Macs are crazy expensive and nothing has gotten cheaper in terms of cost of living. Most people will assume that if it keeps working they don’t need to upgrade/replace.

Tbh, literacy in the US, financial or otherwise is abysmal right now.

No, I’m saying that ‘they just trade’ isn’t as innocuous as it sounds. Choosing bad partners can get you in hot water when they decide they want to stop playing nice and mangle your economy.

We trusted the US once, I can’t imagine we’d trust a trade bloc driven by Russia and China.

IMO we need to engage hard with Europe and other nations that have something approximating functional democracies.

Yeah, look what just trading with the wrong partner has done for us so far.

Sabaton is gonna have so much material to work with in the coming years.

You’re missing the point. They don’t have to commit to pulling out. The fact they can’t be trusted now is enough to shake faith that if Article 5 is invoked that they’ll live up their agreement.

Honestly, them exiting would be best, at least everyone will know where they stand. If Russia took a poke at another NATO country and Trump decided to do nothing, what is the rest of NATO gonna do? Send stern letters?

Collective defense only works if you trust your ally with your life. Do you trust the USA right now?

Sadly, graphene doesn’t support many banking apps, which makes for a shitty user experience. Liked everything else about it but not being able to access muh money on the go was a dealbreaker for me.

But backwards again, the nairuhcnaM etadidnaC.

Sadly, fox, oan and the usual right wing echo chambers aren’t gonna feed Trudeau’s message to their idiot masses. The people he reached are people that probably have at least half a clue what’s happening and who is responsible.

Sorry. 24/7, just like the tariffs.

It will hurt. That’s the point. Maybe it’ll hurt enough that y’all DO something about the absolute fuckery happening down there. Canada didn’t ask for this shit.

I hate that this is where things are but pretty soon folks will need to get to the FO part of FAFO.

In the grimdark future of the 2nd millennium, there is only way.

US bullshit aside, Canada has been struggling for a while. Cost of living is out of control, many folks are struggling. Housing prices are completely unmoored from reality, especially in major cities.

Or clothe them in Handmaids dresses.

We don’t want educated Americans emmigrating elsewhere. We want you to fix your shit and educated Americans are the only ones that can do that.

If you leave, the idiots are left in charge of some of the spiciest military hardware and without smart people, will probably end up using it.

The voting public seem to be pretty susceptible to whatever spin the Orange House puts on the consequences of their actions.

Do you really believe they’ll see through what Trump does and blame themselves before blaming Canada, for example?

They said Spotify, you say Shopify. I’m confused, who are we mad at now?

I mean, the data centers aren’t going to be on prem, they’ll have more than one and distributed across regions.

Don’t trust your cherished family photos with Google lest they use them to train their AI models or provide them as facial rec training data for military purposes now.

Not interested, thanks. Or if you do come, can we ship the silicon valley tech bros into the sun first?

But look at the new problem you’ve introduced. MORE TIMEZONES.