beloch

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by beloch 5d ago
Up here in Canada, we've seen vet clinics rapidly go corporate in the last couple of decades. Even ignoring prices, the degradation in the quality of care offered is stark. Vets working for corporate clinics are heavily micromanaged.
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by beloch 6d ago
At least they haven't relaxed restrictions on sulfur dioxide emissions, etc.. yet. Making rain acidic again would be completely on brand for this administration.
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by beloch 7d ago
Those people run stalls at fairs. The amount of slop I see at fairs is really on the upswing.
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by beloch 7d ago
At a certain point, pottery that looked like a child made it became the high end, because well-executed pottery was coming out of machines. We've officially reached that point with advertisements. Save your tokens. Hire your 9-year-o
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by beloch 8d ago
Sometimes intelligence "finds" evidence that suits political goals. e.g. You want to invade a country but are having a hard time convincing allies, getting UN approval, etc.. So, you let it be known to your spooks that you'
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by beloch 8d ago
When the Carney government decided to let a small, capped, number of Chinese EV's into Canada's auto market, it was clearly meant to send a message to Trump. Namely, if you succeed in destroying our auto sector, we'll drop
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by beloch 8d ago
Like a car accident that prompts you to start commuting by bicycle and gets you into the best shape of your life.
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by beloch 9d ago
This is going to be the hardest lesson of Trump's ridiculously sheltered, silver-spoon life. I suspect he'll fail to learn it: Shut up. Just shut your mouth. The U.S. has a long history of easily pushing Canada into new and more
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by beloch 9d ago
Consent makes all the difference. Trump's talk of forcing Canada to become the 51st state via economic pressure stiffened the spines of Canadians and made it impossible for the Carney government to accept the same sort of deal other c
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by beloch 10d ago
Carney has said Canada is not looking to become a "member" of the EU. Meanwhile, "associate member" is an entirely new thing that has yet to be defined. These aren't incompatible statements. It appears more accura
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by beloch 11d ago
There absolutely can be a price shock that will make current prices look economical. Oil is priced on a global market, and if the price is high enough, that might mean many Americans are priced out of some of their own oil. The only way t
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by beloch 11d ago
Oil tankers move about as fast a bicycle. If fuel prices start really spiking tomorrow and the conflict is resolved the very next day, the crisis will still last as long as it takes for bicycles to fan out across the globe. i.e. Probabl
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by beloch 12d ago
This just adds to the list of reasons not to accept a position in the U.S.. The U.S. is a country that doesn't want you and whose elected government is dedicated to making you feel unwelcome. The money had better be damned good to
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by beloch 12d ago
We should tax data. Hear me out. Google, Meta, etc. offer "free" services to a significant portion of the world's population. This isn't charitable work. They do this for data that makes them money. Lots of money.
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by beloch 13d ago
Carney is pursuing what he calls "associate membership", which has yet to be defined[1]. If the EU wants to form the backbone of a group of middle powers that can hold their own against superpowers like China, as Carney has sugge
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by beloch 13d ago
This is one major reason why blocking ads is now a safety issue. If you have a family member who, for whatever reason, might be fooled by this sort of ad, install an effective adblocker on all their browsers and uninstall/disable brow
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by beloch 13d ago
It's the current CPC line of attack. A month or so ago they tried arguing that Carney, a former governor of two national banks, is worse at economics than a career politician. That didn't go well. Now they're trying to m
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by beloch 13d ago
Go look up what the U.S. was demanding by the end of the recent trade negotiations. They wanted Canada to give up its ability to set its own cultural and trade policy independent of the U.S.. That's a huge step to becoming, not the 5
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by beloch 13d ago
The dependency goes both ways. We could cut off potash and they'd starve. We could cut off the oil and electricity. We could cut off steel and aluminum. The response would not be pleasant, but neither can they afford to risk our
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by beloch 13d ago
Doing things as we were told to is sometimes called "following tradition". Traditional knowledge can be based in superstition or valid information that's out of date, but it can also be based on things that remain relevant.
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by beloch 14d ago
LG’s Approach to Privacy Our approach is guided by four principles: Transparency – Helping users understand how smart TV features work and how related data may be used. User Choice – Giving users meaningful control over optional features an
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by beloch 14d ago
People need light to see in cities. This light serves a function. Starlink satellites are emitting unintended and useless EMR that serves no function. It is not necessary for the function of these satellites. This is a money issue. The q
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by beloch 15d ago
Ask for regulation. If progress is coming easy and fast and you're worried about the danger your product poses, you should also be worried about the danger your competitors' products pose. So, you reach out to governments and ask
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by beloch 15d ago
"War is merely the continuation of policy by other means." "Since war is not an act of senseless passion but is controlled by its political object, the value of this object must determine the sacrifices to be made for it in m
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by beloch 16d ago
There is an undeniable conflict between "Don't be evil." and "Evil pays.". A lot of what militaries do can be best described as the lesser of two evils. Murdering people is bad, but sometimes a little murder can p
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by beloch 17d ago
I'd like to think that, if I had that kind of money, I'd avoid doing so much ketamine that I fail to realize a few meters of concrete won't protect me if things go wrong. In all likelihood, tech billionaires will be the firs
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by beloch 17d ago
NMS's art-style is low-detail, but highly aesthetic. It can look amazing at times, but only when you're looking at grand cinematic vistas. It rarely looks good in closeups. This parallels the game's systems in many ways. N
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by beloch 17d ago
"A common response is “if they truly believe this, why are they still building it?” At OpenAI, many have not deeply internalized the civilizational stakes. At Anthropic, the stakes are well-understood, but they are locked in a race to
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by beloch 18d ago
A trade (money) deficit is a goods surplus. The U.S. is getting more stuff than they can make themselves because the world likes to invest in the U.S. and American consumers are still confident enough that they're not socking away sav
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by beloch 18d ago
I've commonly seen this trade war called "purely random", or the result of Trump holding a personal grudge against Canada. However, the most convincing argument I've seen (and I wish I could recall the source) is that T

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