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Cake day: March 14th, 2023

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  • FWIW, this is the first I’ve heard of him actually sounding even remotely like a leader rather than a yappy anti-Trudeau dog.

    Sounds like he has been trying really hard to pivot his message, knowing that his polling numbers are heading in the wrong direction for him. The main issue is that his past chummy American statements are going to catch up to him, and he has to either side with Maple MAGA or with Canada, he can’t have both anymore.

    My crystal ball forsees him at the debate repeating one rehearsed line over and over.


  • It’s precisely this mentality I’m arguing against (the unstoppableness of Trump, that’s what he wants you to think).

    People only have power over you, if you obey their command. MAGA obeys Trump, that’s why Trump has power over MAGA. Whether he has power over the rest of America depends on how much Americans want to defend it from his ongoing attacks, which are happening right now and will continue. “Right now” means that it’s not too late. Giving up and conceding means giving Trump a free pass to wreck the USA.







  • Okay. But every minute we can delay reaching that threshold will be worth it.

    To me it’s the same as the US democracy right now. Yes it’s far too late to see no ill effects and we are already facing the consequences, but every act of resistance to unlawful, immoral and unconstitutional orders slow them down, and with enough co-ordination may slow them down enough before Trump and the oligarchs become truly unstoppable.

    For any issue that effects our world’s existence, stand boldly and take action. Don’t let the fear of the inevitability of it consume you.



  • I get that, and like I said those types of things definitely exist, and yes some specific industry limits do bind sellers like with alcohol. We should ease up on some limits standardize the most confusing regulations where they were different for no good reason. But in terms of the scale of the problem, physical barriers and purely distance seems to be more of an issue to me.

    A craft brewery in Vancouver needs aluminum and steel cans, the aluminum is forged in Kitimat, B.C., but the cans are made in either Calgary AB. or Everett, WA., because the can producers in Burnaby, B.C. only makes 473mL cans and can’t supply the volume of 355mL and 473mL cans the brewery needs.

    The main reasons why the Everett supplier is more competitive is that the cans arrive more timely and reliably by train or truck because it doesn’t have to go through the mountains, new designs turn around quickly, it would have both lower production and delivery costs than Calgary, that a 25%-50% tariff might not even offset.

    Or in another example, if bus manufacturer New Flyer Industries in Winnipeg, MB wanted to switch away from the US (despite 4 out of 5 facilities being located there), they would be avoiding all the vehicle parts manufacturers in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. If you look to Ontario for any company that makes heavy vehicle parts you might find a what’s left of Bombardier in Thunder Bay, or a little thing in Sudbury or North Bay or the Sault, but beyond that there’s no industry until you go as far south as Bracebridge, ON. Quebec’s industry is still further.







  • I mean suggesting the government doesn’t use SQL, in tech-speak is about as dumb as saying the government doesn’t use numbers.

    Government is full of what are known as relational databases as you are well aware, and though it stands to reason that they aren’t all using the same software to manage it, many can be accessed using a standard language of commands. It could be a Microsoft Access, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle Derby, Microsoft SQL server, PostgresQL, SQLite, SAP HANA, so on and so forth. That language is Structured Query Language (SQL).

    And saying there can be multiple entries in a database for one item with respect to the Social Security Database is, to me, a silly distraction and spreading BS FUD to ignorant people. As others have already mentioned, most databases have an internal sequence (keyID) number that is unrelated to the personal ID number of the person whose data is collected.