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Cake day: March 14th, 2023

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  • It’s precisely this mentality I’m arguing against (the unstoppableness of Trump, that’s what he wants you to think).

    People only have power over you, if you obey their command. MAGA obeys Trump, that’s why Trump has power over MAGA. Whether he has power over the rest of America depends on how much Americans want to defend it from his ongoing attacks, which are happening right now and will continue. “Right now” means that it’s not too late. Giving up and conceding means giving Trump a free pass to wreck the USA.











  • Okay. But every minute we can delay reaching that threshold will be worth it.

    To me it’s the same as the US democracy right now. Yes it’s far too late to see no ill effects and we are already facing the consequences, but every act of resistance to unlawful, immoral and unconstitutional orders slow them down, and with enough co-ordination may slow them down enough before Trump and the oligarchs become truly unstoppable.

    For any issue that effects our world’s existence, stand boldly and take action. Don’t let the fear of the inevitability of it consume you.




  • Sweaters (for Canadian winters), work shirts and pants separate from regular shirts and pants, and PJs. In the normal schedule it piles up in the corner for up to three weeks then I do 3 or 4 loads in one session. If someone’s coming I keep it in a bin but it fills up too quickly and is unsightly to me. In summer I can do it less since I wear fewer layers.



  • I get that, and like I said those types of things definitely exist, and yes some specific industry limits do bind sellers like with alcohol. We should ease up on some limits standardize the most confusing regulations where they were different for no good reason. But in terms of the scale of the problem, physical barriers and purely distance seems to be more of an issue to me.

    A craft brewery in Vancouver needs aluminum and steel cans, the aluminum is forged in Kitimat, B.C., but the cans are made in either Calgary AB. or Everett, WA., because the can producers in Burnaby, B.C. only makes 473mL cans and can’t supply the volume of 355mL and 473mL cans the brewery needs.

    The main reasons why the Everett supplier is more competitive is that the cans arrive more timely and reliably by train or truck because it doesn’t have to go through the mountains, new designs turn around quickly, it would have both lower production and delivery costs than Calgary, that a 25%-50% tariff might not even offset.

    Or in another example, if bus manufacturer New Flyer Industries in Winnipeg, MB wanted to switch away from the US (despite 4 out of 5 facilities being located there), they would be avoiding all the vehicle parts manufacturers in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. If you look to Ontario for any company that makes heavy vehicle parts you might find a what’s left of Bombardier in Thunder Bay, or a little thing in Sudbury or North Bay or the Sault, but beyond that there’s no industry until you go as far south as Bracebridge, ON. Quebec’s industry is still further.