Trump repeatedly bragged and blabbered about the incoming tariffs on a daily basis ever since his inauguration but refused to have a phone conversation with Justin Trudeau until yesterday, one day before the implementation of retaliatory tariffs.

And then immediately after that phone call he he lifted the tariffs because Trudeau “agreed to make efforts to target the smuggling of fentanyl across the border” (the Canadian border counts as only 0.2% of fentanyl seizures in the US).

All of this nonsense appears to have been nothing but theatrics to give Trump the image of a “tough hardball negotiatior”. All he managed to achieve instead is destroy any trust American allies had in them.

Costco and Loblaws in my area. Costco is even more annoying because it yells instructions on how to use the machine at you at every step. Every time. The moment you approach the machine it yells at you to scan your membership card. Then it yells at you to scan your items. Then it yells at you to put it in the bag area. Then it yells at you to use the PIN pad. Then it yells at you to thank you for shopping at Costco.

I’m wondering how many people got kicked out of the store already for snapping and yelling back at the machine to STFU.

One thing that has been annoying me lately are self checkout machines. They play the same pre-recorded message every time you’re done using them. Some pointless message in the lines of “Thank you for using self checkout” or “Thanks for shopping with us”. You’ve heard it a dozen times already from the surrounding machines by the time you complete your transaction and then it yells it at you. I feel terrible for the employee who has to stand there all day and have this stupid 3 second recording be the soundtrack of their day. I only have to listen to it for five minutes every week and I hate it already. This message must be playing in their nightmares at night.

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