It’s funny; Canada’s retaliatory tariffs are designed to redirect Canadians to equivalent Canadian products that will now be more affordable, and so more desirable for Canadians to purchase. Trump’s response is… make those products less affordable in the US.
End result? Canada less reliant on US products, and US selling less product.
I’m not sure what Trump expected from a 1:1 response? When the markets aren’t equal, a 1:1 response makes absolutely no sense.
Don’t worry; Trump will stamp as often as you want.
2026 says “hold my eggs 2023….”
No… like with Trump, his statements are for an internal audience.
So please do something about your executive. Because we have to respond to the actions they’re taking in your name. Don’t like it? Restrain them. There’s millions more of you than there are of them.
Negotiate peace with who? Russia who invaded them for no reason other than a land grab? Or the US, who artificially created a conflict to gain more leverage over Ukraine to steal their minerals?
Time for the entire world to ignore US copyright, patents and trade marks.
I thought the point of all this was to ratchet up tensions so Trump could declare martial law and suspend democracy indefinitely.
“We have always been at war with everyone but Russia and China….”
“Vast amounts of fentanyl enter the US through Mexico from China. This is why we must slap a 25% tariff on Canadian aluminum and steel.”
My lesson in this was way back when LinkedIn came out with an app. I installed it and the first thing it did was ask me for all my contacts and start pinging tracking servers. I uninstalled it immediately and avoided apps for web services after that.
Later that year, I found that if I HAD allowed that app to do what it wanted, it would have grabbed all that data and sent it to the company, who was selling it off to third parties. They got in a big class action lawsuit for it.
Those were the days. Now it’s just expected behavior.
The deal was designed to break down. It was all planned. Why else would Vance behave that way to a foreign dignitary?
Trump made a rash promise and this is how he saved face.
Sure they exist; rare earths exist everywhere; they’re just distributed thinly and so extracting them makes a real mess of the environment.
That’s why nobody wants to mine and refine them in their own country. Destroys the land and generates toxic chemical byproducts. This is what Ukraine would be agreeing to let the US do to it in exchange for… something.
I trust the sofa; it looks reliable.
Unfortunate; it’s not identifying US-made goods, it’s identifying European-made goods.
I was hoping that the EU and commonwealth nations would band together on this.
Yeah; unfortunately on that particular computer, it’s the only modern browser that still functions. I don’t trust it with anything.
If the question had been “what trustworthy browsers do you use?” I wouldn’t have mentioned it.
On one of my OSes, I still use Brave.
Is that on top of PEI?
Thing is about trade marks… if the terms can be shown to be in common usage, the mark is struck down. Like Kleenex and Xerox.
So let’s all start talking about privacy invading cameras as being flocking stupid.
As a centralized system, nothing has been shown to improve on Signal yet. For decentralized systems, I haven’t seen anything better than Matrix yet? SimpleX is slightly more secure, but harder to spin up and easier to break.
Session… there have been multiple articles written on how it is flawed and untrustworthy.
Some people may need a British <-> English translator for all that.
In British, that’s some pretty scathing language.