Gee, nothing self-serving there, is there?

Actually, those "third-world shitholes" use much less energy and fewer resources than wealthy countries. So it's wealthy countries that should be reducing either their consumption or their population.

It's not just "Westernized" countries, whatever that means. Birth rates are down everywhere, even in countries with traditionally high birth rates.

Examples: Kenya had 7.65 live births per woman in 1960 and is now at 3.26. India went from 5.92 to 1.99. Lebanon 5.88 to 2.26. Saudi Arabia 7.63 to 2.28.

There are no incentives in the world that can meaningfully change those numbers. We just have to adapt to a new reality.

For architectures that lack working hardware, wouldn't it make more sense to take an existing front-end like gcc or clang and just generate a back-end for the targeted hardware?

'twas a pun. 10^100 is a googol.

There's also an absolutely wonderful animated movie called Flow. Seems like Google really doesn't care about trademarks and confusing people.

Google really missed an opportunity to sell a 10^100-year bond. What were they thinking??

You don't need to be plugged in for the heater to work. It's better to use the batteries to power the heater than to let the batteries get cold.

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...