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Putin is, backed by Trump’s big oil owners, for different reasons.

Hungary, via Orban, will never give on his master Putin. As Hungary is a NATO member, this is a completely empty threat.

If Europe does give up Russian oil, the logical alternative is US oil. Thus enriching the US at Europe’s expense. Then the next goalpost he’s already revealed would be punishing tariffs on China, in another attempt to enslave Europe to the US orbit.

What really needs to happen is Carney needs to go 200% on Energy East(in Canada). Get as many pipelines to the Maritimes and build the best oil port we can there, catching up on 18 years of ignoring that part of the country. Europe needs oil and LNG and Canada has everything they need.

Reminder that Trader Joe’s has a buiness practice of stealing food designs from small businesses.

Theyre very much the 19th century Archeology of the grocery world.

Actually, a few times:

1. Prior to the seven years war, the governor of Virginia was so openly corrupt the other colonies refused to official business with the colony, as he would just assign the contracts to his firms and run away with any money.

After the seven years war, leading up to the US revolution, things were very heated. Mostly from: 2a. Rich colonials defrauding British banks via loan fraud. 2b. Rich people then using said funds to buy up the available land, driving prices out of reqch of the regular colonials. 2c. Rich colonials got really pissy that the stamp act was going to prevent them from executing loan fraud. 2d. Rich colonialists astroturfing imaginary support for motiona and even faking riots to make it look like they had popular support. (Note that this was so faked that English speaking Canada became a thing out of this.) 3. The only land they would give to the poor people was in the strictly off limits Ohio Valley as that land was seen as native land in tha ks for them winning the war in North America for England. Neither the natives or the crown soldiers stood for this, but it was paid for by the rich colonials en mass, so was functionally unstoppable.

About 50 to 100 years later: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason–Dixon_line the Mason-Dixie line became a thing and the two sides fought to gerrymander support for slavery/freedom. Which ended causing the US civil war.

Actually, a few times:

1. Prior to the seven years war, the governor of Virginia was so openly corrupt the other colonies refused to official business with the colony, as he would just assign the contracts to his firms and run away with any money.

After the seven years war, leading up to the US revolution, things were very heated. Mostly from: 2a. Rich colonials defrauding British banks via loan fraud. 2b. Rich people then using said funds to buy up the available land, driving prices out of reqch of the regular colonials. 2c. Rich colonials got really pissy that the stamp act was going to prevent them from executing loan fraud. 2d. Rich colonialists astroturfing imaginary support for motiona and even faking riots to make it look like they had popular support. (Note that this was so faked that English speaking Canada became a thing out of this.) 3. The only land they would give to the poor people was in the strictly off limits Ohio Valley as that land was seen as native land in tha ks for them winning the war in North America for England. Neither the natives or the crown soldiers stood for this, but it was paid for by the rich colonials en mass, so was functionally unstoppable.

About 50 to 100 years later: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason–Dixon_line the Mason-Dixie line became a thing and the two sides fought to gerrymander support for slavery/freedom. Which ended causing the US civil war.

Come back to this level of lunacy.

The US has been here before.

I believe that it was under him that the city privatized homeless shelters in the city.

Oddly enough, most of those lucrative private contracts went to private shelters owned by him and his wife.

See the oil industry and their lie about Methane(sorry, “Natural Gas”) being a “transition fuel”

Yeah this article is functionally an ad for coderabbit.

It means I signed up for the original Kbin during the original reddit migration but then the developer got overwhelmed and the site was unuseable.

Then I signed up for the next one, supposedly run by a team to avoid such a meltdown. Then the head maintainer just took everything down and vanished.

So now I am on mbin, which is yet another fork of kbin.

Why go with the inferior product?

John Brown: This is the original Canadian design of the FN FAL. Weep at perfection.

AI always tells them what they want to hear and will make up sources ad infinitum. So unless you step outside of that bubble and search on your own, you would never know.

Because the mask is slipping. At town halls across the GOP strongholds in the US, people are finally being angry at the GOP.

They’re scared.

It exposes that there might be a link between bad developers and far right extremism though.

… which we already knew from Notch.

Propaganda.

Note that the issues the US had in the fall with Avian influenza are compounded not by local farmers, but by massive corporate factory farms that optimize output at the expense of everything else.

Canada functionally escaped the issue because the farms here are smaller and more family-based, and so with healthier birds and cows in smaller localized populations made it much easier to maintain.

If the US doesnt drop the tariffs quickly, the world is actively working on new deals that remove the US entirely from the world stage.

Like how Japan is dropping US lumber and LNG for Canada’s offerings.

Or how Japan and South Korea are offering their military hardware to Australia and Canada.

Or how Toyota is opening a new plant in Canada

All of the “deals” he has are just meaningless letters of agreement that placate him while the real work happens.

Purely hypothetically, you’d likely get the same kind of split and games that were pulled in the leadup to the Civil War with the whole Mason-Dixie line thing. With likely the same resulting consequences.

Just now nuclear and biological and chemical weapons exist and weapons are incomparably more dangerous

Block Inc, with the outlier of last year, is a company that takes a not insigificant cut of transactions.

Until the end of 2024, they were not profitable to the tune of -605 million dollars. Thats my point.

And they lost 541 million in 2023.

According to wikipedia, where it listed the many rounds of VC and bank finding they have, they haven’t yet made a profit

All of those devices are child companies of either Banks or Credit Card companies. Or, like Square, owe their continued existence to banking and wall st firms dumping cash on them.

The one outlier I know about is Canada’s Interac system, which was started by Canadian banks, but now is its own thing