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US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February

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Re: US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February

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Post by yibg »

atonse wrote: post #231
travisgriggs wrote: post #213

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So this. A year ago my wife and I did a road trip up into Canada (Kelowna BC region). It was a new experience. I’ve been up into Canadian provinces many times (20+ over the years), but because of the anti Canadian rhetoric that Trump and company were putting out at the time, I was embarrassed and eager for people to not actually know I was from the states. I was hyper aware of the Washington state license plates on o…

This is true in most scenarios, and the opposite is also true – that Americans are famously friendly, and even though Canadians may not want to visit to make a point, I think even they would agree that most day to day interactions they'd have would be warm and welcoming. There might be a bit more hockey ribbing for the next few weeks, but I know there's a ton of respect for Canada's team. At the end of the day, the i…

Ironically in my experience anyways, this is true more so in parts that are more strongly "Canada should be the 51st state" politically. e.g. the south, where I find day to day interactions with people there are much more friendly than say California.

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Post by throwway120385 »

dmoy wrote: post #524
ModernMech wrote: post #470

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“I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida … to go to court would have taken a long time,” Trump said at a meeting with lawmakers on school safety and gun violence. “Take the guns first, go through due process second,” Trump said. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376097-trump-tak...

I don't doubt that Trump would take guns away from people who don't support him. It's kinda right out of an authoritarian playbook. Not sure what that has to do with what I said though.

Kinda goes against gun rights as being part of his platform at all. At least with the "gun control" laws they still try to maintain some gun rights. Whereas the Republican playbook now is just "oh you shouldn't be allowed to carry unless I think you're a cool person." Like that guy that got shot in MSP. He had a concealed carry permit and he was disarmed. People in Trump's administration were still saying "he shouldn't have had a gun at a protest." Where were they when we saw hundreds if not thousands of guys with AR-15's and plate carriers flanking the BLM protests?

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Post by pcthrowaway »

newsclues wrote: post #180
cheesecompiler wrote: post #29

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There is a significant majority of people in Canada who not only vocally decided to not go to US but discourage their friends from doing so too. People have judged me for driving through the states.

As a Canadian, most of those people stating this, are broke and can't afford to travel, so the anti Trump thing is a face saving excuse. Just a observation from my personal life, my friends who aren't broke, are still going to Florida, etc.

90% of Canadians live within 100 km of the U.S. border, it's not much different than traveling elsewhere in Canada.

Granted, as someone who lives ~40 km from the border, I'm broke and can't afford to travel, but I'm also avoiding the U.S. and have been further than 100 km from home on a number of occasions in the past year.

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Post by blurbleblurble »

0xy wrote: post #557
blurbleblurble wrote: post #485

At this point it seems absolutely intentional. Where I live they're trying to block multiple billions of dollars of already allocated money used to fund county hospitals. Accelerationists in office explicitly declaring intent to bring about Armageddon via official channels? Why would they care about keeping people employed when they don't seem to think there's room for everyone to even live? https://www.theguardian.c…

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Remind me again which administration's Fed chair cut interest rates to near 0%, during which administration? And which administration has been pressuring the same exact chairman to cut rates now?

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Post by badc0ffee »

icecube123 wrote: post #337
gaoshan wrote: post #109

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Can't blame you. Coming from the US I have been making a point to vacation in Canada, fwiw. Short of voting, protesting and getting into arguments with MAGA people I don't know what else I can effectively do.

I surprised more US folks dont visit Canada, its amazing, much safer, and cheaper for them because of the exchange difference. Im guessing they see prices in CAD ($), and think its more expensive, but not realizing that $1 of theirs buys $1.35 CAD.

I think there are some parts of Canada worth visiting from the US:

* Montreal - it's a big-ish city, without piss in the subways. Also the restaurant scene is good, and the old town is worth seeing.

* Quebec City - again, the old town is worth seeing. There's not much else in the US/Canada like it.

* Alberta Rockies - The corridor between Banff and Jasper is beautiful. Also, Waterton is decent. It's right across the border from Glacier NP in Montana, but less crowded. And for skiers, the Alberta Rockies also probably had the best snow in North America this past year.

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Post by nradov »

kypro wrote: post #449
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #431

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Healthcare was carrying the economy. Any commentary on why that’s failing?

> Private education and health services I'm probably missing something here, but those seem quite unrelated categories, and I'm not sure why anyone would pay for private education these days when we all have access to free AI private tutors?

The notion of "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" remains firmly in the realm of science fiction. Maybe it will exist someday, but not today.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/172835/the-diamond-...

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Post by doomslayer999 »

Pxtl wrote: post #252
michelsedgh wrote: post #188

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Ive never been to bluesky but it really gives me bluesky vibes every time i come to HN these days

HN will moderate you for being loudly political unless it's for anarcho-capitalism.

Maybe back in the old days. Now its just liberal and neo-liberal shills.

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Post by 0xy »

ActorNightly wrote: post #580
0xy wrote: post #557

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You realize your propaganda bullshit is very easy to spot, right? Spout off a bunch of random disconnected facts, in hope that nobody fact checks them, hoping that people forget that pedofile who tried to coup the government is our President right now.

>in hope that nobody fact checks them

I'd love you to fact check them, but I'm a little puzzled why you didn't already. You appear to have just made unfounded claims about the accuracy of my claims with no counterpoints. Maybe you can fix that?

On chicken prices, I used the Bureau of Labor Statistics. [1]

On the fraudulent broadband scheme, I used Politico's coverage of the $42B fraud. [2]

On the EV scheme, Reuters covered this $7.5B scheme's many problems. [3]

I eagerly await your rebuttal of BLS, Politico and Reuters!

[1] https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-pri...

[2] https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/04/biden-broadband-pro...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/slow-charge-poin...

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Post by yibg »

xhkkffbf wrote: post #312
Uncle_Brumpus wrote: post #206

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I had never vacationed abroad in my whole life, then last year I traveled separately to Amsterdam (with 2 nights in Groningen) and Paris. Both trips ended up being cheaper than similar domestic trips. Both times I was extremely sad to return home. I would love to emigrate to Europe. One of the nights in Amsterdam, I couldn't sleep and spent the night frantically researching how to legally emigrate.

That's a bit ironic. If all of the undocumented people in the US spent this much time trying to emigrate legally, the US wouldn't need ICE and we wouldn't be having this discussion.

There are 2 separate topics that seem to get bundled together a lot.

1. Should we deport illegal immigrants? While there are some debate here (sanctuary cities, immigration reform etc), it's not the primary cause of the current ICE repulsion.

2. How deportations are done currently. Mass round ups, targeting everyone, including those with no criminal record, the violence involved. This is what most people are against.

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