Looks like most of this is happening outside the US - multinationals can apply for relief loans in other countries where they have an established workforce that could be impacted by the tariffs.

Eg, in Canada: https://cdev.gc.ca/applications-are-open-for-the-large-enterprise-tariff-loan-letl-facility/

As originally mentioned though, all this is loans to large multinationals; end users aren’t going to see the relief loans OR the refunds.

The main people who will get the money are the import brokers who have been leveraging their businesses against the tariffs with the expectation that the money will eventually be refunded.

Americans have been protected against the largest impacts from the tariffs over the past 7 months by these loans. Things would have been MUCH worse when purchasing goods without this.

As a result, if the refunds DON’T go through, all the importers will have to default on their loans, sending both the financial and import industries into a tailspin — PLUS everyone having to shoulder the full effects of the ongoing tariffs.

Sounds like it wasn’t that Google Maps helped beat the tax collector, but that the tax auditor’s inability to apply time zone corrections appropriately caused a bunch of extra work for the GTA commuter. Glad it got sorted out, and hopefully auditors in the future will all learn from this example.

Four Seasons Landscaping is representing him for free following his bang up ad campaign he did for them for free.

As a neurodivergent person, let me just say that I have a great life. Why should you, or anyone else, get to make uninformed decisions about who gets to live based on inaccurate information?

Also, just look at bananas to see where eugenics ends up. Crops devastatingly vulnerable to disease, and companies like Chiquita creating slaves of entire nations that manage them. It’s not hard to extend this wrt humans.

But really, the main reason is how tightly linked eugenics programs through history have been linked to fascism.

And if I’m ever planning a home invasion, I need to get some red and white flashing light and a bullhorn.

They could always have been ice deputees heading home from work wanting to make a little extra on the side….

Or the energy drink of choice.

Kool-aid is great because you get to choose the ingredient proportions yourself, unlike the knockoff grape drink with the poison in it.

This is a new unit with special training and equipment. Specifically so that RCMP in general don’t make a mess of such situations.

As far as relationships go, just look at the history of the RCMP and the Hudson’s Bay Company.

Have they still not been deployed?

The unit was first floated back in 2021 weren’t they? To get protesters away from the pipeline project?

All of them?

The public should also create a “hotels to avoid” list that includes all the ones not on the military list.

Furthermore, what’s a stray drog? Drog seems to be synonymous with drug in Indian slang. Stray meaning left lying around?

Nero was at least able to play the violin. He wasn’t pouring gasoline over the fire.

Yup. Entry level wages have stagnated while food and housing prices have skyrocketed.

Exact same thing here.

If you ignore any company related to “cloud” or “AI”, especially if you focus on tech jobs at companies outside the software industry, there’s still plenty of hiring fresh coders going on.

Hence the need to repaint….

$165,000 tech jobs are still out there. Usually they require at least 10 years experience, or a masters in mathematics or data science.

Fresh out of school? Try a $48-64k job and get some experience.

Every cellphone pings the local towers. Even ones with no SIM card that are “powered off”.

What the government has realized is that in most circumstances, that’s all the information they need: place and time. If they need more, then they force the person to use biometrics to unlock the device, and read all the contents.

This works for 99.999% of situations. For the people who don’t use biometric unlock and use burner phones regularly, they have to resort to other methods.

This means that for the most part, they don’t care at all about the encryption you use, or the apps you have installed.

And these days, I consider commuting to be unpaid work if the job function doesn’t require you to be in a particular location.

I remember working an entry job and thinking that the snacks were free because everyone was just grabbing them. Took a few months before I found out there was an honor system and people were paying at cost for the items and dropping the money in a drop box.

If nobody confronted the employee, there should be a statute of limitations for each infraction.