TheFeatureCreature

Crooks.

It isn't. Not yet, at least.

Most Americans still have jobs, can afford food, can find food, and have their cars and homes. Some have lost some of the former, it's true, but not enough to ignite any real change.

Imagine a scenario of Trump enacting martial law and beginning to mass arrest and imprison US citizens in detention camps. Not immigrants, refugees, or tourists - actual US citizens taken from their homes. Imagine the US government gathering troops on the Canadian border. Imagine the government disappearing members of the Democrat party. Imagine the government enacting a China-styled internet blockade.

Those are the things that will likely spark some kind of call for change.

The guaranteed abuse of this technology far FAR outweighs the benefits, imo.

A better solution to combat those disorders would be to prevent their formation in the first place with early detection and improved medical sciences and procedures.

The human brain is one of the last places we have left that isn't entirely owned and controlled by some corporation or state agency. I do not trust any government to regulate it properly and I do not trust a single corporation to develop it with good intentions. It would be abused instantly as shareholders pitch tents in their pants over selling it to law enforcement and advertisers.

Centre-left to mildly centre-right depending on the leader and point in history.

Totally unsurprising. Calgary is a car-centric urban sprawl of the worst sort. Entire urban districts are completely cut off and surrounded by either large stroads or actual highways. There are some houses near my grandparents place that literally live on a highway exit ramp. My sister came with us once while we were visiting and I took her for a drive around the city - she was in awe at how poorly planned the city is, and we are both from Vancouver which is a circus even on the best days.

$1mil isn't even going to make a dent in this. Not even make a scratch. It won't even pay for 1/8th of the initial investigation to determine where to best place the scratch. Calgary has sunk billions into horrible urban planning decisions and they continue to do so every day. That entire city is one giant web of stroads.

One really nice thing to come out of this election is that Joly is sticking around. Her personality and handling of the Trump admin has been fantastic.

I don't think they ever will, at least not as the US exists today. I can see a possible future in which the US fractures and Balkanises and then, the better off of those future-countries would maybe see a rejection of traditional US beliefs, values, and ways of thinking.

But I can't see that happening in the US today because keeping the people ignorant, gullible, and under a broken electoral system is highly beneficial to the ruling elite.

Food imported into Canada still has to pass our regulations and inspections. We don't let it slide just because the US government does.

He wants to follow through with these plans to appease his cult but he cannot (at least not militarily) as the blowback would effectively end his regime and possibly the US as a whole.

So his plan has been to topple Canada's economy through economic pressure but that has been backfiring too. Canada may only have a tiny fraction of the population the US has but we do a huge amount of trade with them, have a lot of resources they require, host a lot of their manufacturing, and we hold a lot of their treasury bonds and national debt. There is no way for the US to have a trade war with Canada without walking away with catastrophic losses across numerous industries and a highly devalued US dollar.

We have already seen that, when under real pressure, Trump will fold. Most notably, he's done it with Canada under Carney and with China. So for now these threats are just hot air to appease his base and to act as a distraction while he plunders the country's coffers. But we need to treat him and his threats seriously as we would any other threat to sovereignty because one day these won't be just threats. The US is lead by a senile fascist tyrant whose mental health degrades by the day; he should be treated with extreme caution at all times.

The general populace isn't going to switch to Linux. They're just not.

The path of least resistance is to continue using Win10

Almost never. I usually wake up feeling worse after I nap, so I only really have them if I'm feeling sick or slept poorly the night before.

So afraid of losing that he is given a seat that he has no chance of being defeated in.

That's pathetic.