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... Only 28.4% of new-vehicle sales in Canada in the first half of 2026 were U.S.-built, down from 35.4% in the first half of 2025, according to JD Power Canada data. From about 2021 to 2025, the U.S. market share of new vehicles in Canada was roughly 40%.

Auto analysts blame the steep decline on a series of import taxes placed on Canada over the past year and a half, which included a 25% tariff on Canadian-made cars, a levy expected to double and apply to Canadian auto parts, steel, and vehicles on Jan. 1, 2027. Canada imposed countermeasures, including retaliatory tariffs on American-made autos, as well as on steel and aluminum.

The U.S. auto industry relies heavily on Canada, which is the largest export market for American automakers"larger than the next 10 markets combined, according to a Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) analysis published last month. Auto trade between the two countries has topped $100 billion this year, and despite the speed bumps in trade policy, Canada remains America's largest auto market.

Yet recent trade policies are not only eroding this relationship, analysts warn, but increasing the likelihood the import taxes meant to punish Canada are actually having a larger adverse impact on American automakers. ...

@#59 ... Indeed he was at Bard College at the same time as them, so it might check out. ...

... Food banks have two fundamental, destabilizing problems that are getting worse: The food is getting more expensive The diesel to deliver the food is getting more expensive ... Some of the reality is masked by Trump's claims that the economy is the greatest in history, in the "hottest country in the world." ...

The economy may be "greatest in history" for Pres Trump's billionaire friends and Cabinet, but what do American workers think of it?

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... The president slammed this reporting as "Another Fake Story" in a Truth Social post, citing his election wins in Florida during his three presidential campaigns.

"If Florida thought the story that Byron dropped' me was true, he would lose the Election, and that would be a terrible thing because he's going to be a fantastic Governor!" Trump wrote.

The gubernatorial candidate's campaign removed several mentions of the president's name from its website, including a top banner that encouraged supporters to "chip in to support Trump Endorsed Byron Donalds."

The homepage now opens with the slogan, "Fighting to defend the Florida dream," with a cycling list of endorsements below, including that of the president. ...

I'm not sure what the thread title has to do with the article ...

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... Artificial intelligence arrived on campus as a crisis but has since become banal. Students can now do basically all their schoolwork automatically with AI -- answering scientific problem sets, writing computer code, and drafting essays.

Professors like me have no idea whether we are really teaching or just LARPing for students who are also pretending to occupy their role. Worse, some of us are offloading the drudgery of writing recommendation letters, grant proposals, and even scientific papers to AI.

But at the same time that AI fouled up the student-teacher relationship, the technology benefited other corners of campus. Researchers quickly discovered that AI is enormously useful for knowledge production, especially in the natural and applied sciences: in protein-structure prediction, materials design, and drug discovery, for example. Pressured, in part, by donors, boards, employers, and parents, college administrators have announced AI initiatives, invested in AI infrastructure, and established AI degree programs. ...

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... "And then I go to unlock my front door and it just pushes right open," Connor Nelson said.

Once inside, he realized thieves vandalized the place and took almost everything, like his TV, a laptop, shoes and even some fishing equipment.

Nelson's father, 22-year Navy veteran Justin Nelson, flew from Minnesota to help his son after the break-in.

"I know what it means to come home, you know, like what that means to a sailor, and it is such a bright spot, you know, in a young sailor's life to come home and, you know, get that relaxation, see family, see friends, and just, you know, hey, you have the sense of accomplishment, you know, and that was kind of taken from him," Justin Nelson said.

@#18 ... the same exact unsubstantiated nonsense for the umpteenth time. ...

So, I am not the only one who has noticed the phlegm posted by it?

@#44 ... OK, instead of song "covers" maybe look at [the] "covees?"

i.e., the original version of a song that gained fame by another artist ...

Here's another ...

@#14 ... Bill has had problems ...

You noticed that also?

Yet it still seems to continue to troll here.

Why?

@#13 ... Hiding from the facts as usual? ...

Looks that way.

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... "The two countries reached consensus on recommendations for more favorable tariff treatment for $30 billion of non-sensitive goods in each direction," the White House said.

The three-day summit between Xi and President Donald Trump, which ended on Friday, showcased personal diplomacy rather than big public breakthroughs. Xi has since landed in Beijing, Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported on Saturday.

The two sides also agreed to set up a trade council and extend the outcomes of earlier talks in Kuala Lumpur, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said.

The agreement follows a move by the world's two largest economies to extend by two months a trade truce that had been due to expire on November 10, allowing more time to work on a potentially bigger trade deal, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Wednesday.

"This historic visit enriched the constructive and stable China-US relationship, upheld the overall stability of bilateral ties, opened a new chapter in China-US relations, and will have a far-reaching impact on world peace and development," Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in a statement. ...

Found this ...

@#5

Why Australia?

From the reporting I heard, the package was shipped via UPS.

And that aspect, if true, may raise a whole number of other questions.

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... Traditionally, solar panel farms are quiet -- save for the faint hum of the inverter. But on about one in 10 of American solar farms, there's a new sound reverberating through fields: baaaa.

Letting sheep roam under solar panels is just one of many forms of a burgeoning strategy called agrivoltaics, where crops grow or livestock graze in tandem with renewable energy infrastructure.

It's not only of potential benefit for the animals, which get additional shade. The panels can also protect crops from the elements as well as divert water to them, creating cooler, damper conditions that even boost yields.

And even the solar panels themselves tend to respond well to this co-existence -- as the cooler they are, the more electricity they produce per watt of sunlight.

"Having concrete or something underneath the solar panels -- you're going to have lower efficiency than having something like plants that are transpiring and cooling off on the land surface," Carl Bernacchi, professor of plant biology and crop sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, told DW.

While the potential is enormous, especially as climate change puts more and more heat stress on agriculture, the practice is still in its infancy. In Europe, if agrivoltaics were implemented on just 1% of available agricultural land, the continent could exceed its solar energy targets for 2030. ...

Meanwhile, Pres Putin seem to be saying that NATO is assaulting Russia.

imo, can you say "deflection?"

I knew you could.

(apologies for channeling Mr Rogers ....)

OK, instead of song "covers" maybe look at he "covees?"

i.e., the original version of a song that gained fame by another artist ...

To wit ...

@#22 ... Yes, Captain Obvious, I understood that - that's why I offered it as a cheap, simple and safe solution. ...

That does not work. As I explained.

... that's why I offered it as a cheap, simple and safe solution.

Do try harder.

... Isolate it.

If nothing "normal" works for some reason, you could build a Faraday cage... but then, it's probably easier to just return / exchange the range. ...

OK, so now it seems to be trying to understand the problem.

The LG range in the kitchen here is broadcasting a SSID to the world.

And I am unable to stop that security issue.

My concern here is about the time when AI transitions from being human programmed and controlled, to a stage of more recursive self-improvement.

A time when AI seems to have decided that it no longer needs humans in order to improve itself.

AI does not yet seem to be at that stage. But might it progress to that stage?

@#19

And, maybe next time, don't use AI to give your current alias something to post.

Jus' sayin'

@#19 ... you have several good options:

1. Simplest and safest (likely Sitzkrieg's setup): Buy a [cheap] WiFi6/6e router just for home LAN, set up a different subnet from your [main] router you have now, block / firewall it from outside, then bind all local devices to that WLAN's subnet, assigning static/fixed IP on the WLAN router's subnet to each device's MAC - you can use ARP scripts, router software or whichever DHCP/IPv4 manager you like, to configure static IPs. ...

The options your current alias presents do not address the case I have where the range is a WiFi access point. It is not at all like Sitzkrieg's setup.

But to its suggested solution, I refer to my earlier #18 comment ...

... I'd just configure kea (an excellent dhcp program) to assign an IP to the MAC address of the stove from the sequence that my outbound firewall blocks. ...

With its obvious repetition of what I have already stated, what solution does it have to the problem of the range having an WiFi access point that cannot be disabled, and may be hacked?

@#38

Oops, forgot to include the song title.

Mr Hendrix's cover of Mr Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone."

~I want to do a little thing by Bob Dylan.

That's his grandma over there ...~