I think it boils down to a lot of frustration on our part. Every time he threatens us or another ally everyone says how sorry they are, but nothing comes of it and it just keeps happening.
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From what I understand Canada doesn’t produce many value added products. We sell lots of dimensional lumber and crude oil, but not much gasoline and furniture. We even started selling whole logs, to be produced in China and elsewhere.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Canadian prime minister suspends trade talks with U.S., setting new 50% tariffs in motion
9·1 month agoThey thought we’d be so desperate to sign a deal to avoid tariffs that we’d just sign whatever the asked at the 11th hour.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Carney asks provinces to return U.S. alcohol to stores
5·1 month agoFor a guy who was voted in to stand up to Trump, he really seems to be doing a lot of appeasement.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Carney asks provinces to return U.S. alcohol to stores
32·1 month agoDisappointed, but not surprised. I’m going to have to just double down on boycotting more.
We really need to make it easier to buy Canadian booze from other parts of Canada. I’ve been picking up a different bottle of whiskey every time I go, but there’s always a piss poor selection from anywhere other than my province. I also don’t drink too much, so a bottle lasts quite a while, but still.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Canadian pediatricians warn of rising e-scooter injuries, deaths among kids
5·1 month agoI almost hit some 10 year old girl the other day when she wizzed out of 7-11 onto the road without even looking while on her e-scooter while holding a sluppee.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Albums should be listened to in entirety as they are a single piece of art.
2·2 months agoI largely agree with you here. I recently left Spotify and have been growing my locally hosted music library and instead of building my own playlists I’ve just been tuning into whole albums. I’ve found that most albums (not all, some albums seem to just be thrown together) have a flow to them and are just much more enjoyable when listened together.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•I bought a schuko plug adapter. They didn't read specs or even tried it: the diameter of the hole is too small!English
21·3 months agoCanadian Electrician here. I have zero idea what a schuko is, but could you not just buy a proper cord end from a hardware store and just replace the end of the cord instead of using adaptors? We can usually get replacement cord ends at most hardware stores for only a couple dollars and they don’t require much effort or electrical experience to replace.
Often these adaptors are cheaply made anyways and sometimes burn up.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Netflix Viewers Are Abandoning Shows After One SeasonEnglish
8·3 months agoIts not just Netflix these days. Every new show seems to start their life on the chopping block. If the first season doesn’t get enough views in the first few days its out then season two doesn’t even get made. If it does do okay then they get to start writing a second season, which means another 2 years before we get a second season and by then we have completely forgotten the show until you read about it getting cancelled 2 weeks after season 2 came out because nobody tuned in.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Lenovo Warns PC RAM Prices Will "Never" Go Back to NormalEnglish
2·3 months agoYeah, but if they started right now I bet they could pump out some new adults inside of 20 years.
I’ve only used KDE until recently because it’s pretty familiar feeling after coming from windows, but my wife recently put gnome on her laptop and she loves it. I’ve used it a bit, and besides just being unfamiliar I do actually like it.
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Technology@lemmy.world•More Than Half of Gen Z Users Cancel and Renew Streaming Services for a Single Title, Won’t Purchase Full-Price Video Games, New Study FindsEnglish
4·5 months agoNetflix and Spotify almost ended Piracy by making it easy to access whatever you wanted for a reasonable fee. Then they got greedy and everyone else wanted a piece of the pie and now we are in a worse position than package bundle Cable TV.
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Technology@lemmy.world•More Than Half of Gen Z Users Cancel and Renew Streaming Services for a Single Title, Won’t Purchase Full-Price Video Games, New Study FindsEnglish
7·5 months agoI’m in my late 30’s and went back to the high seas. I used to sail the seas in my early 20’s when i was broke AF and didn’t have cable TV. When Netflix came around it sudden became easier and more convenient to just pay $6.99/ month to watch whatever I wanted. For years I got by with Spotify and Netflix and I didn’t even look back. Then, all of a sudden there were more streaming services than i knew what to do with and every few months they would all raise their price and reduce their libraries. Then they started putting ads in. Now I’m self hosting all of my media and using Stremio/Torentio for my one off TV shows and movies. I directly support creators wherever I can as well, whether it’s Patreon or Kofi or just buying their Merch.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Those in countries with universal healthcare, what's it like?
4·5 months agoCanadian here. I broke my leg in January. The only thing I ended up paying for was $25 for a pair of crutches. I did have to wait a significant amount of time to get seen, but its a small hospital and someone walked in with a stab wound right after me, so I was okay with it.
We do currently have a doctor shortage in my province and I myself do not have a family doctor, which does complicate things, but there are clinics around that I can still go to that are just less personal than a family physician.
We do have to pay out of pocket for prescriptions, but generally speaking the cost for most things are pretty low. There’s also a whole bunch of basic I also have 80% drug coverage through my employer, which is pretty common as well. In addition in my province a lot of diabetes medication is provided free of charge.
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Star Trek Universe Auction Announced; ‘Starfleet Academy’ AND ‘Strange New Wolds’ Sets DismantledEnglish
1·6 months agoWell, that sucks. Now what?
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Technology@lemmy.world•YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippableEnglish
9·7 months agoThe day I have to watch ads is the same day I stop youtube. So far ad blocks seem to work well for now and I’m more than willing to spend hours getting them working if needed.
Its not Foss, but gog.com is based in Europe. It offers DRM free games. Lots of old games, but also tons of new games as well.
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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x07 “Ko’Zeine”English
14·7 months agoThis was most definitely my least favourite. Why show what Kionians look like in episode 1 when you’re just going to make them all look human in episode 7. Just seems lazy to me.
Genesis and Caleb’s story was better, but seemed out of character for Genesis. I also disliked the suggestion that men & women can’t be friends without falling in love with each other.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•B.C. organization enters debate on government-run grocery amid rising food costs
5·7 months agoMeat from our local grocer is always at least 40-60% cheaper.




Why is every episode some weird take on a different genre. We had a B&W Casablanca episode, a puppet episode and now a soap opera episode. We’ve also had murder mystery’s and musicals. Can we just have some less experimental episodes? Some have been okay, or even good, but others have been awful. None have really been great.
Complaining isn’t really going to help though I guess as all the episodes have been filmed and the show cancelled anyway.