Yep, so much outrage. People are seething. Seething!

Someone should write an article about Trump getting “slammed”. Or someone could “fire back”, that would make a good headline. Such a response might cause Trump to have a “meltdown”.

If Trump’s insane provocations continue, eventuallly some americans will get so outraged that they will slowly roll over, scratch themselves, and fart.

LLMs are cool up to a point. It is pretty neat to see something imitate human speech so convincingly. But that’s it: neat. Like a phone shaped like a hamburger.

For me to be impressed beyond that, your thing needs to either do something that I can’t do better or do something i don’t want to do. I can write a pretty good grade 8 essay. I can summarize a paragraph. I can write a dirty limerick. I can complete my own sentence without punctuation suggestions.

When I want to create something, I want to do it myself. Putting my ideas in order and finding the words to say something meaningful is the fun part. Even when I write a work email or a cover letter, I’m not really interested in help. Either I have something to say (don’t want help), or I rattle it off in one go (don’t need help).

Microsoft, I don’t owe you my attention or my money. Make something useful that doesn’t suck. Impress me.

China is not an option, but a reality. I wasn’t consulted when people started buying massive amounts of cheap crap from china. Now, we are reliant on them for many things. Of course i agree that we should deal preferentially deal with democracies. Your strawman arguments are tiresome.

Like, not every grim headline makes me laugh out loud. Well done, satirical newspaper ‘usa today’.

It’s not exactly a minivan but i like my C-RV

Something to warm your heart: https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/saab-can-match-american-made-f-35s-to-fulfil-canadian-needs-swedish-deputy-prime-minister/

You are right about china, and until Trump started with the “51st state” by “economic coercion” i was totally opposed to cooperation with china. i still am, if i am being honest: i should have said “the only advantage”.

as for targeting canada - i am indeed worried about russian and chinese interference in our political system. however, us interference is just as bad. maga is spreading in canada with US dollars driving the advance. we are awash in american fake news and disinformation. americans spy on everything we do. all of our government data is hosted on azure cloud, and microsoft has admitted to european parliament that it has to obey us laws first - that is why germany is moving away from MS to other providers. we should do the same.

I would be delighted to build closer relationships with functioning democracies, but they are getting fewer and harder to rely on. meloni is a fascist, as is orban and erdogan - and that is just within nato! even japan just went far-right. for now we are stuck doing business with both china and the us. among the countries rated as « full democracies » by the economist, the largest economies are germany and uk; we already cooperate and trade with them.

i’m just saying that i feel like the threat at our doorstep is scarier than the threat across the ocean.

thanks for answering! that is interesting.

it’s a heuristic. evaluating every one-day-old account on its own merits is a lot of mental load, so people take shortcuts. if you’re an active poster, people can look back through your comment history to get context on your perspective. it’s hard to do that with someone using a brand-new account. in a month, nobody will be saying that to you any more.

I am not a china fan but it does have one important advantage over the US right now: China is not actively threatening us.

If the americans ever wake up and hang trump from a lamppost, we could pivot back. a lot of stuff would have to change.

ideally, canada should be friends with other democracies. unfortunately, many other democracies are in the process of electing far-right whackadoos and mini-trumps. we don’t have an abundance of choices.

i traveled business class for a job interview one time (the employer paid). what a difference! i got a meal, and it was actually good.

side note: i ate chicken tikka masala in my white interview shirt (nerve-wracking), but i managed to avoid spilling :)

in my country, the black market marijuana trade is run by the same gangs that trade weapons and traffic minors. i buy my weed from the guv’ment store even though it is more expensive, because it supports legitimate retailers and growers. everyone along the supply chain (including me, the buyer) pays taxes to support good schools, hospital, transit…

can you elaborate on what makes it better? i am just curious

Someone downvoted you, but i get it. I’ve used both android and apple. i liked apple better. i can afford to pay a little extra to use the one i prefer.

i must admit, though, that the gap is closing. apple’s edge for convenience and good design has been eroding for 10 years.

What an asshole. If the same thing that makes your government powerful also makes your government evil, than supporting that thing does not make you a patriot, it makes you a fascist.

Sounds good to me, and i agree that AI adds no value to telework.

Do you ever feel pressured to be more available? That was my problem with telework. I’m salaried, so no overtime. I found my days kept getting longer and longer.

I love how these fuckers talk about the ability to “work anywhere” as if it were some kind of freedom. To me, freedom is shutting my work computer down at 4pm, leaving it on my desk at work, and going home - whether it is for the night, the weekend, or my vacation. I work at work and nowhere else; the only thing freer than that is not working at all.

If the stable genius in charge says that prices are falling, then it is consumers who are wrong. Believing that the economy is bad when Trump says it is good is thought crime. This economist should expect a visit from ICE.

Shit just keeps getting worse down there. Plus they sent the most ridiculous bag of farts as the US ambassador to Canada. This Hoekstra idiot is so foul that he has done more to unite Canadians than anyone except Trump himself. He is a serious contemder for most hated man in Canada.