Yep. This is where that permanently lost 2% or whatever of GDP comes from in the projections. We can still do it if we have to, though.

It actually is little, as an issue.

Yeah, even-handed pragmatism is not really the vibe with cattle farmers here.

Good thing it’s an Ottawa decision.

Yeah, there’s reason to think they’d accept Canada, and they definitely could, but it’s not like an on-switch thing.

Gaining membership is basically the last step in a long series of reforms which we could be doing either way.

See, now there’s an actual good idea. That shit’s like the road system.

You have to pay the current shareholders for it all, though, unless you think Canada can go it totally alone and hated.

We should build a nation car, a basic 4-cycliner car with AWD capabilities, plug-in-hybrd, regenerative braking, easy to repair with parts always available

That last one is pretty difficult to square with the rest.

Have it as one of our military vehicles for basic transport, make it so that all cab companies have to use it, all Uber drivers, delivery drivers, that’s the only car municipalities get to buy for staff, only car Provinces get to buy for staff.

Is it wheelchair accessible too? If so, how much weight and cost does that add? One could keep going.

This is why economics by political proclamation either turns into 700-page documents or fails dramatically.

Nope. Pretty much everywhere but in the US red is left.

To add on for completeness, the Bloc is like the Quebec party, that wants more stuff and independence for Quebec. The Green party is self-explanatory.

So maybe all the Canadian-trained doctors can come back?

Just the provincial parks? I was about to get out the pitchforks, but if it doesn’t include national parks that seems unrelated to the drama.

But its a mobile linux pc, which has somehow the form factor of a mobile…

I have a PinePhone, which is that. It kind of feels redundant with the desktop I already have, TBH, and can’t do things like use local mobile carriers.

Yep, I just ate some. Good stuff.

I wonder if they’re using failed pot farms. From what I’ve seen of those places, that’s going to be the most secure and carefully climate-controlled lettuce ever grown.

I’m shocked at how much greenhouse stuff there is, actually. I was preparing to subsist on canned stuff whenever the US cut us off.

Dope. For you, the softkeyboard era might never begin.

Wait, wasn’t there an option for a keyboard on FairPhone? Uhh, looks like just an addon.

I wasn’t around at the time, but I saw a documentary on literally this, and there was an industry person talking about how there was an assumed minimum keyboard size.

Like you alluded to, the multi-push number pads were already around, which is evidence on it’s own nobody could think of something better.

FWIW, we pretty much all know Americans IRL, and I’m pretty sure we all know some are just fine.

The boos aren’t for you, just your country.

A flag I think, although the top bit makes me wonder if the AI was wandering towards a coastline a bit.

I mean, people did think it was impossible before that. The idea that you can type with thumbs instead of hands was novel.

TIL he has one. Yep, I’m signing. And maybe putting up QR codes so other people can too.