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Americans choose most expensive way possible to discover what goods made in Canada (thebeaverton.com)

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The Canadian government has insisted that information on domestic goods is readily available to all trading partners, even including nations that recently elected a felony-convicted game show host to be their head of state. Instead, the United States has decided to employ a rarely-chosen trade tactic that international economists refer to as the “fuck around and find out” model.

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

In IT it’s called the scream test. You unplug it and see who screams.

[–] billwashere 2 points 29 minutes ago

I have literally done this. Had a VM I didn’t know who owned in my lab, so I turned it off to see who complained or if it was really unnecessary. 3 min later I get a slack message asking if a VM was running.

[–] AtariDump 18 points 4 hours ago

My favorite