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In today's lesson, Ms. Healey has learned that "fucking around" leads to "finding out".

I love how they're trying to frame this as something the governments are driving. They're not. Canadians are driving this. As in Canadian citizens.

Canadian citizens are deciding they don't want to buy American goods. Canadian citizens are deciding they don't want to be stuck in a gulag at the whims of a border guard as "tourism". Talking heads and billionaire mouthpieces (known by the twee name "governments") are not going to fix this.

Which part of "boycott USAnal goods over two decades ago" wasn't clear?

There is currently zero US presence in my life (outside of one vestigial one that is on the queue for replacement). This is rendered simpler for me by not being currently resident in Canada, to be fair.

I moved my Mastodon, Pixelfed, and Lemmy servers to ones outside the USA. I have been running ad blocking software since before it was cool (because Internet ads drive me up the wall with their clumsiness). I don't use American company web products: no Google Docs, Google Mail, Google Translate, Bing, MS Office, etc. The closest thing I have to something American left in my life is that my Honor phone is based on Android (albeit very heavily modified), but that will change when my phone reaches EOL. My next phone will run HarmonyOS.

Oh, how nice! But the Chinese don't need their help.

I really do wish I hadn't decided to boycott USAnal goods over two decades ago. I haven't got anything left to react with when I see these escalating atrocities.

U.S. Cops? Breaking the law with impunity? But that's unpossible!

C'mon, Canada! We can bring that to 100%! Go team!

Brain damage pairs badly with marketing.

So have not one, not two, but THREE Chinese firms.

It turns out reusable rockets aren't something that requires serial explosions. It just requires good old-fashioned engineering.

Oh, it's safe to discuss it on forums where people use text. Trump can't read.

C'mon now, Canada! We can bring that number up to 100%!

That final word is a bit scary, mind.

I tutor a girl who was collecting a huge number of acceptance letters, having basically her choice of American university to attend. She was ecstatic about this.

Now she's not going to the USA. I've directed her to Canada or Australia as options.