(and I hope to never go on a cruise ship again for the rest of my life)

Story time? Did you get Legionnaire’s disease or something?

Yep. Finding gloves that fit is also a struggle.

That one is at least considered sexy, though. Nobody’s like OMG man feet. (Unless they think it’s indicative of my penis size, I guess)

I’m only slightly tall and have feet so big I have like one possible choice at any given shoe store.

Thanks for playing, I guess. Sorry.

Man, they really had some faith in the quality of that totally black-market product.

Dope. Is that always an option somehow, or was it specified?

There’s also the “little” issue of if future elections will even be real.

Yeah, the Doomsday clock is kind of fucked at this point. They need to reboot it with the same scale as during the (first?) Cold War.

Enjoy everyone, we’re living through fediverse history. This is our dancing baby (or maybe more like the “love you” worm).

Has anybody actually followed the links? I’m mildly curious where it goes.

Amazing. Like OP, I’ve lost count.

Hmm, so they were aiming for something else, but got here instead because they had crank theories about the shape of the universe? (Columbus thought Earth was egg-shaped instead of a sphere, like everyone had correctly thought since the time of ancient Greece)

They call us something translating to “the Andromidans”.

I wonder how long it would take.

There’s a definite bent, but I actually don’t feel starved for diversity. Looking at the posts in my feed sorted by new, it’s about half America bad but there’s also miscellaneous news stories and programming memes. No ancient Roman memes or goofy maps today, but I also spend a lot of time on that.

I suspect the next people in line to sign up are also interested in OSS and unhappy with Trump, but less likely to actually post about it, so basically content will regress to the mean fast enough to keep up. We’ve already seen a lot of movement away from Marxist-Leninist politics, which is what the devs started with.

Yeah, sorry, didn’t mean to put you on the spot. I see how I did that now.

To give another example illustrating the quote, Tolkien called himself an anarcho-monarchist and meant it. His explanation did not make it clearer what that means.

Yeah, but like, I gave some actual reasons why that probably won’t happen.

Do tarrifs really just make things more expensive for the home country? How do they effect the country the tarrifs are imposed on?

It makes it harder for that country to sell. Which means layoffs and loss of asset value there. The most dramatic example is the auto industry. They’re talking about just closing shop immediately, because their business plan depends on moving things back and forth across the border as they gradually get assembled.

If this goes on as long as I suspect, there will be new businesses that bubble up to use the same resources, but it’s never going to be as nice as a single integrated continent, and in the meanwhile, time is money, things can’t grow and develop while just sitting there. Not to mention the workers that now don’t know how to put food on the table.

Genuine question, if Trump’s tariffs just make things expensive for Americans why would we put retaliatory tariffs that effect us?

That’s actually a separate question. It’s a matter of tit-for-tat, partly. But, there’s also the fact that the US government is pocketing all those tariffs. If we didn’t have a bit of extra income to match, I imagine it’d get really hard for the government to pay for things with our now weaker currency. Not retaliating was considered, though.

I mean, OG fascism was a mainstream-ish and cool until it actually got to start doing things, too.

I don’t expect every nation to close ranks, but I expect some to. Hopefully enough to form a viable block.

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We know it’s not all of you.

Aluminum is another one, apparently. The element is everywhere, but it takes massive amounts of electricity to get in metal form, which we just happen to have from all the dams in great lakes region.

Our Aluminum companies are literally planning to change nothing. They expect their American customers will just eat the cost.

Yes. It’s alright, I’ve managed to mostly eliminate American products. Anyone smart or at least patriotic has looked into it as well, since the madness began. It was kind of neat watching the US products just sit on the shelves while Canadian stuff emptied out.

To reiterate what all our politicians have been saying to US media, Trump is raising prices on Americans to hurt us, it’s for no good reason, and we’re forced to do the same on our side.

And inflict the maximum amount of pain on specifically the bad Americans who are doing this.