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Re: US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February

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Post by msabalau »

icecube123 wrote: post #337
gaoshan wrote: post #109

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Can't blame you. Coming from the US I have been making a point to vacation in Canada, fwiw. Short of voting, protesting and getting into arguments with MAGA people I don't know what else I can effectively do.

I surprised more US folks dont visit Canada, its amazing, much safer, and cheaper for them because of the exchange difference. Im guessing they see prices in CAD ($), and think its more expensive, but not realizing that $1 of theirs buys $1.35 CAD.

Canada is great. Montreal feels like a stylish and fun European city.

As a film lover, I've been to the Toronto film festival many times, it's an unmatched experience--so many things to see, and watch films with a very engaged festival crowd just makes them better. (In the same way, even if you don't love Star Wars, going on opening weekend, with the most enthusiastic fans, makes the experience better.) And given that nearly half of Toronto's population was born outside of Canada, it makes even New York feel a little parochial.

Re: US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February

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Post by ModernMech »

dmoy wrote: post #524
ModernMech wrote: post #470

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“I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida … to go to court would have taken a long time,” Trump said at a meeting with lawmakers on school safety and gun violence. “Take the guns first, go through due process second,” Trump said. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376097-trump-tak...

I don't doubt that Trump would take guns away from people who don't support him. It's kinda right out of an authoritarian playbook. Not sure what that has to do with what I said though.

Because you presented a dichotomy in which the Democrats are a party intent to "make all your guns illegal", yet that is not their position as a party. Indeed the last Democratic presidential nominee made very clear she owns guns and likes the 2nd amendment.

The opposite is true of Republicans: their party platform is literally "whatever Trump wants", and Trump has actually articulated circumventing the second amendment entirely by "taking guns first".

Moreover, his current administration's stance is that lawfully carrying citizens protected by the 2nd amendment who are obeying the law are at risk for summary execution if his agents feel threatened enough. This makes the 2nd amendment inoperable (no need for a second amendment at all if they can just say they were scared and kill you for having a gun).

If you're going to characterize Democrats as (a lesser) evil, at least be honest about why.

Re: US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February

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Post by BeetleB »

keldonjohnson wrote: post #581
BeetleB wrote: post #571

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Except lots of vacation, travel, etc.

In big tech the benefits are the same, except you save more in 10 years in WA than people in London save in 30.

> In big tech the benefits are the same,

Depends on which big tech. 15 days of vacation, BTW, doesn't even come close to comparing with much of Europe.

And I didn't mention London. London is crap. Probably all of UK is.

Most Europeans I know in certain countries travel a lot more than Americans at big tech.

Re: US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February

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Post by dh2022 »

icecube123 wrote: post #337
gaoshan wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't blame you. Coming from the US I have been making a point to vacation in Canada, fwiw. Short of voting, protesting and getting into arguments with MAGA people I don't know what else I can effectively do.

I surprised more US folks dont visit Canada, its amazing, much safer, and cheaper for them because of the exchange difference. Im guessing they see prices in CAD ($), and think its more expensive, but not realizing that $1 of theirs buys $1.35 CAD.

Quick question about US folks traveling to Canada: are cars with US plates being vandalized in Canada? I was thinking to drive and stay in Vancouver for a few days but I would not want to get a graffiti on my car (or worse)

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Post by [deleted] »

pibaker wrote: post #294
travisgriggs wrote: post #213

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So this. A year ago my wife and I did a road trip up into Canada (Kelowna BC region). It was a new experience. I’ve been up into Canadian provinces many times (20+ over the years), but because of the anti Canadian rhetoric that Trump and company were putting out at the time, I was embarrassed and eager for people to not actually know I was from the states. I was hyper aware of the Washington state license plates on o…

I just saw this recent survey about whether or not people view their fellow citizens as morally good. Canada ranks first, with 92% respondents answering affirmatively. It's not hard to imagine people like these extending their good will to foreigners, even "hostile" ones. https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/05/in-25-countr... In contrast, "The United States is the only place we surveyed where more adults (ag…

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Re: US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February

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Post by shimman »

greedo wrote: post #242
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #196

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I mean Dorsey literally just said publicly that he’s laying off people in order to utilize AI like what more clear point do you want? Whether or not you believe that this is a good or bad move, correct or lying move, whether AI is capable or not, “AI” is the reason that CEOs are utilizing to cut roles The timing of this is based on the fact that Capital is striking from deploying money to anything else outside of the…

Sure, a CEO has never lied before about the reasons for layoffs.

I think COVID ruined people's ability to critically think. The amount of people in both journalism and across the economy, people are just taking the words of others (often those with malicious intents) with zero critical thought being applied.

For Block's case they have had multiple layoffs over the last 5 years, hardly the sign of an AI apocalypse and more of a sign of a business leader that only survived because of free money.

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Post by thefreeman »

mschuster91 wrote: post #476
yonaguska wrote: post #455

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My personal take is that it's just hit a breaking point where people have finally decided that it's not worth the money. Im not the only person I know with an uninsured wife, and only coverage for my kids. If it weren't for my kids, I wouldn't have enrolled in insurance either. The math just doesn't work out for someone relatively young and with no major health issues. And with the government cutting back spending, w…

> The math just doesn't work out for someone relatively young and with no major health issues. The thing is, bad and expensive health issues can literally come upon you over night. You can get hit by a vehicle or get beaten up with no perpetrator to be held accountable, you can develop an aneurysm, get food poisoning, get pregnant unexpectedly (with all the risk that comes with, including healthcare not being accessi…

don't you get a tax penalty if you aren't insured for 100% of the year?

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Post by drivebyhooting »

csomar wrote: post #200
SecretDreams wrote: post #20

Crazy thing is people will vote for this again. Some against their best interest. Others because they appreciate the divide that comes from this type of admin.

No. At this rate, they’ll lose both house and senate and they’ll be unable to govern until they lose the presidency in 2 years. Polymarket is showing 56/44 today down from a top of 75/25 a half year ago. The democrats lost the elections because of the economy. Gas prices were too high during Biden term.

And because they lied about Biden’s mental faculties - only forced by a horrible debate to put Kamala on the presidential ticket.

It was a disgusting self own. I wish the Democratic Party would accept responsibility for that duplicity.

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Post by 01100011 »

hparadiz wrote: post #454
01100011 wrote: post #395

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AI is killing the notion that SW companies are infinite money printing machines. The idea is that someday soon(in the next 5-10 years as markets are forward looking), someone will vibe-code a replacement for Photoshop/TurboTax/Office and if nothing else that will kill the profit margins. This changes the entire economics of SW and affects current hiring and spending.

Quite the opposite. I just spent the past month "vibe coding" a pretty serious program in C. The tldr is yea I can build faster but I'm still sitting there testing, debugging, and focusing on specific features as I go and that's still a human limitation. The AI productivity is pivoted directly into higher complexity of features. It's not a magic wand that immediately builds a program that works perfectly out of the b…

And that's cool but your experience is not what the market is trading. The vibe is that vibe-coding will come together in the next few years and SW margins will be hit. That doesn't mean it's the reality, just that it is what the market is thinking.

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Post by Pxtl »

_zagj wrote: post #447
cheesecompiler wrote: post #29

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There is a significant majority of people in Canada who not only vocally decided to not go to US but discourage their friends from doing so too. People have judged me for driving through the states.

> People have judged me for driving through the states. Meanwhile it's perfectly acceptable, if not a point of pride, for Canadians to go to Cuba, which is not only run by an actual, kleptocratic dictatorship that imprisons dissidents for decades at a time, but is also the number #1 destination in the Americas for sex tourists, including child sex tourists, with the industry even tacitly sanctioned by the dictatorshi…

Cuba hasn't recently openly discussed plans to annex Canada by force, and to punish Canada economically for not acceding to this desire.
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