Rentlar

I nominate this fellow from Ottawa and this particular speech as our trade representative to the US: (Obvious strong language warning)

The “world’s leading Trump whisperer” strikes again.

Trump's no match for La Presidenta con la cabeza fría.

I see garbage trucks on residential streets several times weekly. They should be able to handle delivery traffic for your neighbourhood corner store, cafe, arcade or restaurant. (And in Scarborough and Etobicoke the residential roads are full of potholes even without heavy truck traffic). Small stores probably won't be getting tractors with 50ft trailers either.

Well, I guess the prerogative is on the rest of us non-Americans to break unjust American IP laws to counteract the lack of enforcement of anti-trust laws, or make laws in other countries that better enforce competition laws on American companies.

I have a glimmer of hope that Europe is getting in gear somewhat for that.

I do like Cory's overall point about needing to think more of solidarity than individual choices, but I disagree on discounting them completely, those choices do carry a certain degree of importance as well in effecting systemic change. Saying, "well, society isn't changing, enshittification isn't going anywhere so I shouldn't bother changing my habits" won't get us anywhere. It has had real effects.

Things that start in the margins have the ability to get noticed by big players and then bring about change. A couple examples: Linux gaming is in a viable state that was unimaginable 8 years ago. The Canadian boycott of US products and travel has had a very measurable affect on US tourism and select industries, and has spread to other countries. Valve nor the Canadian government started either of those efforts, but they helped signal-boost and take concrete supportive actions when they see that even a small group of people independently have supported that change already.

I'm glad we have at least one Premier and Housing Minister that understand the issue of housing correctly.

Edit: you should look at Eby's reaction to the question about the letter from the Vancouver Sun journalist, and listen to Eby's full answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wemiX8ammXk&t=23m10s

TACuO Trump

Good job Europeans for doing your part for the good of everyone.

I think they're good, but I'm trying not to sound like a paid advertiser for them. Other brands could be just as good or better.

The info is there for those who need it, but I'm trying to keep from polluting Lemmy with corporate ad-like comments and allow more space for discussion and personal opinions.

If you want a brand recommendation:

Random cheaply made Amazon products are made to fail.

I think fewer USB ports is a terrible trend.

Lol. Up until a few months ago Dropbox was begging me to use that feature.

In highschool, my classmates and I would hang out at the nearby McDonald's often enough we gave it an informal course code.

There are plenty of cafes now but it's too expensive now for me to hang out at them more than a couple times a month.

Great suggestions. They could be done before the end of the year, but the roadblock is US freight companies that do not care for anything more than their own bottom line. And the feds currently are more interested in getting personal automobiles to emit more pollution that anything to do with the railroad.

Also I love smoke stops/stretch breaks but those could be shortened a bit if connections ran in a more timely manner.