Ah yes, spending public money to fund a foreign proxy war by a country that’s threatening to invade you is totally a thing sovereign countries do.

China should just start sailing between Newfoundland and start funding a separatist movement there in response.

Yes, Scotty is a complete and utter imbecile. You kind of have to be one to be a raging racist.

Have you ever considered just fucking off back to reddit and doing your fascist circle jerk there?

The only undeniable fact here is that you’re a raging racist dedicated to spreading sinophobic propaganda.

What’s happening here is that the US is getting Canada to fund their proxy war. Incredible how people are dumb enough to cheer for this.

The money will be used to buy munitions from the United States. Despite pressure from the war with Iran, the United States will be able to meet Ukraine’s needs, Carney says.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/ctv-news-in-armenia-pm-carney-announces-270m-in-military-aid-for-ukraine

And yes, it is literally an American proxy war as has been now publicly admitted by no lesser person than the US Secretary of State. https://thehill.com/homenews/5179806-russia-us-proxy-war-ukraine

Whom would Europe help defend Canada from realistically. You genuinely think that Europe would fight the US if they invaded? Meanwhile, it is still very much a US proxy war that’s being directed and supplied by Washington. The whole context of the discussion is that Canada is paying for US weapons here. What’s happening is not difficult to understand. The US is using its vassals to fund the proxy war while it pivots to Asia. This is precisely what Hegseth said would be happening. https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/article/4064571/hegseth-calls-on-nato-allies-to-lead-europes-security-rules-out-support-for-ukr/

I just keep forgetting how we have so many shared values that we have to defend in Ukraine. https://nv.ua/ukr/lifestyle/spisok-pidarasiv-u-budanova-pomitili-nezvichniy-bloknot-50603357.html

The question is why Canada is buying US equipment for the US proxy war and how that helps Canadians in any way.

Right, there’s nothing wrong with disagreement because it just means people have different perspectives. Discussing these perspectives in a civilized fashion creates a more complete understanding for everybody. That’s what debates are meant for, people present their positions and defend them, so that the counterparty can point out problems or inconsistencies. And through this process you build shared understanding of things.

But when debate happens in our media is just a spectacle of idiots yelling at one another and talking over each other incoherently. And that’s presented as providing different views. There’s no depth, no substance, and no actual debate happening. It’s just a bunch of people yelling I’m right.

And that’s a broader problem in the media too now where there’s no more investigative journalism. The media outlets simply parrot whatever the official narrative is, there’s no analysis, no historical context, and no push back. In a sense, the only real debate happening is the one between mainstream and social media. And, in a way, it’s kind of hilarious how regular people do a better job explaining things now than professional news outlets. Hence why social media is winning the debate.

lol basically and it’s also hard to make decent crossplatform GUIs

Yeah, it’s just a complete farce. Also, Chinese companies are clearly playing the long game. By making the models open they ensure that a global ecosystem develops around them, researchers get attracted to them, companies end up using them because they can tune them. And all of this helps turn these models into standards everybody uses going forward. Nobody is going to want to deal with weird proprietary APIs from the American companies because the quality difference simply doesn’t justify it.

True, but how can the US defend their hegemony? People will see the better phones, the nicer clothes and the better entertainment from China.

They can’t, but the rulers don’t care about the people or their wellbeing. They are just a resource to extract value from. The life for the average American will get worse, but as we see in places like Latin America, people will likely accept it. You’ll see a situation where 80% of the population lives in favelas and then top 20% continue as if nothing happened.

They remove our freedom and take our energy intense processes but I don’t see the full destruction.

It will happen. Europe is being pushed into a war with Russia right now, and unless something dramatically changes there will either be a crisis of austerity or an all out war. Either way, I don’t see a path where things in Europe start getting better unless relations with Russia are normalized.

As long as it takes. Like on a ship, mutinity is not useful if you need access to harbours.

What do they need access for exactly? The power oligarchs wield is a social contract. Once that contract is gone they’re at the mercy of their own security forces. They have no way to exercise power over them.

I agree but the negotiation position of the US elite is declining. Why don’t they make the deal now? Why the war? Iran will demand reparations and China will grant it.

I feel like we’re going in circles here. I’ve already explained this above. The purpose of the war in Iran is to cut Asia off from cheap energy, slow its development, and make more countries become dependent on the US energy exports. Then create problems from China to slow its development and trade. Exactly the same formula playing out with Europe and Russia right now, except transplanted to Asia. China having to grant reparation to Iran will itself be a drain on resources. Everything China will have to do to stabilize its region is resources that cannot be spent on further advancement.

Mercy for the colonized and the benefits of the world working together. I don’t expect conquests but I expect that they will dismantle US hegemony, to remove its threat and to liberate its people. Free healthcare for all. That doesn’t mean a war against the US but support for opposition parties in Latin America.

Sure, and the US will, in turn, pursue their strategy of doing piracy in the western hemisphere, abucting heads of governments, coups, regime change operations, and so on. There is a long history of them doing this in Latin America. And USSR providing help to these countries did not change the course of things. There’s little reason to expect that China can do better here.

The US doesn’t have the population to compete with China. If they can get the European immigrants that is not such a big problem but without good schools in Europe that’s throwing away too many resources.

The idea will be to turn Europe into something akin to Latin America. There will be compadre regimes which will allow the US to continue to extract labor and resources. If the relative living standards in the US will be higher, then a lot of upper middle class will want to migrate to escape the conditions. They will have nowhere else to go because, let’s face it, Europeans are far too racist to migrate to China.

I don’t expect that. I expect that the US wants Europe to fight for them, to occupy Russia while the US take care of China.

It’s pretty clear that Europe doesn’t have the capacity to occupy Russia, but I agree that throwing Europe into a war with Russia is very much where the US is steering things.

LMFAO

I’ve been using opencode for actual projects at work. DeepSeek v4 can code up a lot of stuff fairly confidently. If you give it clear requirements, tell it to make a phased plan, use TDD, and commit after each phase, it tends to produce decent code. I just do code reviews against the diff and then tell it to fix anything I don’t like. It’s also great for spelunking through large codebaes. You can easily trace through how an endpoint works for example, get it to write stuff like sample curl queries, etc.

But the thing is that you don’t actually work all that much faster. You still have to review everything. You have to actually the app and make sure it works functionally. Like you basically can’t trust anything it does. So, it makes my life easier. I don’t have to look up API docs, figure out how random libraries work, or having to write a bunch of boilerplate. But it doesn’t replace me, and it doesn’t actually result in me working significantly faster.

brutalism can have a really great vibe to it

Yeah it looks really nice. I recall seeing pics of new hosing in the villages there and same idea.

That’s right, don’t look too closely at how the machinery works.

it’s always good when people out themselves like that

Oh it’s very much that. Every single study that’s come out on companies adopting AI shows that it makes no meaningful difference to productivity. So, it’s very clearly just an excuse to do layoffs.