The reasoning is in the article.

In Soviet Russia, the country runs the criminals?

Not exactly “apocalypse-proof” though.

Nostalgia, largely. I went less and less over the years but in my case it wasn’t because of infrastructure issues or lack of staff-- though these are big issues both for the kind of prestige they wanted to have, and to remain accessible to the wider public. For me it was because they started going pseudo-luxury long ago (though clearance sales were fun at first), and because they eliminated meeting places like restaurants along the way.

Seems this is an effort to put people off their guard. Those of us who pay attention will probably know for sure when the election is in swing.

*edit - Just in case, I’ll clarify: I meant we will know for sure what their PR strategy is. I’m not doubting he wants to annex Canada.

Bonus double-entendre that what they’re driving is ass.

This sounded off to me, but maybe everything does. Another off-sounding idea I’ve heard: Gillian Tett, an editor and columnist at the Financial Times, seems to think there’s a good chance Trump wants to hyperinflate the US dollar so he can somehow set more favourable repayment terms, when time comes due for them to renegotiate. I expect that would lower their credit rating even more but I guess Trump in that scenario doesn’t care about that.

Normally I’d say it’s possible for people who have been through failure (in his case, bankruptcy) to know things that more successful people don’t, but whatever logic he has is overruled by his apparent narcissism so it’s hard to be sure if what he thinks he’s going to accomplish has some basis in reality.

If they do plan on invading, it will probably involve them coming from the North as well, and not just the South-- especially if they were to occupy Greenland first.

Looks neat. I’m in. So we can all get there from our own instances, could you maybe use this link format?
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Indeed, it took me a while to realize the other person meant “The Americas,” aka North and South America and not the US, aka “America.”

Looks interesting, but I was looking at the headphones and you have to buy with Google Pay for some reason. 👀

*edit - OK actually you can put it in your cart and choose something else, but on the product page that’s the only option?

Awesome, I love the approach. 👍🏾

Only thing I said that I think might be worth downvoting is “unified society,” which might have unintentionally implied society was once completely unified. It felt so obvious I couldn’t possibly mean that, it didn’t even occur to me to be more precise there. In hindsight though, what I should have stressed is that we’ve been getting less unified than ever. We’re losing the ability to see the humanity in one another, and have been for a long time.

Folks who sow division want to make it about culture or politics, but it was always about class or more fundamentally, power. The more willing we are to play the hierarchy game, the more power goes to the ones on top.

Under normal circumstances I wouldn’t agree with such a move, but X is an exception. We’ve seen the platform owner directly interfere with politics in multiple countries and we know what crowd of terrorists he’s been running with both on his platform and elsewhere. The platform owner is definitively a traitor to Canada, aiding a malicious enemy who has threatened our country and set out to harm us. But I do wonder what reaction the average Canadian (who just uses the most popular social media because everybody else is on it and hasn’t participated at all in alternatives like the Fediverse) would have. If we manage to elect a non-CPC gov’t though, maybe they can use that mandate.

We use the metric system for distance, volume, and temperature already. I’m sure those who don’t immediately adjust for human height/weight can use an app while they’re getting used to metric for those as well.

Doubling down on tribalism won’t save us from their ignorance. The degradation of a unified society by means of Us vs. Them thinking is how we got here in the first place and how things continue to get worse.

There are those at the fringes of that style of thinking that can be reached by those of us who are adjacent to them (via family, mutual friends, workplaces, etc.). Those folks at the fringes can reach those adjacent to them. We’ll never get 100% of them on side but we can at least weaken the well-funded machine that continues to keep them uninformed by relating to people as human beings instead of stoking division like oligarchs intend for us to do.

I did a DDG search with the terms tariff site:https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/ -"live updates" and got article results about tariffs that (at least as far as I checked) are still paywalled. :/

*edit - Maybe it’s just going forward? The video of Trudeau’s speech from yesterday works, but there’s no article with it.

I mean he was a little bit spicy if you watched the press conference, but the Beaverton is satire like The Onion.

Alternatively if you can live without a bleeding edge device, maybe next time you could get a used one (assuming there’s a reputable seller within Canada). To my knowledge, that shouldn’t benefit the company other than people seeing you use it, and it’s also more environmentally friendly.

Why is this so hard to do? 🤦🏾‍♀️