Glassnoser
1d ago
This doesn't answer my question about that makes the US dollar expensive. Printing money makes it less expensive, not more expensive.
Printing money doesn't make real estate expensive because it only affects the nominal price, not the real price.
The US has the housing prices of a country that prints wildly while having the currency cost of a country like Switzerland.
What does that have to do with the US dollar being the reserve currency?
Glassnoser
1d ago
I think Canada does care. Most Canadians have relatives who live in the US and would care that their lives would be disrupted.
Glassnoser
1d ago
I understand that, but I'm asking how they would demand that. The Canadian government doesn't control where Canadians live. I doubt our government would be allowed by the Supreme Court to pass a law preventing us from living in the US.
Glassnoser
2d ago
It cannot physically do that. Sure, any one specific thing can be made in the US, albeit at greater cost. But it would have to take resources from some other industry. It can't make everything it is making now and make everything it imports, not even if it stopped producing exports. It's not just because of the trade deficit which means it consumes and invests more than it produces, but because it would lose the gains from trade.
Glassnoser
2d ago
What are you suggesting? That Canada make it illegal to work in the US?
Glassnoser
2d ago
How does the dollar being the reserve currency make it expensive? What does that even mean? The Federal Reserve can always print more dollars to meet the demand and bring down its value and failing that, prices would simply adjust to whatever they need to be.
Glassnoser
2d ago
That's where most of the people live.
How is forcing the annexation of Canada through economic pressure supposed to work? It would require a constitutional amendment with the agreement of all ten provinces. This would never happen. He'd be lucky to get one, and he is especially not going to get Quebec, which would never want to give up its language laws. Canadians are very proud of not being American. We're the product of 250 years of selection of people who did not move to the U.S. for better weather and better economic opportunity.
Glassnoser
6d ago
How do you prove you don't have another job?
Won't this have averse selection? The best employees will be the most likely to take this offer while those who stay will be those who know they can't get easily hired elsewhere.
Glassnoser
12d ago
Doesn't this exist? I used to use something like this called Pidgin back when MSN messenger was the most popular messaging program. I haven't used it in years though. I don't know how well it still works.
Glassnoser
13d ago
Did something happen to reduce the amount of spam email that gets sent? I've been getting a flood of spam mail for almost 20 years (ever since giving my email address to McDonald's) but in the last few years, it has slowly declined to the point that I now have only received 9 spam email in the last month. Has something changed to reduce the amount of spam, or is my email address just slowly disappearing from lists of active email addresses from years of not clicking on links in spam emails?
Glassnoser
14d ago
Bail and the cost of legal counsel are not intended to be punishments for crimes.
Glassnoser
24d ago
It tends not to be.
Glassnoser
25d ago
It's disputed by the Canadian government, but based on my understanding of international law, we're clearly in the wrong.
Glassnoser
26d ago
Wouldn't cars driving down streets have to stop for pedestrians much more often? Wouldn't that make it really difficult to drive east or west more than one block?
Glassnoser
26d ago
I wrote about this a few years ago. The key point is that congestion pricing, when properly designed, does not work by reducing car traffic. It works by coordinating it in a way that more people can actually use the roads but without getting in each other's way and creating congestion. People would adjust their departure times but no one would need to adjust his arrival time or work schedule nor would he have to use an alternative means of transportation nor take another route.
So this is definitely a good thing, but badly implemented. The congestion charges should only apply at bottlenecks, should continuously vary in price, peaking at the early part of rush hour, and should have no exempted vehicles. The effect should be a huge boon to drivers and bus riders, with fewer people taking the subway as a result.
Glassnoser
26d ago
If this is true, then it will only take a very small toll to eliminate congestion.
Glassnoser
26d ago
In what way did Canada fuck with American politics?
Glassnoser
26d ago
He said he wanted to apply economic pressure for us to join the US.
Despite being your largest trading partner, we subsidize our own industry to billions of dollars a year, then dump product on you and hope you will see it as benign enough to let the con go on for another year.
This is not being a shitty trading partner. This is beneficial to the US and we should stop doing it for our own sake. The US does the same thing by the way.
We let spies from the "near-Arctic" state cruise around the Northwest Passageway and scout out our (few) military installations.
What are you referring to? Under international law, we don't have the right to prevent foreign ships from accessing the Northwest Passage.
But instead of just resigning and letting an immediate election happen, our PM has prorogued Parliament, nakedly to buy time for his party to regroup, meaning that we have no actual functioning government for the next two months and he stays in charge nominally, with no credibility to actually negotiate on our behalf.
We do have a government. The government is not the same as the Parliament. The Parliament shuts down all the time. It doesn't normally sit for the whole year. This just means they can't pass legislation.
Glassnoser
1mo ago
Who's Brunel?
Glassnoser
1mo ago
Who says they aren't good for their own country?
Glassnoser
1mo ago
It was about religion, not genes. Otherwise, it would make no sense to complain about Irish immigration while pushing for more German immigration.
Glassnoser
1mo ago
There is pretty good evidence that immigration has next to no effect on wages. It may even be slightly positive. Everyone who complains about immigrants suppressing wages seems to think that labour demand is fixed. Growing the population increases the supply and demand for labour about equally.
The idea that immigrants take up too much physical space also seems absurd given that Americans congregate in places with higher density. Being around people is a net benefit. There is lots of empty space for those who disagree.
It doesn't make much sense to say it "as a Canadian" then. Better to say "as an Albertan" or something.
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