actually has any real world use and offers privacy.

Who tf makes coffee using a microwave.

Using a fucking kettle mate.

If google actually integrates yt to the fediverse it might genuinely be the best thing they ever did, I genuinely hope they do cuz it’s the one centralised social media I actively use and the only google service I use in general.

Plus it goes without saying it objectively has the largest amount of high quality content regularly posted by thousands of people.

It could be the thing that would let a lot of users fully degoogle/decouple from google’s monopoly and bring a LOT more eyes onto the fediverse as a whole.

That’s the issue with the FPTP voting system, it always eventually leads to a 2-party state like the US and the majority of the population votes for someone other than the winning party.

This happens in literally every country with the same voting system as the US.