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To any of you wags who are about to say "oh good! Now there's two!"

But cross-border collaboration — between Brazil’s Jaguars of Iguaçu Project and Argentina’s Proyecto Yaguareté — has helped the population grow to at least 105 individuals.

Breakfast beans? Damn. You're a bean fiend!

It's what I love most about Lemmy.

Mostly Lemmy, but I reinstalled Hoplite for a flight a while ago.

Does that mean that we only buy ~$40m of US wine per month? Or we did, before the stupidity.

I assumed the number would be much higher.

There is no single meaning. Viewers of the art can find meaning, but it won't be canonical. I think the meaning the creator intended is important, but that isn't necessarily what the audience will understand from the work.

So I guess I'm saying that the audience determines the meaning.

My high school classmate Cal commented on this anxiety once when we were talking about how Gen Z apparently parties less. “People are too scared for their kids to go and do stuff, and I think, as a result (we) as a generation are too scared to do stuff now.”

Corps are gonna corp.

2.4k repos?!

I dunno. It'd be nice to mix things up a bit. Find a whole new set of things to worry about.

I took my kids to visit their grandparents, and then we went to the town celebration. Lots of red, white, and maple leaves, but nothing too patriotic otherwise.

We're heading to the fireworks later. They're small, but it's a nice community event. I always hope there's a spontaneous round of Oh Canada after - that happened once on a foggy Canada Day in Halifax and it was amazing.

Happy not-fukan-amurrican day.

Unironically, this is pretty damn Canadian. Have a good one, eh!

I think the companies are the only ones who hate the DST. That and their puppet politicians.

This seems really premature. I dislike Carney's policies for a bunch of reasons, but it's premature to shit on him for this. We don't know what the final trade agreement will be.

The last time Trump threw one of these tantrums, NAFTA morphed into USMCA without much of a hit to our economy (afaiu). If our government can repeat that success while we're diversifying our economy away from the US then that's a win.

Canada's implementation is different from other countries':

• It's retroactive to 2022 - so the corps in question would have to drop a big payout in the first year.
• It's slightly higher than the UK tax that the yanks didn't call out. (3% vs. 2%)

I don't know if I would call it stupid, but that retroactive thing seems odd. I don't know much about corporate tax law, so maybe that's a thing? I dunno.

Yeah, I think that's been missing from most of the conversation. Our DST was retroactive and higher than the one in the UK (which Trump&co didn't bitch about). If this version of the tax dies and we can replace it later, but we still gain something by this move then we're coming out ahead.

We'll see what happens.

From what I've seen, Canada's agriculture sectors have had a rough time over the past few decades: production is consolidating into a handful of players, profit margins are sinking, while those further up the supply chain seem to be enjoying most of the profits (and prices for the consumer aren't improving). Dairy farmers have done really well compared to their peers in other sectors. I'm okay paying a bit more for dairy if it keeps them doing well.

I guess we'll find out in a few weeks.

That original strategy was a good one - I think it was used to strong effect during the first Trump presidency. I hope these tariffs are equally effective, but I haven't heard too much since they were implemented.