I am pumped to play the Deadspace remake as it’s basically just a massive update and 100% original

But I absolutely love the changes they made to RE4. Kept all the charm and loads of tasteful improvements.

If you’re not doing a 100% updated remake, definitely use the RE4 model of remaking a game

The initial plan had been for the first fab to achieve full production this year, but the timeline was delayed due to several workforce challenges. These included difficulties in finding skilled workers locally, cultural differences between TSMC’s Taiwanese management and American employees, and a shortage of skilled construction workers that slowed the building process. This delay raised concerns about TSMC’s ability to maintain efficiency with its US operations compared to its facilities in Taiwan.

Recent success in trial production has alleviated some of these concerns. TSMC has confirmed that the Arizona project is progressing as planned, although the company has not commented specifically on yield rates.

I get what you’re saying, but the only way to get there is to heavily expand our population so our sphere of influence becomes significant enough that we can exert some control of a situation.

We barely extract the resources we have aside from oil, our population is miniscule, we spend all our money on housing, we stagnate wages, barely manufacture anything and brain drain talent to the US due to lack of wages/opportunities.

Until we reach a critical mass of population and are able to mine + manufacture our resources and establish some form of market specialization, we will remain insignificant on the global scale.

Isn’t this how Walmart failed in Germany?

Basically the “roadmap to success” used in other countries failed in Germany/Europe mostly because that “success” was only achievable through “human rights abuses” and “violating labor laws” that aren’t troublesome in parts of the world where labour rights are neutered at every opportunity, and large portions of the population people are too impoverished to afford necessities elsewhere

I’ve wondered about this, killing the “company” never really seemed like that big of a deal, as the structure (both physical building/tool/systems and operationally) don’t simply vanish. You still have the knowledge and skillsets in the population, and the supply chains still exist.

The real problem with these “too big to fail” entities is that the people pulling the levers that cause failures never have any consequences whatsoever.

Yeah, you’ll always need banks, energy, transportation, defence etc - operational mechanisms for exchanging goods, building, buying etc will never go away or ‘fail’ - but their operational practices absolutely could and should change

I’m so sick of the wealth class abusing absolutely everything to guarantee themselves more money than they could ever spend.

Pierre poilievre is weird

I figured there might be something along the lines of being limited to purchases and anything used to service debt would become cash in the eyes of CC company, which does have significantly worse terms

Thank you for the insight!

Yeah, it’s pretty much the idea of kiting but without intention for scamming/lying - just hoping to take advantage of the difference in how interest is applied to debt without breaking the law.

Considering there is still risk involved (bank/CC get paid either way, and miss timing the transaction results in interest payments to them) its more of a risk tolerance approach than scam/fraud, but I don’t doubt the Bank’s diligence in protecting their assets.

Hopefully they can do a debt consolidation, and get a better rate, but with interest rates where they are I am not sure it would be much better than line of credit

I’ve heard rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle works great for killing most bugs, but I’ve never tried it on a hive so they might get big mad before they’re immobilized/die

Adding one or two drops of dish soap to a large spray bottle of rubbing alcohol can make it stick to bugs better, making it more effective. Far safer than poison based pest control too!

Because people don’t hate getting scammed by their scam artist.

Conservatives also tend to make politics a core part of their identity, which allows conservative governments to get away with doing everything they accuse Liberals of doing mostly without consequences.

Canada has some of the most apathetic voters in the world, so I don’t expect anything in this country to improve anytime soon.

People will simply trade getting screwed by the letters L/C and be certain they are one election away from all of their problems going away.

“Decades”, “More snow”

Government/police insist on having basically unlimited ability to spy on people within the US, and then maybe catch a part of one operation after collecting heaps of evidence over months/years with tons of victims irrevocably harmed - and eventually a few main people get like 3-5 years in prison on a plea deal.

I get the whole “building a case” thing, but letting multiple children get abused, while other sickos learn the ropes to eventually “get enough evidence” so a few people can plead guilty for a comparatively light prison sentences is absurd. Shut anything about it down immediately. Even if it doesn’t go to trial/conviction I’m sure the police have creative capacities to deal with child abusers outside of prison.

And people still think sex education in school is about teaching children how to preform sex acts, instead of helping them avoid predators.

Maybe if you’re on shrooms or LSD, yeah “it’s all the same if you use what they make maaaaaaan”

But only if you ignore the power dynamics behind wealth, and aren’t aware of the concepts of bribery, temptation, and unlimited influence.

Or the fact that people want greener options but they are intentionally unavailable, sabotaged, prohibitively expensive (but never subsidized), or publicly demonized in media with disinformation and propaganda.

Between consumers and corporations, only one gets to call all the shots

Shame we never considered bringing in construction workers as we process over a million new immigrants a year.

Edit

I’ll provide some links since I am coming off as racist/anti immigrant

here’s a gov of Canada link to a pilot program for construction immigration strategies

Another article

“Despite this program’s utility, it excludes applicants with experience as construction trades helpers and labourers, which is one of the top two residential construction occupations most in need of workers.”

Both of these articles are from the worst priced housing markets (BC and Toronto) and both talk about temporary pilot programs/completely ignored labor skills resulting in continued construction labor shortages, which should be nearly impossible when bringing in a million people with favorable entry to construction workers.

I’m on mobile and I don’t really feel like pumping out tons of articles to prove everything I say, but essentially the marketing on immigration has been “we’re bringing homebuilders to Canada to relieve the housing crush” and the reality is “we’re using immigration to prop up housing and suppress wages, with little actual home builders coming in who then require training anyhow.”

Another comment mentioned that it’s hard to ensure training and knowledge/understanding of trade skills, and language barriers can prevent people with construction experience from being able to work. So instead of enticing Canadians to get educated in jobs we need, we import them and make them take training anyhow to keep wages down.

I’m not trying to say immigration is bad, but what’s happening in Canada is in reality far far away from the wave of homebuilding immigrants that was promised

Since most grocers in Canada have internalized a large portion of the supply chain (and don’t have to really compete with each other since there aren’t many options) they have several ways to affect prices at multiple points in the supply chain.

“we only make 3% profits at retail!” while they jack up farm cost, processing cost, warehouse cost, distribution cost, etc etc. They are picking up profits from themselves, but counting it at a cost to obfuscate their margins as only being obtained once its bought at the end of the supply line (retail)

You can nationalize food by knowing how much real costs are throughout the supply chain and capping costs for consumers either through policy, or by mandating that prices for groceries are set by the government.

It can still be operated by a private business, but they would have to stop unlimited profits at the expense of the population for guaranteed, smaller profits to the benefit of everyone who eats food.

Let me tell ya, if I had the option to eat a capitalism apple at $8/each, or the same nationalized apple for $1/each I’m eating the nationalized apple.

The general population seems to hate taxes (mostly because the wealthy don’t actually pay taxes and also receive subsidies) - but somehow don’t associate profiteering as a wealth Tax that never returns to the public like real taxes, and instead often defend a businesses prerogative to profit seek, even at their own detriment.

Public taxes that pay for social systems? Bad!

Private taxes (excess profits) that exclusively benefit the wealthy? Good!

Definitely adding this to the comment!

Nationalize (or at least crown corp) everything.

Energy

Telecom/Internet

Food

Water

Natural resources

Insurance

Transportation

Housing (edited to include)

The idea that it’s better to have single/few entities profiting instead of every Canadian benefitting is ridiculous.

Nobody is saying you can’t be profitable and wealthy if you run a successful business.

But that’s not what Canada is about, what we have in Canada is collusion and price fixing by like 8 businesses that own nearly everything in Canada completely unchecked.

After reading the fairly uninformative article, it sounds like the deepfake video recommend a platform that looked legit, but was essentially a one way black hole for people’s money. It showed them fake numbers climbing to get them to invest more - not just JT recommending crypto, which is actually kind of a shame.

Buying bitcoin last November (2023) would be one of the best times to buy as it’s basically doubled since.

The best way to tell if it’s a false flag operation is to see how much this event will be spread in the Russian media.

They’ve lost tons of equipment and had bombings deep in Russian territory, mostly affecting their oil production which could be perceived locally as Russian military inferiority.

So when this starts being on blast for every channel and frequency - you can be sure it’s a false flag.

If they bury this like any other Russian military failing, then it’s probably real.

Edit: ISIS claims responsibility, but Russia is still trying to blame Ukraine, which is kind of a false flag?

I gotta say to all the people whining about the free Palestine protesters

THIS IS EXACTLY HOW YOU GET A RESULT

Yes, Canada not selling arms to Israel isn’t going to do much of anything on the ground - but that’s not entirely the point.

The point is, when you know your government is doing something horrible (that they still want to do) protesting the individuals who make up government absolutely has tangible results.

If we want our politicians to actually prioritize healthcare, education, infrastructure, cost of living, national defence, unions, wage gaps, break up monopolies/oligopoly there is only one path.

Take a page out of Palestinian playbook and collectively organize against government officials. Where they live, their meetings, events, their families etc. Protest the politicians existence and go after them in court constantly

Make the individual politicians and their families lives miserable until they act like they give enough of a shit about you that you’re satisfied with their efforts.

Canada is one of the most politically apathetic yet wealthy countries on earth. We collectively let ourselves be robbed and crushed by neoliberalism, and have next to 0 civic comprehension or participation.

The belief that voting or paying attention to politics and government action is useless is blatantly wrong.

Every current problem is a direct result of intentional action by politicians and government policy, and the only way it happens is voter apathy.

We deserve the government we have because we allow them to act unchecked.