If only rocks were so damn rare we wouldn’t have needed to use plastic!

Theyre worried about me pirating content that I would otherwise pay to Netflix?

They can fuck right off

If you took 9th grade science you would know that bitumen is a form of crude oil and then you wouldn’t have written this pretentious post making a point based purely in semantics.

When we sell ninety percent of our oil to the states, we actually kind of need them too.

Im curious if the midterms will bring unrest.

For one, we’re talking federal.

And two, is he in the epstein files? Did he traffic humans?

What crimes has he been convicted of?

Its widely considered as the standard metric for general intelligence.

That’s not to say it is perfect or doesnt have gaps, it doesn’t assess creativity, EQ, rational thinking, wisdom or impacts from socioeconomic.

However what is does measure are things like abstract reasoning, pattern recognition, working memory.

Its one of the strongest single predictors of academic performance, job complexity learning, and overall occupational success, and those things pretty obviously correlated with general intelligence.

Kinda depends what your write

We may vote for idiots, but we absolutely do not vote into pedophiles, human traffickers, criminals, etc.

No, he should be writing to his congressman, he should be writing letters to the president, the VP, the secretary of whatever.

He should write to the dickhead ambassador

Tell it to your congressman and president guy. Tell your friends and family to tell it to those people.

We know average Americans dont hate us, but the US administration sure does.

IQ is actually one of the most stable metrics we have for intelligence. It does change with brain development but its also a comparative amongst your age group so your IQ remains very stable throughout your life.

It’s not to say you didnt mess up on your test at one point, or that someone who is having a mental episode cant distort it via anxiety or whatever

It seems like these people have a particular level of privilege not awarded to others.

Lemmy seems to attract a level of outcast which enables more extreme views.

It also seems to attract a level of extremism.

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Mexico capitulated to the US

Trump waging economic warfare against Canada.

My point is that existential threats override real concern about incremental gains in administrative power by the government. I used Denmark as a hypothetical and parallel example of a country that could centralize given the same condiitons, threats to sovereignty, not anything to do with what theyre actually doing.

Even if they are, so what?

If you were looking at a different country that was actively being bullied, would you argue some crap about centralizing power?

If Denmark started centralizing power in response to trumps threats to the sovereignty of greenland, then what?

You talk like this is a problem that government is responding to external existential threats in the means that are available to them.

Are you arguing the Carney government should relinquish power?

Should they decentralize their capacity to influence things inside the country?

Perhaps you can answer just this.

What is your point?

You can reframe the point all you want. Bottom line is trump laid a wide suite of tariffs against Canada to create a win lose dynamic.

Its has direct negative impacts on the canadian economy and it was every bit intentional to do exactly that.

Trump attacked Canada, full stop.

Nice how you manage to conveniently gloss over his direct threats to canadian sovereignty.

And remember I said economic war, never suggested there was military involvement.

Canada is nazi? Youre a complete moron