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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Don’t know how it is in Europe, but here in Canada we have marketing boards to ensure that we’re always producing more food supply than needed. Because it’s kinda bad to have less food than needed, so we want to have a little bit of margin to ensure that doesn’t happen. BTW this is why food is a contentious trade issue with the US, we don’t want to be dependent on food production that has no safety margin.

    Anyway, it’s very possible countries are producing more than they need and could supply the US with the excess. It may not meet all of the demand in the US, but it would help bring down the price a bit. Yes the prices wouldn’t be the same as it was before the Avian flu outbreaks, but it would be lower than it is now.

    It’s something that could happen if Trump didn’t burn all the goodwill with all of the allies of the US. According to Trump “We don’t need anything they have.” So you will pay more for things, because Trump thinks you don’t need them.



  • That “half of NATO” has nuclear weapons.

    The US hasn’t experienced a war on it’s own soil in living memory. Americans shit their pants when they see a couple of drones over New Jersey. And Americans don’t have the will to endure a long drawn out occupation even when there’s an ocean between them and a war. Canadians will endure it, because we would have no other choice.

    This would be a war of betrayal. Trump would need to have Elon Musk purge the US military of anyone with even an once of honour and courage. Currenttly Trump is demanding Canada to defend the US border for him. The US would need to defend it’s border, and that’s a long border. You’d also need to have checkpoints in the US where soldiers will check your papers because Canadians would be trying to infiltrate the US and hit the soft targets everywhere. There would be raids on your houses to find and Canadians or any sympathizers. How willing are you do have these things happen?

    Because it would be betraying an ally, the US would have zero allies in this war. Canada would get lethal aid from Europe and likely from Asia too. And Canadians know how to make an IED. Because our soldiers served in Afghanistan. Alongside the US military that’s going to betray the soldiers it fought alongside a few short years ago. And why? Because of the whims of a deranged old man? So you might have a slight morale problem.

    While you’re looking at troop strengths on spreadsheet, we’re looking at the willingness of Americans to do what would need to be done for decades to succeed in occupying a neighbouring country. We only need to outlast you, while you need to have the will to watch young people coming back from the north in body bags. For decades.

    The chance of the US winning a war like this is basically zero.






  • They can’t shut them off. They can do something like MS is doing with EOLing Windows 10 tho. No more security updates, which in this case means they’d over time become more vulnerable to adversary ECM jamming.

    They could cut off a country from getting parts needed to keep the planes flying which is actually more significant. It wouldn’t be easy, but a country could replace the computer systems in a jet. A military has it’s own technicians maintain their equipment and they would understand which signals are needed from the cockpit to make the plane work.

    The Lockheed Martin could shut down the planes thing is FUD and isn’t convincing anyone in the know. The potential for cutting a country off from resupply is real, and the US has done that to Ukraine, a country in the middle of a war.








  • I’m not a law talking guy, but from my understanding of it, downloading isn’t illegal. But if you’re torrenting it, you’re uploading bits of it to others while you’re downloading. That would be distributing it to others, so that’s copyright infringement.

    So if you could find a way to download something without uploading anything, you’d be fine. Kinda like if someone uploads copyright infringing material to youtube. You’re not going to get into hot water for watching that video, but the person who uploaded is.


  • New York is also notable for being where Fox News is based. The employees of that organization feeling some pain will make it more likely the story of the negative impacts of Trump’s tariff policies will be reported by the only “news” media that matters in the US right now. We know Fox News showed a car dealer saying the price of a Ford Truck was going up by $20K and the next day the auto industry was exempted by tariffs.

    Also it’s likely dependent on how contract with the utilities in that area is structured. It may not be possible to be all that granular in where it effects. But we definitely need NYC affected so Fox News will be affected. Sorry to everyone else, but it’s a Trade War and like in any war, there will be collateral damage.


  • Are you referring to the use of coal when making steel? You know steel can be made without using coal. Also trains and buses are made using steel, so not sure what your point is.

    We can’t bulldoze down entire communities and rebuild them so they’re optimal mass transit. We can’t even keep the carbon tax going in Canada because that’s unpopular. It’s a struggle to reduce carbon output in a democratic society, but we can’t do anything by being uncompromising assholes about it. I’d prefer everyone take transit everywhere too, but that’s not going to happen anytime soon, so EVs are a reasonable compromise. The goal is to reduce carbon not enforce our will onto others.