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In both cases, a big part of the discomfort is due to tissue dehydration.

Say something is coming from China; if it goes through Amazon, they ship it to a US warehouse (import fees) and from there to a Canadian warehouse (more import fees). If they ship it by post, it goes from China direct to Canada, never touching the US, and both countries have de minimus exemptions, so on small purchases no fees are levied.

Eventually Amazon will get their supply chains adjusted so that non-US stuff never crosses the US border, but they’re not there yet.

Same thing happens for FedEx and UPS; for FedEx, stuff from China flies to Anchorage, from there to Dallas or Memphis, from there to Windsor, and from there to wherever you are in Canada. For UPS, it goes to Ottawa California, then to Delta BC, then to somewhere in Canada.

As I said, eventually the shippers will get this sorted; Prince George BC will likely become a major shipping port if these tariffs last for very long, and shipments will stop touching US soil when they don’t have to. But until they do, the postal service is one of the only carriers that isn’t transiting the US between other countries. And even when they do, USPS doesn’t have to pay anything during shipping, so no tariffs are applied if the package isn’t destined for the US.

Interesting. Considering they’re handling a bunch of Amazon’s shipping now to avoid tariffs, they’ve got lots of bargaining power right now.

My record when I was young and healthy was around 114 hours. Took an entire month to recover and I felt horrible. It’s highly likely I was micro sleeping during that though, as I was alternating between a MUD gaming marathon and grabbing food/using the bathroom. I seem to recall I paused for a short time to have a shower too.

Anyway, I highly recommend never staying awake for that long. At the end I was mildly hallucinatory. When I woke back up after a 16 hour nap, I had a massive hangover, despite no alcohol/caffeine/etc. before.

Disqualifying? No. However, he’d run up against similar prejudices that make it difficult for a woman to win the presidency.

Remember that Pete Buttigieg was in the running at one point.

Because what everyone wants right now is to return to the polls….

Let’s see… infrastructure to connect northern Canada to the rest of the country, or an underpass?

Police surplus I bet….

We also need to keep a close eye on where the money is coming from.

The Socialist party already exists?

Only with the extreme Overton shift in the US. Democrats may be more progressive than Republicans, but that’s really not saying much. Most actual Democrat policy is right of center, to the frustration of representatives like Sanders and AOC.

The sad part for me is, my riding elected a Conservative, and in general he’s a pretty good guy. He’s old school conservative, and does a good job representing his constituency in parliament.

But the party he’s stuck with is not the party it was when Mulroney was PM; people in leadership positions are actively pushing fascist and populist ideology, and feeling it’s fine to actively deceive the Canadian public to gain more power.

That’s not something I can respect. Old school conservatism I often disagreed with, but at least I could respect those who stuck with the party line out of a sense of integrity. I could have good-faith discussions with them about the best way to govern. How do you do that with someone who is only telling you what they think you want to hear, all the while having totally different behaviour where it counts?