I've seen a few suggestions that maybe Canada should agree to Trump's demands to get near-term tariff reductions, then renegotiate with a future, friendlier, government. Two things: First, we don't know how long it will be before a government with a different ideological slant take power in the US. Second, while a future US government might be willing to renegotiate the dumbest measures that are mutually harmful, we shouldn't assume that a future US government of any ideological slant will be magnanimous enough to let us out of terms that are genuinely advantageous to the US without receiving something in exchange. No one will care about the justice of the conditions we agreed to give them those advantages under. They'll just care that people in the US made investments and decisions based on those advantages, and that giving them up freely will be unpopular among those entrenched interests. Whatever we agree to will be the status quo. This is why the principle of better no deal than a bad deal is so important.

This might not make me popular but I remain continuously impressed by Carney: to me, one of the few (if not the only) genuine statesman in the West. It genuinely takes incredible balls and statesmanship - especially for Canada, arguably the western country that's most dependent on the US - to walk away from the table and match Trump's tariffs China-style. Europe, with far less dependence on the US and considerably more resources than Canada, just pathetically caved and signed on Trump's humiliating terms when in the same situation.

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Deere Mother Corp We had a good run. A long one. I still have our first Clipper and that old 55 sitting in the yard — reminders of when things felt solid and we actually worked well together. For years I put up with the problems because I cared. I kept telling myself it would get better, that the relationship was worth the frustration. But I’ve been in a bad place with you for a long time now, and the latest mess with these million-dollar machines has finally gone too far. Without the unlocks and the endless paid services, I’m left running what feels like an 8820 by hand — the same machine I used to fight on every hillside and through every thick crop. Pay for this, pay for that, pay again… and even after all of it last year, it still didn’t do what it was supposed to. There are other colors out there now — yellow, red, black, even the other green. They look the same, cost the same, and from what I can see they just get the job done without all the extra drama. This is the breakup I’ve been circling for a while. As a farmer, I can’t keep pretending. I’m the customer. I buy the product. And it’s time I started looking elsewhere. You used to be the best. Greed got in the way of the customer, and that changed everything. Take care of yourself. A farmer who’s going to switch direction, move on and finally walking away.

Employees wanted a frozen yogurt machine for our swiss lathe shop breakroom but I got next best thing: Poverty Popsicles🍦🧊🧃 Company provides unlimited water and kool-aid. What do y'all have in your break room? Tupperware Ice Tups were designed by Earl Tupper around 1955 and manufactured by Tupperware Corporation. The innovative polyethylene plastic released the frozen treats relatively easily after a brief warm-water rinse. Earl Silas Tupper (1907–1983), the American inventor and founder of Tupperware, created the Ice Tups as part of his polyethylene product line. Tupper had earlier developed the signature airtight “burp” seal (inspired by paint-can lids) and purified polyethylene slag into a flexible, durable food-safe plastic. The Ice Tups appear in design collections as an early, practical freezer tool that made homemade ice pops easy before disposable wooden-stick molds became ubiquitous. Tupperware manufactured and sold them primarily through home parties. They were produced in the U.S. and remain common as vintage kitchen collectibles today. Fyi the original “Popsicle” treat was invented (by accident!) by Frank Epperson’s 1905 (patented 1924). Earl Tupper’s early plastics work and the founding of the company were centered in Massachusetts as the town of Leominster was a major plastics hub. He set up production in Farnumsville around 1942 and operated in South Grafton. Headquarters later shifted to the Kissimmee/Orlando area of Florida in the early 1950s, but manufacturing of many products, including the Ice Tups sets remained in U.S. plants for decades. The company’s last remaining U.S. factory (Hemingway, South Carolina) closed in phases through late 2024. Most of Tupperware production was largely shifted to its plant in Lerma, Mexico.

Insane Cooling🔥 The F-35’s thermal demand has surged from 14 kW in 1990s to 32 kW today & 47 kW in Block 4. Now the upcoming APG-85 AESA pushes the redesigned system toward 62 kW, potentially 80 kW requiring more engine bleed air, new plumbing and major cooling system changes.

“I have prepared 100 coffins—99 for corrupt officials and one for myself.” — Zhu Rongji, former Premier of China