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Los Angeles was the test case.

If it failed, it was at the other end of the country from him, and functionally no one voted for him there so its no loss to him or his cult

As it succeeded, he now gets to juanta up the US knowing the place most likely to resist him in a major capacity was conquered first without an issue.

Block Inc, with the outlier of last year, is a company that takes a not insigificant cut of transactions.

Until the end of 2024, they were not profitable to the tune of -605 million dollars. Thats my point.

And they lost 541 million in 2023.

You can negatively “shatter expectations”

According to wikipedia, where it listed the many rounds of VC and bank finding they have, they haven’t yet made a profit

All of those devices are child companies of either Banks or Credit Card companies. Or, like Square, owe their continued existence to banking and wall st firms dumping cash on them.

The one outlier I know about is Canada’s Interac system, which was started by Canadian banks, but now is its own thing

The reality is that the 35% tariff doesn’t actually amount to much since USCMA/NAFTA basically shields 80-90% of Canadian goods.

The nasty ones are the processed lumber, steel and aluminium tariffs.

The funny thing is that outside of car manufacturing, all of his threats are impotent because of NAFTA that he signed.

And his handlers know it. If he steps out of that agreement, Canada fucks him over.

Russia (from my armchair) looks to be essentially a colony of China at this point, and China has most of a supply line that ignores western nations.

Except for tech, which they still have to steal from us.

<sarcasm> So. Test experimental weapons twice when they were already starting to surrender and be so inept that the Soviets get there first despite the outstanding work of your allies?

Thanks for the write up, but I was blocked from logging in on a cloudflare website because I opened too many windows once and their tracking cookie flagged that browser as a bot.

Meanwhile the bot I built to track mod updates to my modlist for Rimworld and Mw5 on nexus? Never ran into any issues.

So when I refer to Cloudflare’s bot detection as shit, that is a highly personal and professional opinion.

Ah yes, cloudflare’s captcha that just tracks how many hits you’ve done in a timeframe on a site recently.

Same shit different pile.

Makes sense.

1. Google’s “anti bot” verification has long been considered woefully inadequate.
2. It works largely by tracking how long the user takes to click on it.
3. LLMs are inherently fuzzy and for a bot, incredibly slow.

The way to counter is remove the US from the market.

Yeah, but particular to the softwood lumber thing is that for 20 years they’ve been working to get unlimited access to our forests. It really kicked off when Harper completely capitulated to Dubya basically as soon as he got into office. Its been a constant fight since then.

It kicked into high gear with Trump 2.0

No, the softwood duties, thanks to Harper capitulating and Trudeau not giving a shit about BC, have resulted in raw logs being shipped to the US and utterly devastating small town BC.

Edit: which is how small town BC went from mixed NDP/CPC to matching Alberta’s idiocy.

Nah, the long standing intent is to bankrupt all BC logging companies.

They want unfettered access to BC’s forests. Sadly, conservatives up here have almost given them that.

We need a 200% export tax on raw materials leaving Canada.

Fair enough, I stand corrected.

Also: O’Leary isnt Canadian. Hes a fucking treasonous bastard who should be rotting in jail.

Only the US and China have been dumb enough to make LLM datacenters so far.

Its because he desperately needs to distract from himself being at the top of the Epstein list.