Recent content by Northern Voice

100% it's absolute craziness that these posts continue to prop up after the 6th 7th time. No other similar post would be allowed. Maybe I should start another tariff thread? The last one of those had amazing non-political discussion. Until it didn't.

Did Jake Ciely leave The Athletic for FBG or something and I missed it?

This is how I was taught to wait at intersections 25 years ago, the idea was that you leave 2-3 car lengths when there's no one behind you but as a car pulls up behind you, you move up a car length to fill the space, so by the time there are a couple cars behind you, you're back roughly behind...

I am around intermittently if I get tagged but yeah, I don't really post or read much any more. My last couple bannings have been for the tamest stuff ever and it's mostly turned me away. I guess Joe wins.

Party City is still a thing here (Canada), I can check the local store but it doesn't show online for Canada, so I wouldn't count on it being there.

Not currently banned!

TV on the Radio if I'm not banned again by early May

Rivian is apparently one of the least impacted US auto manufacturers by the tariffs - for typical US autos, 40-45% of overall vehicle mix is Canada/Mexico made, for Rivian it is closer to 20%. Plus their vehicles are 100% assembled in the USA and only sold in USA and Canada - and Canada is very...

Did it ever make sense to be up like it was? There hasn't really been a lot of true/verified great news the last few days, but it seems like if people sense a hint of some, they really want to jump on it/back into the market and those people are probably at least partially helping it from going...

Similarly, NHL '94 stands above all others in their hockey series. I have a soft spot for 2004 as well but I think it's probably more time and place (college basements with friends).

Can we start whining now? I'll start: "Portal" but not "Portal 2" in OP's list is insanity. If I do a list, it's probably #1

It's easy enough to find but I don't think anyone in this thread has actually argued that tariffs aren't useful in certain cases and industries, I think what was asked for was proof of blanket tariffs being a net positive, and I don't want to bog this down on whether specific tariffs are ever...

Do steel next.

Portugal already cancelled their F-35 contract to seek a European alternative, right? There is a lot of pressure on Canada to cancel its purchase as well (beyond the 16 that are to be delivered next year). The runner up for the contract, Swedish Saab Gripen offered to assemble the jets in...

They don't need anything from Canada anyway right? It's been said repeatedly. The doublethink required to reconcile that with being so angry about tariffs on all the things they need to get from Canada and the fact that they desperately want them as the 51st state is something else but I don't...