The Canadian government is aware that a Canadian citizen died in ICE custody.

What are we supposed to do?

Launch an invasion to free our people from the terrorist American regime?

Why is it Americans never hold the GOP to account? Why is it when the GOP does something bad, you have to somehow work it around so it’s somehow the Democrats fault? Why do you wonder why it’s difficult to keep the GOP from getting power and doing horrible shit when everyone in the US blames everything on the Democrats even when they aren’t in power?

I’m Canadian and I wouldn’t blame the opposition party for something the governing party is doing. It’s a strange part of American culture to blame a Democrats for everything and it doesn’t make any sense. And it doesn’t happen the other way, I don’t recall people ever blaming the Republicans when the Democrats do something they don’t like.

It’s a weird thing about American culture and it’s resulted in the party that gets blamed for everything having no power to stop the party that never gets blamed for anything. But y’all continue blaming them for being in this situation.

“Bill Clinton and… other Presidents…”

Shocking allegations about the guy that used to creep around in the Miss Teen USA changing room!

You don’t seem to have a counter for the comparison between leftists and MAGAs other than the left-right social construct. These groups aren’t significantly different, I’ve had conversations with both leftists and MAGAs and the conversations and they are the same conversation on all but a few topics.

Every day the two groups become more similar to each other and now we’re at a point that it’s only if someone inserts a slogan or mentions a specific ethnic group they dislike that I can tell the difference between a MAGA and a leftist. And that’s not always a reliable indicator sometimes since both MAGA and leftists sometimes hate the same ethnic groups.

You appeal to the base to get the nom, after to get the nom, you move to the center to win the general. Politics 101.

Leftists are to the Democratic party as the MAGA were to the GOP. Tendency to be single issue voters that have no understanding of how government works, weird ideas about some radical changes will improve their lives (which won’t) and no understanding of the actual changes needed that would improve things. Buying into populists that promise to fix everything in a day.

The problem is the MAGA took over the GOP and are now trying to do the weirdo policies that were promised to the base. It would be the same if leftists took over government, just a different group of people being harmed by policies based around slogans and ignorance.

But I doubt leftists have the dedication the MAGAs have, so likely they’ll go back to being “uncommitted” before they can capture the Democratic party. They also engage with the American tradition of blaming the Democrats for everything (even when they aren’t in power) while the MAGA types (Tea party, pro-life, states rights, christian nationalists, etc) were willing to vote GOP in every election while working to take over the party. I doubt slacktivists will have that dedication.

But the good news is that MAGAs might also go back to being non-voters because of the Epstein thing. So maybe some day the US can be run by serious people instead of populist clowns. If it doesn’t collapse before that because of the current populist clown in chief.

It seems he’s learned that the problem with tariffs is that other countries will tariff back.

So now his current strategy is to levy tariffs and threaten countries with more tariffs if they reciprocate.

Same has it’s always been, maybe he’ll TACO or maybe he’ll crash the world economy.

Meanwhile in Canada, it’s become easier to identify products from the US because stores have to put them on discount to try to entice people to buy them. Stores aren’t making money by selling US products at a discount so every time I go to the grocery store, there’s new products made in Canada (or at least non-US countries) replacing the US products.

Happy to report I can now get a head of iceberg lettuce from Quebec in both grocery stores I go to, seems all of our lettuce came from the US before. I had to get crazy expensive hydroponically grown lettuce (or some weird black lettuce) for months. But now I can get iceberg lettuce (“normal” lettuce to me) produced in Canada. It was weird for a bit with some products, but it’s becoming more and more easier and normal to avoid US products. Merci to Quebec for growing lettuce! Hopefully the stores will source lettuce from the EU in the winter.

Not sure how Trump is solving the trade deficit “problem” with this though. Are Americans in the the Midwest buying less oil from Canada (which is THE cause of the trade deficit)? Gonna have to spend a lot of money building pipelines to get oil from the “Gulf of America” and refitting refineries to process that oil. Or God forbid, do a Green New Deal in the Midwest. Otherwise you’d be selling less oil overseas, which would impact trade balance with other countries. But then Canada would sell to those countries instead. But go ahead, fill your boots, I’m good with oil companies having to pay a lot of money refitting refineries as that will just be another version (though less efficient) of a carbon tax.

Canadians are buying less products from the US and it seems unlikely the US is going to buy less oil from Canada any time soon, so it seems Trump’s efforts are just increasing the trade deficit. Carney could put reciprocal tariffs on the US or not, either way Canadians are going to be buying less and less from the US going forward.

Trump is fucking over Americans more than anyone else.

Nah the tariff stuff started many news cycles ago. Trump just really believes tariffs work.

Yeah but I find code generation stuff I’ve used in the past takes a significant amount of configuration, and will often generate a bunch of code I don’t want it to, and not in the way I want it. Many times it’s more trouble than it’s worth. Having an LLM do it means I don’t have to deal with configuring anything and it’s generating code for the specific thing I want it to so I can quickly validate it did things right and make any additions I want because it’s only generating the thing I’m working on that moment. Also it’s the same tool for the various languages I’m using so that adds more convenience.

Yeah if you have your IDE setup with tools to analyze the datasource and does what you want it to do, that may work better for you. But with the number of DBs I deal with, I’d be spending more time setting up code generation than actually writing code.

It doesn’t have to be boring to make a story about people who always makes the right choice it’s just more challenging to write. You need to write scenarios where it’s not clear what the ethically correct choice is and have the the hero have to figure that out.

A large part of Star Trek (at least back when they had good writers) revolves around that. In fact movies like Captain America Civil War also revolve around a bunch of people wanting to do the right thing, just not agreeing on what that is.

When the writing is bad, stories about a character being bad then learning to be good can be just as boring as a story about someone being good from the beginning. It’s just generally easier to write a story with character learning something because you don’t need to do all that much world building to create an interesting ethical dilemma.

You shouldn’t think of “AI” as intelligent and ask it to do something tricky. The boring stuff that’s mostly just typing, that’s what you get the LLMs to do. “Make a DTO for this table <paste>” “Interface for this JSON <paste>”

I just have a bunch of conversations going where I can paste stuff into and it will generate basic code. Then it’s just connecting things up, but that’s the fun part anyway.

I’m pretty sure it’s just Trump breaking the world order and eroding the freedom of Americans.

When the Israel-Hamas war is over do you really think everything is going to go back to normal in the US and the rest of the world?

The Palestinian people deserve a lot of apologies from a lot of assholes on the internet that have monetized their suffering.

And a lot of people in the Arab world deserve an apology from the Ayatollah of Iran for using them as meat shields in their failed attempt to wipe Israel off the map.

I think Israel is foolish. They are protected by their international support and not viable on their own. Trump is unpredictable and nationalistic.

That’s weird logic. If we’re going with Trump being unpredictable, then it really doesn’t matter what Israel does in terms of maintaining support from Trump.

And countries don’t base foreign policy based on what teenagers on the internet want. They base it on interests. What has Israel done that goes against anyone’s national interests? Iran is a thorn in everyone’s side, and Hezbollah has been weakened and cut off from easy supply from Iran because Assad’s regime is gone. It’s not in anyone’s interest for Iran to have nuclear weapons, and Israel has proven their capability in taking out Iran’s air defenses. The Houthis are a problem for global trade and Trump isn’t going to hit them as long as they keep to their deal and not hit US shipping.

So given everyone’s interests most countries might wag their finger at Israel publicly for political reasons, but people in power know that if their people were taken hostage by terrorists, they’d do much the same thing as Israel has done. The US has become unreliable in dealing with the middle east (not really caring about Houthis attacking other country’s shipping) so they need an ally in the region to keep Iran and their proxies in check. And Israel has demonstrated a lot of capability in that regard. So do you think countries are going to isolate Israel for the sake of a small group of protesters constantly shouting insane slogans?

The only way Russia can win is if Trump bails them out. Which is a possibility, but that would just be Trump breaking things.

They should just have Trump’s dumbass UCW event end with a fight between Trump and the Ali Khamenei. Both are demented authoritarian old fools, and it would be funny to have these “tough guys” in a ring barely able to stand up before a punch is even thrown.

But they’re both cowards that make others do violence for them so that’ll never happen.

You’re assuming Iran has competent leadership.

Do you think lemmy sets public policy? The only thing that happens here is people comment on shit. So you’re bothered by comments to the effect of “influencers tell kids to do stupid shit and sometimes kids die because of it, and this is bad.”

Why do you think that freedom of speech means no one is allowed to criticize speech? Criticism is also speech.

It sometimes is. The character Shylock was Jewish. He was also someone who loaned money at high interest rates.

Trump was talking about borrowing money, not about Jews. So in that context, probably not antisemitic. Though given the audience, it could be a dog whistle.

It’s mostly a nothing burger.

So just another case of attacking Trump on something unimportant and diverting attention from the actual terrible things he’s doing.

Your TikTok addiction may have turned you into a psychopath. “Kids die all the time, what’s the big deal?”

The gun rights crowd has better arguments about why their hobby is more important than kids dying.