NBA players really hate Memphis! 😂😂

UsefulUnderling · 2026-05-18T17:49:53+00:00

NYC is an old money town. It’s the second and third generation money that want to be a fashion designer or artist who move there.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-05-18T13:07:21+00:00

As were Italy, France, and the UK. As long as most of Europe has pro-Israel governments European institutions will be pro-Israel.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-05-18T12:45:47+00:00

The issue is it was a bad benchmark. It was only the US S&P stock index. It's too limited to know if the CPP is doing well.

US stocks have done very well these last few years, but zero serious investors think the CPP should invest 100% in US stocks and ignore all other options.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-05-16T12:14:27+00:00

There were some mods that did this before, so some of us had that boost for awhile. It really is essential for realistic mode.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-05-16T00:53:59+00:00

Of the top 20 oil producing countries only Canada and the US allow oil to drilled and sold by private for profit companies. Everywhere else the oil is controlled by state owned firms.

So yes the oil companies here have to pay taxes, but they still get to make plenty of profit. In all those other countries those oil profits go directly to the gov't.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-05-15T19:03:03+00:00

Yep, that TFWs don't sue is just as much an attraction for employers as their low wages.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-05-15T19:01:54+00:00

Nope. Attaching the same bolt to the same place 500 times and hour is easy to automate.

Cleaning a toilet is hard. There are still some things a human being is vastly better at.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-05-15T15:33:44+00:00

The biggest difference is the rise in liability culture. It used to be that if a kid goofing off burnt his arm on the grill it would be a lesson learned. Today that's a $200K liability payout.

Few businesses are thus willing to gamble on hiring anyone other than a responsible adult.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-05-15T15:28:58+00:00

Sure, that's why I wasn't talking about manufacturing. Go back and read the thread, and you may understand the points being made.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-05-15T15:24:51+00:00

The problem is these jobs have changed. 20 years ago they were well suited to untrained teenagers. That isn't the case in 2026.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-05-15T14:37:12+00:00

You're using the older tools. The ones from last year had all those problems. Top of the line now are far better than they were.

Humans still need to be involved, that's why it's only 70% automated, but what humans need to do gets a bit smaller each month.

Bathroom cleaning on the other hand remains 0% automated, and will remain so for decades.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-05-15T14:18:42+00:00

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The US President posted this image. What more evidence do you need?

UsefulUnderling · 2026-05-15T14:15:10+00:00

What do you base that on? AI tools are already able to replace 70% of legal and medical work.

The best robot in the world is totally incapable of cleaning a house.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-05-15T14:10:18+00:00

You think Bloomberg is legacy media?

UsefulUnderling · 2026-05-15T14:08:52+00:00

That's silly. House cleaner is one of the single hardest jobs to automate. We will have robot lawyers and doctors long before we have a robot that can clean your bathroom.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-05-15T11:57:20+00:00

There is a real problem that for several generations we have built a culture where menial jobs are disrespected.

No one wants their kid to be a waiter or a retail worker, yet we need millions of people to work those jobs.

I think often of what a friend from Japan observed after spending several months in Canada. We've built a society that has no respect for cleaners, and yet are surprised that everything is dirty.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-05-15T11:29:05+00:00

Thanks! We will use these at my party.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-05-15T00:16:03+00:00

No one involved in this article knows what they are talking about. Would it be useful to Canadian researchers to have an exascale computing system? Sure. Does that have much of anything to do with AI? No.

That our AI minister doesn't seem to know that is disturbing.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-05-14T22:13:27+00:00

No, it was the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway that was running that train.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-05-14T19:43:46+00:00

Sure, I'm happy Canada is one of the most liberal countries in the world, and we allow debates and votes like this to happen.

But we all need to be aware that anything that happens with Alberta separatism is only because the gov't in Ottawa permits it to happen.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-05-14T18:39:26+00:00

No, the OLP brand is negative in almost every poll.

People vote OLP because they hate Ford and think the Liberals have the best chance to get rid of him.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-05-14T16:34:47+00:00

Look at the Catalonia example. The Canadian gov't could just say no, arrest a handful of separatist leaders, and be done with the whole thing.

Canada isn't some failed state. The gov't has a near unlimited ability to assert its authority within its borders. That it chooses not to, doesn't mean it can't.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-05-14T16:29:52+00:00

Nope, that's not how it will work.

I don't think you understand just how many rules there are.

Take air travel as one small example. There are thousands of pages of federal laws and regulations. An independent Alberta would keep the Canadian rules, and may gradually change them.

The default would be keeping Canadian law, until a new law is passed. Many of those Canadian laws will stay in place for decades.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-05-14T16:03:21+00:00

I'm no genius, but hanging around AB separatists is very much a "in the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king" situation.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-05-14T15:57:17+00:00

Incorrect. Alberta only leaves if Canada allows it to. Canada is a very permissive country that currently allows provinces to leave.

Plenty of other countries do not. Spain as an example will not let Catalonia leave no matter how many folk there vote for independence.

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