4) start being serious about guarding the Can-US border to pandemic diseases, testing all travellers and issuing severe criminal penalties for americans travelling covid+. Like life in prison serious.
If we *have* to have a national hockey league, we should *actually* have a national hockey league. ie the US is not part of our nation and these corporate abominations should no longer be considered as part of OUR national hockey league. Bonus points: wipe all american teams off the stanley cup.
instead of an 11th solution i'm going to simply crosspost what i posted to fb today
Instead of proposing a solution to the tariff situation today I would like to take a step back and point out one way that politicians and others who think about the tariff situation, including experts responsible for responding to it, are likely to systematically come to the wrong answer unless they take steps to avoid doing so : Availability Bias [0]
When you're presented with a problem to solve [1], no matter how smart or educated you are, in order to consider the solution to the problem at hand you are likely to start with the solutions that are more similar to 'available' features of the problem or details immediately at hand. Even if they aren't the best or even a good solution - - from the neuron level up, parts of your brain which are more recently used (ie by thinking about the problem as posed) can 'recall' more recent details. These neurons are more ready to fire, ready to fire quicker, the details easier to remember, easier to give more fully and generally are mentally 'available'. It takes critical thinking to go through proposed solutions to weigh costs and benefits and to weigh whether or not they fit at all. It is much easier to just come up with a quick answer if the question as posed primes the problem solver with sufficient details for a potential solution. And if no critical thinking is done the solutions proposed are likely to be suboptimal, to say the least[12].
Potential solutions usually feel easier and feel more relevant than solutions you haven't thought about. Even if you've barely started thinking about a problem. Good Thinking[3] involves knowing that available solutions may not be the full set or even a representative set of solutions. Especially for complex problems with important consequences it is important[8] to not fall into the trap of just responding with an easily available, but bad solution.
There are various studies that have looked into whether or not availability bias exists and how much of a problem it can be. It has been the sort of thing that psychology has been looking into over the past 50-60 years or so, especially in labs run by people like Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman[2][4]. While there is a general problem with reproducibility in psychology research[5] including some of the research into the mechanisms involved in availability bias[6] the general problem consistently remains regardless of exactly how it works[7].
There are ways to specifically diffuse availability bias[9] if you suspect you are affected by it - mostly involving refusing to make a snap decision, reviewing more information and considering things more carefully and systematically. Getting your problem in writing can help, too and putting more of the problem solving work on paper/computer where it can be solved in a more rigorous way can help. There are many problems that once you fully state you can bring mathematics to help with solving for example. But sometimes the solution is to do nothing at all - to just let the universe do its thing and to let makyo and apparent problems dissolve themselves. Regardless of the best way to approach or even consider a problem[10] -- if you can avoid the pitfalls of availability bias generally, your problem solving will be just that much better generally.
Especially when emotions are involved, and people are excited[11] it is tempting to come to a quicker response and to short out rational thinking into a quick decision. And if you hear of a politician responding to an emotionally-charged problem, very quickly after it is presented, with a solution that sounds exactly like the problem(ie Trudeau coming to the conclusion that tariffs must be fought with tariffs, that a loss of an eye must be met with a loss of an eye, etc) -- you can bet that availability bias is likely in play.
While sometimes there really *is* a need for a proportional and equal response that looks exactly like the solution that you'd come up with with availability bias -- it is worth considering that if someone is biased that they could be making a mistake. Don't make the same mistake they are making just because they are too lazy to engage in good, rational thinking.
9) Sell #Iran a couple of CANDU reactors, canadian uranium (eg from Cameco $TSE:CCO), and offer to staff their nuclear power plants with canadian technicians (for a reasonable fee of course), and turn a blind eye in case they use said CANDU reactors for refining Pu239. Help Iran reach an age of nuclear renaissance [and make sure that Israel is under no illusions that it can kill canadian technicians without harsh response]
12) generally fix 2016 bill C-23 to stop allowing Preclearance for american travellers, stop allowing US customs officials to detain canadian citizens/PRs on canadian soil, and end US customs officials blanket immunity to breaches of canadian rights.
@Turdicus@Humpleupagus@Billy_Hughes@lord_nougat 2nd last blood test says no and last HIV test says no. I haven't gotten my last blood test's results but i'm assuming if there was something like that in them i would have been told by now(generally no news is good news).
@jeffcliff When it comes to the giant boot hanging over us that is the US, we should be as non threatening and non confrontational for as long as possible in order to buy enough time to build domestic industry, a decent military, and all the things that constitute a country.
@sun@jeffcliff@parker@poastoak I do too, apart from the anti-Americanism, we have a ton in common. If they want to join the mess that's us I want it to be on their terms. Still, everyone up there getting in a huff and pretending it's 1812 again because Trump's running his mouth is pretty sad. Americans don't want war after the last 20+ years, and they sure as hell don't want war with Canada. The man's senile but the people around him aren't.