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  • If you're making the group then your call, but the name sounds too sunny & positive to anyone who doesn't have context to hear the irony.

    Also housing crisis is what it's referred to in many places internationally.

  • I'd suggest "housing crisis" if you want it to get subscribers. Too much subtlety and it's just going to be ignored, imnsho.

  • Without even reading the article I'll bet Betterridge's law of headlines applies

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

    Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

  • It was ICE detaining him not the judge. The authority for ICE to detain him over rode the judges ability to release him

  • German president Paul von Hindenburg thought that he could "control" Hitler, and that he wouldn't do the extreme things he promised in his election speeches, and thus brokered his move into the Chancellor's position in a minority govt. I think we all know how that turned out.

    Almost a century later the barons of Wall Street have just had the same "oh shit" moment the German conservatives had in 1933

  • I feel like hydrogen is little more than hope.

    Pretty much. It doesn't have a lot going for it at this point - maybe one day

  • The Scots wiki had the same problem. A teenage American who didn't speak Scots edited and created 10s of thousands of entries

    For those not aware Scots is a Germanic language that split from Old English back about 700-800 years ago - closely related to modern english like frisian is, but also retaining many words lost to english (some of which are retained in Swedish / Dutch etc). It is distinct from standard scottish english.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language

    Edit

    Articles on the fiasco

    https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689

    https://www.engadget.com/scots-wikipedia-230210674.html?_fsig=8ckIe_eK7juchNpKgsYQww--%7EA

    https://www.thenational.scot/news/18679711.scots-wikipedia-us-teen-wrote-swathes-articles-devastated-reactions/

  • My youngest flatly refuses to use, or acknowledge the existence of the " half past, 10 to"etc system. I'll get "yeah but what's that not in stupid time" ? if I don't say 715 or whatever. Annoying teenagers lol.

  • <shrug>

    focus on made in canada with canadian ingredients/components where possible. The majority of the money is therefore staying in Canada even if the ownership & thus profits are from somewhere else. Profits from most goods outside tech are usually much much smaller than the cost.

    As momentum builds it will become better known who are 100%, or approaching, local. It will also benefit the companies who are local to advertise it loudly, so those who are silent can be assumed to not be.

    It's never going to be 100%, there will always be some things you can't get elsewhere but consciously avoiding makes a difference.

    Foreign tourist inflows to the US are now down 25 to 75% for example. Just because some are still going doesnt mean they haven't noticed

  • Yeah an ownership and local production percentage label like the Australian one posted on here the other day would be good

  • I'd be curious to see a reference or link. That sounds very counter intuitive

  • Ahh yes, another "it can't be done perfectly, so subtext, you shouldn't bother at all"

    An imperfect boycott beats no boycott. Do your best initially and then keep working to improve it.

    They're scared. Don't let them off the hook because it's hard

  • Paywalled. Unblocked version here

    https://archive.ph/YOwRm

    EDIT not unpaywalled, subscription only

    What the fuck is the point of posting a link to an article no one can read ?

  • It's a more concise way of saying "wankers who buy a massive pickup they never use the bed of for anything other than a grocery bag to compensate for their small penis and try and pretend they're hard men"

  • He'll be long dead before the US realises how badly he screwed them for Putain

  • That's weird. The bluesky links in the article work fine for me, and I don't have a bluesky account.

    Ahh hang on, this one doesn't work but all the rest do

    https://bsky.app/profile/megzavala.bsky.social/post/3lmdz2tu6xk2x

    Ahh here we go: it's a user made setting not a bluesky one

    "Sign-in Required This user has requested that their content only be shown to signed-in users. This label was applied by the author."

  • I look forward to the day Trump, Thiel Musk and Vance get the same treatment