Of course a US company is going to jack up prices to cover the import tariffs. They aren’t going to eat the loss.
So who is paying that tariff, that increase in cost?
Let’s break it down:
Is it the government of Canada: No.
Is it the company in Canada exporting the good: No.
Is it the company in the US importing the good: No (they increase prices to cover the tariff).
Is it the consumer in the US buying the good from the US company: Yes.

So, does Canada pay the tariff? No.
Does US pay the tariff? Yes.

It’s the US citizen that is paying more to cover the tariff. The “visible” result of the tariff is that the US pays more.
The money goes back to the US government, so it stays within the US. But IT IS AN ADDITIONAL TAX TO US COMPANIES AND CONSUMERS.

So trump can slap a 200% tariff on something, and the US (companies or citizens) will have to pay that tariff.

Canada doesn’t pay ANY of it.
They might see a decline in sales towards the US. They will be incentivised to diversify their exports, which means they will rely less on their trade with the US.

Tariffs makes sense if it’s a 10-year plan to return manufacturing to a country, where the proceeds of the tariff fold back into the economy as investments (along with additional investments) in the manufacturing they are trying to bring back to the country. Gives companies notice, let’s people get trained, and a decade later it’s cheaper to produce a part locally than it is to import it from abroad.

Massively swinging tariffs every few weeks, throwing a hissy fit because nobody is bending to your childish will, and driving an entire country into an isolated draconian society where foreign companies and talent don’t want to invest… Not the way to leverage tariffs.

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Endeavour OS is lovely. I’m enjoying it

Yeh, Linux doesn’t have to be scary these days.

So, we should be sending people to prison? Cause that’s what happened to people involved in dieselgate. Along with the affected cars being recalled and the owners compensated.

From the wiki, and I’m simplifying:
VW was handed over to the German government after being offered free-of-charge to Ford in 1948 by the British government (who ran the factory up till then).
In 1946 the produced 1000 cars per month. In 1949, 2 cars were sold in the US.
In 1952, 12 VWs were sold in Canada.
In 1955 they produced over 1 million Beetles.

So 3 years on life support being ran by the British. Dunno how long being run by the German government before becoming GmbH.

Over what sort of timeframe?
Couple months? Couple years? Couple decades?

And the news cycle can’t keep up or spend appropriate amounts of time/outrage on the things that are criminal, abhorrent and hurting people.
Throw a bunch of stupid shit to the media, let them feast. Sneak around while they are busy and get the truely hurtful stuff into law (or just skip the law part, and do it).

I love endeavour os & KDE plasma.
It just works, haven’t had any issues

World Police

That was a day. A few hours, at least

I think we agree.
The intel trump used to order the strikes was wrong… The intel was wrong.
Presuming the buck stops with the president of course.

I doubt he actually cared enough about any briefing material. He probably went in with the mentality of “Iran is developing nukes, and should be stopped” then asked for intel according to that presumption.

I think trump would immediately throw a company under the bus for their “weak loser bombs” if they didn’t perform as designed.
I think trump would immediately “you’re fired” a general for spec-ing the wrong bombs.

I think the intel was wrong

Windows 11 and OSX are so outdated

It’s like “I have a windows computer, I install software on it and use the software. Why would I need more than 1?” Turns into “ooohhh, computers are great. All the things I can run and host. Software isn’t just a gui”.

It’s like learning to love computers again

You wouldn’t believe it!

WRT macros & VBA conversion:

with AI to save time and avoid errors

Maybe it saves time, but I doubt it avoids errors.
I would rather the time spent to develop this was spent on improving the plugin/extension/macro development ecosystem.
I know they have an SDK, and I’m sure it’s great.

But with MS Office, I can install Visual Studio, create a new VSTO plugin for what I’m targeting (excel, word, powerpoint, outlook etc), and get into coding. When I hit Play (as in run with debugger) it will launch the targeted application and build/hook in my plugin.
It’s literally idiot proof, until it gets to writing code (then it’s c#).
And Visual Studio is a decent IDE.
The only thing really holding it back is the terrible documentation from Microsoft regarding the VSTO or Com Interop or whatever it’s called. It’s truely terrible, trying to figure out how to implement your idea.

Make Codium systems similar to Platform.io (which is for Arduino, ESP32 etc), except for your given office suite.
Make it better than the Visual Studio VSTO experience.

That’s what I really want.
And more people to use it, of course. I’m so fed up of Microsoft crap

Such a framework for a government to properly adopt FOS software would require provisions against a “bad government” controlling said software.
Just because the US is plummeting into a political nightmare doesn’t mean the EU couldn’t do the same I. 20-40 years.

Such a framework of governments moving from Microsoft/Google/Amazon/Cloudflare/Whoever to a FOSS equivalent should require the target Foss platform to be run by an independent non-profit that cannot be politically influenced.

But I have no idea how to actually future proof that from corruption. Because money talks, and billions can buy so much influence in so many unexpected places

Ah, lol.
Is that the web interface? Or what app is that?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cewd82p09l0o

I think that’s the link to the video?
Seems like it’s part of a longer video…

Edit:
Hhmmm here is a slightly longer video that doesn’t really add anything

Actual edit:
I genuinely couldn’t find a better source video