Everyone assumes that this is just a ham-fisted attempt to bring manufacturing back to the USA. What if the goal is really just to collect more money for the government to help cover such gross ineficiencies as the tax cuts for the ultra wealthy?

Ummm…no. The goal is that these companies pay Trump big money in “donations” and in return, he exempts them.

Trump isn’t in it for anything except his own pockets. He doesn’t give a shit about the country. He doesn’t even give a shit about project 2025.

He literally wanted to be president again to avoid going to jail, and when the Heritage foundation approached him and said “we’ll get you reelected and in exchange you make our guy Vance your vice-president and let us have carte blanche to enact this big binder full of christian nationalist policies.” He said “You’ve got a deal” because he doesn’t give a shit. He’s making bank while letting people smarter than him tell him what to say.

And honestly that’s what I love about Canada and why we are the best country in the world. We’re a mosaic rather than a melting pot. Each culture that comes here contributes something to the Canadian Zeitgeist that gets disseminated to everyone else, like spicing up an otherwise boring W.A.S.P existence.

When my family moved here from Portugal, they managed an apartment building in order to have a place to live while my father worked construction and my mother was a housekeeper. (Yeah…yeah…I know…it doesn’t get any more Portuguese than that)

Anyway, I was just a toddler and the family was immediately befriended by the older Ukrainian lady next door and we soon became a part of her extended family for everything from christmas to birthdays, etc. My first memories are of toddling down the hall in my pjamas first thing in the morning to “Auntie Anne’s” apartment. She was more my grandmother than my biological grandmothers who lived in Portugal at the time.

Through them, we learned kaiser. My mother learned how to make peirogies, cabbage rolls, etc…

We are without a doubt the most Ukrainian Portuguese family to have ever existed and I love it.

Sorry…got nostalgic there for a moment. Auntie Anne passed away decades ago and I still think about her sometimes.

Because then Tuvix would still exist. And that flies in the face of all that is holy.

When I graduated highschool, the idea that some dinosaurs had feathers and evolved into birds was still “fringe science”.

Are…are the walls talking to you, Donald?

Yes. Public money public code and all that.

However…

For security reasons, I wouldn’t feel comfortable if every one who wanted to could just contribute to it. It would need to be a closed developer group with security clearance. We can all look at what they’re doing, but we can’t insert our own patch commit requests to them ad nauseaum.

I mean “welcome” in the most generic, passive aggressive Canadian sense of the word. Shutting the door is exactly what the strength of federated/defederated social media is all about.

They’re welcome to it.

As far as I’m concerned, this is the entire benefit of lemmy/piefed/etc… They can have their space, and any other instance can choose not to federate with them so we aren’t forced to listen to them, unlike the alternative, where an algorithm forces them into everyone’s face.

Rather than telling them they don’t have the right to speak, we simply have the ability to shut our window and not listen to them.

Let them bitch at each other.

Should have asked if Jesus had his night rating classification.

“Trump Gold Card Website Feels is ‘Amateurish,’ (because it is…) Not Legitimate, (because it isn’t) Expert Says”

It’s a capitalist problem. As long as the billionaire class keeps us fighting a culture war amongst ourselves, we won’t realize that the actual war is a class war against them.

There are only two classes. The billionaires and the rest of us (that they call “labour”). If you can convince the labour class that they are divided by race, religion, etc… they’ll be too busy blaming each other to come burn down your mansion.

It’s not expressly said. But that’s my take on it from a few different clues. For starters, he wasnt’ surprised by the invalid reading. Also the story that he tells about his son not being “all that was promised” came early in the film, with the doctor saying “who knows what he can achieve” like a wink or a nudge almost.

I don’t think that was the message at all.

The end message is that the doctor knew all along, and was helping him from the beginning. It didn’t matter how much work he put in, how hard he tried. How much he lied or cheated or “overcame his limitation”, at the end of the day he would have never succeeded without help from a fellow human.

Doing it all himself had started to make him prideful to some degree. And realizing that, in the background, he didn’t do it all himself was a last kick of humility to (ironically) ground the character before he leaves the ground forever.

An incredibly powerful scene. I still think about it regularly when thinking about human limitations.

That’s…gross…

The age difference is pretty much the difference between me (49) and my S.O’s daughter (18); a girl who I very much think of as a step-daughter.

Being legal means you can’t really do anything. But morally it absolutely should change the way people see your father, and rightly so. He’s a pedo, plain and simple. When the age difference is so large (31 years), the 365 days difference between 16 and 17 doesn’t make any difference from a moral perspective.

As an outsider, it’s utterly astonishing how fucked up your country has become in only 9 short months.

That is unironically a really cool premise for a sci-fi noir mystery novel. A detective has to figure out how multiple people in different parts of the world are all killed in exactly the same moment.

Canada:

A disappointment in some ways based on what we were promised during the campaign and especially in his dealings with the fascists to our south. Not an absolute catastrophe (despite what Maple MAGA cries on every social network), but definitely not focused on the little guy like they said they would be.

To be honest, I feel kind of tricked a little bit. We had a legitimately good third party that usually held the balance of power (NDP) and could use their votes to cooperate with the ruling Liberals to get some legitimately good things done. (You support 10 dollar a day daycare or we won’t use our votes to help you…that kind of thing). But during the last election, there was so much fear mongering about the Conservatives that we were essentially convinced that we needed to sacrifice the NDP in order to avoid splitting the vote. So now we have a party that can basically do whatever they want for the most part.

Even if it is the far far better of the two parties that has that power, the lack of a third party check and balance is bothersome.

but…still far far far preferable to Pierre Poppinfresh and his MAGA-lite cultists.

Literally anything that Stan Winston had a hand in.

Any movie that relies on “The call is coming from inside the house” trope.

WTF is a landline?