"This will stifle innovation!!" is the 2020s version of "Think of the children!!!"

Transparent bullshit. The USA is a lost cause, but maybe the rest of the world can stand up to the oligarchs.

It is possible to make sensible efficiency and emissions laws without repeating the stupidity of what the USA did.

A tariff is a consumption tax. It's paid for by consumers of imported goods.

This was IMO a dumb move on Carney's part. He should have suspended the tax just so long as negotiations were under way. Now Canada has one less point of leverage.

Though I suppose if things go badly, the tax can always be resurrected.

And selfishly, the tax would not cost me anything because I don't buy or use products or services from any companies that would be affected. :) (No Netflix, Amazon, Meta, etc.)

Probably an AI editor.

I use AI for the following tasks:

(1) generating cartoon-like illustrations for my web site, because I have no artistic talent and the output of AI good enough for my tiny personal site.

(2) Transcribing speech to text to generate video captions (using whisper-cpp

(3) Generating speech from text with Piper TTS because it generates really high-quality speech.

(4) Removing the backgrounds from images with RemBG because it does a decent job with very little effort.

All of the processing is done locally on my computer (except for the image generation in point 1.) I do not use LLMs such as ChatGPT or coding assistants because I find them useless and untrustworthy.

I've never used Uber and never will, so I have no personal experience. Just going on what I read.

The issue is that Uber is hiding how it prices its services, which means consumers (and drivers) can't make an informed choice.

If Uber were totally transparent about its pricing, I'd agree with you.

How is a woman keeping her name any more disrespectful to her in-laws than a man keeping his name disrespectful to his in-laws?

I agree that market pressures should in theory make owning stupidly-large vehicles more expensive. However, given the lobbying power of the car industry, I'm sure politicians will step in with laws to prevent the market from operating as it should.

The devil is in the details. I'm sure it's possible to craft a law that doesn't penalize incidental and trivial appearance of someone in the background while prohibiting someone from making deepfakes that put the people in the foreground.

Also, even now, any competent filmmaker gets subjects to sign a release if they appear prominently in their work.

(But seriously... this is an interesting move and I think a good one.)

Rates of litigation between Danish identical twins have soared 1125%.

The absurd height of SUVs etc. might make visibility worse, but it also greatly increases pedestrians' chances of dying in a crash.

If you're hit by a low-slung car, you'll probably suffer broken legs and other injuries after you're thrown over the top of the car... not fun by any means, but much more survivable than full-body trauma from a hit from a car where the top of the hood is 4.5 feet off the ground.

See the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety article.

TACO is in a snit. It would be idiotic of Canada to back down on the tax until the very last minute of trade negotiations. Canada obviously wants to have something it's willing to give up to push negotiations past the finish line, but giving it up before negotiations even begin is absurd.

Anyway, f*ck Trump and Happy Canada Day for Tuesday.