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Canadian Structural/Piping Nav Arch Designer/Draftsman, Project & Field Engineer & photographer & hubby of Teresita. Born in Newfoundland- have been in Texas for almost 30 years.

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She's just another political operative - more attentive to Diaper Don than the rule of law.

07.10.2025 22:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No you can't but cutting off all ties b/c Trump is an asshole is presumptuous. Being American doesn't make US clients of Canadian goods assholes too.
Carney is smart enough to know any "deal" Trump announces isn't worth seriously considering. But if it gets some reduction in online chaos, it's good

07.10.2025 22:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There's a big difference between sucking up to Trump & blowing smoke up the dumb bastard's ass.

07.10.2025 22:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The agreement Carney's shooting for is on the macro level. Canada needs trade with the US or better put, cutting off all trade isn't good for the Canadian economy. None of this should diminish the push to expand trade outside of the US envelope. Getting agreements on both would be best.

07.10.2025 22:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

With Trump's unstable mental state, I wouldn't trust any deal from him that he might throw out in a rage-filled snit. That said, hopefully he's over his throwing chaos at Canada schtick.

07.10.2025 22:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The pitch clock has taken the character out of the game & replaced it with a boring assembly line of pitches and swings.

07.10.2025 22:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Then the ABS strike zone is incorrect. If gamers want digital baseball, go for it. I'd rather watch humans trying their best & not make an occasional bad call a reason to alter the game. Funny how they changed the rules to speed up the game, yet spend (waste) time on challenging calls.

07.10.2025 22:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm sure the CPC has all sorts of plans to reduce or eliminate voters in forthcoming federal elections.

07.10.2025 21:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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U.S. annual paper and board production| Statista Paper and paperboard production in the United States totaled 60.7 million metric tons in 2023 โ€“ a decrease of some seven percent from the previous year.

Sounds good but while I'm sure paper products are still used in large quantities, I'd wager that number is much much less than it used to be with the adoption of the pdf format. This chart indicates peak production in 1997 or so.
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07.10.2025 15:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why was he allowed to only privately apologize? The stochastic aspect of his comment is still out there.

07.10.2025 14:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Myself, I think Ellison will be participating in the disinformation. Just like most of these billionaire media owners. Control the message instead of just letting their news staff report without interference.

07.10.2025 14:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

People like Weiss like the idea of false equivalence. Mute or downplay Trump or rightwing extremists in the news and overcompensate by wall to wall covering any liberal voice & implying that one person speaks for all.

07.10.2025 13:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

God how I hate false equivalence.

07.10.2025 04:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Maybe they did this after seeing Hegseth & Trump onstage & seeing where all of this seems to be going?

07.10.2025 02:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Where WaPo accuse veterans of nickel & dime offenses based on dubious statistics. Meanwhile Bezos' Amazon pays how little taxes now?

07.10.2025 02:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The audacity of his lies is breathtaking. A political party whose purpose is lying to its constituents & hoping they forget before the next federal election.

07.10.2025 01:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why? It's on the line. Cody Bellinger is the biggest self-serving whiner in baseball. Robo-umps is for video gamers.

07.10.2025 01:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeah, the judge deals with facts while Leavitt is the reincarnation of Bagdad Bob.

07.10.2025 01:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So much for getting the every day soldiers to come on to your side. A dictatorship that can't pay its troops isn't long for this world.

06.10.2025 18:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Not only that, but the military was a big part of the optics he wanted.

06.10.2025 18:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

People need to let the games happen before declaring all sorts of irrelevant statistics which will be forgotten if they don't make it to the World Series final.

06.10.2025 17:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is called FAFO - international trade edition.

06.10.2025 17:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Trump wanted to be able to blame SCOTUS for releasing her so his pardon wouldn't be necessary. They're essentially telling Trump that he'll have to take that "honor."

06.10.2025 15:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In the marketplace of information, savvy consumers will move away from poorly developed content. I seriously doubt Fox viewers will migrate to CBS. So it will whither and die.

06.10.2025 14:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think we shouldn't get ahead of ourselves. Only Americans think they win the World Series when they hit a single.

06.10.2025 05:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Did Bill make some hard hitting jokes about Saudi cutting up reporters? No? So much for brave comedy.

06.10.2025 05:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

He's the one who faked bone spurs to get out of the draft, so I guess he didn't want to "win?"...and the Afghanistan pullout & release of the Taliban from prison was all on him.

06.10.2025 02:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They, unlike their much more professional & experienced leaders Trump & Hegseth spoke to, have yet to understand that Trump thinks of them as "losers & suckers."

06.10.2025 00:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That statement coming from a cockroach.

05.10.2025 23:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

WTF is he getting on with?

05.10.2025 23:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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