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HamsterRage

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  • NDP insiders are trying to fix the leadership race for an establishment candidate  ⋆ The Breach

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  • Officially? I thought that they were going on a vote by vote basis. In that case, given that the CPC will always vote against the government, when something comes up that both the Bloc and the NDP are against it becomes a race to say who will vote against it first. This forces the other party to vote for something they dislike, or suffer an election (at least for confidence motions).

  • NDP insiders are trying to fix the leadership race for an establishment candidate  ⋆ The Breach

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  • So, would a longer time to a leadership vote mean that the NDP would have to shore up the Liberal minority to prevent an election until after they pick a new leader?

  • ICE Barbie Is Now Accusing Dems of ‘Felonies’ Over Detention Center Clash

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  • The U.S.-U.K. deal shows the trade war is here to stay

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  • there will be serious sand in the gears of global commerce for the foreseeable future.

    Or will there? Certainly, serious issues for US trade, but the rest of us can trade with each other just fine. We're already seeing that start to happen.

  • TIL that in 1975, after Gillette introduced a two-blade cartridge razor, Saturday Night Live aired a fake commercial for a three-blade razor. Gillette introduced one in 1998. In 2004, a satirical ...

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  • I cannot express adequately how different blades are from each other. Some are smoother than others, some are sharper and some improve after a few uses. Some last longer.

    I have fairly fine whiskers, so I don't need a crazy sharp blade like Feather. My skin is also a bit sensitive, so a smooth blade is best.

    For me Big Ben, blades made by Lord in Egypt are really good. One of the versions of Shark, also made by Lord are pretty good too.

    I find Wilkenson Sword blades to be horribly scratchy, and the name for some of the Gillette blades. Voskhod aren't bad, except they are Russian.

    You don't realize how different they are until you try.

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  • Religion. Ruins. Everything. Every. Time.

  • TIL that in 1975, after Gillette introduced a two-blade cartridge razor, Saturday Night Live aired a fake commercial for a three-blade razor. Gillette introduced one in 1998. In 2004, a satirical ...

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  • Blades vary greatly between brands. Get a sampler pack from eBay to find ones you like. Then buy them in bulk. 100 blades will generally cost from $8-$14, depending on the brand. Some, like Feather, are more expensive.

  • Recommend me a good historical fiction books

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  • Virtually anything by Bernard Cornwell.

  • Carney's decision to let Poilievre run immediately for a seat in Alberta is good strategy and good politics

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  • The key word is "immediately". It is within his power to delay the byelection for months.

  • Liberal Bruce Fanjoy topples Pierre Poilievre in Carleton | CBC News

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  • I'm not so sure about the "jaws of Victory" bit. I think that Canadians were just fed up with Trudeau, couldn't bring themselves to vote NDP and ended up polling Conservative. So it wasn't really support for PP, but unsupport for Trudeau.

    Take Trudeau out of the equation and the Liberals came flooding back to the party.

  • Liberal Bruce Fanjoy topples Pierre Poilievre in Carleton | CBC News

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  • I'm not sure that I can remember that being done for any leader at the federal level in the past 50 years or so. We'll have to wait and see.

  • Liberal Bruce Fanjoy topples Pierre Poilievre in Carleton | CBC News

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  • He still gets to be party leader, but he cannot sit in Parliament. There are two remedies for this. First, the party can choose a new leader from their elected MPs. Second, they can have an MP in a "safe" riding step down and then ask the government for a special by-election in that riding.

  • The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce

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  • I call BS.

    I'm Canadian and my parents immigrated here from England before I was born. I have a UK passport as well as a Canadian passport.

    I'm not English-Canadian, I'm just Canadian. No one hyphenates in Canada, and you cannot say that Canada has any more unifying cultural heritage than the USA.

  • Trump’s massive ‘reciprocal’ tariffs upend global trade

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  • That number is supposed to be how much of the tariff that the exporter passes through to the importer. Essentially this is a measure of how much the producers lower their profits to lower the price to compensate for the tariffs. In other words how much the producer "pays for" the tariffs.

    This factor is "backwards", in that it doesn't represent how much the producer swallows, but how much they pass on to the importer. Trump's calculations assume that the producer only passes on 25% of the tariff price increase, but the experts say the number should be much closer to 95%.

    I have to idea what "4" means.

  • Trump says EU must buy $350B of US energy to get tariff relief

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  • I'm not no sure. 90%+ of these services are commodities and nobody gives a damn who the provider is from a technical perspective. There's no physical component, so it's literally a matter of signing a contract, spinning up a server/service, move the data and point everything to the new service.

    And yeah, there are technical issues that come up, and nothing is ever that easy. But think about how fast many, many companies were able to sort that kind stuff out when the had to when COVID hit.

    And that's the thing. Cloud service disruption can be an existential crisis, so why would you leave it in the hands of a hostile foreign power?

  • California to negotiate trade with other countries to bypass Trump tariffs

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  • He'll, if the requirements were gender neutral, then every astronaut would be a woman based on weight alone.

  • As ‘Buy Canadian’ grows, more US companies say retailers turning away their products

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  • Buy Canadian is best, but anything will do if it isn't American.

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    Ford CEO Farley: Lasting 25% tariff on Canada, Mexico would 'blow a hole' in US auto industry

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  • This article is over one month old. No much has happened since then, including Trump's newest tarrifs against all foreign autos.