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Because we are transitioning away from the US and that takes time.

E.G. Canada’s government removed industrial tariffs temporarily but kept commercial good tariffs. This is so that Canadian industries can get the necessary tooling and other things from the US now and remove the US from Canadian logistics.

So that Canada can move to completely remove the US from the industry side.

Because we can sell them sensors and other crap at US military contracting rates and make Lockheed and GE amounts of money for little effort.

Before creation, the angels were panicking in heaven as God hadn’t been seen for days.

Finally, Michael finds her and asks her what she has been doing?

“I created a world of balance. For every good there is an ill.”

Michael wonders and marvels at the blue-green marble, eventually finding a land of unparralled plenty and beauty. “So who lives here then? They must be pretty rotten” says Michael.

God replies, “oh that ends up being Canada. They have some false starts, but they are among the kindest and most generous of the people I have created.”

“But where is the balance in that? A beautiful land with great people?” Asks Michael.

“Wait till you see the bastards I put next to them.”

Let’s not forget that Starmer capitulated on the trade war.

He gets: • to still pay with an uneven playing field that benefits the US(import taxes) • to only bring in a limited amount of UK cars to the US market, instead of the previous unlimited amount. • to hurt the UK beef industry by accepting in the US’ frankly atrocious beef, which will be dumped in below cost to UK farmers due to the lack of quality controls on US beef.

Yeah great preliminary deal.

We’ve denuded most of the province of trees before, intentionally. Not a good thing, but it happened.

The problem is that conservative governments(Brian Mulroney, Gordon Campbell and Harper+Poilievre) set it up to allow the export of Raw Logs to the US. Thanks to the latter three, they started it. Thanks to Mulroney, we can’t ever reduce or control the amount of logs exported because of rules in NAFTA/USCMA.

Also, why would we not have to not have to pay for defence? Would we not have to pay that part of our taxes?

Or would Harper, Poilievre and the CPC be in charge again, when our defence spending was at the lowest it had ever been? Because Trudeau raised it 32% higher than where Harper and Pierre Poilievre left it.

Yeah, no.

Harper and Poilievre fucked over BC when they surrendered to Bush and allowed the raw export of logs to the US.

That, and that alone was the death knell for rural BC. I know this because the market for robotics dropped out in BC once that damned deal was signed. Before that it was a huge industry with a guaranteed great career and benefits. Harper, Pierre Poilievre and the CPC killed it.

Sorry, I was under the assumption that the plan was what Bibi planned all along. He planted the idea in the orange moron that it was his plan to give himself plausible deniability.

Yeah that’s why I used past tense.

I recall in the mid 2010s some US mill declared how great they were for having a computer analyze the loss and determine the best cuts for optimization.

I toured a mill in BC in the early 1990s that had that technology for more than 5 years.

Not always true. BCs lumber mills were so far ahead of the US mills technologically that it was actually funny.

At least until Harper and Poilievre surrendered to the US lumber lobby.

I hope the indie and AA game communities/devs keep moving off of Fandom.

The shutdown, and resulting price increase is twofold.

1. It gives them an excuse to set prices where they want, despite a global collapse in prices, allowing them to pad their profit margins.
2. It puts pressure on governments to remove regulations and taxes, allowing the companies to increase their profit margin.

Its a long running song and dance, it is complete garbage and they need to be prosecuted.

Yes, that was the “he deserves a trial”

Dude was in law school and took the risk of being an illegal immigrant. He knew the risk and took it. He deserves a trial.

You missed the last part of that exchange.

Carney says “Never”.

Its important for them to preserve any chance of profit that may be squeezed from old games.