I left a few months ago. I don’t miss the updates from people I drifted away from. I do enjoy the conversations I must now initiate to maintain worthwhile relationships. Hearing about somebody’s week face to face is worth a lot more than a few dozen “happy birthday hope it was a good one” replies once a year.
Short term pain for long term gain, I hope. The more he makes life miserable and expensive for highly skilled workers the more likely we’ll achieve a reverse brain drain.
They’re going after women’s autonomy and trying to roll back gay marriage. Imagine if even 5% of those doctors moved to our side of the border.
Part of the reason why I’ve recommended US based services to my Canadian clients was because of its speed due to proximity. Now that net neutrality has been gutted and ISPs are free to artificially slow down their services a la carte, the speed advantage is questionable. Now I recommend services in Canada where I find them and European alternatives when no closer ones are available.
The Day the World Stops Shoppong examined this and found that it doesn’t take a whole lot of concerted action to tank the consumption economy.
Buy nothing days are good but less good if you return to regular habits and redouble your consumption after the boycott is over.
I worked there during the frozen donut transition. A few really cool stoner night bakers got let go from my store.
I always thought the only reason they can choose to charge so much is because countries respected pharmaceutical patents. In a trade war the PM could just say that they won’t be enforcing any domestic generic drug copies.
Then why is Angus on CNN and sponsoring these Musk petitions? As party leader that should be him.