As long as the factories remain located in Canada, there will be no tariffs.

If there are any tariffs being imposed on American car manufacturers by Canada (which I don't think is true, but for the sake of argument...) it's because they no longer manufacture in Canada, but in the US.

Those US car manufacturers also got some pretty sweet incentives to build factories here, and now they're not holding up their end of the bargain. So yes, punish them, I say.

Canada is not looking for US companies to (re)invest in Canada. But we'd be happy to take South Korean companies.

The US is not the only country that builds cars, you know. And generally speaking, American cars are huge shitty gas-guzzling lemons anyway. (Except for the EVs; then you can strike out "gas-guzzling".)

I realize it won't happen magically and it will be hard. But we have no choice. It takes two to cooperate, and the USA has indicated it won't cooperate... so, here we are.

Trump is not playing any sort of game. Trump gets dopamine hits from causing chaos, so he causes chaos. His handlers like Bessent and Miller guide him a little bit so that the chaos he causes aligns with their goals.

Yeah. Generally in these things, countries put their own name first. So in Mexico, I guess it's MUSCA or something.

Nah. You lose 25-30% of your range in winter. Also, most EVs have heaters to keep the batteries warm in severely-cold conditions. It's better to use some energy to keep the batteries warm than to let them get so cold they lose capacity.

sinij is the name of the person I replied to, and is a Russian word, so...

Bullshit. For most of Canada's existence, the USA had incredibly high tariffs on our goods. The recent period of relatively free trade was a historical anomaly.

We survived before and we'll survive again. And when the USA comes sniffing around for critical minerals, we can tell them to negotiate a free trade agreement or fuck off.

Canada certainly does not buy energy from Russia.

We do buy electronics from China (as does the USA). So what? China has never threatened to annex Canada. So although it's a disgusting dictatorship, China is at the moment less of a strategic threat to Canada than the USA is.

Want to take a little bet, sinij? $1000 says you're full of shit.

Exactly. Canada's debt-to-GDP ratio is lower than the USA's.

For now. At some point, Trump will piss off enough other nations that they'll stop buying US treasury bills, or even sell some of them off. Then the $38T US national debt will look a whole lot less sustainable.

early versions of Windows used to crash all the time, too.

* Windows 11 has entered the chat.

If you have them orbit at an angle to the ecliptic, they'd very seldom be eclipsed by the Earth. It's the reason we don't have a solar or lunar eclipse every month.

Not only that, but all the GPUs will be obsolete in 3-5 years. Then what? Send up more ships to replace them? LOL. I'd love to see the OpEx estimates for running a space AI data center.