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[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

This letter has to be one of the greatest rage-bait posts ever. Trump really know how to do it.

the United States of America has agreed to continue working with Canada, despite Canada having financially retaliated against the United States

Barely and only after he swung the first blow and started shit over nothing, yeah.

the United States imposed Tariffs on Canada to deal with our National Fentanyl crisis, which is caused, in part, by Canada's failure to stop the drugs from pouring into our Country.

"In part" meaning less than a single percent. "Failure to stop" meaning a massive increase in border presence and fentanyl seizures.

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Instead of working with the United States

See above, we implemented border security measures to appease the charade of Fentanyl being an issue.

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there will be no Tariff if Canada, or companies within your Country, decide to build or manufacture product within the United States

Perfect! Let's just make ourselves the States' little bitch, completely reliant on them for everything and with no details on how much production we even have to move over so that he can just say we didn't fulfill our part of the bargain whenever he wants. Why wouldn't we do that? Jesus H Christ.

Canada charges extraordinary Tariffs to our Dairy Farmers — up to 400%

Two things, 1. tariffs to protect your local agriculture makes sense to not become reliant on other countries for food. 2. that "up to" is doing HEAVY lifting as those high rates are almost never in effect¹, so why do you even care. Oh right, you don't care! This is all a sham.

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[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It's been hilarious watching Overwatch take notes from Paladins, the "Overwatch clone", more and more lately. 5v5, hero builds, more of a brawly playstyle... OW2 at times feels like a blend between OW1 and Paladins.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"Facts over feelings" has been used almost exclusively by conservative "influencers" for the last decade (despite them not really caring about facts, mind you). It's a dog whistle at this point for being a massive dickwad.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

enjoy never using a computer again i guess?

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

A lot of places (in Canada) you absolutely can use the washroom without being a customer. Even if they have a policy, they may get too many customers to notice or just not care.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago

PewDiePie moved to Japan and while I have no idea what he's uploaded (or not uploaded) I get the sense he's basically retired. He's doing surfing, rock climbing, art, I don't know that he cares enough anymore to support it.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

Depends who you bank with. Some desktop websites suck on mobile and some don't even allow certain actions on desktop. For some ungodly reason Wealthsimple requires me to do almost everything via app. It's one of the reasons I barely utilise their services.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Fair point. Although the problem with those sketchier sites is they usually slap watermarks all over the images and scrape the first release of a chapter regardless of the translation group, which results in very spotty quality. There are absolutely series where certain translation groups or anonymous uploaders snipe it with terrible quality and it's not worth reading until the better group translates it, but the scraper websites don't update their chapters.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If I go 6 hours after a shower without deodorant, my armpits usually have started smelling. It ain't just big soap, it's genetics or something.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

About two years ago, yeah. I can just visit Reddit for the one or two subreddits left that I want to see. Viewing them with worse formatting and missing comments is pointless for me.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Not sure why you're being downvoted for expressing an opinion... an opinion based on current trends, at that. Mangadex just had a large chunk of work wiped out and many translations are only on Mangadex or translator websites with no torrent. This is a fact. Not hard to be worried that further takedowns will affect access to niche manga.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

I got tripped up around "the second" and had to backtrack so either I subconciously read ahead or I noticed the fault. Either way, heck you buddy.

 

I have had a couple of occurences now where I post something then immediately delete it for one reason or another, yet the post keeps gaining votes and attention. When I check the post on lemmy.ca it returns a 404 but I can still view the post on the instance that it was posted to. Is this because I'm using the Photon front end or is this just a Lemmy thing? This seems like a rather large oversight...

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by IronKrill@lemmy.ca to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
 

I know they've been getting more controlling over time, but blocking an entire browser, really? I've been watching YouTube over Firefox for 5+ years now just fine, and now they shut me out arbitrarily? Nah, fuck that.

Edit: It's something wrong with the new LibreWolf update and my profile. Causes issues in both normal and private browsing, but not a different profile and is solved by switching user agent.

 

A deeper look into Canada's long-standing high tariffs on certain US imports and why they don't actually apply to most current trade.

"If the countries took a true approach to reciprocating tariffs, then the US would simply copy Canada's tariff quota, which would mean that neither country would pay any more based on current trade balances"

 

The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on unjustified U.S. tariffs against Canada:

“Today, after a 30-day pause, the United States administration has decided to proceed with imposing 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian exports and 10 per cent tariffs on Canadian energy. Let me be unequivocally clear – there is no justification for these actions.

“While less than 1 per cent of the fentanyl intercepted at the U.S. border comes from Canada, we have worked relentlessly to address this scourge that affects Canadians and Americans alike. We implemented a $1.3 billion border plan with new choppers, boots on the ground, more co-ordination, and increased resources to stop the flow of fentanyl. We appointed a Fentanyl Czar, listed transnational criminal cartels as terrorist organizations, launched the Joint Operational Intelligence Cell, and are establishing a Canada-U.S. Joint Strike Force on organized crime. Because of this work – in partnership with the United States – fentanyl seizures from Canada have dropped 97 per cent between December 2024 and January 2025 to a near-zero low of 0.03 pounds seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

“Canada will not let this unjustified decision go unanswered. Should American tariffs come into effect tonight, Canada will, effective 12:01 a.m. EST tomorrow, respond with 25 per cent tariffs against $155 billion of American goods – starting with tariffs on $30 billion worth of goods immediately, and tariffs on the remaining $125 billion on American products in 21 days’ time. Our tariffs will remain in place until the U.S. trade action is withdrawn, and should U.S. tariffs not cease, we are in active and ongoing discussions with provinces and territories to pursue several non-tariff measures. While we urge the U.S. administration to reconsider their tariffs, Canada remains firm in standing up for our economy, our jobs, our workers, and for a fair deal.

“Because of the tariffs imposed by the U.S., Americans will pay more for groceries, gas, and cars, and potentially lose thousands of jobs. Tariffs will disrupt an incredibly successful trading relationship. They will violate the very trade agreement that was negotiated by President Trump in his last term.”

 

"If they want to try to annihilate Ontario, I will do anything, including cutting off their energy — with a smile on my face,"

"They need to feel the pain. They want to come at us hard? We've got to go back twice as hard," Ford continued.

Ford added his government is also prepared to implement a surcharge on every megawatt of energy states purchase from Ontario and "rip up" a $100-million deal with Elon Musk's Starlink internet company. The LCBO has already been directed to remove all American booze from its shelves if Trump moves ahead with his threats.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by IronKrill@lemmy.ca to c/linustechtips@lemmy.world
 

The TL;DW is the proposed Trump tariffs would jack up the rates of PC components and they likely won't come down quickly.

 

Okay this feels like such a basic and dumb question but I cannot figure it out. I followed a link to a Mastodon post and saw a reply I wanted to make my own reply to. No problem, I figured I have a CherryPick account which federates with Mastodon so this should be a breeze. The problem is that post IDs are obviously different across instances so I can't simply modify the URL to find the post and it hasn't synced with my instance so I can't use search to find it either. Obviously I can't login to the Mastodon instance with my account either, sadly, as much as I would love that. So I manually looked up the user and found them on my instance, but despite showing more recent posts I can't find the one I want to reply to! The post they replied to is available on my instance, their account is available, why the heck is this one reply just not available! What do I do here, just give up?

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by IronKrill@lemmy.ca to c/roadcam@lemmy.ca
 

Description from original poster:

Happened a year ago so we’re almost finished with construction.

My car was parked on the right side on the break in the concrete. He was going 45-50 mph and pushed it over 5-10ft of concrete, through a windstorm certified garage door, and into a filled garage.

If my car hadn’t been there he would’ve driven right into one of the front bedrooms.

Had the pictures pop up in my memories and decided to share the crazy experience!

 

I use the location tracking of Google Maps/Google Timeline constantly for work, and it's exceedingly helpful to know when I was at certain cities, buildings, etcetera. Of course, this means I'm basically signing my soul away to Google. But I can't really find any alternative location tracking apps, even though I would have thought there would be lots available. Are there any good alternatives out there?

The closest I found was Owntracks, but it doesn't work for me for a couple of reasons. Primarily, it doesn't tell me the places I've been, only the latitude/longitude. That isn't helpful. I want to know I was at X or Y convenience store and when my last visit was. Secondly of course, the interface was extremely lacking and I didn't like that it was split across two websites and an app. Why even have a map in the Android app if it doesn't show my location data??

 

Title, basically. I know I have issues, but I couldn't say if it's depression, ADD, or just general problems. Is the only reason to have a diagnosis so you know what to work on, or are there other benefits such as easier access to therapy?

My question is meant specifically for Canada, but feel free to chip in from other countries. :)

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