The answer is a search away, and yes Canada has a trade deficit with the U.S.

I honestly wasn’t sure before the search, due to the large amount of natural resources we export.

For good or ill, it has those TikTok vibes.

Something something parking lot!

It was a pretty good game a year or so in, and has only gotten better. I haven’t played for a while, but I put over 100 hours in first.

I was thinking Minecraft blocks.

Fair points.

I thought sodium had high charge cycles, as well.

How am I supposed to take this seriously when it leads with “followed the Israeli regime’s defeats against resistance in … the Palestinian territories”? The only Israeli defeats I’ve been hearing about in Gaza are against their PR department.

Sept. 2, 1929.

It’s funny. Cilantro tastes weird and I don’t like it, but I wouldn’t say it tastes soapy. That said, whenever I have it, I always notice this weird taste, but never actually recognize it. Then I check the ingredients and there it is.

Well, now I can’t help but wonder if burning them is better or worse.

I finally saw one in person and I was a little ashamed to live near someone who made that kind of choice.

“Now it sucks for me and you! Just kidding, I like the taste of soap.”

As a tool-using species, killing them with something you won’t care about the smell being on seems pretty trivial.

There is a difference between nations and ethnicities, and there are many people whose homeland is ruled by others, or whose homeland is part of an amalgamation of different different ethnicities under the umbrella of a single nation. I’m pretty at least some of these countries that don’t recognize the country of Palestine recognize Palestinians as a distinct ethnicity.

None of that detracts from the general sentiments you raised, touches on whether or not Palestinians (or other ethnicities) should have their own nation, or excuses what I believe to be the Palestinian genocide being perpetrated by Israel.

I’ll take the money. It isn’t changing my vote, which wasn’t going to be for conservatives before this. I also doubt it will sway many votes in the Liberals’ favor, either. But I really wish they had a coherent plan to fight the populist rhetoric of the conservatives, because their current course isn’t likely to lead to victory. This is at least trying something, but it’s a feeble attempt. Let’s get a new leader, let’s get some engaging talking points, and let’s put together a plan to make authoritarian policies difficult to implement. Getting rid of first past the post is part of that, which the Liberals completely dropped the ball on, but as a number of countries in Europe demonstrate, it isn’t enough in itself.

The synopsis says the cables are already repaired, and it take more than a random merchant vessel to repair underwater cables.

So, people who lack critical thinking. Trudeau has concisely and accurately described the carbon tax. Poilievre has used lies and hyperbole about it. Rather than spending even a minute to compare the two stances, they choose to accept the statements of the guy who will “save” them from this “crippling” tax, for absolutely no benefit to himself. 🙄

And I get it. Taxes suck. Almost as much as poverty, lack of education, poor health, and a collapsing climate. But taxes are a great solution to fix those problems. And Poilievre, and conservatives in general, have put no effort in to fix any of those problems, but they are very fond of banging on the drum of high taxes and their desire to reduce those. So take a guess how that ends.

In rebuttal, gas heating is still releasing carbon into the atmosphere, and we really can’t afford to do much more of that. Also, Manitoba’s electricity is 98% or higher renewable, so even electric resistive assisting heat pumps for the month or so a year you’d need it wouldn’t mean more carbon is being released into the atmosphere. So the big problems are, people already have natural gas heating (like me) and can’t afford to put in heat pumps to solve that problem. And it will cost more, but only because we externalize the cost of the climate damage.

This is kind of like saying, “What if only America existed?” There would certainly be some disruption, but it wouldn’t exactly be the end of civilization. Now, randomly distribute those people across the world, and it gets harder. But. The hypothetical plague didn’t kill 95% of the population, it made them infertile. That gives you decades to prepare and recover if you’re aware of the problem.