It sounds like I might not have known if I was using it or not, depending on how I accessed Lemmy.

Thank you.

I didn’t even know what Tesseract was

I still don’t know.

My searching tells me iTesseract is open source OCR software, but that doesn’t make sense in the context I’m seeing in these threads.

Because retooling is expensive.

Other countries have done it successfully.

Is the USA incapable of doing things that others have done?

Now where are all the second amendment nuts?

Wearing MAGA hats and flying Trump flags in front of their homes.

Where does that person go?

That is not the concern of the regime.

They just want that person to go away.

Canadian oil is produced by private companies

Many of them American companies, or Canadian branch offices of American companies.

Grifters gonna grift.

president trump has a pretty high opinion of himself

Self-importance is one thing he shares with the majority of Americans.

Yeah, the relationship is more like a bad neighbour who refuses to stop throwing dog shit over the fence.

That goes back to the early days of provincial authority over alcohol.

50 years ago, even the big brewers (Molson, Labatt, etc) had to have a physical brewery in each provincial that they sold product in.

While it was not efficient from a business point of view, it did lead to them developing regional beers that were very popular in their home province.

On the other hand, some of the regional beers did become national favorites.

For example, Labatt Blue was originally developed as a promotion for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers football team, and eventually went on to be one of their flagship beers nationally (the recipe being made in every province’s Labatt brewery until the rules changed and they were allowed to ship beer from a central brewery.)

LCBO has historically been one of the worst offenders for blocking product from other provinces.

Like the daily Two Minutes Hate in Orwell’s 1984!

Except it’s 24/7

Some jurisdictions such as New Brunswick and Manitoba have already reached deals to permit more interprovincial sales of certain types of alcohol.

Ahh, that explains why I was always so confused

I hear these complaints from people in other provinces, but when I look at my local store, there is aleays an assortment of booze from every province on the shelf.

The truck roll is the expensive part.

I’m ready to start banning US corporate donors now.

Plenty of people started doing that when the list of corporate donors to Trump’s re-election was made public.

Oh, you donated to Trump, sorry Apple, 100% tariff. Sorry Meta, you’re banned.

Don’t forget Tesla and Twitter.

back in college, when Obama won.

People really thought he was gonna fix everything. I was skeptical.

Remember that it takes many times more effort,time and money to build or fix something than it does to break things.

What Trump broke in his first term would have taken multiple terms for following administration’s to fix, assuming they put in constant effort.

And what he is breaking now will take even longer to fix.

Simply voting in non-republicans the next time is only the first baby step.

As a people, us Americans got high on our own supply

That’s been a problem with Americans for generations.

but I also don’t know if/how it will affect heat wave and ice caps.

Yes, there will be a lag to see those impacts improve. Years long. Probably multiple decades.

But that’s always going to be the case. And the longger the damage is allowed to compound, the longer it will take for the system to recover once we eventually stop fucking it up.

The best time is 50 years ago. The second best time is right now.

As others have said, it will depend on your jurisdiction, but in Manitoba they can block your licence renewal, or block your vehicle registration/insurance renewal.

At work we had our fleet vehicle registration/insurance renewal blocked because some other department’s fleet vehicle had outstanding parking fines.

It took almost a month to get that sorted out and parked half of our fleet.