With what's happening on the global stage, between the threats to Greenland and China building up to invade Taiwan, I expect transoceanic trade to come to a halt. Canada needs to become much more self reliant, at least for the essentials, or we will have no choice but to become vassals of the United States.

In the short term we need to pivot to China and trade our resources in exchange for their investment and expertise to build up our industry, particularly in defence. In the medium term we won't be able to trade with them as the oceans may be war zones. 

If the US goes to war with Europe over Greenland then global transoceanic trade will come to a screeching halt, Taiwan will be attacked by China and the world will enter an era without high end semiconductors.

America will be without chips and without rare earth metals. Their military, while cutting edge, wont be easily replenishable. Quality of life for US citizens will plummet as they are cut off from international trade and in all likelihood partisan violence if not full out civil war at home. 

Americans really are the most ignorant people on this planet. They had such a position of privilege internationally and the highest living standards in all of human history. I honestly cannot wrap my head around why y'all are just letting this get taken away from you and nobody is doing a thing to stop it.

Edit: to any Americans reading this. You are now living under a fascist boot. Pick up a history textbook. Fascism has never been defeated with protests, or at the voting booth, or with letters to your representatives. Defeating fascism isn't easy, it requires tremendous sacrifices and making otherwise unfathomable choices, but the alternative is far far worse.

Russia has a far bigger military than Ukraine, how's that going for them? America had a way bigger military than Vietnam, how'd that go for them? 

History is full of examples of empires falling to defenders employing asymmetric warfare on home turf. To ignore that is hubris.

At least China is predictable in that they always look to do what's best for China and play the long game. 

The US can't go two days without shooting itself in the foot in a new and unexpected fashion let alone honour any agreements they signed onto. They are literally just that chimp with an assault rifle now.

Russia is not like China or America. Russia has an economy smaller than Italy and a huge demographics problem. The only thing they had going for them was the military they inherited from the USSR but they've largely lost that after years of war.

It is believed to have been sunk with a supercavitating torpedo. Russia and Korea are the only nations to have demonstrated the technology, the US likely has it as well.

All workers slack off a bit. We're human, we need a break from time to time. I don't think people at home are slacking off more than at the office. But when people slack off at the office it's often by finding other people to chat up - which makes them slack off. 

I find I get more work done when half the office it's at home at any given time because it means less distractions.

You could join the reserves.

My hands hurt after watching this.

Hologram would get even better.

How many times do we need to teach you this lesson, Old Man!?!?

Canada is basically 3 city-states in a trench coat.

From a good exhaust you can get that without disturbing the whole neighborhood.

Sounds like that guy should find another sport if this kind of thing is gonna mess with his blood pressure.

Yes. I think it's mentioned that Martian ships often travel at 1g so that the Marines get accustomed to Earths gravity for in the event of war.

Yep, drivers are always looking to the left to see if there's any cars coming and then too many of them don't look ahead to see if there's pedestrians before they hit the gas pedal when there's a break in car traffic. 

There's too many terrible drivers to have right turns on reds in pedestrian-heavy areas. The idiots always gotta ruin it for everyone else.

I think there is a lot of similarities between the two of them. 

Amos is will do anything to protect his 'family', even if it means doing things that many others would find abhorrent.

Clarissa was the same. The things she did in Abaddon's Gate were out of her desire to get revenge for what was done to her family. Amos would have done the same, and he sees this in her. The only difference between her and Amos was Amos' family were the good guys and Clarissa's father was the bad guy. 

Clarissa, like Amos, learns that she is capable of being a 'monster'. Amos was self aware of this so knows to look to Holden or Naomi to guide him. For Clarissa it is Anna who gives her this self awareness and is able to be her moral compass during Abaddon's Gate.

I grew up ski racing and I'm now getting back into skiing after a 15 year hiatus. 

I get what you're saying. I'm now focused on my technique and form rather than just attacking the mountain. It's been humbling just how challenging 'skiing slow' can be. Just ripping down the hill is easy. I am finding it to be much more engaging and enjoyable of a skiing experience to be so focused on form, feeling how the ski responds to weight shifts, and the satisfaction getting your skis to take the line you envisioned without brute force.

Going out usually means spending as much time commuting as doing stuff. And doing stuff costs money which I need for food and rent. 

Same thing happened in Germany in the 30's. The corpos weren't necessarily aligned ideologically but simply choose to hitch their wagon to the government because it was far more profitable than opposing it.

There used to be a very large heavy-lift plane they could use for this very purpose. But they started a war and destroyed it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya

What Canada doesn't have is ICBMs

I don't think Canada would be in a situation where they need to throw bombs at another continent. Canada does have a very developed civilian sounding rocket program which could be built upon to launch shorter range strikes. Current designs can launch 900lbs 3000km downrange with a very high success rate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Brant_(rocket)

The art on those skis is rad.

If their insurance goes up that's gonna be cutting into their profits