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We should shift our perspective on our native-born citizens. Because they're such a massive economic drain we should _stop_ investing in them completely. I know it sounds radical but hear me out. We can realize higher economic utility for our society if A) we stop all investments in non-skilled, non-working-age citizens and B) export those people who are a burden on our society (children, the elderly, the sick, people who enjoy EDM, you get it).

In this way Canada can achieve higher economic utility for itself. I'm imagining a system where everyone in the society is brought in on a temporary basis. They are imported after their post-secondary education and exported maybe 10 years before their retirement. In this way we avoid all the costs associated with having "people" in our country and instead we reap the economic reward of their labor!

I guess I shouldn't say "our" country. I would be exported fairly quickly... But! To those glorious (and brave) few on the executive committee entrusted to leading Canada Inc. through these difficult times, the society they get to inhabit will undoubtedly be the economic envy of the world!


I wrote a library for animating image backgrounds on the web using After Effects style filters and transitions:

https://aeroheim.github.io/midori/

It's basically a post-processing pipeline implemented with Three.js and WebGL using a few shaders that I wrote.

I created it primarily because I needed it for one of my current projects, so the use case is fairly niche and mostly only relevant for stuff like creative coding. It was my first dive into computer graphics however, and I learned a TON about computer graphics in general and had a lot of fun writing the library.


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