US foreign policy is completely incoherent right now. The answers don’t really matter. They’re just making these individual policy decisions based on trying to bully their allies/enemies to test the water as to how far they can impose their will on the rest of the world and be unpredictable.

Why does the US need critical minerals from Ukraine if there’s no global heating and therefore we wouldn’t need Elon Musk’s EVs? Their positions make sense (to them) individually, but don’t make any sense when you put them together. But when your electorate has the memory of a squirrel and is glued to social media propaganda feeds, you don’t need coherent policy to stay in power.

ycombinator is shit lol

Some kind of crowd-sourced tagging would be a cool anti-troll technique. A lot of less experienced websurfers struggle to spot “inauthentic behaviour” (bots, astroturfing, etc) so it could be beneficial. Reddit has a huge problem with sleeper accounts though, where they build up reputation with low-effort comments over years, then activate when a campaign needs them. The social media marketers seem to sometimes use the same techniques as the state-sponsored troll farms.

this is the saddest, stupidest, low effort troll account - see comment history

If we can somehow entice Chinese car companies manufacture here

I think that’s part of the point of auto tariffs.

It’s not about software or data. It’s about control over the supply chain - cars are essential to our economy and way of life in North America (like it or not). It’s the same reason we protect the milk supply. You don’t want another country to be able to turn it off in a conflict.

The thing is, if Trump wants to kill Canada’s role in US car manufacturing, then it will cost him the car markets in Mexico and Canada. If there’s no jobs here to protect, then we’ll just drop the tariffs on Chinese EVs. (This is speaking like 20 years down the road). We’ll all be driving Chinese cars in that scenario. The tariffs are a total lose-lose situation, so dumb.

I’d be way more concerned about whether it’s a deathtrap than whether or not the touchscreen has good UX, lol.

I sorta get what you’re asking for, but I think you’re going to get a response like, “Read a book”. There’s just not much to be gained by discussing issues like this on the internet, lol. edit: I think your example is maybe confusing too… not sure if you’re looking for political debates, or just educational discussions, or what. Maybe you could clarify and it’d help get some more constructive answers!

Totally fair. One thing that’s super clear in this country is that the tax laws favour the rich. IMHO even RRSPs are of greater benefit to people who don’t pay rent or have paid off their mortgages.

It’s great that you’ve pointed this out and I hope there’s more awareness about it. In practice, it’s not hard: Buy from candian-owned small businesses who manufacture in Canada.

In my not-at-all-humble opinion, most of your examples are all shit you shouldn’t be buying in the first place:

• We have copious amounts of local craft beer. Never buy the big brands, they’re all swill. If you actually drink craft beer, you’ll know which brands, like Creemore and Millstreet, are fake craft.

• Nobody should be buying anything from Coca-Cola in the 21st century. We’ve known pop is terrible for your health for like 50 years. They’re a shit company who is the biggest polluter of plastics in the world.

• Canada Goose is for tools with no taste. By the time any trendy fashion company gets bought out, it’s not cool anymore.

All we have to do as a nation is just put that little extra effort into learning about what we’re buying and making different choices, and it’s actually great that we’re all doing that because we should have been doing it all along.

You’re mad about the wrong thing. He’s going to pay an effective tax rate of about 25% when he exercises those options. (Capital gains)

Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

As someone who works in tech, I feel like the sales pitch for VPNs is snakeoil for the average person. All you’re doing is trading out your own ISP spying on you for another ISP who can spy on you. I know I have rights if my ISP spies on me in my own country, but if my traffic is all egressing via a foreign country, I may have zero privacy rights in that country.

If you need to hide your torrenting activity, just use a seedbox. If you need to hide from the NSA, none of this is going to help you. And TLS basically does the rest.

Same with DNS-over-HTTPS - the DNS server is where they’re going to be spying on you!

Fastest petition I ever signed lol. Easy decision.

yooo, I was just playing T2 in the pickup game on Friday night a few weeks ago. It’s still so good!

Wrapping up this thread, I really appreciate all the opinions and experiences everyone shared! Gave me lots of new perspectives to think about.

Yeah, this might be the way to go. OpenWRT supports hardware NAT with many of these ARM-based routers like many of the MediaTek-based ones, which gives them super high throughput at very low CPU usage. The efficiency blows x86 out of the water. The ability to migrate your OpenWRT config to new hardware (real or virtual) in the future means you kinda get the best of both worlds…

Do not use an SSD for cold storage - it will fail. SSDs need to be plugged in every once to refresh the charge in their NAND, otherwise they’ll lose the data.

This is not a theoretical thing - I’ve had a good Samsung 850 Pro drive fail while being off for 2 years.

Thanks, this is good data!

How fast is your internet?