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[–] match@pawb.social 6 points 15 minutes ago

the cryest of crybullies

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 points 23 minutes ago

"Plankton cheated!"

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 14 points 11 hours ago

Yeah... we're definitely cool with becoming dependent on the US for our food supply.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 69 points 15 hours ago

These sky high Tariffs are part of Canada's unfair, long-standing policy to shield domestic producers from foreign competition

"And only I'm allowed to do that", he continued.

It's always projection with this imbecile. At least we always know what he's up to, because he blatantly accuses other people of whatever he's thinking.

[–] codessh@lemmings.world 46 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

All is fair in love and war. If you did not want to fight as though it were a war, then it would have been better not to send over a declaration of war.

[–] rudi@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 16 hours ago

Came here to say that lol

[–] KamikazeRusher@lemm.ee 61 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

"These sky high Tariffs are part of Canada's unfair, long-standing policy to shield domestic producers from foreign competition, especially in Agriculture," he continued. "Our Great U.S. Dairy Farmers deserve fair treatment from Canada. Enjoy it while you can!"

The bastard cries about “unfair policies” that use tariffs to protect a country’s industry and yet in his own Steel and Aluminum tariffs declaration he stated:

“To allow U.S. aluminum producers to restart production and to incentivize new capacity, additional adjustments to section 232 tariffs on aluminum need to be made, including limiting exemptions and increasing the tariff rate.”

Literal toddler tantrums.

[–] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 17 points 12 hours ago

This is Trump trying to tell his MAGA moron farmers that he's fighting for them when he's actually fucked them with these tariffs. US is THE largest agriculture exporters in the world. When the retaliatory tariffs come, his base is going to hurt because of him, they know it, he knows it, so he's trying to change the narrative.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 28 points 16 hours ago (2 children)
[–] embed_me@programming.dev 5 points 15 hours ago

The absolute despair

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 127 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

they're just playing the game you picked you dumbass.

wahhh

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 72 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

Not what he's talking about. He's still lying and whining, but not saying what you (or the headline) imply he's saying.

He's saying that the pre-existing tariffs on out of quota dairy products are "cheating US farmers". Which is not true. The body of the article explains this correctly and in good detail, but the headline sucks and nobody ever reads past the headline because we all have brain rot as a species.

I wonder if a good Fedi alternative to Reddit would do something like force the link to be previewed in full or opened before getting to respond to the aggregation. Or maybe all social media was a mistake and none of it should exist, I don't know.

And let me be clear, I'm not attacking you here, this is a sytemic issue. Every human is subject to these patterns. Blame our collective wetware.

[–] crowleysnow@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

if you're into RSS feeds, i've found one for iOS called feeeed that will let you subscribe to subreddits (or lemmy communities, apologies i'm new here) and when you click on them it starts with the article and you have to tab over to the comments. it's been nice.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 13 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

I would get behind "click through before vote"

Seems like it has potential for abuse, though, aka forcibly driving traffic. It can be defeat-able though, it’s just meant to deter lazy human impulses.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I'll make a complementary argument below in a sec, but "enforcing driving traffic" seems like a feature, not a bug.

For how testy people get about crawling for copyrigted stuff for things like AI, everybody seems super chill about search engines and aggregators ripping off content at industrial scales with zero repercussions.

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Tbh, I'd be less testy about bots scraping my sites for AI input IF they respected my robots.txt file and didn't slam the server. They're just rude and I don't like it. Sometimes they're so rude it's effectively a DOS attack.

Tbh, my sites exist to get information out there and I don't care if someone mirrors my sites, as long as the information is still accurate.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 1 points 36 minutes ago

I mean, that's great and you're well within your rights, but that's not what people generally say when they express outrage about AI scraping. People straight up call it theft very often and seem to consider using online content for training is the equivalent of copying or distributing it.

Which stands out to me because that was not what happened when the EU decided that Google News was effectively piracy after a whole bunch of news outlets complained. The consensus there seemed to be that it was a bummer to lose the service despite all the scraping.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago

Social media definitely was a mistake, but at least on the fediverse it's our mistake!

[–] ahal@lemmy.ca 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I know we all hate AI here... But getting an AI to rewrite headlines to de-sensationalize them sounds like a fantastic feature for a Lemmy client to implement. Just need mods to allow it

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You can always do that manually when creating the post. I do think AI could enforce having a quick summary at a glance... if it was reliably accurate. But again, why do that and prevent traffic from going to the people who did all the work when you can just... you know, go read what the people who made all the work made.

Ultimately there's a fundamental problem in an attention-driven economy directed at squishy-brained humans with biased, broken cognitive systems that can be easily exploited.

[–] ahal@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 hours ago

You can always do that manually when creating the post

True, but you won't. You'll click the button that automatically populates it instead.

I do think AI could enforce having a quick summary at a glance... if it was reliably accurate. But again, why do that and prevent traffic from going to the people who did all the work

Yeah, that's why I don't like the summary idea, because then even fewer people would click through. It also requires opening the comments which also most people won't do.

I guess fewer people click through with less sensational headlines too, but at least they're not mislead.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 9 points 22 hours ago

Some apps have previews of the article when you open the comments, which might encourage people to read a bit more of the source content

[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 15 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

That's been the right wing talking point for a while now. It's the only thing they could come up with, because even to them the Fentanil explanation was to thin. Of course they completely ommit or ignore the quota part.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 20 points 20 hours ago

Wow. If he loses even more connection to reality, he'll start getting transparent and floating away.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not only is he a shitwit, a fuckwad, and a Nazi, but he's also a fucking pussy.

[–] TediousLength@lemmy.ca 3 points 12 hours ago

How dare you insult and defile the pussy with that hideous human turd! He's probably well over 100 courics!

[–] normanwall@lemmy.world 14 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)
[–] Brainsploosh@lemmy.world 16 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

The article is "Trump truthed" rage bait.

The "cheating" is on the original USMCA where Canada has imposed steep tariffs on dairy products over a certain quota.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

Can we not use tabloids?

[–] Zier@fedia.io 1 points 20 hours ago

Everyone is smarter than you don-old! Even the residents of local graveyards.