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@peterboghossian So one can get the kind of glamorous lifestyle that ~$60k/year affords?

Become an electrician.

@MarkToxicPettit Tesla's agile, but not that agile. Example: they removed the turning stalk from the Model 3. It was clearly a terrible change and it took Tesla ~2 years to fix it. If it had taken 2 months then I'd likely agree with you.

@Mylovanov You've not heard of Tesla or SpaceX?

Blumenthal: In Ukraine, I've gone to drone manufacturing facilities. They're producing 1,000 drones a day. They get real time information from the battlefield and make adjustments as they are manufacturing. I don't know anything in our industrial base that is as agile. 1/

@IM4CommonSense1 If oil goes up $50/bbl and then comes down $30/bbl, that's still a net negative (for consumers). Trump should only be credited if oil prices drop to the same levels as the start of 2026 once the war is over.

@charliebilello Just remember to do the same thing when this Iranian situation is resolved. I am sure you won't because people like you love to focus on the negative when it comes to Trump.

Since the start of the Iran war... Sulfur: +67% Jet Fuel: +66% Urea: +51% Diesel: +50% Heating Oil: +40% WTI Crude Oil: +37% European Natural Gas: +34% Gasoline: +32% Fertilizer: +31% Brent Crude Oil: +31% Coal: +14% Palm Oil: +10% Iron Ore: +7% Rice: +4% S&P 500: +1% $VIX: -8%

@WayneMathison Sin taxes aren't baked into everything. How do taxes on tobacco and alcohol raise the costs on people who don't use either? Reducing the negative externalities of the use of those products likely reduces government expenditures. I support taxes on both.

Exactly. The easiest taxes to raise are the ones people don’t track. Carbon, fuel, “sin” taxes, they get baked into everything, so prices rise and no one sees the line item. Government collects more, accountability fades. That’s why scrapping them hits hard and fast. Less hidden drag, more transparency. Ask one thing: what am I paying that I never voted on?

The most dangerous taxes in our food economy are the ones you don’t see, ever. Hidden from plain view, they quietly rise year after year, making them difficult to politicize or even explain to Canadians. Carbon, booze, gas, you name it. It’s a clever strategy: revenues increase, yet accountability fades. Meanwhile, blame is conveniently shifted to industry—an easy target, and a very convenient one. ctvnews.ca/politics/artic…

@davepl1968 Even if that were true, would it be surprising? ~350k people die every year in Canada with a median age of 80+, and many of the top 10 causes of death are health related, and we would expect a good percentage of those want to skip over significant pain/suffering.

@RichardHanania Is it true that more people have died from MAID than from all wars Canada has ever participated in?

Anti-MAID types: "But it expanded beyond those who will soon die. This interferes with my desire to see people tortured for decades with no end in sight. Put on those diapers and drool on yourself, because I believe in human dignity."

@NietATrollBot @VampArmandSuxx @NeoScooch @gator_gum Khelif also isn't eligible to compete in World Boxing, so it's not just the IBA. WB is the new organization that replaced the IBA in the Olympics, and on this issue they both agree. Boxers need to be female before they can compete in the women's division.

@VampArmandSuxx @NeoScooch @gator_gum And they "revealed" THIS AFTER she beat a Russian boxer lmao. They lost their accreditation too.

Pierre Poilievre and JK Rowling are factually incorrect here. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed that Imane Khelif, shown in the photo, is biologically female, was born and registered as female, and has lived and boxed as a female. She also holds a female passport.

@peterboghossian @MarioNawfal Nathan Myhrvold's company (Intellectual Ventures) made one of these years ago, and it sounds like it's even fancier. It could determine the sex and only kill the females. But who know how much how much it would cost. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_…

@MarioNawfal Must have!

Hong Kong engineer built a mosquito defense system that uses LiDAR and lasers to vaporize 30 mosquitoes per second. Better tech than half the air defense systems in the Middle East right now.

@EricLDaugh The USA should be committed to Ukraine since they signed the Budapest Memorandum and Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons on that assurance. There is no equivalent to that when it comes to the Iran war and Europe.

🚨 BREAKING: Sec. Marco Rubio just MIC DROPPED our ungrateful allies “There was a couple of leaders in Europe who said that this was ‘not Europe's war?’ Well, UKRAINE is not America's war — and yet we've contributed more to that fight than ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!” 🫳🏻🎤

@redteufel1 It's significantly cheaper to cool data centers in Canada. Cooling is 30-40% of the total energy consumption of a data center in the USA.

@DancesWithLysol @Christo86383094 @PeterZeihan Weather is terrible in Canada. Nothing can be done cheaper in Canada because of the weather alone.

Leaving Canada high and dry could backfire, as the U.S. benefits greatly from Canadian manufacturing. We'll see how the strategy changes throughout these NAFTA negotiations. #NAFTA #trade #geopolitics

@Christo86383094 @PeterZeihan Competitive advantage. Canada is able to create all sorts of products (and underlying commodities) cheaper than the USA does. Lumber, oil, natural gas / LNG, aluminum potash, uranium, electricity.

@PeterZeihan Peter. What benefits do we get from canada? Canada is more expensive than America. Which means we’re losing jobs and paying higher prices. Makes no sense to me. At least when we ship our jobs to india and china, we get cheaper things.

@BorgBitcoin @ABDanielleSmith Why not? If Alberta went to Standard Time, then both BC and AB would be UTC-7.

@ABDanielleSmith Standard time will never happen with BC on Daylight time. No more changes

Should Alberta ditch changing the clocks and stick to one time year round? Tell me what you think below 👇

@daisyhavingfun Arizona is on standard time.

@ABDanielleSmith Standard is best, but would be great if the US went at the same time.

@synetic6 It was still a binding referendum and should be respected.

@ABShadow3 @ABDanielleSmith By a razor thin margin.

@RH48000 @ABDanielleSmith My ranked preference: Standard Time (UTC-7), DST, Daylight time (UTC-6). I voted no on the *binding referendum* because DST is better than daylight time (UTC-6).

@ABDanielleSmith Standard Time. If that had been an option on the referendum instead of daylight saving time., we would be doing it today. I know of many people who voted against it for that reason. The question was not clear.

@FoodProfessor David Frum was right when he said that Carney should just delay because Trump is getting weaker and weaker. If the GOP loses the house then there is very little to worry about since Congress doesn't support these tariffs and the laws behind USMCA free trade will remain.

Unsurprisingly, the U.S. Trade Representative said any new deal with Canada must include higher tariffs and expanded access for American businesses — regardless of what we do with supply management. At this point, the issue isn’t policy detail. In principle, the Americans simply want more access.

@SpencerHakimian It's a who's who of who's corrupt.

We lost France, Germany, Italy, The UK, Spain, Australia, Canada, Japan, for this:

@JosephRamelli @ronsterd89 Not all phones with buttons were touch tone phones. Many phones with buttons still did the pulse dial thing. As a kid in our house in the 1980s we had a phone that supported both touch tone and pulse dial with a configuration switch on the back.

@ronsterd89 It’s probably 1978. The decoration of the house is obviously much older but the sign that it’s around 1978 is the touch tone phone.

Based on the entirety of this photograph, what is your best estimation of the year it was taken?

@SarahTheHaider But didn't Epstein plead guilty to sex crimes in 2008? That fact was well known by 2019.

Chomsky’s worst possible crime here is believing his friend and sending him a private note of support, at a time where allegations of sexual impropriety were abundant and used to destroy reputations without a whiff of evidence. The person behaving indefensibly here is Ryan.

Prophet Mohammad's life story is the original Epstein files.

@johnfhuizing You may not be aware, but a supermajority of Albertans (over 60%) didn't support the so-called Freedom Convoy. There was polling done on this at the time.

@jengerson The last time Alberta tried to change Canadian policy, we were beaten, put in prison and our bank accounts were frozen illegally. Nothing will be done about it. We’re out!

For those in my feed responding with some variation of: "Yes, I am a Useful Idiot for the Americans, but we're already a vassal state of Canada." I'm sorry, but no. That's insane and idiotic. Just because you don't always get your own way in Confederation (on files like pipelines, equalization, or transfers -- I share your position here!) doesn't mean you are politically disenfranchised, helpless, or victims of the current system. It just means you lost that particular policy fight (temporarily. Alberta's population is growing, along with its political capital.) To be a vassal state doesn't mean merely losing a fight. It means not having the means to fight in the first place. It means having no place at the table at all, no voice in the discourse. No control. No power. No influence. If you can't see this, you can't see that you're steering toward a ditch.