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Cake day: August 20th, 2023

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  • It remains to be seen what the much bigger tarifs package is gonna cover:

    _Tuesday’s tariffs are the first of two phases announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday, said to total $30 billion in U.S. goods. A further round of tariffs on a wider list of American products, valued at $125 billion, is expected to come into effect 21 days later, following a public comment period.

    This second list will be made available in the coming days, and will include passenger vehicles, trucks and buses, recreational vehicles and boats, steel and aluminum products, aerospace products, and more, according to the finance department. _







  • He’s just using this as leverage to get more concessions out of Canada and Mexico. He’s announcing the tariffs months before he can even try to implement them.

    It’s gonna work too. Look how we’re scrambling about border security in Canada now.

    I wish the rest of the world would just stand up to him and impose the same tarifs on the US. He would cave: he’s just a bully full of hot air. And I’m being nice.

    The US consumer could finally get to see what they actually voted for.

    But what do I know: actions don’t seem to have consequences anymore.





  • Sorry this is taking so long between replies. You know, life stuff…

    So I’m still at "Operating system not found”.

    Here are screen captures taken with the Pop_OS live usb. First is from Disks, second is GParted.

    Am I crazy or there’s no boot partition? At this point I’m ready to switch to another distro but I’m still conviced I’m doing something incredibly stupid and I might learn something.





  • For me, this paragraph sums it up:

    _Several campaign officials had told me, throughout the spring and summer, how excited they were about working in the next Trump White House. Now those same people were telling me—as paperwork was being distributed internally to begin the process of placing personnel on the transition team and in the prospective administration—that they’d had a change of heart. The past three months had been the most unpleasant of their careers. Win or lose, they said, they were done with the chaos of Donald Trump—even if the nation was not. _

    They had to be right next to Trump to realize how toxic he is. How voluntarily blind can you be?

    They’re gonna save themselves (of course), but will they do anything to save the country from Trump? No, of course not, that would require a spine.