And many Americans would love Canada if Canadians would sell them those drugs at costs far below what the American Pharma industry was charging.

That would be a great move, piss off the US pharma companies while getting on the good side of individual Americans.

Yes!

Barrett, the Antelope and other elements of the song are fictional, but "Barrett's Privateers" is full of authentic details of privateering during the American Revolution, which in Nova Scotia was dominated by privateer warfare.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett%27s_Privateers

At the outbreak of the American Revolution, many Nova Scotians were New England-born and were sympathetic to the American Patriots. This support slowly eroded over the first two years of the war as American privateers attacked Nova Scotian villages and shipping to try to interrupt Nova Scotian trade with the American Loyalists still in New England. During the war, American privateers captured 225 vessels either leaving or arriving at Nova Scotia ports.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia_in_the_American_Revolution

Easy to do too. Probably the easiest thing on this whole wishlist. Canadian "pharmacies" that sell products shipped by mail into the US already exist. I'm sure they'd happily sell even more stuff that was freely available in Canada patent and license free.

75% of Canadians supported Carney backing out of the trade deal. This is despite the fact that it will cause massive economic hardship to Canada to accept these tariffs.

Canadians are pissed, and are willing to accept economic hardship in order to stand up to a bully.

For decades Canada has just accepted whatever the US has demanded. For example, Canada has aligned its copyright laws to match US laws, which Hollywood was demanding. It has accepted that Canadians installing a Canadian-made app on their phones have to pay a 30% cut to an American company.

This was because the US, in exchange, was giving Canada free access to the American market. Canadian potash, lumber, energy, etc. could all be sold to the US without tariffs. Now Trump has reneged on that deal.

Carney has promised counter-tariffs, but I want to see a real trade war. Fuck the US copyright laws. Fuck the DMCA. Fuck American printers that won't allow you to use your own ink. Fuck US tractors that can only be repaired by their US manufacturer. Canada should not only refuse to honour US intellectual property, I want Americans to travel to Canada to get their phones unlocked, to pay Canadians online for software to de-DRM their printers. What's the downside? The US will counter with tariffs? Done that. The US will try to cut Canada's access to Netflix off? We have bittorrent here.

Americans keep talking about this being a David vs Goliath fight, but for an ultra-religious country, they sure don't seem to remember how that bible story ended.

Edited to add: In the early days of the USA it was a pirate nation, in many ways. There were Americans acting as privateers, basically pirates who were protected / supported by the US. The US also was infamous for ignoring copyrights on authors from Europe.

I don't think it's very likely that Canada is going to be brave enough to repeal the copyright laws that the US forced Canada into adopting. But, maybe, a 21st century "privateer" is possible. What if Carney walked over to the head of the RCMP and off the record put the word out that the RCMP was to stop cooperating with the FBI on any actions against Canadians accused of violating US IP laws. What if the government decriminalized laws against circumventing copyright protection.

For a long while before marijuana was legalized, it was decriminalized. It was pretty common to see people smoking pot on the street, which was technically illegal, and a cop would just walk by and ignore it. But, that was all done in an above-board way. I think it's entirely possible something like that could be done through back channels with nothing written down.

Yes, in normal times Carney and Ford would barely be on speaking terms. Ford is hardly Carney's flunky. But, this is a case of opponents joining together to fight an even bigger enemy.

Evolution only cares about passing on genes. It's rare in the animal kingdom for menopause to exist. For the most part there's no point in an animal living if it's unable to mate. Scientists have the "grandmother hypothesis" for why this happens in a few whales, humans and some chimps: in a species where the grandmother might help care for a baby that has some of her genes, the grandmother can be useful to the mechanism of passing on genes even if she's no longer able to pass on her own.

That means that a creature might care about how the world looks maybe 25 years past the point where it can have offspring. Caring about environmental degradation that takes place on a multi-century scale is just not something that evolution prepared us for. Why would it? No creature in history has ever been able to modify its environment the way humans can.

Viruses are actually a good analogy. A virus depends on a living host. But, viruses often kill their hosts. Like humans, it can actually modify its environment in a way that that environment becomes toxic to the virus's existence. That seems bad. For any individual virus though, its "life" is so short compared to the life of the host that any mechanism that made it try to avoid killing the host would just be a useless genetic trait that would not be optimal.

Humans have these immense brains, and they allow us to do things that aren't simply the result of evolutionary drives. But, we're still animals. Those drives really structure everything we do.

Yeah, that's an absurd claim.

Americans watch the same TV channels. They shop in the same national retailers. There are some small differences in regional cuisine, but burgers, pizza, tacos, fried chicken, etc. are common everywhere. The same musicians are popular everywhere. The same 4 sports are the popular ones everywhere.

There are regional festivals celebrated in Europe that have been celebrated since before Europeans set foot in the Americas. The regional foods are completely different. Even though football is the most popular sport in most places, the number 2 sport varies greatly. There are bands and singers that are popular across Europe, plus a lot of American cultural exports that are popular too. But there are lots of regional kinds of music that are popular within certain countries.

The fact that Mardi Gras in New Orleans is so popular shows just how homogenous the culture is. To Europeans, Mardi Gras is just a very typical American-style festival. And yet, it draws Americans from other states because it's considered to be so unique.

Yes, there's some advantage to the survival of the community, not just the genes. But, it's sort of an expensive gamble. Not just sharing with an individual that might out-compete you later, but also the energy / effort / "programming" etc. required to act in an altruistic way. That's why you sometimes see altruism in nature, but it's not the rule.

Power not derived from the movement of animals is very new. The industrial revolution is what greatly changed the damage humans can do to the environment. The industrial revolution led to capitalism, not the other way around.

But, not you.

Yes. Flock cameras are not power generation infrastructure. A flock system uses what, 5 watts?

Still, the sun is white. Sun light is white.

That's why I said "appears to be yellow".

Are you saying the blue light is removed from the spectrum when it’s passes through the atmosphere?

The light from the sun is made up of a whole variety of wavelengths. You can see that when there's a rainbow and every wavelength from red to orange to yellow all the way to violet is represented. This light arrives in a continuous stream of individual photons.

When short wavelength photons (blue wavelengths down to violet wavelengths and below) hit the atmosphere, they're more likely to be scattered by air in the atmosphere. Because of that, they still hit the ground, but they're no longer coming from a direct line from the sun. That's why when you look up at the sky you see it as being blue, because photons that weren't originally heading toward you were scattered and come towards you from a random direction.

The longer wavelengths, from green on up aren't as likely to be scattered by the atmosphere, so they mostly come in a direct line from the sun to your eye.

As a result, if you look directly at the sun (which you generally shouldn't do) it will appear to be more yellow than it actually is. Astronauts above the atmosphere see the sun as appearing fully white. But, on the surface we see it as white minus all the blue that was scattered. The result is that the sun appears to be yellow when you're on the surface with the atmosphere scattering things.

At sunrise and sunset there's even more scattering. Now even larger particles are involved, and there's more atmosphere to shine through. The blue is removed, but so is a lot of the green and yellow, leaving only the red, which is the least likely to be scattered since it has the longest wavelengths.

So, at sunrise and sunset the sun can appear reddish. At noon it can appear yellowish. But, if you go above the atmosphere so the blue doesn't get scattered, you'll see that it's actually white.

A candidate might have hundreds of policies. Often they claim to support certain policies because they know those policies are popular, but don't have any real belief or intention to follow up on those policies.

Political parties are effectively a "brand" so that people who don't have the time or energy to read hundreds of policies and to ensure that the candidate claiming them is trustworthy and believes what they're claiming. Parties often kick out members who no longer align with their views. A voter can vote for a certain party's representative and know that what they're getting aligns with that party's general stance.

Left and right is a useful way to represent where various parties fall on a specific spectrum of beliefs. In reality there are multiple axes that can represent economic freedom, alignment with Christian religious beliefs, the strength of a social safety net, isolationist vs. interventionist foreign policy, etc.

But, "left" and "right" came from where groups of politicians stood in the early days of the French republic. They tended to group up with other like-minded people so even if they disagreed completely on certain things, they had generally the same world view. So, "left" and "right" is a good way to simplify things to know if in general a politician shares a certain set of beliefs.

Once upon a time, I was traveling in Thailand and went to a small restaurant in the middle of nowhere that mostly served tourists. There were two guys there who thought they could handle spice, so they told the waiter to bring them something spiced for Thai locals. He tried to discourage them, and offered to give them something that was really spicy for westerners, but they insisted that they wanted what locals eat.

When they received their dish, they couldn't even manage a single bite. I could overhear them, and they were convinced that the waiter was playing a joke on them, so when he came back they asked him to try it to see if it was good, trying to catch him out. The waiter had a few bites, said "yeah, tastes good", asked if they needed anything else, and when they said no, just went on to help his other customers. The tourists were just gobsmacked.

I know my limits, and decently high for "The West", but it's nowhere near the limits of a Thai person who likes spicy food. And, I know enough to know that when I'm on vacation, I want it even less spicy than normal. If I get something ultra spicy at home, I might have to spend some unpleasant time on the toilet. But, at least it's my own toilet. I really didn't want to be caught out in some rural Thai toilet or outhouse trying to process something that was too much for me and missing out on enjoying my vacation.

That's not why. It's because jalapenos are used in a lot of packaged food, and they need a uniform level of spiciness for that food. It's easier for them to start with a bland pepper then add a specific amount of capcacin to bring up the spice to the required level. If they rely on cultivated jalapenos that are spicy, there's a range of heat depending on growing conditions, etc.

The reason the sun appears to be yellow is the same reason that the sky appears to be blue.

Blue light is scattered more by the air in the atmosphere than other wavelengths. Remove blue from white light and you get yellow. So the light coming from the sun that isn't scattered and dispersed through the sky (making the sky look blue) is yellow.

No, it's well known Raleigh scattering. Red and green have longer wavelengths than blue. Just past red, in the "wavelengths too long to be seen" direction is infrared which we feel as heat, and which just makes things warm. If you go the other direction into "wavelengths too short to be seen" direction, past violet, you get into Ultra Violet or UV, which is ionizing radiation, and that's why UV is a skin cancer danger. The short wavelength blue light gets scattered, the longer wavelengths don't, so the sky appears blue, and the sun appears yellow.

I've always hated that it's not just "Damage" but "Damage per second". Is it "Healing per second"? No. Just "Healer".

I think he's trying to encourage the premiers to allow US brands back onto the store shelves.

If that were enough to make a deal, it wouldn't be awful. I think a lot of Canadians wouldn't buy the liquor if it was back on store shelves, so it might not change much.

It could be a good negotiating tactic, because the Americans might think that it meant that the revenue for US alcohol companies might start flowing again, when in reality it just puts it directly in the hands of Canadian buyers, rather than in the hands of the Premiers.

What's more annoying to me is that Carney is going to go with counter-tariffs. That just means that if Canadians choose to buy American products they have to pay more. And, since the US is so monstrously huge, in many cases there aren't alternatives to American products.

What I think they should be doing instead is investigating American companies for antitrust, allowing Canadians to circumvent DRM to do things like install alternative app stores to deprive Apple / Google of revenue, allow Canadians to work around printer ink restrictions to use any ink they want, allow Canadian farmers to repair their own tractors without John Deere's approval, etc.

Instead of raising Canadians' costs, deprive American companies of the unfair IP rules that they use to make massive profits. Those rules were forced on Canada in exchange for the US agreeing to barrier-free access to the American market for Canada. If the US is withdrawing from their own trade deals, then Canada shouldn't feel obliged to uphold its obligations under those deals either.

ATI Technologies Inc. (ATI) was a Canadian semiconductor technology corporation based in Markham, Ontario, that specialized in the development of GPUs and chipsets.

BRING THEM BACK!