Best way to stay hidden is convince people that you never existed in the first place.

Don’t know, don’t care. Canada and Brazil are in two very different places economically.

Health Canada, not FDA. And I’m not 100% sure if it’s Health Canada that deals with those inspections or provincial authorities.

If wikipedia is to be believed, we might not be as far off as you’d think. One third of our pharmaceutical consumption is already domestically supplied, and the amount we export amounts to about 40% of our consumption. Put the two together, and suddenly there’s 70% of our needs already met. Imports from non-us suppliers should be able to fill the gap while domestic production is ramped up.

Now obviously reality is going to be far more complex than this napkin math, but I’m just pointing out that our domestic production is not starting from zero, and is already at the scale where supplying our own relatively small market is not out of the question.

There’s always the chance that if you hit a red state hard enough, it might turn purple. That will very much get their attention.

Big pharma wants to play? Fine. Let’s just invalidate all their patents, spin up a crown corp to manufacturer generic versions, and export globally at actually fair prices.

Canadians seem to be in a very “fuck your threats and fuck you” mood politically, due to Trump’s bullshit. This has made Manning’s petulant threats fall even more flat than they normally would.

Honestly, this does seem like a valid use of the technology behind crypto. Definitely a more beneficial use than just value speculation like we have now.

I assume lack of demand. In your own home, you’d be keeping the handle clean, and public washrooms often use the touchless sensor types.

People also just need to be more selective about where and how they automate.

For example, I wanted my coffee to automatically start in the morning. So instead of buying a “smart” coffee maker, I bought the dumbest possible one and a smart switch. Now, no matter what happens with that switch, the worst that can happen is I have to manually hit a button to get coffee.

Even if you don’t believe in climate change, closing coal plants is good. You don’t need years worth of data to see the smog go away.

Also, jets are just plain old cool. Everyone likes a mini-airshow.

Also, you don’t get to call yourself “counter culture” when you are in charge of the most powerful country on the planet.

The winter one at least is easy to explain. The snow absorbs ambient noise. People don’t realize just how much ambient noise is around due to just the breeze, bugs, etc, until the soft snow turns the entire world into an anechoic chamber.

I’ve been seeing it pop up more in embedded/PC based devices. Seems to be replacing Windows XP and the other embedded Windows versions. Guess Microsoft wants too much for those licenses.

I’m not asking everyone to be able to become a hardware specialist, but if you can’t even figure out “my computer gets hot” I’m not going to be able to trust anything you do. Identifying a heat issue does not take a rocket surgeon.

Could be a gen 5 nvme drive without adequate cooling. Them bastards can run hot. Especially the early gen 5 drives.

Yes, but this may be a symptom of an issue I’ve been seeing with younger programmers; they’ve siloed themselves so specifically into whatever programming they “specialize” in, that they become absolutely useless at dealing with absolutely anything else related to their job. And exasperating this issue is the fact that they’ve grown up with systems that “just work”. Windows, iOS, and android are all at the point where fucking around with hardware issues is very uncommon for the average person.

Asking this guy to solve a hardware problem is like asking hime to tune a carburetor. He likely has not the slightest clue how to start.

Remember kids, it’s not a war crime the first time. Gonna have to go back to being creative.

That’s one of the biggest things. The first time they voted for Trump, we could forgive them, since it was hard to predict that he would be quite that awful. But this time? They knew. They knew what he was, what he stood for, and what he would do. They knew, and they chose him anyway.