I have no idea what the fuck he’s talking about in terms of “subsidizing” Canada. Either he has absolutely no idea how trade defects work or he’s purposefully playing dumb since apparently Canada needs the US less than the US needs Canada

It was inevitable that reddit would fall victim to enshittification once they went public. Now the line must go up forever so they’ll just copy paste every shitty addictive feature from every other garbage platform.

I haven’t either, but in recent years I really want to buy local as much as possible. I want the local farms/food producers to continue to exist. If shit hits the fan, they’ll still be around and will be more relevant than ever.

I’m in the PNW and am purchasing local as much as I can. Thankfully we have a lot of agriculture and general food production. A lot of it isn’t much more expensive compared to corporate garbage.

Some things are much more expensive, like peppers and tomatoes in winter. The “local” stuff comes from Canada because they built up a shit ton of greenhouses that can grow year-round. Tariffs make these even more expensive.

If the US wants to “fix” this and domestically produce the stuff we could have simply provided federal government grants/incentives. Instead we pissed off our trading partners.

I almost consider that a feature. Same with the sign up process, it may help keep a lot of bots out.

After the election but most notably after inauguration they started to creep out everywhere, especially into local subs. r/Seattle suddenly had weird narratives being pushed. They did usually get downvoted to hell though and the sub mods have mostly been keeping a handle on it.