@uncle_deluge Your size can change your capabilities. Just look up in the sky at passing jets, the people are so small you cant even see them. Their tiny size makes them able to float swiftly through the air without falling. Then when the plane lands and they are big again they can only walk.
@mickm115@cjd55yorkie@BO3673 Im 28 and even today, more than I think we care to admit, we still live in the shadow of WW2. It’s really not that long ago.
@galleddrim@Suzierizzo1 Men’s bathrooms are nasty compared to women’s. I don’t see the issue with a dad taking his young daughters to the women’s washroom.
@rjlorenz01@royllovians There’s some archived forum I’ve seen where veterans of the German invasion of Russia are were commenting on debates around logistics issue in 42/43. These guys would’ve been born in the 1920’s
@FDelicioso@SketchesbyBoze Something to do with the fungus to break it down not exsisting yet. Picture fallen wood building up over eon layer by layer under incredible pressure ….. and thats apparently what made coal!
@TMORGANorderly @alstjra @ARKNDJL This popped up on my feed but exactly my thought + there’s so much data to track. Article focuses on team sports though I wonder what @ARKNDJL thinks about PGA analytics potential?
Martin, with precisely zero provocation, Trump said a year ago that he intended to “annex Canada” and make it the 51st state by applying “economic pressure;”
- He imposed lifted, increased, decreased, re-imposed and repeatedly threatened tariffs on everything imported from Canada, in gross violation of the CUSMA agreement that he signed, calling it “the greatest trade agreement in history;”
- He initially did so on the entirely specious grounds that Canada was a major source of fentanyl imports and illegal migration to the US, both claims completely contradicted by data, and US law enforcement agencies. The claims were so ridiculous - even for Trump - that he has not repeated them for the past ten months;
- He has repeatedly said the US needs “nothing” from Canada, specifically mentioning our energy
- He continues to maintain crippling sectoral tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum and certain auto components in violation of CUSMA, tariffs that are costing the Canadian economy billions of dollars and thousands of jobs;
- Senior Administration officials (Greer, Lutnick et al) have been intimating for months that CUSMA will not be renewed;
- Trump has repeatedly referred to the Canada-US border as “imaginary” and “fake.”
- His insults and provocations are too many to list, but just in the last week he has said that Canada has been “completely taken over by China” because of a discrete tariff agreement requested by western provinces and initially *endorsed by Trump*; and insulted the honour and memory of our troops, claiming that they “stayed a little back from the front lines” in Afghanistan.
Given all of that and more, you blame the Prime Minister of Canada for CUSMA being in jeopardy? WTH?
After a year of this, how can we still have some Canadians blaming Canada for Trump taking a wrecking ball to the relationship?
Under these circumstances, Prime Minister Carney has exercised remarkable restraint.
What would satisfy you? Grovelling subservience? Giving the US total control over our trade relations with the rest of the world?
We Canadians can and should debate the most prudent way to deal with the completely unpredictable and destabilizing threat from Trump. (I, for one, don’t support the recent deal with China.) But surely no reasonable person can conclude that Canada provoked or is any meaningful way to blame for this crisis.
"I have the impression that the persons directing the policy of the Hitler Government are not normal. Many of us, indeed, have a feeling that we are living in a country where fantastic hooligans and eccentrics have got the upper hand.” —Sir Horace Rumbold to London, 1933
Minnesota resident: My dad fought in World War II. He'd be rolling in his grave to see what's happening to America now. America needs to hold up a mirror to see what we become. This is just so un-American to see Americans assaulting Americans like this.
I find the takes of "always just comply with anyone claiming to be Law Enforcement" to be Un-American.
There are 800 years of common law precedent in our culture about the right of the citizen to resist unlawful attempts at detention by "officers."
Stop the cop worship.