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GF = Girfriend. Not suprising this is lost on lemmy users /s

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If they think that Doug Ford (DoFo) is going to start being nice and quiet by refusing to negotiate or that he is going to suffer in the polls because of this they've misread the situation. If anything this just hardens everyone's resolve that Trump will be petty about even minor grievances and therefore we should accelerate our move away from the USA and look more to the other big guys in the room. If trump is as petty and as much of a "pain" to deal with as china or India but with the only benefit being distance then maybe we need to start setting things up to deal with them more and work on cutting the US out of our dealings with Mexico.

If the US wants to try and kill the auto sector and lumber industry in Canada. lets make them priorities and make the transit of those resources to ports a priority. if pipelines are such a no go for BC then lets expand rail west. rail can be used for lumber, auto, crops and oil. There seems to be more appetite for a pipeline east especially if it replaces the oil pipeline that goes south through the US and the great lakes and instead goes around it through the prairie's and Ontario. Ontario has Break Bulk ports and many cities that would love to build them if they are given capital and an opportunity to be the next trans mountain project of the east.

maybe also time to look for some other company to buy the Brampton, Oshawa and Ingersoll plants. maybe some EV manufacturers in china want to assemble there or maybe some low cost smaller cheaper vehicles from India could be made there.

The US thinks they have us pinned down (mostly because they do at the moment) lets make that not the case in the future so we can still do business without involving them. That will hurt far more than any commercial can.

Just want to clarify are you asking what people should have been paying attention to when DOGE was all they would talk about? or are you asking what what DOGE "should" have focused on?

My Best guess at timelines for when DOGE was all over the news was January to June ish: From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_presidency_of_Donald_Trump

Timeline:

Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE): Trump establishes this new government initiative.

    Implementation: DOGE is tasked with reducing federal spending and limiting bureaucracy. It has overseen mass layoffs of civil servants and efforts to dismantle agencies like the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). 

Executive Orders: On his first day, Trump signs an executive order related to restoring "merit-based federal hiring practices."

Immigration Policy:

    The Laken Riley Act is signed into law(Start of crackdown on anyone not a citizen) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laken_Riley_Act.

    The administration revives numerous immigration laws from Trump's first term.

    Procedures for mass deportations are initiated, including mass raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) nationwide. 

Foreign Policy Withdrawals: The administration initiates the withdrawal of the United States from:

    The World Health Organization (WHO)

    The Paris Climate Accords

    UNESCO

Ongoing from that period:

Executive Orders: Over 200 executive orders have been signed. Most have been or are currently being challenged in court.

Trade and Tariffs: The administration has overseen a series of tariff increases and pauses, including the "Liberation Day" tariffs. These have led to retaliatory tariffs from other countries and caused a brief stock market crash and market instability since then.

Russo-Ukrainian War: The administration has undertaken multiple attempts at peace negotiations to end the war that began in 2022. All have mostly failed.

Foreign Aid Freeze: The administration froze most foreign aid programs for 90 days.

Targeting of Opponents: The administration has taken action against law firms for challenging its policies and has been targeting political opponents.

It's a big mess. Is there a specific time frame you have in mind?

What an utter asshat.

I have never watched the show, I've seen a few Great british baking show episodes dotted around the internet though.

• How does it compare?
• Do I need to rewatch from season 1 to get things/jokes?
• Anything to keep in mind while I watch?

It depends entirely on what form it is in. mined Lithium (Spodumene) smells like dirt/rocks (because surprise, surprise, that's what it is), Metallic Lithium is very soft and reactive so it has no smell besides the mineral oil it's often kept in (or the smell of burnt hair and a sharp metallic smell if you were silly enough to try and dry it off and smell it as it burst into flames/smoke). @EmoPolarbear@lemmy.ca covers it best when they said that it smells sweet (in a lot of batteries). I've heard it described before as smelling like Peardrax (sweet pear flavoured sparkling beverage) and having had it I'd agree. FYI most forms you would come into contact with are acutely toxic so maybe don't mess with it too much.

Something to keep in mind is if you have a diet that requires you to avoid sugar(diabetic/keto) don't buy heinz no sugar added, it's made in the USA. Buy French's they make no sugar added ketchup made in Canada with the same ingredients as there regular blend but use sucralose instead of sugar. (Haven't found a brand that's Canadian owned that I can buy outside of amazon :( )

Checked who the author was, should have guessed... SJVN. He certainly has a flair for taking something relatively small, that a solution already exists for and suggesting something bureaucratic, unnecessary, and completely outside his technical competence. This is one of those things that the kernel devs can, and will solve when it's a real problem. Random journalists and armchair experts can wait till they're called upon.

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I agree completely, but please don't shoot the messenger when I say what comes next: I want to just be completely clear with you I only know this because my mother has actually been facing this issue for a good chunk of my life so for once I can actually give some useful context on why this happens and the vast majority of the time it's not malicious or meant to deceive.

to start lets set the context for how they even get the info for the signs. every week your grocery store department manager gets an order sheet with items with items they can choose to buy and some items with preset quantities sent to them that they can not refuse or reduce quantities of. these may be sale items, basics or seasonal items corporate says they must sell or you will have to throw them out and count as waste on your departments sales sheet. some of these items have info already on them about country of origin some do not. This is because corporate may have ordered 10 tons of watermelons 3 tons from the USA, 7 tons from Mexico. these end up stacked all together in the warehouses and depending on how much is ordered by each store or to be honest dumb luck you may end up with partial loads of mixed quantities because to the folks in the warehouse watermelons are watermelons. these get loaded on trucks that get sent out to multiple stores where adriver has a spreadsheet that simply says 1 watermelon pallet for each store except store in bigCityCanada which ordered an extra. the truck driver doesn't even look at the pallets they unload the first pallet they get to to the first store they were assigned to drive to that day. that means that no one has a clue what they actually have till it gets to the store. the grocery clerks get the load and say "ok this pallet is watermelons that are from Mexico" because that's what the box says on top and no one is digging through a pallet of watermelons. the grocery store manager runs around like a chicken with there head cut off writing down country of origins so they can rush back to there office to update all there price signs with country of origin info and print them because it's 6AM and they open at 6:30AM and having product on the floor without a sign is a CFIA violation as well and depending on the grocer a Scanner Price Accuracy Code violation which means at minimum you get the product for next to nothing or free. If you take products onto the floor with people there you can get angry or even worse you can possibly hurt customers(as you can imagine corporate hates this a lot). now understand that this is happening to multiple departments all at once with usually just one tired out computer and printer in a cramped back office barely big enough for a chair and one other person to stand next to you. now customer walks onto the floor after the first couple boxes are sold and now only the other countries watermelons are left. no one is paying attention because all the workers are doing now is dealing with customers being borderline demons rooting though produce dmaging products and moving stuff around they must reorganize and spot fill to make the shelves look pretty and full so products sell. that's why I say just ask the produce manager first 9 times out of 10 they don't know or haven't noticed because they are focused on selling as much as possible and keeping customers happy. you saying I'm not happy the signs don't match should be enough to make them go(internally) "FU*K the coo is wrong corporate will write me up for that and I can get fined!" and send them scrambling to reprint the price sheet.

is this an excuse? not really this is just piss poor organization and control in the warehouse and ordering practices to get the best deal that just bubbles down to screw over local grocery stores and mislead consumers. but please be kind to the grocery store workers they are doing there best and dealing in a very low margin market with people that look down on them even though they help put the food on your plate every day. at least give them a chance to do right if there is a mistake(My mom's really trying, she doesn't want to buy American either but corporate makes that decision not her).

Yep mom works in a grocery store. Can confirm. It runs afoul of Food and Drugs Act (FDA) and Safe Food for Canadians Act (SFCA) which govern handling/sale of food in Canada. They prohibit the "labelling, packaging, treating, processing, selling, or advertising of any food in a manner that is false, misleading, or deceptive, or is likely to create an erroneous impression regarding its character, value, quantity, composition, or merit". Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) can do a ton of things about it but honestly just ask for the produce manager to change the sign. If they give you flak take a picture and copy corporate with your location. Ask corporate if this needs to go to CFIA? It'll get fixed fast. You can't fuck about with food.