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A.I. has rapidly settled into Chinese work and life. People in China often regard technology with less wariness than Americans do, because living standards have improved so dramatically in the computing era. In the nineteen-seventies, more than seventy per cent of the population worked in agriculture; today, that figure is less than twenty-five per cent.
~ Evan Osnos via The New Yorker

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In 1990, Pat Buchanan, the intellectual grandfather of the MAGA movement, declared that if Quebec ever broke off from Canada, America should “pick up the pieces.” This now seems to be, if not the publicly stated U.S. policy toward Canada, then at least the predator clan’s policy: pressure the economy, break up the federation, pick up the pieces. And no, it is not a joke.
~ Anne Applebaum via The Atlantic

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Campus Trivia

Question: What was Canada’s population growth over the five decades leading to 2020?

The decade-by-decade population growth of Canada between 1970 and 2020 is as follows:

  1. 1970 – 21,324,000
  2. 1980 – 24,516,071 (15.0%)
  3. 1990 – 27,691,138 (13.0%)
  4. 2000 – 30,685,730 (10.8%)
  5. 2010 – 34,004,889 (10.8%)
  6. 2020 – 38,005,238 (11.8%)

via Wikipedia

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