dot-com left us with some useful infrastructure (eg, huge fiber networks.)

AI-bubble will leave us with obsolete hardware in decaying buildings.

Zoning rules in cities, done right, can make them much more livable. Unfortunately, most of North America has crap zoning laws that turn cities into unsustainable car-dependent hellholes.

But farmland is a more-or-less non-renewable resource and needs protection. Maybe zoning is the wrong analogy; maybe it's more akin to nature conservation regulations.

Even on 32-bit systems and glibc, you can get a 64-bit time_t and 64-bit off_t by compiling with:

-D_TIME_BITS=64 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64

Unfortunately, it's up to application developers to do this. IMO, it really should be the default.

We have zoning in cities. Perhaps it's time to zone farmland as farmland and forbid it from being used for anything else without regulatory review.

I got divorced 12 years ago. My physical health definitely improved.

OK, then I propose all non-Indigenous people in the USA (that is, anyone who cannot trace their ancestry in the USA back more than 1000 years) should be kicked out for committing genocide against the people who were here before them.

Do you even realize how ridiculous you sound? "Oh, Europeans colonized Greenland, so the way to remedy that is for the USA to invade it."

LOL, the MAGA Kool-Aid drinkers are so predictable. Cult indeed. They all have TDS: Trump Dick-sucking Syndrome.

A 2025 poll showed that a majority 84% of Greenlanders would support independence from Denmark, with 9% opposing. 61% opposed independence if it meant a lower standard of living, with 39% in favour. When asked in a binary choice between the USA and Denmark, 85% preferred to be part of Denmark with only 6% preferring the USA..

The Poll

I agree that it's foolhardy for Canada to rely on American fighters, seeing as the USA is currently the biggest threat to Canadian sovereignty. Unfortunately, we've already paid for a bunch of the F-35s and we'll be stuck with those. But I really hope we also buy Gripens.

What you are missing is that Greenlanders themselves have, in no uncertain terms, told the USA to fuck off.

My current computer is a kick-ass Linux workstation with tons of RAM and a lot of attached peripherals with a CPU clock of 4GHz max. It takes about 20-30 seconds for the BIOS to be happy and then about another 15 seconds for Linux to boot to the graphical login screen, on Debian 13 with systemd and XFCE on X11.

My first computer was a TRS-80 Color Computer (original model) whose CPU ran at less than 1MHz. It booted into BASIC too quickly to measure. Certainly in less than half a second.

Much as I completely detest the modern AI hype, experience has shown over and over again that buying the whole market always outperforms buying only parts of it, over the long term.

Listen, Trump is antagonized by anything. That's how narcissists are.

Trump is going to fuck us over no matter what we do.

The only sensible path for Canada is to reduce its dependence on the USA. I realize our geographical position makes that a tall order, but we have to do it because the USA is absolutely untrustworthy nowadays and should be handled as an adversary nation.

Also, Canada was very smart not to enter any of these stupid "agreements" with Trump that would be broken the very next week. It was obvious that the only approach to the irrational Trump regime is to stall negotiations and run out the clock until conditions in the USA change enough that people realize tariffs against allies are idiotic.

I fully expect Canada to slow-walk the CUSMA negotiations because there's little point in making an agreement the USA will break the next week.