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35% tariffs on Canada - Biggest US trading partner with no significant deficit.

Nuclear launch submarine deployments because Medvedev (with no position in chain of command) tweets that Russia has nuclear weapons. When Lyndsay Graham tells us that we will nuke Gaza and Iran, no one launches an ICBM.

Firing head of BLS because they made him look good the last 2 months by inflating job numbers in May and June. Revisions are usually low key hiding of previous inflations, that help boost the current month number, and makes President always look better, than if BLS produced "pessimistic range of" numbers every month.

relevant to Canada for likely future gaslighting of us.

more details: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/28/eu-us-trade-deal-tariffs-european-union-five-key-takeaways

Metal quotas hoped to replace tariffs, which could apply to Canada.

EU promises $250B/year of energy/semi conductor purchases. This is mostly Nvidia/Apple stock subsidy who don't make products in US. $200B/year in US military equipment or other US investments.

This is a "framework" which likely freezes existing tariffs (10% on most products) while delaying "final negotiations".

EU extortion dependence on US energy will increase NA energy and US weapons prices as the Ukraine war did. Fortunately, it is not a number that prevents EU's successful energy transition pace, unless the readouts that make these EU promises additional to current levels of extortion are true.

15% tariffs on EU autos is probably a benefit for NAFTA auto sector, as I doubt that EU sales in US markets stay high. Japan also has same tariff rate. But this means price increases for US made cars.

Article is full of disatisfaction, and hedged applause, from EU member leaders. This is a symptom of war on Russia devoted NATO sycophants that locks in "programeed US values"/propaganda to inflict demonism on the world. Politicians that cannot disavow previous lies, fascist demonism, and theft/enslavement of their people/economies can only be replaced. But pipeline is filled with only the same captured CIA sycophants.

The current EU political play is to say "deal is good, but we obviously hate it, as we should". It is clear that US thinks Canada is weaker than EU, and needs harder coercion despite a non-energy trade surplus with Canada before shenanigans. Our politicians are all just as devoted CIA sycophants that need to cooperate with US/Israel election "interference" to ensure sycophant rule.

There is a high likelihood of a Canadian deal betraying Canadians is my conclusion.

780m mini PCs seem the best value for me. ddr5, gtx1650 performance is good enough for me. Better processors than desktops at twice the price. 4 monitors.

Any brands that are good or bad at linux support. Especially sleep/wake functionality?

Waiting for next gen 890m, and amd AI to come down in price, I can do. I'm surprised that discrete laptop rtx3050 gpu with intel isn't more popular, but I could be bad at finding ones.

How long would you expect it to take for 780m mini PCs to drop $100 or $200 in price?

Not posted here was a Carney-Sheibaum meeting this week that had general headlines on this theme.

Significant US economic activity was generated from Canada-Mexico trade and NAFTA/USMCA from fuel and transit taxes.

I can't confirm how solid these plans are, but this is an obvious step that Canadian politicians could highlight to disprove incompetence and slave gaslighting.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/48084474

AI datacenter boom is going to significantly raise prices for other/competing electricity consumers.

Only solution is solar+battery DC power supplies to datacenters. OP doesn't distinguish between large and small transformers, but the US domestic sourcing requirement on federal projects is for the larger transformers.

Article criticizes those who push for peace like Putin and Orban in the same bucket as Hitler/Trump. But that Trump playbook does rhyme Hitler's.

Piece starts with an economics lesson that is mostly true: Investing in people can offset a financialization focus instead of a production focus. The missing truth is that your wealth is the ease to pick up a cheap axe from box store, regardless of where it was made. High wages with overall high cost of living, still provides access to more cheap goods.

Author still loves US militarist colonialism, and so it breaks down his WW3 fears, when extorting allies into harsher colonialism may be needed to push Russia/China into more defense spending, so that the US can (is forced to) spend on more offense. This means a slight delay to ww3, but its not as though the ignorant aren't cheering for one of the bipartisan sides for end of times.

WW3 is entirely up to the colonies response to US extortion in forcing their suicide. Even with colonies, the US loses badly, and it is defense budget extortion on world that is objective rather than actual war, but colonies can band together to prevent such extortion and accelerate US collapse instead of begging for their own collapse to prop up US.