This is the most well balanced ebike comment I’ve ever read. You should join my community Facebook trails page, as it’s the most unhinged nonsense you’ve ever read. Ebikes have done everything from molesting and physically assaulting these poor people, to completely decimating their trails and their mental well being. Won’t somebody think of all their hard work!!? (Which PS none of them would even know what a shovel feels like in a hand)
My last two PSUs have both been Corsair, absolutely without issue, and both are/were startlingly quiet. I have absolute faith the first one would still be ticking along just fine, if it wasn’t for newer GPUs that pretty much demand thermonuclear fusion levels of energy.
I mean this game is a banger, and the Williams’s contributions to gaming history is all time, but wtf is this and how is it an actual article?
How much debt are you in?
So I had a 2070 in mine, and updated last year to a 4070ti. I’m not going to lie to you here, the difference hasn’t been earth shattering. I mean it’s obviously better, but if you are gaming in 1080p, you should still be good for a bit yet. Games are released so horrendously optimized anymore, it doesn’t matter if you have your own personal nuclear power plant powering a video card the size of Texas, it’s still going to suck.
What card do you currently use?
But it’s ENHANCED this time.
Now shut up and give us your money. We have shareholders to enrich, won’t anyone just think about the shareholders…
That’s just it though. The top managers who make these decisions will probably be fine, half of them are probably at their desk this morning. It’s always everyone else that has to pay the price for their management missteps.
I just don’t have any animosity towards any of these people. Are they the ones acting like lunatics? No. So why hold them accountable for others poor behaviors? Especially in Vancouver, that’s holding people accountable for a foreign actors actions. It’s kind of lunacy when you think of it.
He’ll get taken care of, one way or another, I have no doubt on that. When people go to buy a car, I’m pretty sure a large portion of them are going to be pretty turned off by all of this, I know I am. I won’t be racing down to buy another one anytime soon. But I am not holding myself accountable and complicit for a purchase I made a year and a half ago. Especially when it wasn’t clear that Trump even had the Republican nomination until late summer 2024, and Elon didn’t endorse Trump until July 2024. We all knew he was a bit of a child, but I dont think Joe Consumer could have foreseen all of this at time of purchase, even with Cybertruck orders. So why hold these people to blame?
Society in large numbers is pretty weird, on both sides of the political spectrum. Donald Trump isn’t even the biggest evil that faces us either, it’s what empowers him, and that’s social media.
I desperately wanted one of those a couple years ago, but no dice. It was largely a paper launch in Canada. Still don’t see them very often either.
100% markup on exported hydro. Pull of the kid gloves, fuck this guy. Get at us if you have a problem, FAFO
I’m kinda over this dude.
Just shut the fuck up and get it started already, sick of your threats.
Message for everyone else down there: FAFO
It’ll be unplayable. GTA Online as it is, is barely enjoyable and mostly unplayable.
The Chyna flu
No doubt we have a lot of production capabilities, and you are right, I’m sure you could piece most of the rest together. The marketplace is the biggest conundrum, I would propose. All those manufacturing facilities are in SW Ontario, so the only way to get them to other markets (which is going to be necessary here, because the Canadian marketplace isn’t big enough), it is going to involve ocean liners. Which is feasible, but your margins are going to get cooked here. There’s too much risk.
This ain’t the industry Canada needs to double down on, in a suddenly protectionist world. It’s natural resources, and maybe service related. And hopefully all sorts of other industries that we aren’t even thinking about.
I’m worried too. I was born and raised in SW Ontario, so most of my family and friends work in some sort of auto manufacturing or automotive-related industry. It’s already been pretty bad the past decade or so, this will likely be the death knell if it grows legs.
Fun fact, did you know that there was actually even electric cars made in the late 1800s? Some even in Canada. Car companies in this era all eventually failed though, or merged into other companies. There wasn’t ever really any production volumes in auto until Oldsmobile and Ford came onto the scene, especially with the latter who established the golden standard of auto production lines.
I wasn’t guessing. I cut my teeth in automotive. I have an education in automotive engineering, amongst other things, and I have extensive working experience at both the retailer, and Tier 1 and 2 manufacturing experience earlier in my career. Not proclaiming to be the end all be all, or the smartest person in the world, or that I know much of anything, but I’m also far from being the village idiot on this topic.
It ain’t happening bud, I’m sorry. There’s not enough marketplace to recover the costs, it would be complicated to transport finished goods to other markets, especially considering that most of the manufacturing facilities are located in southern Ontario. Which means you’d have to pretty much stick everything on a ship, and that adds costs, versus trucking to the states. It obviously can be done, easily enough, but it cuts into margins at higher production levels. Margins aren’t high in this industry, and the labour is mostly unionized, or very quickly will be if it’s not, and that adds a dearth of costs. Volatility in commodities pricing alone would be enough to knock something like this into non-profitable territory. It likely wouldn’t be profitable for a decade either. Even look at something like Tesla, it took them 17 years to turn a profit, and it actually doesn’t really turn a profit from its cars, it’s actually from the sale of environmental credits.
If you are going to see any automotive investment and new OEMs, something like a new Tesla or whatever, it’s almost certainly going to be in Europe, not North America. Donald Trump has all but guaranteed that there’s not going to be one dime spent in deepening or expanding automotive manufacturing capabilities spent here, for quite a while, likely a decade or more if he keeps it up. Canada has learned its lesson here, and I would imagine if anything happens in the automotive sector, it’ll be a contraction, not an expansion. Even as close as four of five months ago, there have been new plans launched for factory expansion and construction of tier 1 suppliers in Southwestern Ontario, but I would bet you that’ll be off now. We’ll have to wait and see though, only those closest to the projects will know, and nobody else’s crystal ball can predict the future.
And let’s not even begin to consider that China is foaming at the mouth to dump mostly state backed, very viable electric cars here, for a fraction of the price tag that we’ve been paying. We aren’t going to be able to block that off forever, they’ll find a way around the tariffs eventually. How are you going to compete with that?
Yeah I don’t know about it being fact that we are that much smarter. Polls aren’t yet going to be a good predictor, we are too far out from the election. It can only take the temperature of the mood in the past, not at present moment or in the future. This election hasn’t even really actually begun yet, this is just the circling of the wagons phase.
Sure hope you are right on that last paragraph, but I’ve lost a lot of hope these past few years.
Sure, and me too, for sure. The issue is, unfortunately, the greater electorate has issues with allowing the opposing parties to twist it around and use it against them. A lot of people only believe what’s put in front of them. All it takes is a pieced together YouTube clip of him saying this with some other point they are trying to make, and it can be incredibly damaging.
Likely because the vast majority of reddit users in 2025 are bots. It’s just a bunch of bots talking to each other, with a few incels sprinkled in here and there.