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The VPD released the name and current charges. Asian male, currently 8 murder charges, victims from 5 to 65.

Frankly the VPD and City Hall have to answer as to why they didnt use the standard dump truck road blocks that they use for functionally every other city event.

Yeah, but it's like fusion. It's always 20 years away for the last 60 years.

Realistically, as a dev who watched AI develop from cheap parlor tricks to very expensive and ecosystem crunching fancy parlor tricks that mangers think will replace all of their expensive staff who actually know how to design and create:

Modern "AI" is fundamentally incapable of actual thought. They are very advanced and impressive statistical engines, but the technology is incapable of thinking at a fundamental level.

Yeah, twenty years from now at the very least.

Yeah except China needs Canadian resources just like the US does, and they have a one in 2 centuries chance to deprive the US of resources.

Trick is that Vancouver is a massive port complex and can pick up the slack for the US pacific ports.

And knowing how Richmond, BC operates, expect to see a lot of sudden Chinese business activity where things are being "finished" in Canada then shipped to the US.

laughs in the Port of Vancouver

Every week I pass by a starbucks at a major transit hubin Canada.

Used to be a big blocker with the crowd of40-50 people at all times waiting to either order or pickup.

Since feb it is below 8 people. The local coffee shop across the street, and even the Canadian fast food place that serves good breakfast though, they got a lot of new business.

He has already made multiple comments on how he wants free access to Canadian water.

It was also a significant issue that almost derailed the original NAFTA, and is the reason that agreement had some of its nastier trap regulations.

He is already refusing to honor decades old agreements on the Columbia River, because he wants to just take it all.

If his goons create shortages in the US, they can work public opinion into trying to take it from Canada.

Because Biden opposed him.

Cynically, it increases US water usage and will make water more expensive in the US, allowing him and his ilk to push for an invasion of Canada.

They started buying up the rare earth mines in South America in the late 2000s.

This is literally what their belt and road initative is built to hedge against.

If the US hadnt just pissed off all of its allies, it might stand a chance against China, which has been preparing for this for at least 20 years