I remain astonished at how breathtakingly mid these guys are. Princeton my ass. Guy wouldn't have survived as a junior analyst where I worked and now he runs the most powerful military on the planet ?
Great googly mooglies! Whoever is running coms for K'omoks, Klahoose, Homlaco & Tla'amin Nations is a superstar.
And, um, we raise and train the humans anyway for other reasons, so, the incremental energy cost is zero. Altman's argument was profoundly stupid and anti human and he's getting way less flack than he deserves.
What a time to be a normal, non red pilled, young male. The competition self selects out of the dating pool.
Jack Ryan would be appalled .
Will add vindicated to exonerated as words being used for which the users clearly don't understand the meaning. Queue Inigo Montoya....
Inigo Montoya voice; "You keep using that word..."
Is this a taxable benefit?
Content consumer here and so on your side. The loss of text as primary method of communicating knowledge is a massive step back. I get so much more from good writing in so much less time. I wish it could be "and" not "or".
Um. Uh. So, Sam is saying replacing human workers with AI is ok from an energy perspective since humans consume energy too. Humans consume energy if they work or not. So, does Sam advocate for depopulation? Is this Logan's Run?
His explanation actually assumes there will be inflation, but that wages will keep up. Second part debatable. First part not. Tariffs ONLY work by driving up prices so less efficient domestic producers can compete. That's it. That's the whole thing.
They could do 15% nominal. Inflation would also be running near 15 % for them to do it so Real GDP, not so much.
They've lost the curlers. The curlers!
Yeah. Trump; "Canada is a freeloader". Canada; Pays 100%of new international bridge". Trump; "Gimme bridge!".
Trump; "Canada should pay for more stuff!". Canada; builds and pays for bridge. Trump; "I can't believe Canada paid for a bridge!...Gimme bridge".
We allied with Stalin. Do what is required to win and sort the rest out later.
Was. Past tense.
Wischcasting it feels like Abaji and 2 seconds could have got a better center. The FO surely tried. Maybe cheap for this year and next was priority rather than upside.
Anecdotal, but after 58 years on earth, I find if there is any trend in gender and emotions, I think I've seen men as more likely to make decisions based on emotion.
Yeah. Best not to be smug about one's virtue. The last decade should put to rest the idea that we are not creatures of social context. I wanna believe it's me. But, more likely, I was and am lucky in my relationships.
We can understand the message, disagree with it, AND "shoot the messenger" for reasons all our own. Canadians get it.
None of us should be smug. The vast majority of Germans (one of them an ancestor of mine) went along with it. A majority of Hutu went along with it in Rwanda. Othering and going with the crowd are part of our nature. Being better is the hard work of civilization.
Currently boycotting US travel but Minneapolis has recently moved to the top of my list to visit if that ever becomes tenable again.
My hope is there's a deep cover RCMP investigation and charges will be announced. I'm naive and optimistic that way .
Someone is virtue signalling and it ain't our guy.
Yeah. Lotta talk. Our guys have been dealing with Bessent et al for over a year. I'm not in on it but my guess they concluded that flattery and laying low would produce exactly zero benefit in the coming negotiations.
My memory is fuzzy but is this the one where Lee Majors, 10th century Viking captain, is wearing a watch in one scene?
Sure. It's his an cabinet's job to make the best decisions for Canada based on the situation on the ground. I get that some people wanna hate on Carney. But, he's intelligent, thoughtful, educated and connected. He didn't pivot for no reason.
Yeah. Weird how human nature confuses them. I hope someday there's a book about Carney's decision to alter strategy from flatter and lie low to speak the truth. Might not work out but I trust they thought long and hard about it and know more than me.
It is amazing what hay is being made from a minor trade agreement replacing a 3 year old tariff with a quota in exchange for lower tariffs on agri and seafood exports. We get the risk China posed. That's why the deal is circumscribed.
