1. Ford’s govt passes law to remove cycle lanes

2. Cyclists groups get judgement (injunction) saying You can’t remove them until court case challenging the legality of removing them completes

3. Ontario govt appeals against injunction and has lost.

Ergo Cycleways stay until courtcase is done

“The injunction was granted by Justice Paul Schabas on April 22 and is expected to stay in place until he has delivered a full decision on a Charter challenge brought forward by cycling advocates, who argued that the Ford government’s attempt to take out bike lanes in downtown Toronto infringed on their Charter rights to life and security of person.”

Yes that’s certainly true, but Fort Knox being an international gold warehouse doesn’t actually impact dollarisation of the world economy and the inevitable transition away from it when/if US power abates

The dollarisation of the world economy has a lot more to do with the US being virtually untouched (negatively) by WW2 as opposed to the other major world economies who were all decimated (axis & allies). The US had the smallest downturn post 1945 and the fastest transition.

This allowed it to hoover up a large percentage of the worlds wealth AND through its military strength persuade, direct and control other former powers (refer Suez crisis for example).

Bretton Woods really isnt that important in that arc. It certainly helped solidify American hegemony over the 20thC but it was an outcome of power differentials rather than a creator of the hegemony.

It will breakdown over the next decades as the rising superpower China is not party to it, and Putin via the Fanta Felon has massively undermined the US soft power base

TL;DR Bretton Woods mostly codified unwritten agreements between the western countries while cementing the already present dominance of the US due to WW2.

Not being argumentative but how is it not noticeable to cars if the speed limited got reduced ? I mean that’s usually pretty noticeable unless it’s a “traffic at walking pace” mess

That’s a puzzling position, they don’t have a majority, and the NDP are not exactly a long way from the Libs on most subjects. NDP have enough seats to make it a coalition majority

Nice, glad it worked for you

Fair enough - racks in entirety/untouched dramatically reduces the risk of not being able to get stuff back up because of miscabling or missed cabling. I could see that approach being sensible if you’re moving across town.

I personally wouldnt if moving between cities, YMMV of course.

I’ve been in charge of relocating several data centres.

We tore everything down, servers out of racks etc.

All servers, fabric switches drive arrays etc were individually wrapped in bubble wrap then the heavy removalists cloth then into the large metal moving boxes (1500mmx1500mmx1500mm roughly) before being stacked so they couldn’t move around, followed by ratchet straps securing groups of kit together.

All this was done by professional removalists - no reason you can’t do it though.

Basically the principle is flexible padding (bubble wrap) to allow for movement close to the device without impacting it, heavy shock absorbing material (the felt), then put into a robust container (metal box) so limiting impact risk.

I’d strongly recommend NOT to leave them in the rack - a couple of screws vibrate loose and then that device drops onto the one below it, bounces up and down through the journey and wrecks them both.

If it’s a mile up the road, sure, you’ll probably be fine and get away with it, multiple hours on the road ? It’s not surviving it.

Other posts make good points, I’d just add there’s also the risk associated with Mango Mussolini deciding to fix (lack of) popularity issues with a war, his 51st state rhetoric is enough to suspect that Canada (and Greenland) are top of that list

What does asbestos taste like?

Blood

<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

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

Move to the bluest city & state you can get a job in. Then hunker down and either save hard or start studying something that will allow you to emigrate (medical&IT security are always on the list), or something that can be done fully remotely. You’re a lot safer from a camp in a place where there are 100s of thousands of minorities. Not safe forever but it buys you time.

If you can get a job that can be done remotely you can get out to asia or south america asap.

“Trump will never implement Project 2025, he’s just saying that stuff to rile people up”

How’s that working out then ?

If pp says they’ll cut funding to Cbc believe him.

UK alone was 10%.

There are components made by the international partners

https://simpleflying.com/how-many-international-parts-us-f-35-fighter-jet/

I sincerely doubt any other than the UKs aren’t easily replaceable by the US and for the UK piece BAE has US sites all of whom I’m sure have at the very least full access to the specs.