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Oh don't worry he just fired the head of the BLS because they dared report the truth lol.

"The state has decided that this report is not in the interest of the people"

Yeah they can skew things and make elections harder via gerrymandering, voter suppression, etc. but ultimately the plurality of Americans either didn't vote or voted R.

Yeah the accountability chain here is:

President is accountable to Congress via impeachment/recall. Congress is accountable to the people via elections.

The people opted to not hold Congress accountable, and Congress is a bunch of cucks that refuse to do their jobs, and the Supreme Court is clearly choosing to not even try to enforce anything... but the ultimate truth is "people chose this". Very sadly. The American people chose this executive, this Congress, and indirectly this Court.

"This isn't the real America" - sorry but it actually is.

I'm a simple man. I see AI slop, I downvote AI slop.

Which isn't really relevant to their original comment about basic necessities? So far it's like you haven't bothered to read any comments but just really wanted to say something. Got the number of people for my expenses comment wrong, completely missed the point of the main comment. 0/2.

... 65 - 20 = 45, which I explicitly called out as our lowest expenses for 2 people but their comment is about 40 for a family of four...

Off by a factor of 2, bud

Straight up no idea how you're doing that - genuinely you should be proud of your budgeting.

My partner and I live quite comfortably admittedly, but we rarely buy "things" - our biggest discretionary spending by far is on higher quality food. Our net expenses last year was around 65k CAD.

24k went to housing, around 20k went into investments and savings, and the last 20k was on "everything else", including discretionary spending. We live comfortably but not nearly extravagantly and our expenses floor for the two of us is probably 40k... let alone adding two kids.

And we live in an incredibly cheap city compared to Vancouver/Toronto!

I was there last year - they have a fantastic display about John Çatalhüyük and his invention. His stepson, Jimmy Çatalhüyük, is of course the famed inventor of the step ladder.

Really though, quite a cool site to visit. The joined walls were particularly interesting to see imo. Definitely would recommend if you're ever in Konya.

I still shop at Costco, but they're essentially the only American company I do business with at this point. Costco gets a pass for a few reasons:

1. They pay their Canadian (and American) employees very well. My friend group is mostly engineers and our Costco friend makes the second most.
2. They have publicly refused to dump their DEI stuff
3. Galen Weston and friends can eat my ass

I also exclusively purchase Canadian products inside Canadian warehouses so... it's less bad.

What? There's absolutely no way we can interpret intent in this case - this could genuinely be a fair question asked in good faith.

"What about US tech?" could be interpreted a number of ways, from "are Canadians also divesting from US tech?" to "But Canadians aren't divesting from US tech, what about that?". There's no reason to believe this person is going after the latter case here when "ok that's retail, how's tech doing?" is equally likely and imminently reasonable.

I'm fine to get dog piled here but I think you've assumed bad faith where there is no reason to make that assumption, especially after the user attempted to disambiguate in exactly the way I've described.

I'm also curious to see how Canadian usage of American tech companies has changed. I wonder if it got more people to quit Twitter finally.

Postmedia has a bunch of "* Star" papers and the Toronto Sun but notably not the Toronto Star.

I was pretty sure it was the Toronto Star that was Postmedia... I may be remembering incorrectly. I'm gonna delete my comment until I can verify.