If goods made to an American standard measured up to the EU standards there would be no issue. Maybe Greer can answer why the UK should lower the bar instead of the US meeting the bare minimum of quality and safety.

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The agreement to avoid tariffs was worse than tariffs. Given the alternative there is no downside to bringing the hurt.

When Lutnick coughs it’s because the Idiot moved the hand that’s up his posterior. I doubt these two said anything without being directed to.

The alternative is the long term eroding of our ability to make sovereign trade and policy decisions.

We’re in this precarious spot because we relied on a single, stable majority trade partner for 30 years. The cost to prevent worse will not be nothing.

I disagree. We need a good deal or none at all. And we are certainly not going to get a good deal between the narcissistic incompetent and Ol’ Schrodinger’s Elbows.

Wab smells B.S. and I’m here for it.

In exchange for abandoning their nuclear weapons program South Korea relies on their allies’ deterrents. It’s not right to pull up stakes and leave them such a lopsided fight.

If you want that, you agree to let them develop their own program but that’s against UN nonproliferation treaties, so 🤷

I don’t want him erased.

I want him to live a long life behind bars, with all his remaining mental faculties focused on the world celebrating as they attempt to undo this immense pile of bullshit he and his enablers are leaving us.

I want the world to remember his name in the same way as the US remembers Benedict Arnold, applying to his name the unmistakably worst traits a human being can possess.

And when he and we are long dead I hope his name continues to inspire revulsion and a warning to future generations to not get suckered into letting Nazis into the bar.

A) this is so dumb and obviously illegal

B) this will be so poorly implemented there’s bound to be a backdoor that gets leaked

Appeasement never works. Show fascism the door. Loudly and forcefully.

I don’t think the current definitions are particularly useful. I’m not an expert but I think there’s a marked difference between an emulsifier that interacts with your gut lining and a more benign additives.

IMO the food industry has been unable to agree on a more useful definition of UPF because of corporate interests.

I would love to make things like pasta and bread and all manners of cookies and muffins from scratch. I do these things when time permits (never pasta) but to do them all competes with chores, home improvements, showing up for my kid, etc.

Everybody tells you that UPF is bad and you should not eat too much or none at all. I’m on board. But in what timeline do I find the extra prep time to make every family meal and snack from scratch?

The science is telling us it’s bad. But we need affordable solutions at the societal level to give people who want to banish UPF a fighting chance.

“Stop. Don’t. Come back.”

Tangerine Palpatine has been a thing for many a month.

All that’s left is the special ring that lets us sick the animal kingdom on the billionaires.

Good to see the message is getting to hockey fans, too.

The risk of intelligence coming from LLMs is zero, let alone superintelligence.

The danger isn’t some computer mind deciding to destroy us upon its birth. It’s the everyday harm CEOs are doing to the working class and future students by using AI as an excuse to cut jobs and force paid products into education and the hands of young workers at the expense of their own skill development.

Nobody up here is taking these threats seriously anymore. Manufacturing in the US would immediately crater. So many Americans would lose jobs, and thanks to their bullying isolationism nobody is lining up to replace Canada as a viable trading partner.

Having no free trade with the US would suck but it’s temporary. Being a vassal state or getting annexed is permanent.

Maintain current elbow position.

In hockey you keep your elbows up to guard against getting knocked around when the game gets rough.