Good point on firefox/Opera, didn't know about the chromium. I like open source, I just saw that the Mozilla foundation has 400 mill in revenue a year and is headquartered in America, so I figured Opera was a slightly better choice. But I don't disagree with you, open source is still a good thing to support.

I'll take a look at Zen, thanks for the recommendation!

My suggestions have mostly been more on the attacking the American market side of things, so:

1. Switching browsers, or barring that, the search function from Google to DuckDuckGo (and the browser to Opera if they're ready for that step.)

2. Leaving facebook/insta, but if that's not an option, following John Oliver's advice for making themselves less valuable: https://www.johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com/

3. For skincare etc, Deciem/The Ordinary. For bulk stuff like deodorant, soap etc, looking for Unilever instead of one of the American conglomerates like Proctor and Gamble etc.

Oh absolutely, thank heavens trump is cartoonishly cruel and selfish, it's quickly united everyone else. A clever, subtle and patient trump would've been much more dangerous.

I just fully disagree with the earlier comment that this is a one off trump only aberration.

I've really liked Deciem/The Ordinary for skincare.

Just, thank you. That's super touching. Times lile these it really brightens the heart to see the support from our friends across the world.

Can anyone recommend some fun spirits? Looking to scratch that bourbon itch...

I love this thread, there's a huge hole in my cancon podcasts!

An index doesn't necessarily mean it's "what percentage of the economy is affected by trade." But without the source, it's hard to say what exactly it is a percentage of.

What? Ukraine was first invaded before trump and then again without him there. In both cases, the security provided was less than what was originally guaranteed. Ukraine got screwed by believing America.

It's not just trump, there's a whole Senate and Congress cheering him on. I would not gamble our future by relying on it to only be a trump phenomenon. If Americans had elected him once and horrified of their mistake, never came close again, that'd be one thing. But we has elected with a plurarlity of votes.

America has proven an untrustworthy ally and that thwir promises aren't worth the paper their written in.

I don't think Canada's security should be "well, let's just hope they don't do it yet again!"

Lifetime warranty AND Canadian? Amazing! The ones I really like are sold out but I think I'll be placing an order for when they're ready!

If our European friends want to start a made in Europe defense plan, ordering a boatload of next generation fighter jets from them seems helpful...

Republicans have majorities in both houses, if they can't pass a spending bill, that's on them.