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It will. Either a useful example, or a horrible warning.

Incorrect. We are a people that manages to mostly vote for parties that create and then underfund massive social programs. That means, by definition, that every new undertaking is competing for borrowed money. The fiscal criticism is two-fold: that the governmental contributions are not the...

It's also, as stated, a tax on revenues, not on profits. That alone would be a sticking point.

The CA HSR boondoggle has been something I've noted over the years, but didn't think it's a useful comparison. Different geological and environmental challenges. CA HSR hopefully will end up being the worst-case example in NA. The useful point of comparison is the political pressure to finish...

A relationship based on socializing and sex, in which the man pays for essentially everything. How did this ever come to pass in the world?

Some cannot even decide what a woman is.

Oddly, I find it's possible to hold both beliefs in one head. Now that that's over, can we have less of the "how can you..." accusatory rhetoric?

Sure, I live in ignorance and never ask questions. I thought to sanity check one of the numbers. The graph is off by an order of magnitude, or perhaps I misinterpret what the author meant by "cumulative spending as % of gdp". Can't know without the source. What's the source?

For the conversation to be informed, the assumptions have to be reasonable/realistic. As I wrote, the time and cost assumptions are neither. I have no confidence in the numbers anyways. The 5-year construction period of the St Lawrence Seaway project shown in the graph presumably represents...

Possibly the understatement of the year. The media pants-wetting at every little setback someone manages to inflict on the US is staggering.

This is sure to soothe tempers... "Alberta pipeline could receive federal financing through Indigenous loan guarantee program: energy minister" Cheerfully announcing that there might be federal money for investment in infrastructure, but the resulting benefits must flow to a very few selected...

Sure, if the claim is accurate and the goal is - as some articles phrase it - "completely clear". How long to clear satisfactory shipping lane(s) which allow traffic to hit pre-war levels?

So the argument now is supposed to be that it's because they were women, not the reasons enumerated in the press? We don't know that. There is a complicating factor. Women tend to support (more than men) the kinds of identity politics that Hegseth is manifestly - by his own statements -...

According to this, complete by 2043. 17 years, not 15. Comparing the project cost to completed projects is comparing an unknown quantity to known ones. Doesn't look good when the time is cheated a bit and the currently estimated cost is treated as if it's at all likely to be the true cost.

Of course, but in the context of this thread, people who keep peddling "but this war something something China and Taiwan" ought to stop peddling their "safety concerns" as something that deserves attention.

That part I see differently. To me, the only thing remotely close to what China would need to achieve is the Normandy invasion. They aren't going to be able to establish a lodgement in some undefended area and muster there for a push on defended areas (Falklands). They aren't going to start...

Floor-crossing has been studied. It's generally concluded to be a self-interested act, irrespective of what is said in front of cameras. [Add: best way to reconcile with reality is that whatever "contract" a voter thinks he was getting from a candidate - party, issue, leader, etc - at the...

Maybe. I've concluded that countries actually involved in fighting learn more than countries observing from sidelines, even with the advice of active participants. How much institutional inertia and bias have Ukraine's experiences overcome among various observers? China isn't immune to the...

This sentiment keeps cropping up. What is the foundation for it? China might be loving this if it were ready to move right now. If China can't move right now and a result of all this is that the US approximately permanently increases : stockpiles (and customary stockpile targets)...

I suppose it can't be stressed enough: the lack of foreign competition is because the government wants it that way. For some reason(s) the government wants Canadian corporations to hold and operate the assets of Canadian telecommunications infrastructure. It isn't as if the government is shy...