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Normally I wouldn't post a Fox News link, but this is funny. Canadian-born actor William Shatner snarked live on TV about the Trump plan of Canada becoming the 51st state and called on PM Mark Carney to make a counter proposal.

Shatner: “Do a real estate deal! Make a counter offer! Let’s offer — Canada offer — to the United States to be the eleventh province! Think of the joy! … It’s the best thing!”

Fox News host Jesse Watters [laughing]: “He should have said that. ... That would have brought the house down.”

Shatner: “I mean, everybody is so serious about what is an un-serious offer ... Canada’s been around for a hundred fifty years ...”

Watters: “Isn’t it about persistence? ... “Carney says, it’s not for sale ... Trump says never say never ...”

Shatner: “At a certain point, persistence becomes insulting!

Here is the Fox News link to the video (Shatner appears at ~3 min).

@LucJenson@lemm.ee

@cloudwolf@lemmy.world

@k0e3@lemmy.ca

Most of you may know this already: https://buycanadianmart.ca/

Addition:

Canadian retailers are seeing a surge in domestic sales amid the ‘Buy Canadian’ movement -- (April 2025)

The “Buy Canadian” movement is already delivering promising results across the retail sector. Major retailers such as Loblaws Companies have reported a 10 per cent increase in sales of Canadian-made products. Sobey’s parent company Empire also noted a decline in sales of U.S.-sourced goods.

Importantly, the shift isn’t limited to big retailers or headline product categories. Smaller retailers and established brands are also seeing tangible benefits.

It may not be surprising, but when I read the headline I thought exactly the same :-)

Canadian retailers are seeing a surge in domestic sales amid the ‘Buy Canadian’ movement -- (April 2025)

The “Buy Canadian” movement is already delivering promising results across the retail sector. Major retailers such as Loblaws Companies have reported a 10 per cent increase in sales of Canadian-made products. Sobey’s parent company Empire also noted a decline in sales of U.S.-sourced goods.

Importantly, the shift isn’t limited to big retailers or headline product categories. Smaller retailers and established brands are also seeing tangible benefits.

You may also be interested in https://buycanadianmart.ca/

Addition:

The ‘buy Canadian’ sentiment remains very strong, with a majority seeking Canadian products -- (May 2025)

I personally don't think this would effect Canada or any other democratic country. I maybe mistaken, of course, but this appears to be more related to defending specific values rather than working against a specific country.

Europe should not only just aim at boycotting from the US, but also from China where many of these cheap products come from. It wouldn't make sense to replace Amazon by Temu.

A better comparison here is the adjusted gross disposable income of households per capita in PPS (Purchasing Power Standards). The major difference to the salary figure is that the disposable income represents the total amount a household earns minus current taxes on income. This is essentially the amount of money people have 'at their disposal' as the name suggests.

This adjusted gross disposable income of households per capita in PPS in the EU shows a different picture. The EU average is at EUR 2,337 (compared to EUR 3,155 as Euronews' salary), and the data is closer together than in Euronews' salary report.

But as others have already said, even this is not very meaningful. If you want to compare the living standards of people, you can't do this by using a single metric. You'll need a dashboard of different measures AND I suggest that even then there may be factors that can't be measured at all. The salary is only one -and, in my humble opinion, a very weak- measure and I'd agree with @Kennystillalive@feddit.org's comment in this thread that it has "absolutely zero value for the average Joe."

[Edit typo.]

SolarPower Europe (the association for the European PV sector) has just published a report on solutions to mitigate critical cybersecurity risks.

TLDR: The report suggests to mandate solar-specific cybersecurity controls for securing remote-controlled solar PV infrastructure, and to limit remote access and control of EU solar PV systems from outside the EU via the inverter. On the latter, the report recommends following an approach similar to GDPR rules, where control of distributed devices, like small-scale rooftop solar systems, should only take place in regions judged equivalent in security to the EU.

What does 'dishonest' mean in this context?

Your comment supports exactly what I said. I have been here on Lemmy for only a short period of time, but I have been observing that whenever one posts an article critical of China, this user gets whatabouted to death (and sometimes called "idiot", "F@ing liberal", and other names). One user here in this thread even asked me whether I support the war in Israel (!) - because I posted an article on China "building a cyber army of hackers."

What is this?

Such behavior is so widespread here on Lemmy that I argue it must be orchestrated, this doesn't rise up organically. And it appears to be supported not only by users but also by many admins and mods.

I will stop responding to this kind of comments, btw. This is off-topic and leads to nowhere.

Here are resources across several countries: https://supportukrainenow.org/

This is somewhat on topic:

We “destroyed” Greens: Megamillionaire disinformation group “Advance”

The group that ran the “No” campaign against the Indigenous Voice to parliament — funded by the Liberal Party and fossil fuels multi-millionaires — claims to have “destroyed” the Greens.

In an email titled “BREAKING: Greens destroyed by Advance blitz”, US-style disinformation group “Advance” has claimed its “critical work” had “helped stop the Greens in their tracks”.

“The Greens have been belted,” Advance executive director Matthew Sheahan writes in an email.

He states the group’s so-called “Greens Truth” campaign “cut them (Greens) down from six seats to at most two. Maybe one” ...

As a response to several of the posts in this thread: It is really amazing how many people here on Lemmy are downplaying or even denying China's crimes (even many admins and mods). You can post articles critical of the US, EU, Australian or any other government, but if you post a China-critical text you are whatabouted to death. The tonality of many of these comments alone is very telling.

"These biases stem from entrenched gender patterns in the training data as well as from an agreeableness bias induced during the reinforcement learning from human feedback stage."

No surprise.

@demesisx@infosec.pub

Quick question also to you: Do you fundamentally disagree with what Israel and the US are accused of but fully support China's domestic surveillance, transnational repression, supression of free speech and freedom of the press, bullying of its neighbours, aggression against Taiwan, just because they are perpetrated by “the good guys”?

'China has almost doubled their aggression in cyber’, experts say

Today, Western governments have been more outspoken in linking China to cyber attacks and sanctioned organizations linked to malicious cyber activity. Despite this growing awareness of the threat posed by China-backed groups, ... people still don’t have a firm grasp on the extent to which China has infiltrated enterprise systems ...

'China has almost doubled their aggression in cyber’, experts say

Today, Western governments have been more outspoken in linking China to cyber attacks and sanctioned organizations linked to malicious cyber activity. Despite this growing awareness of the threat posed by China-backed groups, ... people still don’t have a firm grasp on the extent to which China has infiltrated enterprise systems ...

That's an absurdly bad take to justify whataboutism.