Mark Carney, the new head of the liberal party, besides being former head of the bank of Canada and the bank of England, is also a former hedge fund manager. So the far left pick is literally just a hedge fund manager/banker. Lol.
It should be the easiest guy in the world for the NDP to run against, except they're headed by the masarati Marxist Jagmeet Singh, so they have to debate who has the bigger supercar collection.
I'm sure the left is excited to vote for someone who stands up for their anti-capitalist values -- a hedge fund manager.
It should be the easiest guy in the world for the NDP to run against, except they're headed by the masarati Marxist Jagmeet Singh, so they have to debate who has the bigger supercar collection.
I'm sure the left is excited to vote for someone who stands up for their anti-capitalist values -- a hedge fund manager.
It's like when Obama admitted to smoking pot and also inhaling. "That was the point."
"I sure am glad the engineer who was on track to flunk out of the program but got an A because 'death to the jews, death to Israel' designed this car!"
Saw a post claiming that Musk has no cards and ought to make concessions to Ukraine whom is allegedly ddosing Twitter.
I know it's a joke, but arguably Musk has a lot more cards than Ukraine does -- which kind of proves the point.
"Oh no! 'putin' 'hacked' starlink and got all the GPS coordinates for each one, permanently disabled each one, and got to see the unencrypted traffic for the past week! It sure is a shame our engineers were busy dealing with that ddos attack on Twitter, we were just caught off guard!"
I'm sure that if Elon was made governor of Zakarpattia for life he could definitely 'hack' 'putin' and make sure the terminals started working again and the GPS coordinates got lost!
Ukraine needs Musk, but Musk doesn't need Ukraine. Even if Twitter was wiped off the map, all Musk would lose is his (admittedly sizable) investment and be on the hook for some debt. If Ukraine was wiped off the map, however, they stand to lose a lot more.
If Ukraine were indeed trying to poke that bear, it would be a chevette playing a game of chicken with a 100 ton rock truck.
I know it's a joke, but arguably Musk has a lot more cards than Ukraine does -- which kind of proves the point.
"Oh no! 'putin' 'hacked' starlink and got all the GPS coordinates for each one, permanently disabled each one, and got to see the unencrypted traffic for the past week! It sure is a shame our engineers were busy dealing with that ddos attack on Twitter, we were just caught off guard!"
I'm sure that if Elon was made governor of Zakarpattia for life he could definitely 'hack' 'putin' and make sure the terminals started working again and the GPS coordinates got lost!
Ukraine needs Musk, but Musk doesn't need Ukraine. Even if Twitter was wiped off the map, all Musk would lose is his (admittedly sizable) investment and be on the hook for some debt. If Ukraine was wiped off the map, however, they stand to lose a lot more.
If Ukraine were indeed trying to poke that bear, it would be a chevette playing a game of chicken with a 100 ton rock truck.
That looks expensive. Can we just replace it with Jack Ives matter plaza? I thing Jack Ives would appreciate it and it'd cost only a fraction as much.
I find it a useful tool, but people have already started to point out that dull, soulless, lifeless writing comes out of it. Newer versions of the LLMs don't improve on this, it just gives them a more comprehensive data set.
Ultimately, one of the core problems with AI in general is it's epistemologically conservative. It doesn't know anything it wasn't told, and then what it does is mutate and remix that data into something that has the appearance of something new but is essentially just what has come before. As we rely more on it as a tool, it's a limitation we need to keep in mind because people on the cutting edge of thought or research may find their AIs telling them that what hasn't been discovered or created doesn't exist just because it hasn't yet.
Ultimately, one of the core problems with AI in general is it's epistemologically conservative. It doesn't know anything it wasn't told, and then what it does is mutate and remix that data into something that has the appearance of something new but is essentially just what has come before. As we rely more on it as a tool, it's a limitation we need to keep in mind because people on the cutting edge of thought or research may find their AIs telling them that what hasn't been discovered or created doesn't exist just because it hasn't yet.
Sadly, we are.
All it takes is a little anti-american fake nationalism and all sins are forgiven. Especially with the boomers.
That being said, I still think this is like the fake polling bump Kamala got. Prior to Trudeau announcing his resignation, the Liberals were in #3, and we were on track for #2 to be a regional party that only exists in one province. It's still entirely possible we see a massive victory for the conservatives, and Poilievre is still on track to a majority in the latest polls regardless, the only question at the moment is how big it'll be and who'll be in #2.
There's also Canadian precedent for this. Kim Campbell was a conservative who became prime minister in a situation like this, and the polls said the conservatives could win, and the result was 15 years of Liberal dominance (and that wasn't so bad back then, it was a different party than it is today)
All it takes is a little anti-american fake nationalism and all sins are forgiven. Especially with the boomers.
That being said, I still think this is like the fake polling bump Kamala got. Prior to Trudeau announcing his resignation, the Liberals were in #3, and we were on track for #2 to be a regional party that only exists in one province. It's still entirely possible we see a massive victory for the conservatives, and Poilievre is still on track to a majority in the latest polls regardless, the only question at the moment is how big it'll be and who'll be in #2.
There's also Canadian precedent for this. Kim Campbell was a conservative who became prime minister in a situation like this, and the polls said the conservatives could win, and the result was 15 years of Liberal dominance (and that wasn't so bad back then, it was a different party than it is today)
Seeing that, it might be time to start readying my dry powder.... but it doesn't feel ready yet.
It actually pisses me off seeing a bunch of people who were like "#cancelcanadaday" pretending they're patriotic. STFU you don't give a shit about any given country, you're a bunch of postnationalists.
It's like -- Sit down, shut up, and eat your postnational gruel. This is the gruel you cooked, eat every drop.
It's like -- Sit down, shut up, and eat your postnational gruel. This is the gruel you cooked, eat every drop.
Honestly, forcing payment of already completed work seems reasonable, though there's a good question of what the hell is being done with 2 billion dollars.
So Jagmeet Singh says we shouldn't have "tax cuts for the rich" for companies that are affected by tariffs.
Tariffs though, they're a tax exclusively on the rich -- almost nobody other than companies directly imports stuff from other countries, we buy stuff in stores.
So the obvious counter is "Yeah, but the companies paying tariffs just pass the cost on to the customer"
Yeah, they do that with taxes, don't they? Hmm.
Tariffs though, they're a tax exclusively on the rich -- almost nobody other than companies directly imports stuff from other countries, we buy stuff in stores.
So the obvious counter is "Yeah, but the companies paying tariffs just pass the cost on to the customer"
Yeah, they do that with taxes, don't they? Hmm.
Honestly, there should be a giant crash!
Who wants to tell me that the economy is better than it was in 2019? Who wants to tell me that the economy is three times better than it was in 2019? Because the spy is up 300% compared to 2019, what the hell?
These companies aren't better off than they were 5 years ago, back then they were in what was being called the longest economic recovery on record, during a period of at least reportedly low inflation that had lasted a decade. And yet the spy is 300% of what it was.
Who wants to tell me that the economy is better than it was in 2019? Who wants to tell me that the economy is three times better than it was in 2019? Because the spy is up 300% compared to 2019, what the hell?
These companies aren't better off than they were 5 years ago, back then they were in what was being called the longest economic recovery on record, during a period of at least reportedly low inflation that had lasted a decade. And yet the spy is 300% of what it was.
Given realities about borders, crossing borders should be the thing you're most concerned about at all times ever, because at borders all bets are our the window and it doesn't matter who's in charge at the time.
It's been the case for at least 20 years that constitutional rights simply don't exist when you are crossing a border in the US. Obviously that's the case for Canada too since it's the same border.
It's been the case for at least 20 years that constitutional rights simply don't exist when you are crossing a border in the US. Obviously that's the case for Canada too since it's the same border.
I mean, the way that the federal government was found to be directly manipulating all social media is a pretty hard attack on civil liberties.
Of course, they don't consider those to be civil liberties anymore, who needs to be able to speak freely?
Of course, they don't consider those to be civil liberties anymore, who needs to be able to speak freely?