Em Adespoton

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He added that the offer included "a historic economic and national security partnership"

Protectionism…

aimed at co-operating on export controls,

US gets to decide what Canada exports and to whom…

combatting transshipment,

It has Trans in the name…

enhancing digital trade

Enforcing US copyright on Canadians…

and aligning select external tariffs.

Forcing Canada to erect barriers to trade with US competition.

Is US arrogance so self-consuming that they can’t see how obvious it is that only American oligarchs win here?

Remember the Yuppies?

Every generation after WWII has had a net negative view of capitalism under 30.

Then they get kids and property and the ones with a voice and power suddenly decide capitalism is OK after all.

That said, each generation since WWII it has taken longer for the next generation to inherit the capital. So Gen Z might be in their 50s or 60s before the majority decides capitalism is OK.

That could prove… interesting.

Canada’s health care has been in a state of crisis since shortly before the Federal government offloaded governance of the system to the provinces.

The argument was that it let provinces handle healthcare in a way that was more regionally appropriate. The reality was that it spread the blame around between multiple provincial governments, and let Federal politicians evade responsibility.

There are two acceptable ways to leverage technology (including AI) to increase profits: one is to maintain/decrease operational costs while maintaining service (this means enhancing existing delivery, not replacing humans with AI), and the other is improving service without increasing costs.

Everyone who goes for options 3 and 4 (replacing employees with automation and automating fleecing your customers) is after quarterly earnings at the expense of long term company profitability. This is essentially the VC vampire model, and companies rarely survive it for more than a decade.

Everyone else has answered your question, so I’ll answer the one you didn’t ask.

For physical backup, you want two local network backup drives that alternate in backing up your data hourly when you’re on the local network. That way, you have three copies of the data and if one fails, you can swap it out.

Then you ALSO want rotating backups that get stored off site (eg in a safe deposit box). Every 3 months or so, you take the one of these at home that’s 6 months old, back everything up to it, take it to the offsite and retrieve the other one.

This means that if something corrupts your data and you don’t notice until your local backups are also corrupted, you have two older snapshots — one of which is somewhere else, so if your home gets destroyed you still have a backup.

The cloud backups can be layered on top of this as desired; they all serve different backup purposes.

I take it you haven’t shopped at a Best Buy? They do two things well: have department “experts” who will shadow you and let you know in no uncertain terms that they know everything there is to know about their department and confidently give you incorrect answers (they have supervisors monitoring them to ensure they are behaving in this manner) and sell you extended warranties.

Generally when I go to a store, I just want to buy a specific thing I already know I want to buy. I just want the salesperson to sell it to me. That’s almost impossible to do at a Best Buy. It’s not a salesperson issue; it’s a management issue.