Canada was able to convict Peter Nygard, and Trump might not have completed the Epstein coverup yet.

The important categories are oil and potash. Consumer actions might not influence those much.

How much oil is Europe still importing from Russia? I'd rather have Canadian.

You know how despite climate change being very real, in day to day discussions with other level headed people, they still very regularly say stuff like

"We ran the numbers for an EV, and right now gas is still cheaper, so we are holding off on the switch until it makes financial sense"

Canadian oil would need to be shipped halfway around the world. It would be more expensive. Price is always the top factor for everyone.

Fair point. What we really need of course is more renewables, and that is happening, but not fast enough, so we still need oil. And I'd rather get our oil in a way that doesn't fuel the Russian war machine, even if it does cost a bit more.

The politically-important Alberta oil mostly goes to the mountain states down here. Coincidentally, those same states rely heaviest on coal for electricity. So, the choice is recharge an EV on coal (think arsenic and mercury accumulating somewhere nearby) or good ol gasoline (which is piped from Canada).

The heavy oil refineries are generally near the Gulf and in the Midwest, so that's where the Canadian oil goes.

That’s proportionally true. Utah and Wyoming depend on Alberta because of elevation. I’m confused by the change at Seaway.

Mountain states? Can't they use hydro power?

I think what you’re wondering is: can residential electricity schedules promote off-peak rates for EV charging. I’ve seen that and I think it takes the edge off.

But we’re in a drought right now. I think hydro is down at least 20%. Wyoming wind power alone totally makes up for that.

I’m sure China would, too. I wonder what’s harder: diverting that oil to the northwest passage, or diverting Persian Gulf oil around the strait of Hormuz?

It was 49.9% vs 48.3%. The 1.8% of people voting for a 3rd party candidate and those who didn't vote were implicitly endorsing Trump.

Agreed, it is a weird way of saying that. But it is basically what I'm saying.

I used the word "endorsed", not "voted". The distinction does matter.

Only about 25% of the voting age public voted for Trump. Almost 25% of the voting age public weren't registered to vote, perhaps some of them wanted to vote but couldn't, so let's use the registered voters as the denominator. 75.8% of them voted; roughly one third for Trump, one third for Harris and one third didn't vote.

Choosing not to vote against a likely outcome is an endorsement of that outcome in my opinion.

We usually rely on polling for those answers. When you encounter a randomly-selected American on the street, do you find it 50/50? I’m in Wyoming, perhaps the reddest state, and it’s close to 50/50.

The third of the people who didn't vote are culpable.

Assuming no power bill, I don’t think 300 RTX would ever break even, if bought retail. Would have been smarter to try drop-shipping those to China. So, why didn’t they? Was there some condition or stipulation from the source?

Saskatchewan would demand a substitute buyer, I think. Finding cooperative middle countries is a difficult strategy.

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You can understand why Marshall skips town hall meetings.

I think the WeChat worm proves entire classes of handheld devices will be affected, with consequences beyond what Tencent can afford to remedy. I think we’ll see the most-centralized ideas suffer first, not necessarily the Western ones who relied on being too big to fail and prioritized stock buybacks.

Let’s say I’m empowered to patch and deploy. Even then, the HuggingFace hack showed that proven exploits will be automatically disseminated via rogue messaging. Could defenders ever have a system like that?

I have to agree. People are worried about WordPress. We should be talking about scripts as sophisticated as Shattered Spider targeting every ISP. In an environment where IT has to wade through vendor chaos.