Payment for services rendered.

That’s exactly how long you can stay in the country under the visa waver program.

If you have to stay longer you can get a B1/B2 visa.

This whole DeepSeek freakout seems like an Op by the AI grifters to get more money. “We have to defeat China at the new AI space race!”

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The thing is I don’t drive unless I’m carrying stuff, so a car without cargo space isn’t useful.

Minivans are the best. I own a DGC built in Ottawa. Reliable AF. Huge cargo capacity. Gets 21MPG on the highway. Basically use it as a truck, but it’s way more practical than a truck because the cargo capacity is more and your stuff doesn’t get wet when it rains.

Only real downsize is tow capacity.

That’s the thing, Canada is mostly a raw materials exporter and the main importer is US industry.

It’d basically be like when China tried to “Wolf-warrior” Australia and ended up with coal, pork and grain shortages.

So they’re definitely lying.

The question is why? Why make bonkers claims that defy credulity? The best theory I have is they can’t find a semi-plausible market for current or likely near future AI models that would justify the investment.

• Octopus: Antisemitic
• “Ok” hand gesture: Antisemitic
• Not buying a SodaStream: Antisemetic
• Nazi salute: Hey let’s not misinterpret this one!

Just going to leave this right here:

Dem’s donors are telling them to stand down because they think Trump will be good for business (cutting taxes, eliminating antitrust enforcement, cutting back consumer protection and workers rights, etc).

It’s the old Designated Villain

https://www.salon.com/2010/02/23/democrats_34/

One minute, it’s Jay Rockefeller as the Prime Villain leading the way in protecting Bush surveillance programs and demanding telecom immunity; the next minute, it’s Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Schumer joining hands and “breaking with their party” to ensure Michael Mukasey’s confirmation as Attorney General; then it’s Big Bad Joe Lieberman single-handedly blocking Medicare expansion; then it’s Blanche Lincoln and Jim Webb joining with Lindsey Graham to support the de-funding of civilian trials for Terrorists; and now that they can’t blame Lieberman or Ben Nelson any longer on health care (since they don’t need 60 votes), Jay Rockefeller voluntarily returns to the Villain Role, stepping up to put an end to the pretend-movement among Senate Democrats to enact the public option via reconciliation.

great electric vehicles

I mean, maybe an interviewer will tell you what they have if you ask, but HR and the recruiters will not, and the company policy is going to be “you will get your employee handbook and benefits selection guide after starting.”

He could just exchange clothes with Luigi…

One has to assume that his original plan was to “buy” it then stiff them on the bill.

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“This team used to be ten people, we’re laying 5 off”

“How are we expected to still get our work done?”

“You need to figure out how to use AI”

^-- how AI is really being used by companies to save money

but if we look at the countries on this planet that are the most successful in terms of economics, equality, personal freedom, human rights, etc. then we find countries that made it work through regulation and strong government institutions

Yeah that’s socialism. The best societies were all degrees of socialist, this includes western Europe and the USA at its mid-century peak. These societies all had aggressive, borderline confiscatory progressive taxation, large scale government intervention in the economy (in the US especially aggressive anti-trust), a generous social welfare state, and a large and professionalized civil service.

They also had large and well-organized labor unions capable of wielding power on behalf of their members and disrupting plans of the elites.

Remove those things and you quickly slide into a dystopian fascist nightmare state as the US and parts of Europe like the UK are discovering.

Cope how? I’m not a fan. The worst thing in the world for Lockheed would be if US’s adversaries decided they weren’t going to be designing any new weapons systems. Lockheed runs on fear of what’s next.