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  • Even if that happened, you'd just end up with Vance as president. If you somehow remove both Trump and Vance, you get Mike Johnson. The US has effectively no mechanism to force new elections - in Westminster style parliament, a majority 'no' vote on certain legislation (i.e. budget) immediately triggers dissolution of parliament and an election must happen. A party can also call a vote of no-confidence, which will do the same thing if it passes.

    There's also another "oh shit" button that can be pushed for those of us still beholden to the Crown, which is King Charles can mandate the dissolution of government unilaterally, which actually happened once in Australia.

  • Timberborn, much like Factorio was, is definitely worthy of an early access purchase, the devs have been constantly updating and improving, and are very proactive with addressing bugs. The next major update adds some really neat features as well.

  • This would be a great opportunity for Canadian schools to grab up some of these students. Set up a credit transfer arrangement and some sort of challenge/audit system for courses in progress. Give this guy an engineering degree from McMaster/UoT/Queens/Western/etc and he can add to our pool of educated workers instead.

  • refining is still an issue that needs solving, as we do send oil to the US to be refined and buy the product back. I know for a long time it was considered un-economical to refine our own oil due to the volume:cost issues, but maybe that might change now?

  • There almost needs to be another item in that list that is "Made in Canada by Canadians, with Canadian ingredients, but the company is not Canadian-owned" - i.e. Canadian Lay's chips are 100% made in Canada, so they get to put that label on their products, but the money still goes to PepsiCo.

  • Probably analogous to command economy? Basically all industry is centrally planned, so it's not company A decides it wants to make some widget and company b decides they want to use company A's widget in their new product that they've independently decided to make. The government says we need

    <product>

    which needs

    <widget>

    , thus company A shall make

    <widget>

    and company B will use

    <widget>

    to make

    <product>

    .

    This is by no means an accurate representation of the whole system or an opinion on either, but just to give a simple idea of the difference.