One thing I despise about the US (gun violence and healthcare inequitability aside) is how it measures the value of everything in money.

It’s culture is a commodification machine. Nothing can just be beautiful for the sake of being beautiful, it has to be made into a side hustle somehow.

Most Americans are married to their jobs and have little work life balance relative to Canadians and Europeans.

There is a remarkable amount of mental gymnastics done by people trying to gaslight themselves into thinking this is what they want, even though most would be happier and healthier with more time off.

Theres a reason why he isn’t making the same threats against Mexico.

There’s a reason he wants to resettle Palestinians before redeveloping Gaza.

Gen X is a mixed bag when it comes to this but most I’ve come across are more like Boomers than Millenials on this.

Canadians and honestly most of the world hate American healthcare and gun laws.

Exactly, theres no way this triggers WW3 unless Canada starts working more closely with China immediately and even then it’s unlikely China goes to bat for Canada. Western countries have gotten way too comfortable with the US.

I mean if you’re going to dog on minorities then you gotta dog on the white people he has majority support from.

Oh so this is just layperson’s math on the back of a napkin. Thanks for clarifying.

Trump and his ilk are trying to spread the idea that the US doesn’t have to buy the $482 billion worth of goods ans services from Canada and its doing so essentially as a ‘favor’.

Canada does not have the systems in place to sell to the rest of the world efficiently, especially oil. Which is part of why the Canadian economy is more dependent on the US than vice versa.

It looks like ~20% of the $482 billion figure you’ve cited is oil which the US could reasonably procure from elsewhere, even domestically, if there was a will to do so. Especially considering that Western Canada Select is high in sulfur and needs more refinement, making it less valuable on the global market.

Source? Does this include energy / oil or only consumer goods?

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They’re part of the consumer price index, a measure of inflation which in turn impacts the fed interest rate. A high rate means a high cost of borrowing which is bad for business (especially small business / start ups).

For most people it just contributes to the cost of living crisis but it has greater implications on the economy as a whole.

Trump has promised a reduction in interest rates this year while nearly all of his policies are designed to worsen inflation in the short term.

They are half the cost in Canada right now due to better supply management and taking public health a bit more seriously (only 6% of Canadians chickens are infected vs 14% of American chickens).

Same. No one wipes a kids ass for 2.5 years to be spoken to like that. I get kids and teenagers are a little rough around the edges but this sounds like a grown adult.

This might be too complicated for the average consumer at CVS, which tends to skew towards an older demographic.

These the excuses you start to make when you’re losing. Not looking great for the US…

Colonialism is essentially theft with a pretty red ribbon on top to make it look good so we can all unequivocally say fuck colonialism.

But my point is beyond that. It’s that the progress that’s been achieved through those ideas you’re celebrating was predicated on theft from and suffering of people in developing countries. In a sense those in developing countries have an ownership stake in Western industrialization and China is the first previously developing nation that’s coming to take back what is, in part, theirs. The West needs to come to terms with the fact that they won’t be the last to do so.

It seems to consistently throw a WebAssembly is not defined error.

‘Investment’ is a nice way to put it. A more apt description would be that the developing world invested in the West’s industrialization (or the West stole it, whatever floats your boat) and the Western world chose to give essentially nothing back to its investors, directly contradicting the new capitalist world it had created.

Which is why many in the developing world feel that China’s rise to prominence is the West’s chickens coming home to roost.

A Kenyan official once said: ‘When China visits we get a hospital. When Britain visits we get a lecture’

Deepthink R1(the reasoning model) was only released on January 20. Still took a while though.

You’re watching an empire in decline. It’s words stopped matching its actions decades ago.

Since it’s open source is there a way for companies to adjust so it doesn’t intentionally avoid saying anything bad about China?