I’m not talking about the overall price of coffee, that’s merely what caused me to think about the tariff affecting us via intermediaries thanks to Subtext’s unusual level of transparency in disclosing it. I would have assumed tariffs wouldn’t apply and found it interesting that, while sorta true in theory, in reality it may not be practical for small scale shipments. This roaster buys direct much of the time also, you can try their stuff without supporting Americans.
This is from my favourite small roaster in my Canadian city. They’re one of the only ones that give this kind of detail, almost all others I would have had no idea any Americans were involved in the process and might have bought these without realising as you undoubtedly buy from Canadian businesses with some US suppliers. Which is why I figured it might be an interesting topic for a post.
Sure, and this is a Canadian company roasting Ethiopian beans (as far as I know we don’t grow coffee). There are many things we don’t make here and even for those we do the supply chain likely intersects with the US.
Another example this had me thinking about is close to your goals: a Canadian baker making bread from Canadian wheat might use a mixer or an oven or whatever as part of that where the only way to get parts is from a US distributor because it’s too niche a thing to have a Canadian presence.
they likely have the capability to trivially decrypt TLS
Whoa. Anywhere to read more about this? Had not been paying close attention, didn’t realise that was so starkly the case.
neutrality/cooperation with China and Russia,
the reality of Russia’s claims of self defense
…WTF? There are way too many Canadians with ties to Ukraine, myself included, that would be offended at the very idea of anything but utter condemnation of Russia’s inhumanly brutal invasion. How can an invasion ever be “self defense”, that’s absurd.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
How can abducting children, laying siege to residential areas, rape, torture, etc. be self defense? It’s not. It’s abhorrent. Russia is worse than Trump.
Cory Doctorow thought that through: https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/#its-the-only-war-the-yankees-lost-except-for-vietnam-and-also-the-alamo-and-the-bay-of-ham
And not just any Americans. They’re owned by Chatham Asset Management, a hedge fund associated with the Republican party that also owns a notably Postmedia-like publication: The National Enquirer (via a360) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Asset_Management
Oh man, that inflation will get ya, back in the day it was only $20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH6kUCqIfD4
One thing that would be useful to understand is the distinction between CMR and SMR
I got a nice deal on the x280 and am happy with it, was also looking at the various X1 carbon. Two criteria I had were I wanted USB-C charging (since I have those chargers around and they can handle these laptops) and a single battery (eg. the T470s I have from work is nice but it has two small capacity batteries that each cost the same to replace as the full size single ones in the carbon and x280). One thing to keep in mind is some of the earlier X1 carbon don’t support NVME SSD (I think it started with 5th gen?)
Good. This law is ridiculous and I’m glad it won’t give the result they intended. Being able to link to things freely is a very basic part of the web, we really shouldn’t mess with that. And Facebook is a ridiculous place to get news from so it may have ancillary benefits as well in terms of maybe slightly improving public discourse and encouraging people onto other platforms with more transparency around their content weighting and data use practices.
And we’re happy to cooperate by signing our own version of that into law since there’s an underlying treaty behind this warrantless data sharing: https://citizenlab.ca/2025/06/a-preliminary-analysis-of-bill-c-2/
I hope we can find a way to fulfill our treaty obligations with something that’s not as terrible as the current one: https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/lawful-access-on-steroids/