Wait, so people can choose whether or not they’re subjected to hate speech? What tyranny!

If you don’t like the way communities are being moderated, maybe you should find/start a server that more aligns with your values.

And the new one is NORTH American.

People using “American” to refer to anyone from the western continent (from a euro centric perspective) is conventional in some parts or the world. It’s not the convention in Canada, we bristle at the thought of being labeled Americans.

Halberdiers?

I’m in Canada where we have restricted some food dyes. I miss the old colours of Froot Loops and Smarties (similar to M&Ms, not rockets). But it’s fine because those colourants really do only exist to make junk food look good.

It’s not clear to me the exact scope of what they consider to be artifical dyes though. Is a dye produced by a genetically modified bacteria natural enough?

Conservatives have been saying that Dems want to force them to eat bugs, so it’s a little strange to be tacitly encouraging the use of Natural Red 4 which is made from crushed beetles.

Mate I’d be buying a car that ISN’T American, because international manufacturers would be diverting supply away from America. I have and use a bicycle, but it’s difficult to bicycle to the ski hill with my family’s skis.

As a Canadian shopping for a car should I expect price drops due to diverted supply?

Could you suggest alternate wording that succinctly conveys what the commenter obviously meant?

Isn’t it a lot more like a capitalist treadmill? Work hard to make number go up! It is in fact beatable in the sense that the number can’t actually go up forever, eventually the system crashes.

Obviously Canada wouldn’t be allowed statehood.

I think the real question is what are Americans willing to sacrifice in terms of civil rights to subdue Canadian insurrectionary impulses.

America could conquer/economically annex Canada’s territory, but to conquer Canadians is a separate question. I think it would take a 10+ year suspension of civil rights in America to achieve.

Yes

I think it’s partly UV and partly being cleaned with paper towel. I think cotton is much softer on a micro level.

I am on an elementary school’s parent advisory committee and we had one built for school notices and fundraisers etc.

It took for ever to get built though, and cost an arm and a leg.

My understanding is that we obligated Japanese & Korean auto makers to open some plants in Canada/NAFTA/USMCA in order to gain access to our market. I don’t see why the requirements should be any different for Chinese automakers.

I think the tariffs we applied to BYD were different because China bad and it was done to placate the USA. I don’t think we should single out China to placate America (especially if it doesn’t work).

I think the defense will be that “they” referred to Biden in 2020. Ie Trump was expecting to not be president in 2026 because he would have already served two terms, but Biden winning in 2020 meant that Trump was able to be president in 2026, after winning in 2024.

No politician should ever be that sloppy with their words though.

I was told there was no such thing as a shortage in a free market, why won’t the executive branch embrace free market economics?

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Anchoring is legitimately a negotiation technique where you start with an absurd demand to set the framing of the haggling.

Ie now the idea of expanded sea port security integration doesn’t seem like a crazy thing to exchange for elimination of tariffs.

But guess what, expanded sea port security integration would drastically reduce our ability to economically pivot in the face of future tariff threats. Ie if expanded sea port security integration means the USA can prevent us from using our sea ports.

I successfully submitted for a short term disability claim for an anxiety condition that arose from my ADHD. A few weeks later I was told that there wouldn’t be a role for me to return to once I was recovered. IE in an attempt to avoid a nasty law suit they aren’t firing me until I’m off short term disability.

Talk about setting up adverse conditions for recovery!

What unhealthy eating habit are you indulging in at 21:45?