Unfortunately we still rely on US trade at the moment. We are seeking alternative markets but it is going to take time.

Also cutting off potash is certainly an option, but it is best reserved as a nuclear last resort. If timed right, it could potentially collapse the US agricultural sector but tariffs would be the least of our worries if we did that.

Another option we need to consider is an other collaborative selloff of US bonds and other measures to devalue the US dollar.

Souls-like games, game streamers, turkey (the meat).

I’m a frequent Craigslist user for both sales and purchases. Selling stuff has become extremely difficult since Marketplace took over as the the “standard” for the area I live in. I’m in the same boat as I refuse to make an account on that shit heap of a website so getting my sales to move takes a lot more work.

It also does not help that the second-hand landscape has changed a lot in the past 5ish years. People expect a lot more money for their used items now and buyers expect steep discounts for like-new condition items.

I hate Intel and think they are a scummy dirtbag company but this is not good at all. Competition is what keeps everybody honest.

I have a nice bell on my bike but I don’t actually use it all that much. I’ve had a lot more success with a “Passing on your left/right!” followed by a “thank you!” as I pass. Most of my bell use is to loudly ding it at cars that are parked illegally in bike lanes or drivers that nearly hit me/cut me off.

Bell ringing does get attention but it also gives off the same vibe as a car honking its horn. Also basically all shared pathways here require cyclists to yield to pedestrians so there is no reason why a bike should need to ding a bell to tell pedestrians to get out of its way.

The real issue, which this wouldn’t fix, are cyclists that do 25-35km/h+ on busy shared pathways. I’m a cyclist at heart, but blowing past a hiking family on a trail at 20km/h is a dangerous dick move. I’ve had bike handlebars brush my sleeves as they zoom past; a single step to the left (to avoid debris on the path or just losing my balance) and I would’ve been hit and been in for a trip to the hospital with serious injuries.

It’s getting really bad. You can look up the most mundane, everyday search term and there will be a distracting amount of fake images in the results.

I look up a lot of reference images for art projects and so I have to skim over a lot of AI slop.

The problem I have with disabling or turning off permissions is that it assumes that Google respects you enough to honour your requests and actually disable them.

And I have absolutely zero faith in Google to do that.

One of the many reasons I will never integrate smart home stuff into my house.

My light switches still work because they’re powered by my finger instead of the “cloud”.

Holy shit. Whoever signed off on the use of that term in a major news publication needs to be let go. That is repulsive.

I agree, but unfortunately that’s basically never going to happen. At least not in our lifetimes.

One of Canada’s greatest flaws is that we followed the US into car-dependent, suburban-sprawl at the catastrophic expense of everything else. We have spent decade upon decade investing unfathomable amounts of money into building the most dysfunctional cities imaginable and ensuring there is no practical way of getting in or out of them except a car.

Dangerously ignorant. Both to themselves and the world around them.

Just as the Liberals have moved to the right with Carney, the Conservative party has moved further towards the hard-right.

Look south to the US for a taste of what sort of people I’m talking about. They care about nothing but hatred, suffering, conspiracies, and oppression.

A lot of moderate conservatives are happy with Carney though. They’ve been wanting someone like him for years.

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Literally nobody will obey this.

I’m not in Vancouver itself, but a major road near me had its speed limit dropped to accommodate mixed-use expansions. Not a single driver actually does the new speed limit. They all speed 20-30kph over the limit and they will tailgate you or highbeam flash if you do the posted limit.

Maybe some day in the distant future our policy-makers will understand that updating a few signs doesn’t make a damn difference. You need physical speed reduction methods such as speedbumps, roundabouts, raised crosswalks, etc.

And so they should. The US is a fascist state that has repeatedly threatened to invade Canada.

That fine is so small that it’s not even a slap on the wrist. It’s not even a rounding error. It’s like a grain of sand at the bottom of the ocean. It probably cost more in worker time just to issue the fine.

Seeing as you don’t live here in BC and apparently didn’t read the article, I don’t think you understand just how bad this heat dome event was.

BC is on Canada’s pacific coast and its largest urban centre is within a coastal temperate rainforest. Our usual summer temperatures range from 25-32c ish, sometimes a bit higher. During the heat dome of 2021, it was 40-45c+ within the city. The town of Lytton, northeast of Vancouver, blew past temperature records with a recorded temp of 50c. For a brief period of time, a little town in Canada had one of the highest temperatures on Earth before it was essentially destroyed by forest fires that consumed much of the province and blanketed everyone else with smoke.

Over 600 people died during this heat event with more being attributed to it each year as investigations conclude.

To secure “relief” ie: To return to the previous trade agreement that Trump himself signed off on.

To desire nothing but a return what-once-was is incredibly shortsighted. This isn’t about getting relief from tariffs is that those tariffs should never have happened in the first place. The US violated our trade agreement and, to this day, still changes its mind on what it wants almost daily. They have also made continuous threats towards our sovereignty with threats of invasion and war as well as flagrant disrespect towards our elected leader(s) and citizens.

The Canada-US relationship is over. It’s done. Trying to make more deals with them is a foolish waste of time at best and a threat to our national security at worst.

And yet we are surrounded by the bones of companies and projects that were killed by private equity.

This is the end of Nexus Mods. It might not be today, it might not be tomorrow, but the cord will be cut the moment it’s not suitable for the new overlords.

Yup. If you’ve ever lived in or near a tourist destination then you can probably understand why these people are upset.

People are getting ousted from their homes (usually gradually but sometimes abruptly too) in favour of people that don’t even live there. It may be as small as a tourist trap displacing a local neighbourhood or as big as short-term rentals and a tourism economy pushing out the lower classes in an entire city.