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It feels all but inevitable that we will lose many jobs. We have to brace for significant disruption across many industries.

The trick will be to replace the jobs we do lose with better ones, jobs not dependent on the whims of fickle American overlords. However it feels like turmoil will be inevitable.

I don't understand how this works.

Actually, you understand how it works just fine. It’s they who misunderstand.

The system of getting cheap materials from Canada (and more) for their industries was a tremendously good system for the US.

Likewise being the recipient of a “brain drain” where educated and trained people from Canada and other countries was insanely good for the US. I worked for a major US tech company and well over half of their technical staff was educated outside the US.

Their greed and idiocy is our gain. We can use our own timber, our own oil and hydro power, our own minerals. We can invite the Canadians and other foreigners who want to leave the US to found and join innovative firms here instead.

I have the osmc remote which I believe you should be able to make work on a pi 5 and kodi . Probably other choices too, pishop.ca has many options.

There are Firefox derivatives which are functionally equivalent for these purposes.

I use Zen browser but there are others. These still rely on Mozilla for primary browser engine development but is independent and community-driven.

The article text doesn’t appear to be overly concerned with pulling punches to avoid lawsuits. For example:

What Danielle Smith is doing is treasonous. She is colluding with the enemy during war time and suggesting they interfere with a Canadian election

So my issue is more that the title appears to be watered down or phrased in a clickbait-friendly way?

Or we could have a digital services tariff, charging a stiff fee on American techbro monopolists like meta Google reddit Apple amazon etc.

Also hits their ads, and then if they don’t like it they can pull out of Canada. This would open the space to domestic and non-us companies, and noncommercial entities like lemmy.

The American firms hold on because of the network effect and their headstart thanks to VC investments but if we break their network effect we can break our dependence on them. I believe europe is working on something along these lines.

Think big! Let’s really take those fuckers down.

This is a good article but I wish we would stop asking questions when the answers are obvious, and instead make statements.

This headline should be “Danielle Smith and Postmedia are on Team Trump”. The article supports this conclusion well.

As it stands it gives the article a cowardly vibe of “oh we’re just asking questions” when this article clearly is not. It would feel more authentic to just call a spade a spade.

The argument I resonate the most from you here is that our allies might appreciate having our F-35s in place to act as a deterrent to further Russian aggression in Eastern Europe.

I still don’t love the idea, but I’m coming around to the idea that your perspective overall on taking current deliveries and cancelling the rest is quite reasonable and may actually be the best option.

Thanks again for answering my questions. It’s a nontrivial amount of time to spent helping some internet rando. Cheers!

Sorry. I wasn’t clear in my earlier comment.

I meant that the US administration would react poorly to a provocation like targeting Tesla specifically and lash out in ways that cause further harm.

So while I would personally choose to start a public pissing contest because I’m mad as hell— Carney’s more mature approach will cause less pain in the short term.

The good news is that Canadians are rejecting Teslas with or without any tariffs. Which is maybe even a bigger FU to Musk because he can’t even blame a government for his failures. I drive a South Korean EV and it’s a fantastic vehicle, and as you said some of the European ones are quite good too.

A really big part of me wishes we would do this but a smaller part of me thinks that the approach of Carney to less provocatively disentangle our economies while minimizing harm to our workers and industries is actually for the best

Are there going to be any CPC candidates at all by April 28?

Everyone makes jokes like it’s funny but it bears repeating in a serious tone.

Trump either is a Russian asset, or has been successfully manipulated by Russian assets for many years. Whichever one it is doesn’t even matter that much because their level of control is so significant.

No, he’s not just “Trump being Trump“ or some coincidence, it’s a specific pattern with a plethora of supporting evidence. This news is an extra grain of sand stacked on mountain. All by itself, the unexplainable appointment of Russian agent Tulsi Gabbard to head of US intelligence should be proof enough.

The rest of the world needs to take this seriously even if the American voters don’t. The evidence demands that countries should stop intelligence cooperation, and should move with haste to remove American equipment from areas of critical infrastructure and national security. Amongst other things.

That’s a big problem and nontrivial to accomplish but we can’t deal with it by laughing and being smug about how dumb Americans are.