8note

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by 8note 1mo ago
canada's forest is growing, not shrinking. the overgrowth will keep growing year over year
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by 8note 1mo ago
they certainly havr given that license otherwise my browser could not make reproductions and store caches
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by 8note 1mo ago
its something people want but has been both too difficult to be worth building, and not something you want to use some SASS for where youre giving all your financial data over to a third party and the government suddenly they're tracta
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by 8note 1mo ago
im in alberta and want an oil export tax that brings albertan exports up to market oil prices. match it to brent crude this is consistently a self criticism in alberta that we arent actually getting our money's worth from our oil
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by 8note 1mo ago
canadian beef is expensive in canada because canadian beef producers can make a bigger buck selling to the US
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by 8note 1mo ago
it wasn't russia that invaded armenia
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by 8note 1mo ago
it doesnt, but it does speak to an ability to invest in tank production dunno why youd want tanks and not drones though, when even russia's new tanks with anti-drone defenses can be taken out by 30ish drones
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by 8note 1mo ago
the trade bazooka was made to threaten china, not the US. its just conveniently placed at the moment
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by 8note 1mo ago
> He ran on "no news wars" and then started one. that's a weird example to give about it being lies from the beginning when he spent 4 years not being at active war with iran
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by 8note 1mo ago
you are very optimistic about keeping your standard of living when you will have to sell stuff to china in order to have access to global capital. losing that #1 status also means you have to work for a living, rather than just printing dol
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by 8note 1mo ago
you dont really need to get involved in the ai arms race though. a late comer will still benefit from better designed at higher volume lower energy chips, and good enough open weight models.
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by 8note 1mo ago
the US is also daring canada to shut off the taps on the oil the US actually uses for its own gas
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by 8note 1mo ago
sure, but ukraine is not able to stop its own export infrastructure from being blown up, or defend itself from north korean missiles anymore. europe and east asia whove been helping to fund and arm ukraine are also taking the real pressure
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by 8note 1mo ago
i dont think you can really move the blame from voters wanting trump's policies onto biden. trump won the primary and then the election republicans who didnt want his policies and could see that the inflation was in a large part the re
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by 8note 1mo ago
the market is bigger but doesnt necessarily have more USD to sownd on stuff
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by 8note 1mo ago
its also a one time trick for america, similar to the strait of hormuz it would be so disruptive that europe would have to make and use an alternative, and then the US could not regain that market
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by 8note 1mo ago
tariffs on tech i think is harder than just not accepting US patents and IP, and refusing protections on it
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by 8note 1mo ago
i think canada has found that its been less difficult than we thought it would be ultimately the US is buying stuff, but its the stuff thats actually valuable and not the USD you get from it. its even easier to move when you cant even buy o
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by 8note 1mo ago
DSA are democrats. clearly they are smartening up
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by 8note 1mo ago
america attracts the best talent, but that's also dependent in partners training experts and sending them to the US to make the largest best impact china is already attracting its best talent back home, and nothing forces even americ
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by 8note 1mo ago
You probably wont regardless. milk itself wants to be drunk pretty quickly after being produced, and thus pretty close. what changes is parts that arent so visible - milk powders, sugars, proteins, etc, that are inputs into ultraprocessed f
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by 8note 1mo ago
congress can impeach him, which makes those pardons null
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by 8note 1mo ago
democracy is already dead of you cant jail trump when he does crimes
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by 8note 1mo ago
That still will not convince anyone to trust the US. At any moment a new US president and congress can come in and do the same thing. a de-nazification program similar to germany post-WW2, combined with a shredding and full rewrite of the U
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by 8note 1mo ago
its a government choice to not properly train americans to read and speak german, while it does for english. that is a subsidy to american businesses and a barrier against german ones, when germany trains its Citizens in both german and eng
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by 8note 1mo ago
trade courts did not find the US complaints legitimate, and repeatedly rule in canada's favour. the end root of the difference in cost is that canada is really big with a lot of forest and doesnt have better things to do with forested
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by 8note 1mo ago
europe understood the same thing all the previous presidents have - that war with iran would massively disrupt energy and thus the global economy. europe wanted to keep the jcpoa after the US left it
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by 8note 1mo ago
regulatory alignment is an obvious one there's plenty of barriers without tariffs holding up trade between blocks and countries.
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by 8note 1mo ago
its not like you could sue them if they did train its pretty clearly nit a contract with open router, and you have no agreement with the lab to not train
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by 8note 1mo ago
i dont see whats far fetched about it? theyre being given the national security shield against everything. theyre direclty commiting fraud against state governments too, just lying about their nat gas usage and so on

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