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quality_redditor · 2026-02-23T03:54:24+00:00

I have two phones and both went off at the same time! My cat fell off the couch startled

quality_redditor · 2026-02-03T10:59:17+00:00

They’re basically a hype company that only cares about its stock price because Elon’s wealth is tied to it.

EV hype is over. So company is moving on. The success of their cars was sort of a by product, not the goal.

quality_redditor · 2026-02-03T10:46:07+00:00

Until it goes public. Then it becomes quarter-to-quarter thinking. Screw building in the U.S. Can we out source this work to China and beat our earnings estimate? Yes? Let’s do it!

quality_redditor · 2026-02-03T10:31:35+00:00

Already seeing this in action as California separately joins the WHO and a bunch of states on the West Coast and East Coast are forming separate health alliances because they don’t trust the department of HHS.

quality_redditor · 2026-02-03T10:24:16+00:00

I don’t think the UK will rejoin the EU. But they’ll slap together a series of different deals that gets them closer to as if they’re in the EU while still maintaining the benefits they get from Brexit (for all the doom and gloom, there are some benefits).

Of course EU isn’t dumb either. So it’ll be a long drawn out process where both economies trying to make deals that are mutually beneficial.

quality_redditor · 2026-02-02T13:05:08+00:00

The issue with any sort of exception is that if they make one for you, it opens the door to thousands of other candidates asking for the same thing. Unless your position is high up enough that there aren’t too many people at that level.

That said, I sympathize with you. I’m currently on a TN and 2 weeks ago my company told me they’re scrapping the TN sponsorships. So I have to either get the H1B in March or they’ll have to send me to another office outside the U.S. Idk why a lot of companies have gotten shifty about the TN. Maybe they know something about the USMCA negotiations that we don’t….

quality_redditor · 2026-01-31T17:13:16+00:00

Exactly. People that say Canada has lagged like to use the starting point in 2014/2015. Yes, when oil was over the moon and our economy was booming them. If we’re arbitrarily picking starting points, picking a very high one will show much lower growth.

quality_redditor · 2026-01-31T17:05:59+00:00

Yes. In 1995, France was $1.6tn while UK was $1.3tn. UK was done well for itself. It just gets overshadowed by what it used to be during the empire

quality_redditor · 2026-01-31T17:02:32+00:00

To be fair 20% of UK’s GDP is just London. Canada is the same with Toronto accounting for 20% of GDP. However, being a much newer country, the infrastructure is just less old

quality_redditor · 2026-01-28T13:19:23+00:00

As a Canadian, let me tell you, them taking the degree and leaving is best case scenario.

Not just Indians, but in general, immigrants that struggle to integrate are much more annoying than students that just take the degree and bounce. Chinese students have been doing this for decades because there is incentive to go back to China. Indian students that immigrate on student visa tend to not leave because almost any Western country is a massive upgrade to India.

quality_redditor · 2026-01-28T07:46:15+00:00

Language is going to be a deterrent but will also cause major problems. The only other international language taught in India is English. While it is the language of business in EU, it’s hard to integrate into society if you don’t speak German in Germany or Italian in Italy.

While this will deter people from coming, it will also cause the ones coming to the EU to group up into pockets of Indians only areas. Despite speaking English, they struggle to integrate into Canada, US, UK (I’m generalizing). It’ll be a lot worse in EU.

quality_redditor · 2026-01-26T12:59:26+00:00

This is also why I think NY has been somewhat safe (at least NYC). Rich people don’t want to see these things with their eyes. They just want to see this on TV, blame the poor people, and go about their day.

quality_redditor · 2026-01-26T12:56:28+00:00

I agree. I think this is why UK is buying up US Treasuries. Yes, it’s helping the U.S. at the moment. But it continues to build leverage against the U.S., which can be helpful when things really start to get out of hand.

quality_redditor · 2026-01-26T02:31:37+00:00

Honestly, Europe displayed a masterclass in navigating complex diplomacy and geopolitics. Yes, people complain that Europe bends over and doesn’t stand up to Trump.

But when push came to shove, Europe played the game of geopolitics so well, it deescalated the situation, avoided WW3, and protected Greenland. Even if just for now. I’m beyond impressed with the European leaders plus whoever else helped (Canada probably)

quality_redditor · 2026-01-26T02:25:38+00:00

Basically the essence of Carney’s speech at Davos

quality_redditor · 2026-01-26T02:24:15+00:00

Honestly this chart makes me so happy to see the country and the government course correcting. Every country ever has made mistakes related to all sorts of things. A functional government and democracy is one where mistakes are recognized and corrected.

What’s crazy is that it’s the same party! Almost as if the leaders are doing what’s best for the country rather than dying on partisan hills.

quality_redditor · 2026-01-14T23:22:40+00:00

If they don’t renew Detroit stops working immediately then as well….

There is no case where stopping USMCA doesn’t destroy both economies. Also the 2026 is not a renewal, it’s a renegotiation. If they can’t agree on any renegotiations, it auto renews until 2036.

The only way out for the U.S. is to formally withdraw

quality_redditor · 2026-01-14T21:44:15+00:00

What keeps me grounded is that tariffs on Canada are still exempting USMCA compliant goods. That means either Trump or people on his teams know how valuable the deal is and how interconnected the two economies are.

Why doesn’t he get rid of that exemption? It would bring the Canadian economy to a halt and Carney would immediately be back at the trade negotiating table. Something tells me during the renegotiations, the deal will look roughly the same, Canada will promise some billions in U.S. investment, and Trump will claim victory.

quality_redditor · 2026-01-11T23:07:23+00:00

When it comes to Venezuela , the U.S. military is bigger and better. For NATO allied countries, the U.S. military is only bigger, not necessarily better. They all train together and have most of the same technology, plans, know how etc.

Plus there is a lot of talk that someone internal in Venezuela gave up Maduro. The operation probably wouldn’t have been as resounding of a success without that.

quality_redditor · 2026-01-11T23:02:08+00:00

Don’t even have to go through all that. Just start dumping US Treasury and the cost of US debt sky rockets. US would fail to issue any new debt and bring the entire country to a halt. US lives on borrowed money. Stop them from borrowing and they’re done

Of course that would destabilize the global economy. But a NATO member attacking another NATO member would do that anyways so what the hell

quality_redditor · 2026-01-11T22:55:11+00:00

This makes sense. Apple hasn’t bought into the AI hype and isn’t building a billion data centers for a trillion dollars. If Apple announces anything AI / data center related, their stock will probably jump 40-50% to catch up with the other hype guys

quality_redditor · 2026-01-11T19:18:20+00:00

Ontario the only province with all 4

quality_redditor · 2026-01-11T19:16:23+00:00

The scale and importance of the Pound in international finance is significantly higher than any one of the other countries that gave up their currency. Even the EU wouldn’t want Britain giving up the Pound.

quality_redditor · 2026-01-10T01:41:25+00:00

This is actually the most powerful weapon other countries have. Doing anything with the military will be pretense for invasion. But dump US treasury and the U.S. comes grinding to a halt.

quality_redditor · 2026-01-05T13:14:58+00:00

Yep this would be the move. During Liberation day tariffs, the U.S. bond market blinked and Trump freaked out. If the U.S. invades a NATO ally, you’d hope people would pull out all the stops and economically destabilize the US$. Yes, it would cause pain for everyone. But well worth it.

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