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Ah, so Russia wants to create rifts between Eastern and Western Europe, got it!

It was going to mostly crash anyway, when the ships stop coming next week, due to the tariffs.

There was a video on ?imgur? in the past couple days, I didn’t know if it was real. Guy says he was a truck driver and had stopped at a weigh station. He said they asked if he could read and write English; he said yes. They gave him a piece of paper to read, which he did; they then told him to write those words down on another piece of paper, which was filled with identical words in various handwritings. He said he saw a bunch of people off to the side in handcuffs, and said that if you couldn’t speak or write English, you had to pay a $5000 “fine” on the spot, and that if you couldn’t pay, you were arrested on the spot and your driving license immediately suspended. There was some condition (I don’t remember what it was) where the trucking company might also have to pay a $10000 “fine”.

The comments discussion pointed out that, if they had had $5000 to pay the “fine”, it likely would’ve been taken in civil forfeiture. There was also a robust discussion on whether this was real or not, trying to find other sources, which were slim and primarily referenced questionable sources.

Edit: found the video, which apparently originated on Xitter, and was originally posted last month (I only saw it a day or so ago).

The next nationwide anti-Trump administration protests are scheduled for May Day.

Yeah, we know :( No one is going to risk buying something when the price could more than double depending solely on what date the ship happens to reach port.

I’m just going to point out that Trump has declared that the official language of the United States is English, so I’m sure he’s going to put in another executive order saying there shouldn’t be any translators made available.

More stuff in lower resolution, and focus on less-popular (or less-collectible) material.

The internet isn’t going to go out just for you, it’s going to go out for everyone (at least in your region). You’re going to be without it for the long-term, so you’ll want variety in what you can watch and listen to. But your friends and family will also be looking for entertainment, so you’ll be providing for a range of tastes over a long period.

You want to focus on less-popular / less-collectible material because trading networks will spring up, and the less-popular material will be the stuff that’s in demand. There’ll be plenty of people with a full collection of Star Trek or all the Best Picture winners, that kind of thing. But there’ll also be people who suddenly realize that they want to re-watch all of Law and Order or they’ve always meant to watch Miami Vice and now is the perfect time.

I’ll also point out that you’ve hypothesized that it’s just the internet that’s gone down. There would still be broadcast tv and radio, and I think people would re-adapt to broadcast viewing and listening.

I have a friend who has to keep going in there to re-correct bad data and bad relationships that people keep re-adding. They think they’re helping, but they’re not, they’re just contaminating the data and the site keeps letting them do so.

Guess that explains the videos of doordash drivers stealing deliveries and stuff …

His situation: He’s currently in high school, with the same people he’s been with for years, with settled routines and everyday stresses. There’s little there that he hasn’t faced before: it’s safe to leave him there.

Your situation: once you take time off from school, it takes a lot of effort to go back; even with a full intention to go back, life gets in the way and people will often put it off “for just another year”. It’s also perfectly valid to not want to go to college, but in that case you should have some other general life plan: “I want to apprentice at this trade” or something.

Assuming that you want to go to college, you should go directly to college; your boyfriend still be safe where he is, and this will give him time in a known environment to explore himself a bit, while you’ll have time to settle into college and figure yourself out a bit. You can meet up over the various holidays, and then settle in together at college next year, assuming that’s what you both still want.

The stock market is a mood ring for rich people.

$242.65

Trump imposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China by declaring illegal migration and fentanyl constituted a national emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the National Emergencies Act. [Under] the NEA, Congress has the authority to move quickly to terminate that emergency declaration. […] The section reads, “Each day for the remainder of the first session of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day for purposes of section 202 of the National Emergencies Act with respect to a joint resolution terminating a national emergency declared by the President on February 1, 2025.” Source

Which means that the only people (afaik) who could have ended the ‘national emergency’ that he’s using for a lot of his declarations, signed that power away for this next year. Meaning he’s going to spend this next year dismantling the rule of law and ensconce himself as emperor.

Schweitzer said the Montana Farmers Union supports tariffs that are done strategically and targeted, but he adds that isn’t the case with recent implementations.

Like so many Republicans, be didn’t have a problem with what’s being done, just with the way it’s implemented.

However, a bipartisan bill could help manage more tariffs from being added. The Trade Review Act of 2025 would require the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of imposing or increasing a duty on imported goods, including an explanation and assessment of its impact on U.S. businesses and consumers.

A) That’s not going to do anything; and B) the Republicans already signed a bill last month, saying that the entire rest of the year is one day long explicitly so they wouldn’t have to do anything about the tariffs.

I use “fucking terts” when I’m angry at a specific person (“terts” is a derogatory term for earth humans (from Alien Nation), and “furless human” when I’m in a slightly amused mood (it’s what my cat used to curse me).

My cat, purring.

It also doesn’t help that one party has a history of twisting or actively redefining the meaning of words, to create loopholes out of the most plain language possible.

The point is that he’s got too much exposure in Xitter, plus everyone’s tanking Tesla, so he’s moving stuff around to try to hang on to everything he can.

He’s fine with the whole deportation thing, he thinks they just made a mistake. I’m not sure he’ll ever be reflective enough to realize This Is The Plan.

CBP intercepted egg products on 3,254 occasions this January and February, compared to 1,508 occasions in the first two months of 2024.

TIL that people were “smuggling” eggs across the border last year as well. I wonder what the earlier historical numbers have been - there had to be some historical number of border residents doing it in their periodic cross-border visits, and unknowing vacationers who bought a dozen or two to cook while they’re camping and just brought the remainder home.