Ontario, even before this hike, has one of the highest electricity prices in the world due to regressive fixed fees of $50/month for Toronto Hydro. High fixed fees subsidizing lower per kwh rates (even without tax funded subsidies) provides less incentive for conservation (or home solar), and rewards high electricity users. Ontario electricity policy was already deeply corrupt and a collapsing factor for any less subsidized users.

Quebec has the cheapest rates in the world, by comparison. I heard so much rah rah about interprovince commerce. But every policy in a crisis is just more theft and destruction of Canada.

There is no reasonable definition of hostilities that applies to China. Saying so, is more hostile than not.

We have no real values, unfortunately. Supporting the US’s demonic evil, with justification that the propaganda behind evil are good values, with no real democracy/independence of our own. Our values have always been to support our extortionist oligarch’s supremacism, to call that freedom, and to propagandize the supremacism of our system over those that control against such theft and fraud.

It would be one thing if our sycophantic submission to demonism received a kick back. Such as a nice pat on the head, and some table scraps. Instead, we’re getting kicked at.

Crazy stuff. 2nd part of show is about EVs. Offering me cheap stuff is not harmful. Offering good value EVs is more important for mankind than who profits from it.

In China street markets you can get a 48gb 4090.

I’m not sure if equipment to make older ram types still exist, or if it’s possible to use ddr3 chips on ddr5 interface/voltage, or gddr5, but this is getting too stupid.

HBM prices are also rising fast, and next gen datacenter AI cards are likely to be worse value (flops/bandwidht/ram) than older ones. But still ddr5 would be more profitable to make than HBM at half the current price. So everything is stupid extortion, and should come back to some parity between the 2.

If you ever stream cable news in the background during business hours. experts will come on to tell you that if the US doesn’t bankrupt itself, then Russia or China wins. The only remaining hope for US economy seems to be to beat China at AI, because it can’t beat it at anything else. So, all the money for military, and AI to help military make Skynet, which will mostly be used to ensure establishment can control/kill Americans who don’t support Skynet for Israel supremacist rule over the US, is simply a continuation of the tautology of “all US money for militarist US establishment control over all of you”, but with more efficient AI.

But, but… surely, the most important AI application of all time, my OpenAI girlfriend, who truly loves me beyond all monetization opportunities, will never be replaced by a hotter newer model.

UBI is not going to win out over soylent green.

Establishment prefers solylent green solution to unneeded slavery for sure. UBI is an obvious winning political platform, even though it does not provide the proponents with maximum political power, the way that bandaids on oligarchist supremacism still allows for supremacism and soylent green to rise as the solution.

Simply, the answer, is to reject establishment politics, including Bernie as controlled opposition proposing nonsense that gets shot down for its stupidity, instead of UBI.

Also, an MIT study released today, said 135m US jobs could be replaced with AI agents.

The only possible customer for committed datacenter projects is the US government. the bailout is just buying all the datacenter time… because if not, China wins. Amazon, despite no congressional appropriations yet, has announced $50B datacenter to supply government customers.

Not sure of exact windows comparisons, but 5090 had problems, and I don’t think amd is ahead of nvidia by as much on windows.

So ridiculously absurd. There are absurd propaganda headlines that get published fairly often, but even those articles are complete nothing burgers with actual accusations. Yes, Russia and Chinese ships are in Arctic. That doesn’t mean they are anywhere close to Canadian waters. For Russia to “have already been” to Canadian territory to exploit resources, they would need a reason to travel that far and return. Even fishing which doesn’t require any investment once they are here, wouldn’t make sense as long as Russian waters have fish. The US is the one that would steal our fish. A mine or oil well is gigantic investment that needs permission/alliance to invest in, because of the high risk of confiscation.

has to pay a per-device licensing fee.

Where I’m confused, is that it would be a perpertual/long term annual license fee per device. It would make sense to have a one time fee per device shipped. That would not affect older models.

I guess what is happening is that manufacturers can stop paying for the capabilities by “downgrading” their driver support, and it affects old and new systems the same when users “update”?

does dell/hp have to pay annual license fees in perpetuity for systems they sell???

The more likely disastrous scenario is Russia repeatedly “tests” Canada’s borders

Will absolutely never happen. Russia has no reason to ever exploit resources in Canadian waters/territory without our permission. There is an international treaty against exploitation of any arctic resources even in own waters, but US will ignore and so no one will say shit about any of it, when exploiting own territory.

A military changing aircraft means rewriting pilot and maintenance personnel training programs

All the reason to stop considering F35 alternatives, and cancel F35 immidiately. Sell any to KSA or North Korea for all I care.

The only military mission Canada will ever NEED to do in near future is defense/attack against US forces. That can’t be done with F35s that need Lockheed Martin permission for avionic systems. Pretending our military’s only mission will remain to hammer “rules based world order” nails is what needs to stop immediately.

The other issue is what a shit plane the F35 is. If ever there is a legitimate reason to amplify US dictate again, it can be done with other planes than F35. The point that this was always a colonial tribute paying for a boondoggle was always unacceptable. Same people can learn to fly and maintain other fighters.

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2025/02/government-of-canada-lists-seven-transnational-criminal-organizations-as-terrorist-entities.html

China has shown repeatedly that it’s willing to be an absolutely belligerent asshole, and weaponize it’s companies in that undertaking against most of it’s trading partners.

Categorically false. I certainly wish our “loved oligarchs” weaponized good value products against me. That you feel entitled to not be competed against, doesn’t make competition unfair or any of your adjectives.

China would benefit more from taking such action in a global conflict. If China got into an actual fight with the USA, crippling parts of the Canadian economy would be a great way to harm the US directly

Far smarter for Canada would be to not engage in our usual US force amplification sycophancy, or let US draft Canadians as cannon fodder for their war, while still letting the US pay us for industrial support for their war. China will win, US will collapse soon enough even without war, but it would be diplomatically acceptable to China if we just exploited the US.

Any country bricking electronics/vehicles in Canada is declaring war on Canada and making us side with whoever is against that country. It’s good reason to not give Canadians explosive pagers, but don’t wrongly assume which country is more desperate to resort to terrorism.

If TikTok is a security risk

then surely google, twitter, meta, apple are also security threats. Canada’s establishment cannot be immune from transformation, and so all establishment allied media are threats to Canadians freedom of thought.

On just tiktok, US operations are being transferred (under no financial logic whatsoever) to MAGA Zionist supremacist, Larry Ellison, who is also heavily investing in Skynet services for US government to tag us all with social/Zionist credit scores. It will seem obvious to Canadian establishment to submit to US tiktok, instead of direct Bytedance tiktok.

A security risk exists with all foreign products. The critical question in choosing foreign partner technology is which country is more likely to attack you. Our demonic pig fucker establishment supports every US aggression, including a defense pact with US puppetted Philippines that is one of 2 main CIA vectors to instigate war on China.

Despite our pure sycophancy to US, it is the most likely aggressor towards Canada. It’s tech and auto sectors therefore threat vectors to Canadians. That Canadian auto sector tells us the same CIA/empire propaganda fairy tales now in desperation for more US sycophancy is the usual treasonous BS we only get from those with establishment access.

Way back when Huawei offered telecom equipment, a perfectly valid precautionary security option, was to have a government agency act as both equipment inspector, and handle all software updates. That should apply to all foreign controlled vehicles, because when US (or theoretically China) declares war on us, those foreign controlled vehicles will side with either US or China in harming Canadians.

Stop letting demonic pig fucking thieves lie to us about our great friends in the world.

Canada has also “confirmed/concurred” US designation of Mexican cartels as state sponsored terrorism. Designation gives US legal authority to bomb the fuck out of anything, and strengthened by cowardice regarding the bombing of any boat. Don’t expect any international condemnation for military attacks on Canada, if nothing will stop our desperate clinging to US force amplification, as our only purpose on this planet.

if tsmc only makes datacenter chips from now on, then “we” are shut out from the huge privacy (and fine tuning specialization) gains given by small efficient cheap to run models (or play games on new hardware). US datacenters will serve US empire/political establishment both with government as main LLM customer, but also for data collection/palantir ontology/social credit scores on every American.

I suspect that better datacenter chips won’t actually reduce their cost due to supply limitations, but even for small efficient models, personal hardware has a long payback period compared to a per token “rental” cloud charge. It is unlikely that all of the datacenter chip buyers will have non-government customers to use them all, and so either bailout or bankruptcy followed by megatech buying the datacenters for cheap followed by a bailout in government revenue for big tech global/citizen control applications.

Eventually, even the government has too much AI resources, at planned expansion pace, and then consumer/business computing/gpu market comes back. Could be as soon as 2026 that a collective understanding of absurdity occurs.