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People dont live like this here. We would view this as hardship for peasants of another ancient time.

This is not to say it must be cars. It can be other forms of transit like bus/subway. Of course standing in an unsheltered area waiting for a bus is also highly undesirable. The windchill makes this literally dangerous.

Perhaps there is a cultural barrier here? or perhaps you are not familiar with real winter.

I see bikes in the summer here. I dont see almost anybody biking in the winter here. Like 100:1. The winters here are not mild (like in vancouver). This is basically artic-like weather. People also tend not to walk. The very poor take the bus. Most drive.

'space to store them on a second set of wheels' This probably explains everything about this discussion. I think im dealing with very poor people (Europeans).

I think I have space in my pool shed or my other shed. Worst case I will put them in one of my many empty rooms.

Ah well that settles it then! Im going to tell the female lawyer I know to stop taking her car and instead buy gear and a bike so she can bike in the freezing cold for 20 minutes to get to her job where she also has to dress as a lawyer. No problem just pack a bag of clothes in a pack + all other workthings and then don artic style gear. So much fun!

The alternative is not walking :)

In Vancouver this mostly works because it is cold but not cold enough. There are only a few days where it is very sketchy. The rest of Canada is not like this.

It gets much colder than zero. With blinding northern winds. Yes a human can do anything but is it desirable?

Yes I agree but in general we dont have infrastructure and it gets much colder. Salt doesnt work at some point so you dont have dry pathways.

It is currently -1 to -3 in Montreal and -2 to -7 in Quebec (city). So yes folks literally freezing. It will remain so (down to -35) for the next 4 months.

> 'Most good posts die in /newest, buried under low-quality submissions.'

If the system doesnt work why advocate for it? We are a technical people, dont we have a technical solution?

Looks like the photochemical part is for the mask. The rest is a applied chemical etch.

I knew as soon as I read this that you are a parent.

Sure but in less than 6 years your 12 year old is a complete adult. You must give them the gift of Adult discipline in that short period of time.

Without that you will get the result in your final sentence.

The word your looking for is Discipline. The way to control babies and animals it to simply take it away from them. This is not the way to control twelve year olds.

The real internet has yet to be invented.

Even if true wiki would escape via fair use and AI would not. It is possible that the laws and judgements are inconsistent nonsense but assuming they are not the fact that wiki has been around for decades suggests at least one key difference.

The implication here of course that if we allow AI to be taken down by copyright then it could also take down Wikipedia. I am not even sure this is close to being true despite the article trying to suggest otherwise.

Perhaps a section on what the differences are might be helpful. For example what role does style play in the summary. I dont think that the summary of wiki is in the style of George R Martin.

How do I know you arnt a CSIS account that targets the chats of those with lived experience in Canada and tries discredit them?

please dont post the same comment twice

where is this 'extra' heating coming from?

Btw you can try these out online with a circuit simulator

https://www.falstad.com/circuit/circuitjs.html

Many of these companies have overlapping products and services. If they were to properly combine into a single entity they could probably shed a good fraction of their employees.

Think about it does AMD need to exist at all? Wouldnt NVIDIA be worth more if they didnt exist?

I wouldnt suggest PP simply because such partisanship is beneath my intellect.

The bank of Canada (head) again warned about the lack of productivity of the Canadian worker.

I think Canada needs new leadership. Canada has had the same leadership for the last 10 years.

I mean if you just control your borders you dont need government investment and support. This is the backwards way of creating tariffs. The problem is that it is asymmentric. A larger country can do that way better than a smaller. Aka they could make their product cost zero if they really want.

I hate to say it but the boondoggles of Canada are just graft. These arent investments in any real sense.

As for this line 'Unfortunately this is the very difficult place the manufacturing sector in Canada finds itself in. And the Canadian working class as a whole.'

look this is just neoliberalism. Maybe stop doing that and things will suck less.

Iver heard its 700k total but lets not quibble. The value of economic development is difficult to measure in the mere wages or size of total industry (I mean here we are still definitely talking 10s of billons) It is the total contribution to the complexity of the economy. I think people are extremely confused about economic development because they are trained to view the world as mobile capital.

It might simply be that Canada cannot compete in any market. You have a very interesting choice at this stage. Do you A. not have an economy or B. have an economy that may require some sheltering from the world.

A mobile capitalist wants A. A human that is bound to the country probably wants B.

Even if this is the myopic best option at the end you will end up with ... a resource extraction economy. Is that really what you want?

Having your own EV companies (or just own auto company) would. I think you need to think about why you find this confusing.

You will guarantee that there is no EV manufacturing in Canada if you allow for wholesale important of offshore EVs. Just as there is no manufacturing of almost anything else within Canada.

You are literally advocating for something that is against your own desires.

Why dont Canadian consumers switch to EVs naturally? Probably because they are more expensive and lack the capacity of existing vehicles. Its not that hard it is simple economics.

'We maintain political independence, and need to maintain that independence.' By allowing EVs from China?

You would think if you wanted to be independent you would have your own EV car company. If EVs are the future and Canada cannot make competitive EVs with china this means Canada will not have an auto sector. Given that there are hundreds of thousands of people working in this area it doesnt actually bode well for Canadians.

I am actually Canadian this is why I am so familiar with the situation.