Can you elaborate on the last part of your comment? I’m not sure I fully understand, though it sounds like we mostly agree.

I’m not sure why you threw in that digression about political leaning at the end, though. It makes your last statement pretty vague.

The “paradox of tolerance” is a concept I love to bring up time and time again.

No tolerance for the intolerant, lest intolerants take over tolerant spaces and turn them intolerant.

Stop using services that don’t care about their users for

fuck

's sake

Correct

Only if that data centre is located on US soil.

Thrift store? Believe it or not, 1%er activity.

Yarr.

Ouch, how did this happen, and why have patches sat unreviewed?

Yeah, with OP’s attitude - skill issue

I hate cilantro

Small projects do not benefit from economies of scale, I can almost guarantee you very little of this is actual profits.

You need to double up your newlines :)

Ew, AI generated image.

Made with ❤️ using stolen assets.

!shrinkflation@lemmy.ca

I believe it has to be declared on the packing manifest, but it relies on the expeditor being truthful. That’s my understanding of it.

I don’t think it’s about the place of manufacture, but rather the place of origin. A lot of items are manufactured all over the place.

Any time an eligible item crosses the US / Canada border, a 25% tariff is applied. This is how the US does it, so this is what the Canadian government is copying.

This is terrible for auto manufacturing, where various parts cross the border multiple times between raw materials, loose parts, assembled parts and assembled vehicle. Every time those parts or materials cross either border, it gets tariffed 25%.

I believe if your item comes from the US, lands in another country, gets re-labeled and then enters Canada, it won’t be tariffed, but don’t quote me on that.

Fuck you and your unprompted attack on neurodivergent people, and fuck your “oh I ruffled a few feathers” when you directly and objectively insult and generalize an entire group of people.

You sound insufferable, this is is not how you get help nor make friends. Too bad for you, but a large amount of people in tech are neurodivergent, and your post is gonna make sure that all those knowledgeable people now won’t want to help you.

Impossible, their username is joyjoy!

Absolutely, I’m not stating that the US’ water is undrinkable, simply that enough municipalities have poor quality or non-drinkable water that it’s easier for companies to market water bottles to people.

Stories like Flint, Mi. go international, and its crisis lasted for a really long time, despite being mostly the exception (see the other commenter’s Wikipedia link). And public access water fountains are not a thing in many cities, leading to an even greater perceived scarcity by consumers.

My point above was that enough municipalities have a drinking water quality problem to drive sales of water bottles across the country, the US’ drinking water is not bad across the world stage, but probably worse than most western European countries.

The solution should be either a water filter, or a filtered water dispenser from a refillable jug. Not disposable water bottles.

I love the smell of electronics! What I’m referencing is indeed the bitter compound they put on Switch cartridges, it tastes really bad and you taste it for a really long time, a stern warning to would-be choking children.