MapleEngineer

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Canadian here. I expect the supply of products that would otherwise have gone to the US to go up and the price here to go down. I'll just wait for the US tariff discounts to hit.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Very much this.

Just look at the TPP. The US tried to write the rules and the rest of the partners said, "No." The US said, "Screw you guys, we're going home!" and stormed off in a snit assuming the deal would fall apart without them but it didn't and it ended up being better without the US imperialist bullshit. Then, US farmers realized that they were getting fucked because the US wasn't part of the deal ([1], [2], [3]) and the US came back demanding to be let in and the US imperialist bullshit restored to the agreement. Once again the partnerd said, "No".

Let's let the US leave whatever they want to leave, renegotiate everything without them, then only let them return under the new terms. The world will be a much better place in the end.

EDIT: Trump ordered the US to withdraw from the TPP because the partners wouldn't be bullied into accepting one-sided andi-competitive, anti-consumer protections for US industry and a dispute resolution process that favoured the US but that the US would ignore when it lost.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a62828684/donald-trump-elected-2024/

"Donald J. Trump is the chosen president-elect of the United States in every possible way you can be, a winner in the popular vote and a winner in that marble mausoleum called the Electoral College. The asterisk is not coming back, because this time I am absolutely sure that a majority of my fellow citizens will get exactly what they want. They will get pardons for the January 6 insurrectionists and an end to any federal prosecution of the incoming president, now and forever. They will get attacks on the free press and on political dissent that they have been slavering for. They will get validation for their rage, and an outlet for their promised vengeance, beyond their wildest fantasies. They will get the chaos for which they voted, and which they apparently fervently desire. And there is absolutely nothing that God, man, or the Constitution can do about it, because we did it to ourselves."

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

More that 70 million of you a solid majority of the popular vote, just elected a useful idiot fascist dictator wannabe laying the groundwork for a christofascist dictatorship.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Trumpists would label them illegal intellectual elitists and hate them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Last I heard it was 4%.

Maybe it will make 5% next year, then.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This will be the best thing that ever happened to Linux. Hell, it might even make it up to 4.5% market share.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I write several flavours of BASIC fluently, Fortran and Pascal passably, three forms of assembler well enough to get by, and I've worked in COBOL.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

A T-shirt, pyjama pants, and bare feet. I work from home.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Ducks are delicious and eat the way you describe. If I eat ducks I'm eating those things once removed and enjoying it, too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

We all have lives. I sometimes remember that I was discussing something with someone weeks later.

In the end my trans friends, LGBTQ friends, my lesbian daughter, and my son and daughter's LGBTQ, non-binary, and trans friends and everyone who knows me knows that I'm not a transphobe. They know that I'm an ally. They know that they can count on me for support and that I will actively protect them.

Being labelled a transphobe by someone who doesn't know me and obviously has rather extreme views is less than meaningless to me. I engaged in the coversation to try to help her to understand my position and that labelling anyone who wasn't interested in having sex with her, no matter how much of an ally they really were, was counterproductive. I did my best. I'm going to keep doing my best to be an ally no matter how much people who demand thought perfection label me. That's just who I am.

 

It's been broken for weeks I hear that it works on some clients.

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