Despise away, but per capita is not an excuse for ignoring the total output.

Canada is tiny, and it is working on improving. China and India are massive, and their total output keeps going up.

If you're trying to stitch up someone with a sucking chest wound, you don't focus on the papercut on their index finger.

You should read up on Canada's annual BC wildfires. The smoke blows east and causes significant pollution coast to coast. You can smell it over 4000km away, and it causes respiratory issues.

He's ordered the creation of an investment account funded by surplus government revenue. The US runs a deficit.

So that diverted money will make the deficit worse, and I'd bet a lot of money it will 'invest' in things that put a lot of money in his and certain others pockets.

It's Trump. It's another grift. And if you don't believe it's a grift it's going to be another astoundingly bad Trump financial disaster.

>Trump is unlikely to be bribed

That must be top-notch koolaid you're drinking. Or not, maybe you understand he's moved on to extortion. He's a little more active now than just suggesting bribes be made. You make them or he crushes you with the weight of the US government.

I hope Americans figure out really soon that you're past the time for using peaceful means. You have a fascist infection and they don't go away without violence.

I read your post and I pretty much assume you're an asshole, the kind of person with no empathy for anyone outside their immediate circle. The kind of person who is onboard with steering the USA into a fascist dictatorship and screaming with joy the whole way.

Not a good time to be investing in anything requiring cross-border trade unless you can afford to bribe Trump to keep it open.

Our politicians didn't figure it out last time, but I'm hoping this kick in the nuts was finally enough to drive home that Canada cannot be overwhelmingly dependent on trade with the US. As long as we are, we can expect attempts to exploit our disadvantage until we're ground into dust.

There can be no friendly relationships with a country going fascist.

I don't recall that. Trash80s in the late 70s and C64s in the mid 80s, with better schools transitioning to PCs as the decade ended... that I remember.

I 'played' a lot of Logo in school, drawing ever more complex things with that stupid little turtle; a scripted Etch-a-Sketch.

That was an incredibly ignorant and stupid post. Amazingly so. So you have that going for you.

Give me a humanoid robot that can do all the chores around the house, keep up a conversation on a variety of topics, and has incredible sexual skills programmed into it, and my wife and I are gonna have a bit of a talk.

But I guess she can have her male sexbot, so it'll all probably work out OK.

>only interest I have in marriage at all. It seems so pointless otherwise. Its practical usefulness ended after the industrial revolution.

I'd say starting around 1948, at least in the West. Prior to that it was still pretty damn devastating to be a single non-virginal woman, or worse, a single mother, unless you enjoyed poverty. At least after that women could start to get jobs that paid decently and not have to look at marriage as their primary means of survival.

Why marry an obedient, subservient thing that has no legal rights, especially one that's a virtual thing... and then endure social pariah status from their peers.

If the claim is that number was any higher than 1/10 and the survey pool was not "men who have never gone outside and met a real woman", and they weren't laughing as they answered, I'm going to call bullshit. An epic, mountain-high pile of bullshit.

Why marry an obedient, subservient thing that has no legal rights, especially one that's a virtual thing.

If the claim is that number was any higher than 1/10 and the survey pool was not "men who have never gone outside and met a real woman", and they weren't laughing as they answered, I'm going to call bullshit. An epic, mountain-high pile of bullshit.

Just checked. 1080p. Not exactly low-res, but not great for replacing multiple monitors.

>The saying is "this meeting should have been an email" - nobody with actual work to do ever says "this email should have been a meeting".

I would never say never on that one. Yes, the vast majority of meetings I go to result in me being resentful and frustrated at having management mandate my time be wasted and that I smile and nod at the right moments while it's happening... but sometimes a 10 minute meeting will get more done than a week's worth of email back-and-forth. ...It still doesn't need to be in-person, of course.