@tleehumphrey Yeah, as a Canadian I don't know a single person who's boycotting American products. I'm in the middle of the country though. The boycott may be an Ontario thing.
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Kurtis1
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CDN’s are adorable. They are going all out to boycott American goods as they shop at Walmart, Costco & Home Depot, grab a coffee at Starbucks or Tim Hortons & then have lunch at McDonald’s, Chick Fil A, Burger King, KFC or Wendy’s 😎
CTV News@CTVNews
Majority of Canadians still support boycotting U.S.: Nanos survey ctvnews.ca/canada/article…
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@TheNewMidia @stunzoo213 @Bitcoin_Teddy Calm down, you got 1200 followers talking like you're a celebrity
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@stunzoo213 @Bitcoin_Teddy how come it’s always anons with zero followers yelling like they matter
hi npc here’s your attention
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Joe Rogan & Google AI Researcher Ray Kurzweil Get Into an Awkward Exchange Over Protecting Data from Intelligence Agencies
KURZWEIL: "We have the ability to keep total privacy in a device...We know how to build perfect privacy."
ROGAN: "How do we do it?"
KURZWEIL: Long pause...
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@JakeSucky Sweet, can't wait to hear Darth Vader say the N-word again!
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Star Wars is officially in Fortnite
- Over 400 unique voice lines
- Custom music for each map
- 4 different maps to play
What a wild time
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If you pay everyone more money, everyone spends more money. If everyone spends more money, they're competing for a finite amount of goods. The price of everything goes up and we're back to square one... The only way to increase affordability is to increase production. Produce more goods than people are willing to pay at current prices then the price of said goods must come down in order for them to attract more buyers.
You can't just give everyone more money and say "there now you can afford more stuff". That's a retarded fallacy. Everyone having more money for bread doesn't increase the size of the grain harvest. Just like how making it easy to get student loans didn't make education more accessible, it made it more expensive because we didn't all of the sudden make a bunch more universities.
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@Dr_Daff If it was only coffee shops, while that would still be unacceptable (someone working full-time but needing benefits to feed and clothe themselves is not a sensible model) but you know as well as I do that many employers rely on in work benefits to subsidise their payroll.
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If you can't pay people a wage they can live on, your business is subsidised by the state. And that's NOT a sound business model.
The economically illiterate person is you, pretending to be a good businessman while expecting others to support you through their taxes .
Peter McCormack 🏴☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪@PeterMcCormack
A minimum wage of £15 would end my coffee shop, it would have to close, as would many other businesses. I’ll explain for the economically illiterate. Staff costs are currently half our costs, a £15 minimum wage is actually more than £15 an hour for the company, because you have to add: - 12.07% holiday - Sick pay - Maternity pay if and when required - National insurance - Pension contributions These costs would mean the shop loses money because remember, energy costs are up, rates are up, regulations are up. Now you can pass these costs onto the consumer - that would mean charging a lot more for coffee, people won’t pay it. The likes of Starbucks and Costa can, because they have economies of scale. The independent doesn’t. Now the little socialist will say well this is your fault, if you can’t run a business that can afford to pay its staff properly, but the little socialist has never run a business and does not understand the dynamics. Now I could pay some staff off and fill those hours myself or reduce us to one staff member during certain periods - but this proves the point that a minimum wage costs jobs. There was a time when these jobs were done by kids, perhaps on the weekend, paid a lower wage, no holiday and no silly employment rights. Perhaps they were even paid cash. The dynamic worked and small businesses like this could operate. It was also a great first job. Sadly now it isn’t worth employing entitlement youngsters at this level of pay. So alas, I don’t need the stress, the business would close, a number of jobs would be lost. Economics is about understanding these dynamics, no vibes. The cost of living is not solved through passing on inflation to the business, it is solved by ending high inflation and creating prosperity. This is what socialists don’t understand, they can’t create prosperity, they can only destroy it.
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@NewsyJohnson Why don't they carry shotguns? Or at least try throwing a stick at it. Those rotors are very delicate.
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this makes suicide bombing look ethical
long anduril I guess. oh wait you cant because its not publicly traded and we are cattle. in war and markets.
Newsy Johnson
WarRoom Archives@WarRoomArchives
Drone warfare has reached such a level that many fighters have lost hope of escaping or resisting. For example, the final strike on the barracks is terrifying.
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@Jen_wonders @MrManXRP His rules state that they're not allowed to offer any yeild to stablecoin holders. Carney wants to make sure that the big banks continue to fuck everyone except the elite.
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Canada is introducing tokenized deposits and a stablecoin framework.
canada.ca/en/department-…
Mr. Man@MrManXRP
“The Bank of Canada has completed its Project Samara tokenization pilot, which tested issuing a $100 million CAD bond issuance using Hyperledger Fabric” - @CoinMarketCap Capital markets operate on two systems. Payments rails and securities rails They settle separately. Samara merges them. If capital markets move toward tokenized settlement the system needs liquidity bridges, crossledger interoperability and crossborder settlement layers. 😉
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I am back as promised :)
Time to start the $50 → $100,000 challenge
It’s ZERO-RISK, I’ll cover $50 for each participant
Last time it took me about 12 days, will try doing it faster this time
If you want to follow along, comment "Me" below and I’ll send you an invite to the call group
Gonna lock comments in 24 hours
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@guyfelicella The "jacked up rents" are due to lack of supply. The price of rent is what people are willing to pay not what people want to charge.
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You can’t jack up rents, allow evictions, choke off housing access, and then act surprised when homelessness rises.
High rents mean more tents.
CTV News Vancouver@CTVVancouver
Vancouver homeless count shows 12% increase since last tally ctvnews.ca/vancouver/arti…
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@loyalmoses I've been using Linux on my home desktop for about 2 months now. It's absolutely great, I've only restarted this computer once since I've had it up and running. Shits rock solid.
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I don’t like using Windows at all, but no, Linux will never be a reliable desktop OS for mainstream use. Never.
PCMag@PCMag
Linux Mint isn't perfect, but it has some clear advantages over Windows 11. Here's what stood out after I made the move. pcmag.com/opinions/i-gav…
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@Phantom2Phlyer @RetardDecoder They banned small 22 caliber gopher guns. There's no logic behind what got banned at all. It's always the most weak men supporting this.
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@RetardDecoder They do not apply to all firearms in Canada. Handguns, most hunting rifles, shotguns, and many other legally owned firearms remain unaffected and can still be possessed, transported (under rules), and used by licensed owners.
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Canada has commanded anyone who owns a gun to turn it into the government.
97.5% of people who are registered as a gun owner have not shown up to turn their guns in.
According to this slimeball politician, “compliance is not voluntary”.
And after October 31st of this year, anyone who hasn’t surrendered their guns will have a government goon showing up at their door to take them by force.
Folks, this is why we have to make sure the Democrats never have power again.
They will try this in America eventually.
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@CTachio83984 Maybe millions of years of evolution trialed every limb combination possible and it turns out things with 2 arms and 2 legs end up ruling the whole world.
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at some point people are gonna have to admit that if they want robots to be good at this stuff they need to stop making them look like humans. Why does this thing have two arms and hands instead of like 15 limbs that shovels all attach to
Interesting@interestingaf
Reflex Robotics is testing a robot designed to handle real-world manual labor, such as snow shoveling ☃️@NYCMayor
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Farm equipment already drives itself. Much of the trucking involved in it will be autonomously done. The amount of people required per acre to farm has already dropped significantly and will continue to do so.
Sure, replacing those bad bearings on your cultivator will still need a person but farming will continue to require significantly less people per acre farmed over the coming years.
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@TukiFromKL Don't forget Agriculture
Farmering was never considered as the top tier job but here we are it's the safety job and profession, in fact nothing can replace it, not even AI
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Anthropic just drop the jobs that’ll survive AI.
Not software engineers. Not designers. Not analysts.
Plumbers. Farmers. Electricians.
The company building the AI is literally telling you to learn a trade.
Kekius Maximus@Kekius_Sage
🚨Anthropic reports that Installation & Repair, Construction, and Agriculture remain unaffected by AI.
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@ArktikUtka @Heliotrophy @PortoValhe Yeah, dude is retarded. Every road has a sidewalk. Every highway has a shoulder. Roads without sidewalks are super rare
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@Heliotrophy @PortoValhe Where tf you live that has no sidewalks
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In America, doctor say you need to walk more. But if you routinely walk more than 2 blocks, you become "that guy" and everyone in your town starts recognizing you and assuming you're a brokie with a DUI and probably also a sex pest.
To avoid this fate, you have to get a dog. Which means on your long walks you will be holding a plastic bag full of shit half the time.
The final option is a treadmill, at which point your mental enslavement to Netflix or cable news is completely consummated with no hope of emancipation
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Because gdp per capita is the correct metric. The gdp of Mexico city is way larger than the gdp of Sidney BC. But Sidney BC has a way better quality of life accross all metrics. Sidney's gdp per capita is far larger than Mexico city's. And you're jumping to conclusions in the most retarded fashion if you think a high gdp per capita automatically means that you need 1M to open a bank account.
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@Kurtis118 Why? Because we want to compete with the Cayman Islands? Or maybe Monaco where you need €500k-1M to even open a bank account and apply for a passport?
No thanks.
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A great little video on how Canada functions.
Animated by @ false.excitememt.
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@ToGDionysus @burgerinthewild @Martyupnorth Are you not looking at gdp per capita and just looking at total gdp?
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@burgerinthewild @Martyupnorth Oh wait, sorry. That's in CAD. My mistake.
$373B USD is actually 42nd place, just above Iran.
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@eurofounder Lol, you're of my favourite accounts. Brightens my day seing your posts come up on my feed.
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It's worth making sure everyone knows, the only obstacle that Alberta put in place is that collection agents have to get a permit from the province, with the stipulation attached that everyone has to be fairly compensated...
So when they basically tell us that Alberta has made it impossible, that's their hang up, actually paying people for what they take...
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