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> (as usual, the key blocking point that will need lots of work will be food, eve more than it is with the US, I wish we could scrap that entire part to get a v1 going quickly but alas it's not how trade deal work)

I mean food/dairy/autos (which is also a major EU issue) have been 90% of the issues with Canada/USA trade for decades too so I have my doubts of them figuring it out any better.

I guess Canada is way more motivated then ever before as rapid souring of the relationship with the USA from this point would be a near economic collapse for them.


CETA (the existing EU/CA one) is also being bogged down in some country including my own (France) because of some food issues, so I think everyone involved knows.

And while you're correct about Canada being extra motivated at the moment; so is the EU. It's such an absurd situation that we know the "urgent pivot need" might slow down a lot if adult come back in charge in the US. Same reason why so many want to sign so quickly, it's like gold on a platter AND Canada win too, you don't spit on that offer.


> but they need to federalize

That's not happening or if it did they'd lose a third of the members doing it.


> If it did they'd lose a third of the members doing it.

As a federalist, that would be fine for me. Make a two speed europe. EU stays primarily a trade block that the "federal EU" is in.


Go ahead, make my day.

I mean it's surprising to think you're 99% sure while being wildly off base. Everything in there require intent.

People don't invest in the US from Europe because they love the US, but rather because investments in Europe are shitty.



Alphabet is issuing Euro bonds in big tranches. Euro, not dollar. They diversify away from the dollar: https://www.reuters.com/business/alphabet-taps-euro-bond-mar...


What are you joking Canada has nothing. Seriously look what they actually export they're a natural resource depot for the US. They don't even refine their own products.


> They don't even refine their own products.

Sure, they were the world's largest producer of raw uranium ores until 2009, since which they've run second.

But it's simply wrong to claim Canada doesn't engage in raw mineral refinement, still to this day the McClean Lake uranium mill remains one of the world’s largest uranium processing facilities producing refined Triuranium octoxide (U3O8).


I mean they caved because they don't have a choice. Look at how their economies have done since the great recession.


Like what? The big one people always try to bring up when they make coy statements like this is Roe v. Wade but no one thought that was a strong ruling. Even later justices who were strong proponents of women's right to chose like Ruth Bader Ginsburg thought it was a shit ruling.


I was actually thinking of them overturning Humphrey's executor vs United States....


Roe v Wade and the resulting multi-decade clusterfuck is because your Congress are weak-willed pussies who are unable to actually work through a legislative process to find a consensus.

Yes, it took decades, but in Australia our various states have worked through the "it's criminal" -> "It's criminal but not enforced" -> "we're deliberately vague and won't prosecute doctors" -> "we have a legal framework that makes abortion legal up to {20,22,24} weeks on demand, after which it requires the consensus of two independent medical opinions".

The US needs to do the same. Yes, it will take decades. No, it shouldn't because abortion is a medical procedure, but religion is a scourge.


The OP doesn't understand what they are configuring they have Cloudflare setup as a proxy.


It's not AI the BBC is just that bad at news. Serious read anything by them at it's like they hate real information and just want random ass quotes from people.


Almost all my tool/skill scripts are in python purely because the standard library has almost everything under the sun in it.


Are you familiar with the Go standard library? It’s notorious for its comprehensiveness and how often you can write zero dependency applications as a result.

And there’s a reason: the Go designers were huge Python fans, so leaned on its design quite a bit. They essentially wanted to make a modern Python with first class support for static typing and highly scalable parallelism, not just concurrency.


It's too late to edit, but in retrospect I realize that the first sentence of that comment sounded awfully snarky, and I didn't mean it to. I apologize, and please trust it was asked in good faith.


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