I sold most of my TSLA at 350, but kept a couple hundred to back some long calls at 400. Kinda wish I'd just unloaded it all, but those calls are likely to go unclaimed, so that's nice.
Well, I'm in no way an expert, but I expect there are asymmetrical responses we could take that would have much more impact on the USA than on Canada. Might just have to get a little creative.
For instance, revoking copyright and patent agreements would be a bit nuclear, but would destroy FAR more value for the USA than it would create for us.
It's exactly that reason why we need to respond forcefully and not get bullied. We are incredibly dependent on reliable, good faith trade. If we let them jerk us around, we get all the disadvantages and incredible uncertainty.
We have to stand up to the bully's demand for lunch money now or we'll never be rid of him.
The deal is between the provincial utility, which provides the electricity, and the state utility. In the USA, the federal government controls most resource rights. In Canada, it's the provinces. Comparatively, provinces are a lot more powerful than states are. As I understand it.
There are other options than tariffs! Export taxes. Changes in regulation. Contract cancelations.
Canada has many options. We could, for instance, withdraw from bilateral copyright agreements. Or limit the amount of electricity that's permitted to be exported.
Cory Doctorow suggests that we could establish Canadian app stores with a 5% cut and mandate that all phones sold in Canada be configured to use them. Lots of ideas, on a scale from good to bad, but there's options.
Yeah. For a government organization, turning a profit is stolen wages. Though a mandate to run zero profit can create a perverse incentive to 'spend money on lose it next year'. I'm not sure how to deal with that on a policy level but I'd like to see ideas on it.
I think we're on the same page. The idea that Crown corporations need to turn a profit is pretty ridiculous. It's a management framework. They should at least operate on a cost recovery basis within reason though. But the emphasis is to provide the service.
Yeah. It's a natural monopoly and should be nationalized into Crown corporations. This would allow the natural monopoly to be kept as minimal as possible and prevent it being used to leverage into other markets.
If BC Tel owned all the cellphone towers and fibre lines, we wouldn't have all these bullshit shenanigans with locking 3rd-party providers out of the market - they'd ALL be third-party providers.
We are of one mind on this. The USA got their balls chopped off in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, slinking off in ignominy after Raytheon made their billions. We'd kick them out of Canada, too.
It would suck, and we'd probably end up being run by dictators for a generation or two, but that's a problem we could face.
A few thousand soldiers isn't going to be spit in the wind against the US military. Might as well get some good training for them with Ukrainian drone operators against a larger foe.
I mean, yeah. We buy our eggs from a local farm. It's pretty great, they deliver it straight to my partner's workplace every week or two. Most eggs are torture-eggs, and we won't buy the Costco egg whites on that basis. However, my point is that "eggs by the gallon" is not farfetched!
I could see it also being a problem if you're trying to remove a cable with a stuck latch. Wiggle it around a bit, accidentally hold down the button... oops
Rob Bos @ rbos @lemmy.ca Posts 2Comments 619Joined 2 yr. ago
I sold most of my TSLA at 350, but kept a couple hundred to back some long calls at 400. Kinda wish I'd just unloaded it all, but those calls are likely to go unclaimed, so that's nice.