We haven’t even cut off Russia from international trade. Just a few Russian billionaires and specific military goods and oil exports.

An actual embargo would have ended the Ukraine war years ago.

What are the odds anyone will do something meaningful against the US? Almost non existent. No nation is willing to sacrifice the tiniest bit of comfort for the good of humanity.

Trump’s an idiot. Last time he blocked Bombardier sales he caught the C-Series at a critical time with first sales getting confirmed and the beginning of positive cashflow. When that happened it completely destroyed the program and forced us to give it to Airbus for free so we could do the final assembly in the US and avoid tariffs.

This time it barely means anything. These business jets get sold to millionaires and billionaires who likely register them offshore anyways to avoid taxes. You can just fly that jet in the US regardless of where it’s owned or registered.

He’s just doing his old trick again but doesn’t even understand why it worked in the first place.

Sloth was already posted!

… The US created Al Qaeda by giving them weapons to fight the Russians for them, then abandoning them when they won at massive personal cost… They literally armed and funded Osama Bin Laden through Pakistan… That part isn’t even a conspiracy theory.

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

The only “alleged” part is that the CIA didn’t DIRECTLY fund bin Laden… Only through Pakistan’s ISI (CIA equivalent)…

Like I get the indirect creating your enemies through causing suffering and destruction in other nations. Like that’s valid for ISIS for example. But Al Qaida literally wouldn’t have existed without American money.

When people think of two homes the second is usually a cottage or other seasonal property that you can’t really live in while participating in society. So it’s not really taking something away. Sure an argument could be made, but here in Canada if you put homeless people in cottages you’d just have a bunch of people frozen to death by spring.

It’s also inside your insurance policies 2008 style. https://youtu.be/watch?v=_YXDHskRP6Y

They literally woke up one day and said we’re going to build AI and make everyone else pay for it.

Or close up anus and balls slapping

That would be the funniest thing global warming could do to reverse global warming.

That’s the dream! But right now we have a two party system where one wants to get rid of the CBC immediately, and the other wants to suffocate it slowly and watch the light fade from its eyes.

That’s a red herring.

Housing prices went up because since COVID most companies have been making record profits. These all went to shareholders/hedge funds who are flush with cash and bought up all the properties. They’re doing it because “it’s good to own land”. In Ottawa, in most neighborhoods, the cost of the empty lot is the same whether or not there is a house on it.

This is combined with the inflation and layoffs that affected the regular people who aren’t shareholders. Politicians have been freezing or cutting municipal taxes rather than keeping them tied to inflation to “try to help the little guy”. Unfortunately that benefits the rich more than anyone else.

Without strong tax revenues our cities have been cutting back on public transit, amenities, and even road maintenance.

This happened regardless of immigration.

The only way to fix our material base is to tax the rich and reinvest in cities, and public housing to drop housing prices. But the middle class sees housing as “an investment” instead of “a place to live” and would rather their 3br townhouse be worth a million bucks than have their kids and grandkids be able to afford a house. So anytime the government talks about public housing they lose the election.

Immigrants would be a huge asset if we wanted to fix the problem because they’re significantly overrepresented in the trades we need to build our way out of this if we find the political will to do so.

Think about it from a different point of view. If you had a big piece of land and a bunch of construction workers asked to live on it with you, wouldn’t say “we can’t invite you in until we build you a house first” you’d say “here’s some lumber, get cracking”. We haven’t fixed the base capacity problem because we (the rich and to some extent middle class boomers) don’t want to.

No way, our bigots hate Asians and brown/middle east people! Their bigotry is truly multicultural.

That doesn’t even make sense. Once you’re immigrated to Canada you can just change provinces.

What if Newfoundland said “fuck it, we need people, everyone in” then they’re just Canadian immigrants who can live anywhere in Canada completely undermining more restrictive provinces and making a mockery of the system. Unless you’re suggesting immigrants should be second class citizens bound to their province of arrival like medieval serfs?!?!?

And provinces do have power to shape immigration programs, like Quebec has a special fast pass for French speakers. But nothing keeps you there.

Hegseth was 100% jerking it to young army kids and got turned so off when he saw women that he crashed out publicly about it.

I’m not saying the criticism isn’t valid. I just don’t understand the purpose of spreading it when if we really wanted media independent of American interference we should target the rules that allow Americans to own our media in the first place.

It’s like attacking immigrants for crime. Sure, it happens, but immigrants commit crimes at a fraction of the rate of Canadians so if someone cared about reducing crime, statistically they should logically want more immigrants not fewer.

Everytime someone attacks the CBC I’m immediately suspicious. In this case they’re attacking the CBC for being “too aligned with Americans” when most of our news and news media, especially print, is owned by Americans. Is this a criticism made by someone worried that our media is “too American” or is this typical hypocritical conservative attacks on the CBC because it’s one of the few networks they can’t control with money?

I think in this case the question answers itself.

So it looks cool, but it basically sputters hot wax all over the place every couple of minutes.

All the thrust to weight ratio tells you is what percentage of the craft is the engine.

The next component is the propellant mass you eject to get your thrust. To escape the Earth’s gravity you need 11200m/s of acceleration which with the best nuclear thermal rocket specific impulse of 900 means 72% of the ship is propellant. If the rest is engine with no payload at 28% of the mass and thrust to weight of 7:1 you get a max acceleration of 1.8Gs at liftoff which is… Okay… Again that’s with no payload.

Basically your options would be to invent a way to propel the exhaust at a higher velocity to increase your ISP (maybe you could ionize the propellant, use the heat to generate electricity and then use the electricity to blast the propellant to ridiculous velocities), or make your rocket engine much lighter to improve thrust to weight and make room for payload. But my favorite option is just make a monstrously huge rocket with a small command module at the top of it and the rest is all engine and propellant. These things could replenish by consuming massive amounts of mass from nebulas or small meteors or something. Just giant nuclear punk monstrosities that take a chunk out of the solar systems they operate in and create jets of high speed ionised exhaust that obliterate anything that happens to pass by.

LMFAO, you ever seen how the police manage anti genocide protests in Canada? This guy is not going to be arrested for anything, and if he is, it’s not because of the law, it’ll only be because thousands of Canadians made a stink over it. For every guy like him there will be a thousand who get away with it.

The number is Canadian citizens who have served with with IDF since the conflict was deemed a genocide by the UN is astronomical and not a single one has been charged with crimes against humanity.

And yet we have dozens of protestors in Canada charged with crimes for merely asserting Palestine’s right to exist.

You are naive to believe our legal system will deliver justice in this situation.

I get it. You don’t think fat people should have sex… Weird take, but you do you I guess…