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[–] ryper 12 points 6 hours ago

The Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority claims the store owes it up to $17 million in unpaid rent going back years, while Royal Bank of Canada says $3.3 million in debt is outstanding.

Sounds like they were having trouble long before the current drop in travel. Could be they never recovered from covid.

[–] ryper 52 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"ALL POSITIVES WITH NO NEGATIVES" says the tremendously unpopular president who routinely violates the Constitution presidents swear to "preserve, protect and defend".

[–] ryper 27 points 5 days ago

Slate: The Far Right Thinks Sydney Sweeney Killed Wokeness

It’s a common phenomenon, really. Sydney Sweeney is beautiful now, and would be considered so in any era. But because she’s no longer the only type of woman who’s considered beautiful, certain people on the right think they’re being oppressed and the world has gone to hell.

Why have these weirdos zeroed in on Sweeney in particular? There are lots of beautiful white women with big boobs out there—Kate Upton, Blake Lively, Katy Perry, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Ratajkowski, and more. As far as I can tell, part of it seems to be that Sweeney doesn’t shy away from talking about or sharing her body. On Euphoria, she does a lot of nudity, and she’s spoken in interviews about feeling comfortable with it. On SNL, she repeatedly joked about her boobs and even wore a Hooters uniform. The National Post praised Sweeney for “playfully owning her sex appeal with zero apologies” and criticized Vanity Fair for suggesting it might have been nice to give her some material that wasn’t about her beauty.

[–] ryper 22 points 1 week ago

Trump's tariffs lowering the US wine industry's sales is just preparation for his environmental policies lowering their production by making it harder to grow grapes. It'll all balance out eventually.

[–] ryper 3 points 1 week ago

Masha almost certainly isn't going to lose the title before Rebellion, but it would be funny if she lost to Miu to get out of having to put Tessa over.

[–] ryper 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Tesla is far from alone in flashing the “death cross.” The S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 both showed it as well on Monday, as the indexes continue to fluctuate in wild and somewhat unpredictable ways thanks to the endless uncertainty that the Trump administration has introduced to the market through its blanket tariffs and “will they, won’t they” exceptions that keep getting tacked on and taken off.

An individual stock hitting this point doesn't really seem like that big a deal when indexes are getting there.

[–] ryper 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Between this and his tough on crime nonsense, it feels like Poilievre has given up on winning anyone over and is just trying to hang on to his base. Which is a weird thing to do when your base wasn't enough to win the last election, but whatever.

[–] ryper 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oopsie, Trump's tariffs based on a fake emergency may have created a real emergency.

[–] ryper 3 points 2 weeks ago

Trump is aware of that, he's given ICE access to that information to help track them down.

[–] ryper 71 points 2 weeks ago

“How can I return him to the United States? Am I going to smuggle him? Of course I’m not going to do it,” Bukele said while sitting beside President Donald Trump. “The question is preposterous.”

Ideally you would return him because the president of the United States asked you to, but I suppose Trump doesn't think the Supreme Court's ruling that the US government needs to "facilitate" Garcia’s return requires such an extraordinary level of effort.

[–] ryper 24 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

This guy may be volunteering to be another person who needs to be returned from El Salvador. The trip could go very badly for him.

[–] ryper 56 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

It's ridiculous that the US government is paying a foreign government to detain prisoners on its behalf and seems to be claiming it didn't put anything in the contract about a way to get the prisoners back.

 

There was a time when sneering at international law would not have been a good look for someone aspiring to be Prime Minister of Canada.

But, charting new territory, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre contemptuously called Justin Trudeau “woke” for indicating Canada would abide by a ruling of the International Criminal Court (ICC) — a court that Canada helped establish to punish war criminals.

Poilievre specifically rejects the legitimacy of the ICC charges against Netanyahu, on the specious grounds that Netanyahu was democratically elected.

Poilievre's tweet with an interview clip

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