That’s how Trump thinks, though. Every transaction is zero sum to him.

I’m also convinced saw the “deficit” part of “trade deficit” and either automatically assumed it was bad thing or knew he could convince low-information voters that it was.

Or maybe he is a dumbass and someone on his campaign staff was the crafty one.

I can think of a bunch of other things that Google should be embarrassed about, but Gemini is uniquely humiliating because of how proud they are of it and how hard they are pushing it.

Copilot is one of two LLMs I’ve briefly tried. It was noticeably better than Gemini was at the time, but still seemed entirely pointless. Nothing it (or Gemini) offered to do were things I wanted help with. I enjoy research and writing, so why would I outsource those things and burn down an acre of rainforest in the process?

The zeal of the convert.

According to his Wiki page:

“In August 2019, Vance was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church in a ceremony at St. Gertrude Priory in Cincinnati, Ohio.”

I seem to remember visiting their homepage last year sometime, and every headline was some variation on [Name of politician][aggressive verb][target of ire][reason for the spat], e.g.:

• “John Bloggins slams Joe Blow for wearing a plaid tie”
• “Mary Sue rips Judicial Committee for goat scandal”
• “Peter Flarking haymakers Geraldo over unreturned library books”

And this is the saddest part. The primary victims will be young children, suffering through a potentially deadly disease because of their parents’ credulity.

It doesn’t matter if you guys somehow manage to get adults back in charge in the next 2-4 years. There is nothing stopping another Trump-esque person from being elected again soon after and tearing everything down again. Until you guys purge MAGA and can prove you are in no danger of a relapse, we simply can’t trust you.

I’ll do some research today to see if they are available where I live, or if they can be made so. Thanks for the tip.

There are, but they aren’t feasible for us to use. We would love to, and even discussed it before our first kid was born, but the realities of our lives make them impractical.

It’s generally going well. I already did this boycott once before during Trump 1.0, so I know what do look for.

It’s a bit harder this time around because there are things we need where a Canadian (or at least non-American) alternative doesn’t exist. The big one is diapers, as we haven’t been able to find anything non-American that also works within our budget and time constraints.

It’s unfortunate, but also only temporary. My kids should be out of diapers in a few years, provided the world doesn’t end before then.

I avoided American products during the first Trump term, and started buying them again after Biden was elected.

This time, though, I am not going back, even if American voters somehow manage to put adults back in charge in the next 2-4 years. Trump has destroyed the USA’s relationship with Canada, and that can’t be repaired if there’s even a shred of a chance this could happen again.

I think so too. The doctors didn’t even mention the possibility when my son was born, and if we had wanted it we would have had to specifically ask.

I don’t want to get hopeful yet. I still think it’ll be an uphill battle to keep Poilievre out of the PM’s office. I’d want to see some consistent polling shifts across multiple sources before having any real hope.

That said, even if this as a vast overestimation of the Liberals’ reversing fortunes, it could still be enough to eke out a small victory. Given how dire the polling was before Christmas, just holding the Conservatives to the slimmest of majorities could be considered a win of sorts

It was very common in Canada too. My parents decided to break the cycle with me, but I was the only uncircumcised guy in the locker room growing up in the 90s.

Honestly, I always liked getting up early on weekends (at least before I had kids). Those hours been 7 and 10 were mine in a way that my other free time wasn’t. Because everyone else wanted to sleep in, I had no social obligations and thus could do whatever I wanted. There was a certain joy to having all my weekend chores done early. Or, if I didn’t want to do chores, I could just relax and not worry about trying to align with anyone else’s schedule.

I watched some of that original CGDQ stream live, and it’s amazing how far they’ve come.