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"I absolutely love my new Tesla," said customer Dave Thompson. "I've never actually seen it, but the rebate paperwork is exquisite, and I'm told I legally own 'the concept of a car,' which is so much more evolved than traditional ownership."

Something about this is magical to me.

Yet another American media outlet pointing the finger at tariffs, and not threats of annexation as the driver behind changes to consumer behaviour. Wild. They really, really don't seem to think that's a factor at all.

They so consistently downplay everything Trump says or does. It's kind of shocking. And it makes it impossible for them to contemplate real solutions, assuming they even see this as a problem.

They're going to be shocked when Canadians don't return to buying US goods after Trump dies, and they're going to be doubly shocked if and when Donny take further hostile action against allies.

The oldest Gen Zer is what? 27? What milestones are they late to? Especially if they're early to home ownership.

Because they seem to be earlier to kids than millennials were, based on what I've heard, and marriage just seems to be a fundamentally different thing to many people born after GenX.

Which ones? Is it the "can't not pay for social services" restriction? The "can't secretly own a firearm" resteiction? Or the "can't overrule other countries' entry requirements" restriction?

Went to the gym. I've decided to work my way up to running a 5k in preparation for softball season. And to just generally improve my cardio. I've been a lot more active this year -- I'm doing two karate classes per week -- and cardio is starting to become a limiting factor. Which is all to say, my legs are tired.

I finished taking apart my rabbit cage today. It's been about 9 months since my last li'l bun passed away, and the cage was never totally cleaned after she died. The fur, the old hay dust, and the various other detritus had started to make the space... itchy. So, it was time. In the process, I decided to clear out half of the room and make the space a little more functional. My fiancee suggested moving my office down there, and I was really surprised to find that I didn't have any negative feelings about that.

It would be a cozier space to work in. And warmer. And I've started to set up a new stereo/AV system down there.

Yeah. If BYD wants to take over a car plant or something, I'm sure something could be worked out.

It'll be all "North! To Alaska! We're headin' north, the rush is on!"

And fuck power levels!

But yeah, if the big bidness boys pwaying big bidness games are going to take their ball and go home, we should start taking things back in return. IP rights. Trademarks.

Tax breaks.

If they want to be 'Murican, let them go be 'Murican. We don't need 'em 'round these parts.

Welcome! I think you'll find that the clunkiness dissolves into the background pretty quickly. Peoples' biggest stumbling block after signup is often that you can find communities with the same name on different websites, and that kind of offends some folks' sensibilities. Coming from OGFT, though, I think you can already appreciate that Reddit had multiple communities fighting over names anyway.

The admins here have been absolute power houses, so I know they'll be only too quick to provide any help that you need, or answer questions about the site or nuances about the underlying tech. And some of us regulars have been around here for a few years now, and even predate the site, thanks to the way federated services can communicate across site types (I started on Mastodon, for instance, and have been kicking the tires on nodeBB).

It's a fun little experiment in internet anarchism.

It's incredibly difficult in a media landscape controlled by capitalists, unfortunately. And there's been very little effective action in creating mainstream alternatives to capitalist news media.

The public's memory is immaterial. The public really has no long term power. Decisions are made for us by politicians and businesses.

They're the one's who need to remember that the US has threatened their positions.

Voting with your wallet doesn't make for sustained, long term change. It requires too much work, and it's umder constant attack by marketing.

And the 338 model now has the CPCs firmly in minority territory, with the Liberals potentially able to maintain power with NDP & Green support.