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Over-estimating is just as dangerous. People -- and our governments -- keep getting surprised by this pattern of behaviour because we pig-headedly refuse to admit the truth.

In order for our countries to plan economic matters, and defense and intelligence and more -- we need to expect the same patterns of stupidity and irrationality as we've seen demonstrated time and time again. This doesn't mean all the actions will be stupid -- folks like Putin other intelligent evildoers are in the mix of those who are manipulating the president. But they have shown a lack of ability to fully control the irrational behaviour from surfacing in policy whims.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me thousands of times... c'mon at some point we have to learn.

We’ve all been conditioned to not accuse our political opponents of being stupid.

For one, it can cause you to underestimate your opponents — you don’t want to be caught unawares of some secret plan.

Second, there’s an aspect of pettiness to just labeling your opponents dumb. Most often people attribute “stupid” to “I don’t understand this”. For example, the idea of it being stupid for poor people in Kentucky or whatever to vote against their interests and aid billionaires and oppose their own healthcare — when it’s not stupid, it’s a misunderstanding of how important identity politics are to these groups.

Third, there’s a pushback to the “Jon Stewart effect”, where we sit back and laugh about how our opponents are dumb and we smugly know we are smarter. This is an excuse to do nothing, and it’s an ugly impulse and we must fight it.

But all this conditioning — and more — has led us to a point where we can’t actually recognize stupid when it’s staring us in the face.

The video doesn’t show evidence of this being a planned out endeavour.

For it to be grift, those people would have had to benefitted from the dip in some way. But that’s not what this shows, it’s just billionaires having their shares go down in value because of trumps idiocy and then back up from the whiplash when he erratically reversed course.

Spraytan is trying to ingratiate himself to these rich assholes by taking credit for their gains by wilfully ignoring their losses were inflicted by him.

This is not to say that no one in the administration is using this for their own gains. It’s entirely likely that some are.

I’m just super sick of this narrative that Trump secretly has some master plan when we have 40+ years of well documented evidence about how stupid this man is.

Oh my gourd please stop

He is a failed nepo baby whose only successes in life were being a hired hand on a reality tv show and accidentally stumbling into politics via undisguised racism.

He

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Moron

The burden is on people who understand what the notwithstanding clause means to explain to the less educated how dangerous this game is.

Do any of your friends and family know what this clause means? Every time I bring up the topic outside of politically active circles, I get a blank stare.

This proposal is illustrative to what’s at stake here. I’ll write an opinion piece on this later today.

It’s important to the world to drop the “quietly” bit.

The US administration is behaving erratically and irrationally. This isn’t a punchline to some smug joke, it has important repercussions for world trade and defence needs.

Let’s cut the conspiracy theories about how they are doing this for graft, and the unfounded “4d chess” approaches. Some people in the administration may be trying to steer the government in these ways, but the captain of the ship is an unleashed chaos monkey surrounded by sycophantic yes-men.

The tariffs could double tomorrow or be gone tomorrow. The US could invade Greenland with a military force tomorrow or drop it completely move onto some shiny new idiocy.

We in the rest of the world need to move with urgency in order to be prepared for the worst. This is a tall task, so the longer we keep these admissions quiet the longer we are vulnerable

Yes exactly. A lower total cost of ownership taxi or delivery fleet or long haul trucking could provide the incentive for this type of deployment.

Because as the grandparent comment suggests, for routine use this type of infrastructure is not worth the expense. But once it’s there, that opens up possibilities for broader use cases.

If you're calculating best possible return on investment, nationally or in a more competitive riding would probably be the most useful. The national ads have been pretty high quality so far, such as the Mike Myers one, and many of the competitive ridings are ones that were completely unexpected and have few resources.

But also, life's too short to always just be about the best return on investment. I was happy to help support my friend, she was absolutely tickled pink to be able to tell her fellow volunteers that she brought in a donor. And yes, because doing something petty can feel good too.

In order to support a friend of mine lives in this riding — she’s been braving Ottawa weather going door -to-door for Fanjoy, despite being in her 60s — I donated the max allowed to Fanjoy.

Ok fine. The “in support” is only half true, the other part is that I’m a petty dork who would take tremendous joy in being a small part in seeing PP lose his own seat.

Edit: I just refreshed my Home feed and saw your Fanjoy post there. Great work.

We’re not going this way, he’s going into the trash heap where he belongs on April 28.

You’re absolutely correct that this is not needed for routine usage. Level 1 charging is sufficient for most routine cases, and level 2 charging is sufficient for the rest.

The main use case for this super-fast technology is for cases where the vehicles are in constant use, such as taxis and long-haul trips. These are doable with level 2/3 but not ideal and are still areas where ICE are dominant.

So while not strictly required, this technology will be useful to make further inroads if we can get the infrastructure to accompany it. Which as the article suggests, is no small feat.

(Unrelated, I have the same car as you. Ioniq gets all the attention but the Kona is such a great EV!)

Hyundai and their sister company Kia make some great EVs! I drive one (Kona EV) and I’m very happy with it.

I’m not sure what you mean by “Electra” though… they have Elantra but that’s only ICE or hybrid as far as I know. Maybe I’m missing an inside joke or something :)