So basically, OP just posts whatever’s edgy and vaguely leftist.

Anyone wanna bet on if they do absolutely anything about politics in meatspace?

Although dying naturally also does that, and we’re all expected to make peace with the inevitability of that, so it’s a bit of a funny complaint.

I’m not sure getting pinched into pieces by wheels at random points is really a quick death.

On the day right after the EU’s State of the Union address, which he’s also there for.

Hmmmmmmm. Maybe there’s a big announcement?

Edit: Oh, that was in OP’s text already. D’oh!

Yeah, could very well be. The “do absolutely everything with AI no matter what” idea is a circlejerk, too. (Just in very different spaces from this one)

On my project right now, I’m doing everything by hand. It just seems unlikely hallucinate-and-cull would be any faster at producing useful and well-architected networking logic. On the other hand, when it comes time to write a UI, spinning something up is probably worth it.

Carlo Dade

None of this is new. Yet Canada, writ large, walked into the stadium without studying the game film of the opponent. Had we done so, little of what just transpired would have come as the surprise it apparently is. We would have known that the Americans would slip in an amped-up no-trade-with-China poison pill. We would have been prepared for it to arrive at the last minute, and we’d be working on contingency plans. Businesses could have readied (stockpiling goods, for instance). The media would have known, and they’d be hyperventilating less. Instead of a shock, it would have been a known worst case. We wouldn’t feel singled out. Our reaction would be calmer—we got punched when we weren’t expecting it, and we’re upset.

Either “writ large” is doing a lot of work there, or that’s just unfair. Anybody both not MAGA and following events was expecting this. Our negotiators definitely included.

The bit later on about communicating with the public suggests he did mean everyone else. To that, a whole lot has been written and said already about why it everything had to be secretive. Trump didn’t make a deal, but he wouldn’t even have gotten close if we’d been calling him out the whole time, and then you’d have the Conservatives saying Carney didn’t even try.

The nationalist, hit-back response—“we’re at war”—is based on emotion, not reason, and that plays into the Americans’ hand.

The only examples I can’t think of, where a nation at war downplays it, is where the war is a war of aggression they started. Spreadsheets and pie charts just don’t stir up the same will to sacrifice and defend.

At the other extreme, Vass Bednar is totally speaking our language:

What’s been missing, so far, is a strategy for technology and digital goods.

There’s a (slight) difference in turnout, and in vote efficiency, but there’s just more blue voters. In the end, the parties are balanced in the US, when it comes to the current process for elections.

FYI, petroleum products alone are $120 billion, out of $400 billion total exports to them. That’s ~1/5 of all their oil. Although, to be fair, we get a lot of our refined fuel back from them.

Potash would be really hard for them to replace, and they were still buying our aluminum regardless of the 25% tax. Lots of their the other top imports are commodities, since that’s what we produce, and most commodities can’t just be made anywhere.

Obviously, they have the advantage of size. But if you look past that, at all, they suddenly don’t look so unstoppable.

It’s possible.

They pretty predictably punish whichever party has the White House for a bad economy, though. Or national embarrassment. Or, like, the weather on voting day. It’s pretty uniformly all blamed on whoever the president is, down there.

Nah, change with the times or get left behind.

I’m not afraid, give me those yummy downvotes.

Wow, do they actually have most of the Android market share now?

Obviously, there are tons of other brands making Android phones, from Fairphone to Google. I think LG has something, as well, now that you mention it.

You had me going for a while there.

OP was probably including anywhere in driving range as “local”, and that did too. If you mean by mail or similar, that can be an option, but there’s several barriers.

If I want some obscure radio part, it’s probably not anywhere in Alberta, and might not be for sale anywhere in Canada.

I didn’t hear about the Tesla part, but I guess it makes sense. If you only can sell a few thousand cars, why wouldn’t it be the ones with the largest margin?

Yes, BYD would have been exactly the vehicles in mind when that policy was set up.

Okay, sure, if you don’t care, Samsung would work. If you care at all, they use program-once SoCs from hell. (You mentioned Graphene, but there’s also Lineage, and Motorola is American FWIW)

I too am a rare rural Lemming, and I have a used Chinese phone running a custom ROM. It looks like the export models tend to have a full compliment of bands, and 13 is listed for all of them. If you literally get a domestic Chinese phone model custom imported, sure, you’ve made your bed a bit, and might have to sleep in it. I’d be shocked if they all cost more new than Samsung, as well.

If you don’t like China either, yes, you do you. There’s a case for it. They’re kind of like America geopolitically, and not just becoming authoritarian. Sony also had something Lineage-compatible, as of last I checked.

WTF are you even saying, we’re talking about cars.

Cash. Cash is life.

Amazon is really really hard to avoid if you need something the local stores don’t sell. I’m going to give AliExpress another try, but it wasn’t promising the last time.

There’s no streaming category here, as well. Crave and Gem can probably keep you going between them.

BRICS is a joke, and no, that’s not how money works.

And then a million people all around the world own Ford.

We’re better served focusing on where the production happens, not the branding.