Bernard, I'd like to hear more about the Granger movement. This is the first time I'm hearing about it. It sounds interesting.

Omg. He was actually raised as an apartheid fascist by apartheid fascist parents.

@pique said in What are you reading?: Please give Lisa a hug from me. She is amazing. I will.

I like the Guardian. Yahoo News works too.

Beautiful! !

Arguing against other lawyers who have sold their souls for about 2 pieces of silver.

The EU response of from their normal playbook. Hit at anger points. Motorcycles -- Wisconsin. Peanut butter -- Georgia. Bourbon -- Kentucky. Orange juice -- Florida. Yes, some "blue states" will take a hit. Jeans are made in California, in a blue area. But agricultural products, even if from blue states, come from ruby red rural areas within them.

Canada on Wednesday announced new trade duties on some $21 billion worth of U.S. goods in response to President Donald Trump implementing universal steel and aluminum tariffs. America's northern neighbor is the largest foreign supplier of steel and aluminum to the U.S., and experts have warned Trump's duties would be passed on to consumers. In a news conference Wednesday announcing the retaliatory duties, a Canadian government spokesman called Trump's tariffs "completely unjustified, unfair and unreasonable." "The U.S. administration is once again inserting disruption and disorder into an incredibly successful trading partnership and raising the costs of everyday goods for Canadians and American households alike," said François-Philippe Champagne, Canada's minister of innovation, science and industry. Canada's announcement comes despite a detente having been reached Tuesday with the Trump administration to resolve threats of a 25% surcharge on American consumers of Canadian electricity. Trump had threatened Canada with steel and aluminum tariffs climbing to 50% if the province of Ontario followed through on the surcharge. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/canada-retaliatory-tariffs-21-billion-us-goods-trump-tariffs-latest-rcna196012

@ShiroKuro I was actually referring to the steep decline in the stock market as "The Trump Slump"....

I've been reading it from my daughter's subscription. Notices appear that her sub expires in 3 days. Looks like she's not renewing.

Most interesting.

I did a lot of work on DVD plants/machinery over the years - pretty much up to when most companies moved production overseas. I remember the techs predicting that those discs wouldn’t last as the process they used was crap

She's a poor choice for a poster child - for anything.

Hard to pick a favorite, but the view from the dinner plate and the first mouse are up at the top!!

@wtg said in Tariff pricing: What are the lessons of the 1930s? The current administration does not do lessons. We are all doomed.

I think this is the same article that @AndyD referenced. Title is different, but the author and text seem to be the same. https://archive.is/pcMoS

Sakura season in Japan is the best! I’ve never been in Tokyo in spring, but the thing about Japan is, there are cherry trees across the country. And they’re planted in clusters, so you can get that amazing impact of all the trees looking at once. The other thing is that there are a bunch of other ornament trees as well, although they don’t get as much press. For example, ornament plum trees, which bloom a little bit earlier than Someyoshino cherry trees. The amazing thing about plum trees, besides their beauty, is their fragrance. Cherry treees don’t have any scent, but plum trees do. In Mr. SK’s hometown, there are lots of cherry tree spots, but there’s also one plum tree place, right near where we got married. It’s in this small outdoor amphitheater type space, you can’t really tell it’s there rom the road, you sort of just have to know. It doesn’t look like anything until you start walking down into it. So it’s an amphitheater, I think it must have been built there because the terrain was naturally like that.. Anyway, it’s like the plum trees are planted all along the sides of a bowl (for lack of a better description). As you walk down, you start to smell them, and when you get to the bottom, you can just sit there, surrounded by pinks and reds and the scent envelops you. It is truly amazing…. I found a few photos online, not very impressive to look at perhaps, but this was always one of my favorite spots. We got married in March, so I first came here w Mr SK just days before our wedding. It was in full bloom and so, so fragrant [image: IMG-0752.jpg] [image: IMG-0753.jpg]