The trick to supporting local breweries is to support local breweries. Everywhere I've lived in Canada I've bought beer from my local guys, often directly from their door, despite many beers from across the country and around the world being available at the liquor store.
But these "local breweries" in the article are Molson-Coors and Labatt. The first is now American-owned and the second is the largest brewing company in Canada. I think they will be just fine.
There is no concern about aluminum. Canadian aluminum is top quality and in demand. Most USA buyers already signed contracts during the last Trump term that they would continue to buy at their contracted prices and volumes while eating any tariff rates themselves. It has been stated repeatedly that there are buyers around the world lined up waiting to take on any production capacity that is abandoned by existing buyers.
Steel is a bit more of an issue but there is still significant domestic steel consumption especially if we decide to kick off some infrastructure projects. And Europe will be looking for steel as they tool up to rebuild their army.
Somewhat ironically, both of those things would actually require a license as opposed to ownership
I think that it's an underlying Spotify issue for sure, namely that an album is often present as an explicit and censored version. But I feel like Zotify should be able to deal with this.
While songs show up in Zotify with the [E] you usually just see multiple copies of the album without any identifiers. One of these will be the "real" album, but there doesn't seem to be a way to filter the others.
In other words, race to the bottom is race to the bottom.
Those jobs were not cruel and demeaning as you seem to imply. In fact plenty of industries still operate that way (auto parts etc.) and they served a valuable purpose, to give work experience to that underpaid teenager.
In fact if you go to a butcher shop, fishmonger, farm market etc. you will have your food handed to you by a human as well. And most people highly rate both the service and quality at such shops, with the employees usually being paid significantly more than at supermarkets, and having proper work hours and job security.
So yes, I suppose Piggly Wiggly made food margins a little thinner. But considering I get better meat prices at my butcher than at a supermarket, who do you think benefited from that move the most? Most likely the same ones benefiting from the move towards a fully automated store like Amazon tested.
The one I loved was a pancake machine at a hotel breakfast buffet. You pressed the pancake button and batter was dispensed onto a slowly rolling large heated cylinder. When your pancake made it to the edge of the cylinder, it peeled off and flipped onto another counter-rotating cylinder. Then it was peeled off and slid down a chute onto a plate. Perfectly round, perfectly cooked.
I ate a few more pancakes than I should have just to see it work. Then against the protests of my wife I lifted the hinged side panel to see how the batter was loaded and dispensed (it was squeezed out of a bag by a screw jack)
The girl at the buffet asked if I was a process engineer (yup) and assured me that I was far from the first to peek under the hood 😅
Honestly it sounds like Canada (minus the transgender panic). Trump is a POS but that doesn't mean that the declining quality of education is not a real problem.
My wife teaches college and trade school and the quality of incoming students declines every year as since Covid for some reason the public schools have had very low requirements for passing a grade level. Some can't even add fractions. Most can't rearrange an equation. A large fraction panic and have anxiety attacks when taking tests, and just stare at the paper like a deer in the headlights.
My daughter is now in grade 5 and they were teaching them practically nothing and not even grading them. Just "good" "adequate" or "poor" based on how well the teacher "thinks they know the material". No discipline, no challenge. And it honestly seems true that they're teaching more cultural topics and less core math/science/English.
Thankfully she has a teacher and an engineer for parents, is a voracious reader and we've taught her math and programming at home. Pulled her out of the public system this year and she's suddenly telling us what she learned and is excited to go to school...
beats dealing with android studio
It's been years since I went near Android for this reason, I've had some decent ideas for stuff I'd like to do on mobile but was so turned off on developing for the entire platform. Maybe I'll have to take a look at some of the new frameworks.
My trouble is I would prefer to write in an embedded style C/C++ for the agricultural stuff I want to do, and all this Java/JS stuff and heavy focus on fancy UX is really not my vibe.
Hah you got it, I used to be a "Chevy guy" when it came to domestic trucks but this was the truck that finally made me say enough, it's riddled with embarrassing faults and bad design decisions in every system. The Ford truck we also have is an example of new tech that works well and the Chevy just can't compare.
Simply the stronger it is, the less you need to move, and the easier it is to smuggle.
Then you just cut it back to "standard" strength or attempt to do so. This is a big reason fentanyl displaced heroin, and why you see otherwise undesirable drugs like carfentanyl out there that are even stronger.
Don't forget classics like Fuck_this_shit1! Fuck_this_shit2!
So not an Anglican then, and not a Catholic. They appear to be some sort of traditionalist spin-off that only has a couple churches in Canada. Likewise for CLC who are putting on the summit, these guys are the sort of "Catholics" that think the Pope is too moderate.
They're irrelevant to Canadian society both secular and religious. Not a surprise then to see them attempting to import American style rhetoric.