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Just a note from a consultant that we are not paid the same or only slightly more than an equivalent government worker.

If you compare direct salaries, its not that bad and that holds up. But you need to compare the salary of a government employer with what the consulting firm charges the government.

That value results in consultants costing taxpayers roughly 5-10x as much per employee.

Dont need their cars

• Ontario makes the high precision parts of Ford and GM vehicles that literally can’t be made in the US or Mexico because workers there dont have the skill.

Dont need their lumber

• The US lumber lobby has spent 20 years trying to break the lumber industry here, for the express purpose pf getting unfettered access to Canadian logs.

Don’t need their water

• Little Bitch is more than old enough to remember that access to Canadian water was one of the sticking points that very nearly derailed the original NAFTA, to the point that several of the provisions are designed such that if they could get any access to our water, they would immediately get access to all of our water

A low enough amount that Warframe has a mario Kart esque minigame available in game

As a millienial software dev:

Imo: What happened is twofold:

1. The business grads also played games, and saw the money to be made.
2. The best devs are smart enough to *not work in AAA Gamedev.

Thing is the article says the actual domestic investment growth was 9.8%, not 22%.

Yeah, but it’s like fusion. It’s always 20 years away for the last 60 years.

Realistically, as a dev who watched AI develop from cheap parlor tricks to very expensive and ecosystem crunching fancy parlor tricks that mangers think will replace all of their expensive staff who actually know how to design and create:

Modern “AI” is fundamentally incapable of actual thought. They are very advanced and impressive statistical engines, but the technology is incapable of thinking at a fundamental level.

Yeah, twenty years from now at the very least.

Warframe also called. They have all of the cool stuff Destiny fans have been begging for since forever.

And, somehow: Mario kart mode? Better-gameplay-loop-than-star-citizen space ship to ship combat? Boy band villains.

Also they recently re-optimized their game and added a bunch of modern compression algorithms so a DX12 game runs decently on the switch.

If I focus on it the night before for like 5 min and visualise my morning, I can reliably get up with about 5 minutes of prep before my alarm goes off.

You know that no one in a blue state would be allowed to use this “program”

It was built by the Qin Dynasty, which despite being called “the first unified China” was a fraction of the size of modern China. And was built in part to keep people who are also now Chinese, and not just Mongols, out of “China”

And it also didn’t last, it was fractured whem that dynasty fell.

Other than distant genetics, they have as much in common with modern China as the Greek government does to the linage of Ptolemy.

He has already made multiple comments on how he wants free access to Canadian water.

It was also a significant issue that almost derailed the original NAFTA, and is the reason that agreement had some of its nastier trap regulations.

He is already refusing to honor decades old agreements on the Columbia River, because he wants to just take it all.

If his goons create shortages in the US, they can work public opinion into trying to take it from Canada.

Because Biden opposed him.

Cynically, it increases US water usage and will make water more expensive in the US, allowing him and his ilk to push for an invasion of Canada.

Its why Carney is so popular in Canada.

He hasnt attacked Poilievre. When asked he comes out with well reasoned and thought out plans.

E.G. instead of just “cutting red tape” to aid housing construction, which results in shit quality and developers timing completion to optimize prices; his plan is to directly get the government to build homes like it did in the 1950s and 1960s. This would also help get people into and trained in the trades, another of his promises.

Also, government employing directly will always be more efficient than contracting out. Because the contracting firms charge 5-10x per employee what the employee makes. For a western salary.

E.g. Digital Extremes put out an April Fools that the (deservedly beloved) Creative Director of Warframe had been replaced by an EA suit, people were legitimately upset.

Look at the fine print. The US car companies might be the worst hit since the tariffs also apply on various sub-assemblies that mean an additive tariff of 50-100+ on them.

Congrats on paying 250% more per US made car, given that the average “US made car” crosses borders 10-15x

And split the US into two as it fought itself.

It’s poor sales *from last year Q1 compared to 2023 Q1.

We’re not even looking at 2024 Q2-4 or 2025 Q1 yet. Telsa might be completely underwater at this point.

Maine should split off and join Canada.