I’d be very disappointed in any jury who found him guilty

Doesn’t help that dod pentagon is so big because the USD is so strong. Kinda bad for national defense if the dollar loses value.

Looks at the USD forex over the last month. Umm, I think I have some bad news…

While it is possibly true that pro nuclear weapon proliferation advocates (do they really exist ?) may be happy the sub headline of

“Weapons contractors could not be happier,” is certainly not true for the US MIC anyway. In the last week alone Portugal cancelled their F35s, and Trump refused to sell (not gift) hundreds of millions of $s worth of Patriot missiles they were happy to pay cash for. European MIC companies like Rheinmettal and Saab are happy because they’re now getting the orders that would have otherwise gone to the US.

I wonder what his definition of Transshipping would be

I think that’s when a fishing boat puts on some guns and radar and starts calling itself a battleship ?

Quite the opposite

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/31/top-10-most-american-cars/82739892007/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimgorzelany/2023/06/21/all-four-tesla-models-are-ranked-as-the-most-american-vehicles-for-2023/

“All cars source at least some parts internationally, but some are more “American” than others. Cars.com’s American-Made Index ranks the “most American” cars and one brand has topped the list consistently for the last several years: Tesla.”

Other posts make good points, I’d just add there’s also the risk associated with Mango Mussolini deciding to fix (lack of) popularity issues with a war, his 51st state rhetoric is enough to suspect that Canada (and Greenland) are top of that list

If you’re making the group then your call, but the name sounds too sunny & positive to anyone who doesn’t have context to hear the irony.

Also housing crisis is what it’s referred to in many places internationally.

I’d suggest “housing crisis” if you want it to get subscribers. Too much subtlety and it’s just going to be ignored, imnsho.

Without even reading the article I’ll bet Betterridge’s law of headlines applies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge’s_law_of_headlines

Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

It was ICE detaining him not the judge. The authority for ICE to detain him over rode the judges ability to release him

What does asbestos taste like?

Blood

German president Paul von Hindenburg thought that he could “control” Hitler, and that he wouldn’t do the extreme things he promised in his election speeches, and thus brokered his move into the Chancellor’s position in a minority govt. I think we all know how that turned out.

Almost a century later the barons of Wall Street have just had the same “oh shit” moment the German conservatives had in 1933

The Scots wiki had the same problem. A teenage American who didn’t speak Scots edited and created 10s of thousands of entries

For those not aware Scots is a Germanic language that split from Old English back about 700-800 years ago - closely related to modern english like frisian is, but also retaining many words lost to english (some of which are retained in Swedish / Dutch etc). It is distinct from standard scottish english.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language

Edit

Articles on the fiasco

https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689

https://www.engadget.com/scots-wikipedia-230210674.html?_fsig=8ckIe_eK7juchNpKgsYQww--~A

https://www.thenational.scot/news/18679711.scots-wikipedia-us-teen-wrote-swathes-articles-devastated-reactions/

Damn ! Beat me to it !

<shrug> focus on made in canada with canadian ingredients/components where possible. The majority of the money is therefore staying in Canada even if the ownership & thus profits are from somewhere else. Profits from most goods outside tech are usually much much smaller than the cost.

As momentum builds it will become better known who are 100%, or approaching, local. It will also benefit the companies who are local to advertise it loudly, so those who are silent can be assumed to not be.

It’s never going to be 100%, there will always be some things you can’t get elsewhere but consciously avoiding makes a difference.

Foreign tourist inflows to the US are now down 25 to 75% for example. Just because some are still going doesnt mean they haven’t noticed

Yeah an ownership and local production percentage label like the Australian one posted on here the other day would be good

Ahh yes, another “it can’t be done perfectly, so subtext, you shouldn’t bother at all”

An imperfect boycott beats no boycott. Do your best initially and then keep working to improve it.

They’re scared. Don’t let them off the hook because it’s hard

Oh lord, what now ?

That’s weird. The bluesky links in the article work fine for me, and I don’t have a bluesky account.

Ahh hang on, this one doesn’t work but all the rest do

https://bsky.app/profile/megzavala.bsky.social/post/3lmdz2tu6xk2x

Ahh here we go: it’s a user made setting not a bluesky one

“Sign-in Required This user has requested that their content only be shown to signed-in users. This label was applied by the author.”

I look forward to the day Trump, Thiel Musk and Vance get the same treatment