yannic

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[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (12 children)

The article doesn't mention it, but there's a "Made in the EU" labeling phenomenon happening that makes me worried about Canadian and Mexican products getting thrown out with the American bathwater here. The point shouldn't be to fight nationalism with more nationalism. It should be to fight nationalism with good globalism.

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Pope Fabian Ⅱ

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Political extremists aren't always the best at differentiating between correlation and causation. Let's see how this plays out.

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The secret is salt.

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

We already have a Texas. It's called Alberta.

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

To be fair, sometimes a press deadline is just unreasonable. My dad was called for comment on a recent corporate acquisition. At the time, he was driving to another province to pick up my older sister who had three days' notice to head back home to fill a spot in a classroom. She was on a waiting list and their vehicle even broke down during the trip. This was during the age of car phones, but airtime was so costly, we never used ours. The newspaper made it seem like he didn't want to comment.

Sometimes life just happens at an inconvenient time.

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Am I old if I read BTRFS as butterface?

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

Surely those standards are occasionally amended to include historic exceptions.

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 37 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Also, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation which has recently paid for YouTube ads against automatic tax filing.

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I am a used car salesman just for the day.

That'll buff right out.

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I was about to buy some asparagus that were labeled as the product of Mexico (hey, protectionism isn't a solitary action). Some employee helpfully left them in the shipping box, which was labeled "Distributed by..." some place in the US of A.

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Yes, this old news is about a nuclear-powered attack submarine, not necessarily a submarine that can nuclear-attack.

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