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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • A different article suggests it might include electronics:

    These measures come on top of the initial $30 billion worth of U.S. imports that Canada slapped tariffs on earlier this month, in response to Trump’s U.S. International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs put in place March 4.

    According to the federal government, the list of additional products affected by counter-tariffs includes tools, computers and servers, display monitors, water heaters, sport equipment, and cast-iron products.

    If “computers” refers to components and not just prebuilt machines, this one is going to especially suck for Canadians. The processors used in consumer desktop computers are all designed by American corporations, and so are the graphics cards. It remains to be seen if they’ll only apply on things assembled in America, but if not, it’s going to be painful for yall.




  • Don’t give Musk a reason to tell his orange bitch to sign an order making lobby for the government to regulate and control internet traffic.

    Using devices inside the country to DoS Twitter will give them an excuse to cry domestic cyber terrorism, and using devices from outside the country will give them an opportunity to justify creating an American equivalent of China’s Great Firewall. The time it would keep Twitter down for is comparatively insignificant to the potential consequences of losing online freedom and anonymity.