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So dude posts this:

I've done a pretty good job of eliminating most American products from my life, but a few have slipped back in or maybe were missed, this just strengthens my resolve and I will do another review of everything I do.

I've discovered lots of great Canadian products, hardbite chips, Tough duck clothing, all sorts of alchohol, Presidents choice products are surprisingly good all around. Coke is the only tricky one for us, but atleast it's canned in Canada and is more of an international brand now.

Where he lists a half dozen things hes shifting to buy Canadian, and also that he is constantly thinking and trying to shift the rest of his purchasing to Canada.

After reading that, you think a half dozen comments about soda pop and then this bat shit line:

But I think we're proper fucked if that is anything resembling most Canadians' willingness to sacrifice anything

Is somehow justified?

Zeolatry isn't an argument, my dude. You come off as maniacal when youre attacking someone who is 99% onboard with your platform already. I fully support slapping the fuck out of the US here, but you've gone round and then off the bend, mate.

Its a coke, buddy. Chill.

The dude has clearly already made huge, direct changes to his purchasing to cut out American products. He got 99% of the way there.

No need to shame him with "buying a coke means you dont want a sovereign Canada" type rhetoric because it just makes you and your goal look ridiculous. It reads like "you used a plastic straw so you want to watch the earth burn" level of wacky.

Take the win you already have on this one.

You seen to have glossed over the fact that Wildberries had a specific "things to kill Ukrainian" tag in their store, so its not a 1:1 comparison.

But yes, the US probally shouldn't get into a war of choice with a foreign power within range of any Amazon warehouses. They would indeed be a valid target, albeit one more nebulous than the "buy these things to kill those specific people" storefront that is Wildberries.

Russians should be outraged that the war continues, but Ukraine is entirely within its right to target wartime logistics hubs that are directly equipping enemy soldiers, no matter the coat of paint on it, or whether that logistic hub also sells candy bars and t-shirts.

Yes. Military logisitics hubs are valid targets in war. The same way Iran targeting Amazon's datacenters in UAE/Bahrain were valid targets, as Israel/US use AWS for targeting Iran.

Ecommerce sites that do not want to be targeted should not sell or ship wartime goods. Wildberries was specially egregious, as it had a dedicated tag called "Everything for the SVO" that was just for supplying soldiers in the Ukraine war, but all companies who do are valid targets.

on Incredible · c/microblogmemes · 1 pts · 7d

You can put whatever you want in a contract, but it can't contradict the law.

If an arborists is negligent and fucks up, they can still be sued for their fuck up, no matter what some boilerplate contract says.

They quoted the same Texas psychologist for both, and lordy does he come off as much more of a far right loon in the latter.

For context, he blames "victim culture," "gender ideology," "therapy" and "tiktok" for estrangement. Pretty clear to see where his biases lie.

on Dug out my basement · c/dull_mens_club · 20 pts · 14d

Dirt and rock be heavy. I just did a 30x3ft path 3in deep in gravel by hand, and it was over 2000lbs of stone, and I'm still not quite done.

Based on a guess of 1200sqft (a reasonable sized house by 1922 standards) and the stated 2 feet deep, that means he moved 44.44 cubic yards of dirt. Soil looks pretty sandy/rocky, so based on some googling, I'm seeing 2500lbs/cubic yard. 44 * 2500lbs works out to 110,000lbs, or just over what OP stated.

Seems like his estimates are right to me.

on Flavors of Miku · c/animemes · 4 pts · 16d

WOTC themselves commented on it, and said that they will be doing more content away from NYC for a while.

Your buddy apparently ain't alone in pointing out how lazy they have been.

on Flavors of Miku · c/animemes · 13 pts · 16d

Best part of the games, after Spain winning and USA getting stomped to bits after FIFA backdoored the red card.

Dont worry though, she has another zany crossover in magic the gathering.