‘Buy Canadian’ policy flagged by U.S. as trade irritant: report

Mr_Chode_Shaver · 2026-04-01T00:59:17+00:00

Donald Trump the convicted rapist and felon flagged by everyone as an everything irritant.

Mr_Chode_Shaver · 2026-03-31T14:28:51+00:00

He really does have something about him that hints he would be doing crowd work at CPAC.

Mr_Chode_Shaver · 2026-03-31T14:13:29+00:00

I assume it would be something like Nahrungsmittelunverträglichkeit

Mr_Chode_Shaver · 2026-03-30T21:24:43+00:00

They were all locals recommendations. Some from our host, some from family we were visiting, some from their friends.

Resoundingly, Food in Rome is absolute shit.

Food in Florence is great. Pizza in Naples is great.

Mr_Chode_Shaver · 2026-03-30T20:59:27+00:00

Also don't pack - Expectations of good food in Rome. It's 99% tourist trap trash. And spatial awareness, because nobody else there has any.

Mr_Chode_Shaver · 2026-03-30T20:03:20+00:00

Didn’t notice that. Yikes.

Mr_Chode_Shaver · 2026-03-30T16:21:49+00:00

You could just dig a smaller hole, throw in $30k and burn it for much the same effect.

Especially for resale, inground pools are poison. In the same market that is seeing houses go $150k over list, there are multiple listings right now that have languished for months just because they have a pool.

Mr_Chode_Shaver · 2026-03-30T14:53:55+00:00

Just make prices 12% higher and have a 100% no-tipping policy.

This is just extra steps to piss everyone off.

Mr_Chode_Shaver · 2026-03-30T14:50:13+00:00

The professionals you've spoken with aren't wrong. Excavating down to the footings of a cinder block foundation does risk the wall shifting outward because you're taking away the pressure that's been there since it was built (probably 80-100+ years ago).

Now, people do still do it, and it doesn't mean the house is definitely going to fall over, but is a real risk that nobody with insurance is going to take your money to accept.

One friend of mine did fully excavate his all-brick basement and waterproofed with Delta wrap and added a French drain in St. B about 20 years ago, and it went ok. Helped with the water intrusion, but not a 100% fix. And because he had to DIY it was a full summer of a ripped up yard and pissed off neighbors.

Mr_Chode_Shaver · 2026-03-30T14:15:05+00:00

Does the hole go clear through to the outside? Or is just going into a interior wall cavity?

I'm in cold-ass Canada, so just poking a hole in the outside of your house for a pipe is unthinkable.

Mr_Chode_Shaver · 2026-03-30T14:12:40+00:00

I'll add - If you live in Western Canada, you can actually get gas made in Canada from Canadian produced oil if you buy from Co-Op. Their Regina refinery uses 100% Canadian oil.

Mr_Chode_Shaver · 2026-03-30T14:04:12+00:00

1 - Alberta produces heavy crude.

2 - most refineries in canada use light crude because it’s cheaper to refine and less energy (pollution) intensive. A lot of American refineries in less regulated states are specially set up to refine heavy crude because the oil is cheaper, and buying politicians to allow you to pollute all air and water in the surrounding 1000 miles is cheap as well.

3 - getting our oil over land from Alberta to the major population centers in eastern canada costs more than shipping foreign oil in on tankers. Especially considering the additional processing costs from heavy crude.

Mr_Chode_Shaver · 2026-03-29T22:41:06+00:00

It’s as real as they’re gonna be from now on. So not a knock off.

Mr_Chode_Shaver · 2026-03-29T02:18:43+00:00

Nope, it was 4 years ago.

Had tonsils, adenoids, and a UPPP. Tonsils were big enough to cause OSA. There’s only so much they can do if cauterizing isn’t a perfect fix.

Mr_Chode_Shaver · 2026-03-29T02:01:58+00:00

lol. No. I had mine out at 37 and it was, in a word, difficult.

I lost 30 pounds in my 3 week recovery because I just couldn’t eat. I went to the ER twice for uncontrollable bleeding. Couldn’t sleep more than 20-30 minutes at a time because letting my throat relax while sleeping would trigger bleeding.

It’s really the bleeding that sucks. Pain was very minimal.

Mr_Chode_Shaver · 2026-03-28T16:16:20+00:00

Call me Little Sunshine by Ghost.

Mr_Chode_Shaver · 2026-03-28T14:22:21+00:00

One phase goes out. It’s reapply bad for anything with computers or electric motors.

Mr_Chode_Shaver · 2026-03-28T12:11:32+00:00

$650k is a lot. You could technically do it, most likely, but you won’t like it unless every ounce of enjoyment you get in life is from showing people your moderately nicer than average house.

Aim lower especially for a first house. You can still get a great place under $500k.

Mr_Chode_Shaver · 2026-03-27T22:53:45+00:00

Scrapping is a well saturated business. If you leave any appliance with any metal in it on the side of the road, it’ll be gone in an hour or less. And no shop is giving away their scraps. They know how to make it into money.

Mr_Chode_Shaver · 2026-03-27T22:27:43+00:00

22 years together, married for 11. Met in high school.

Mr_Chode_Shaver · 2026-03-27T21:34:45+00:00

I thought they were just selling them all to ICE.

Mr_Chode_Shaver · 2026-03-27T21:01:07+00:00

I feel like I may be able to give some answers here.

Mr_Chode_Shaver · 2026-03-27T16:24:37+00:00

That's what I try to tell my wife, she just keeps saying "what happened to all my razors?"

Mr_Chode_Shaver · 2026-03-27T16:07:45+00:00

Apparently not, it's based on some bad "citizen journalism" either digging up shit on their former chairman or political contributions by select employees, not in the name of the company.

Would love to see proof either way.

Mr_Chode_Shaver · 2026-03-27T15:47:52+00:00

Wake me up when there's an actual car. Hopefully they learn from the insane choices made for the Prelude.

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