Non-Credible Defence Expert here: Sure on paper, the F-35 is superior head-to-head in every technical manner. But the Gripen’s real power is also on paper, to wave a filled out order form for Gripens in front of the White House, inflicting untold psychological damage to the American MIC. /ncd

Home Hardware is a Canadian hardware store chain locally owned and operated by franchisees.

And the one at Parkway Mall on Ellesmere Road in Toronto, sells out-of-season candy for cheap, lol.

I’ll take Wab Kinew over the douche canoe.

1. What Carney thinks Trump’s going to do doesn’t matter tbh. Carney’s the new kid on the block, and he’s showing he won’t entertain “Governor Trudeau” nonsense for even a second. The more Carney lets Trump do sideshows like with Zelenskyy that is going to tank the Liberal’s soaring approval.

2. Despite the abject moron at the other end of the agreement, Carney’s handling of a decades old partnership is also in the spotlight. Even if unrealistic or impossible to some degree (though I sense Canadian sympathy to Carney’s situation), there are expectations on Carney not to unilaterally blow up the relationship Canadians and Americans have with each other unreasonably.

Well, tell me what you want to see…

This place is yours to build and make better without the heavy hand of spez and corporate Reddit. Sure there are power tripping egotistical mods, trolls and bots here just the same, but you can report bad behaviour, contribute non-defeatist good discussion with more thoughtful nuanced takes, submit non-political content in posts, and actually make a difference, unlike Reddit.

Maybe !hopeposting@lemmy.world is for you. Make that community active.

If you’ve given up on Lemmy already, then I don’t know what else to say but good luck on your search for a place that better fits your needs.

PS Reddit wasn’t built in a day either and it was literally built up by bot traffic in the beginning.

Are you looking for https://photon.lemmy.ca/?

(There’s also alex.lemmy.ca and old.lemmy.ca that I know of).

Well it’s partly my bias too, because when I joined Lemmy about 3 years ago, lemmy.world didn’t exist yet and there were around a couple dozen new posts on All of Lemmy per day at the time.

I’m just really grateful for how much we’ve grown as a site, even if we’re still hardly anywhere close to the scale of modern corporate social media. But imo it doesn’t have to be, I like this.

Lemmy.world is not federating with beehaw.org

Lemmy is small enough, that without even seeing a karma total, some users have an unofficial “rapport”, where I’ve seen them around enough to recognize whether they are the type to go against the grain, a perpetual troll, or a usually reasonable person with an unusually spicy take.

For games, make sure you are subscribed to:

• !pcgaming@lemmy.ca
• !games@lemmy.world
• !games@sh.itjust.works
• !gaming@beehaw.org

All are healthy and active, and I’m sure there are more. I suggest cross-posting stuff from a niche community you contribute to, to one of these, to bring traction to the smaller community.

I think the Canadian national conversation has shifted. Sure, many business will need to or choose to still trade with the US, no matter what craziness starts or stops during or after the Trump administration. But we won’t take the US for granted as a stable trading partner anymore.

The trade war will come on and off over his term, whenever Trump wants to take the media off of a different problem he caused.

A real war is very unlikely, not impossible, but it depends on Trump and how competent Trump’s yes men are at enacting his fanciful ideas. I’d prepared for the possibility between 2016-2020, Trump would drop a nuke, and that didn’t happen at least. But just the same, once again as Canadians we should be prepared for the worst, and work with whatever we have as a nation. They can take a lot from us by force, but they will never take away our solidarity and our sovereignty without us voluntarily giving it up.

It made that patch of grass more attractive for dogs to piss on, for one.

I’m happy to field your questions at !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca

For not specifically newbie questions but stuff you might feel silly asking on AskLemmy, you can go to !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

For where to share your art: !artshare@lemmy.world

For where to share your political flyers: !politicalmemes@lemmy.world or !politicalmemes@lemmy.ca if they are anything like a meme. !usa@midwest.social is more loose in types of content allowed so your political art (if US related) might be able to be posted there.

So don’t delay, act now, missiles are running out. Allow, if you’re still alive, six to eight years to arrive. And if you follow, there may be a tomorrow, but if the offer’s shunned, you might as well be locking on the sun.

Mark Rober’s video of the six tests (the remaining section is about mapping Space Mountain as Mark wanted to do since he was a kid)

The wall looking like a road test

Yeah this is totally a holdover from Biden’s weather.

I was more of a Trudeau supporter than most, but yeah the broken central platform promises on electoral reform really stung. Some is definitely right wing indoctrination about giving Trudeau a negative image.

I thought he was a great guy, could speak strongly and plan smartly during CoVID and for other challenges. But aside from initiatives where the NDP pushed the Liberals over the finish line, Trudeau’s government stopped short of really pushing for real change, more to kind of just holding things together with bandaid solutions. I think Carney has the experience and from his speeches the motivation to go further with longer lasting solutions.

The fact the reporter fears their job for accurately assessing the situation is the newsworthy bit to me.

Tesla… warned that US exporters were “exposed to disproportionate impacts when other countries respond to US trade actions”.

That’s the point of retaliatory tariffs. Trump’s tariffs are stupid, other country’s tariffs are smarter and more targeted to have outsized impact on the US and less impact domestically. It’s absolutely intentional.