I still shop at Costco, but they’re essentially the only American company I do business with at this point. Costco gets a pass for a few reasons:

1. They pay their Canadian (and American) employees very well. My friend group is mostly engineers and our Costco friend makes the second most.
2. They have publicly refused to dump their DEI stuff
3. Galen Weston and friends can eat my ass

I also exclusively purchase Canadian products inside Canadian warehouses so… it’s less bad.

What? There’s absolutely no way we can interpret intent in this case - this could genuinely be a fair question asked in good faith.

“What about US tech?” could be interpreted a number of ways, from “are Canadians also divesting from US tech?” to “But Canadians aren’t divesting from US tech, what about that?”. There’s no reason to believe this person is going after the latter case here when “ok that’s retail, how’s tech doing?” is equally likely and imminently reasonable.

I’m fine to get dog piled here but I think you’ve assumed bad faith where there is no reason to make that assumption, especially after the user attempted to disambiguate in exactly the way I’ve described.

I’m also curious to see how Canadian usage of American tech companies has changed. I wonder if it got more people to quit Twitter finally.

Postmedia has a bunch of “* Star” papers and the Toronto Sun but notably not the Toronto Star.

I was pretty sure it was the Toronto Star that was Postmedia… I may be remembering incorrectly. I’m gonna delete my comment until I can verify.

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Hey now why are we catching strays? Dude’s getting dog piled with downvotes on a Canadian instances community. They’re probably a Euro, they love to complain about US news cycles.

I’m actually having a similar problem. I’ve had my pothos for maybe 6 years now, and I reported them for the first time in a long while a month ago… they’re not very happy now, but I’m hoping they’re just adjusting.

I have no advice but I hope yours recover!

Except those who dissented publicly, right? Pretty sure Sotomayor was pretty publicly pissed off at the rest of the court.

Plenty of time for a real progressive to do their work, right?

Yeah we as a society need to start treating primaries with respect and actually showing up to vote for those.

As soon as a progressive wins a seat, if they don’t fix 100% of problems within 30 seconds, they’re part of The Establishment and are dead to the movement.

Let’s see if the Democrstic Party holds to their unofficial stance that this race is effectively a referendum on the party’s future.

Probably. But who knows. And the fact that the only cope is “it’s just a negotiating tactic” like MAGA after prices increase from tariffs is giving me a headache. What a time to be alive.

Here’s another

https://www.ft.com/content/ce9eb7e4-7989-45f6-a3b3-3cdec73a8540

A Nato official confirmed the message’s authenticity.

I can only provide some sample articles that reference a confirmation from Rutte’s office. I don’t think they put out a statement or a release, I think reporters called the office and got confirmation that way. Not sure you’ll be able to find a public statement.

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250624-trump-posts-nato-chief-gushing-message-praise-extraordinary-iran-action-rutte

Here’s a French one that theoretically isn’t bound to gobble Trumps knob.

“Congratulations and thank you for your decisive action in Iran, that was truly extraordinary and something no one else dared to do. It makes us safer,” Rutte wrote in a message shared by Trump on Truth Social – and confirmed by the NATO chief’s office.

I regret to inform you Rutte’s office has confirmed officially. I took massive psychic damage when I discovered this was a real post of a real text not a real post of a fake text.

I would love and hate to see proof that Mark Rutte really texted this to Trump.

The “Truth” post is 100% real, inarguably, but I haven’t seen anyone reporting the picture is of a real message from Rutte to Trump.

E: never mind that is… apparently Rutte’s office has confirmed the message is really from Rutte???

???

I need to go lie down.

And signs their essay texts with their name. Very common as we all know.

Real tweet, fake text… no way any NATO leader would say “Europe is going to pay BIG” it’s just too Trump. Same with the incessant comma splices.

But big congrats to Trump for ruining the information space so completely that I genuinely cannot tell what’s real anymore.

Of course it is, LLMs are inherently regurgitation machines - train on biased data, make biased predictions.

International “law” is a misnomer, as you’ve noticed… it’s only enforceable at the end of a pointy stick, physical or economic. “Conventions” are a more appropriate phrase. This is indeed disappointing.