150 year half-life in aquatic environments.

Also, just because it’s not officially used doesn’t mean it’s not unofficially used; I’m sure there were some barrels that went missing here and there.

India continues to manufacture it and China only stopped in 2007.

[…]it’s not about the Canadians or Americans. This is about one guy. That will not stop them from coming,”

It’s about 70 million people, and the additional 80 million who were silent.

That’s the car I was thinking of specifically. Wasn’t a good time overall for Mercedes though, to be fair.

Less inequality and better education are really the only solution.

People reach for extremism when they feel let down by the existing system.

They’ve been building them in USA for a long time. Things may have changed, but when they first started building overseas instead of Europe, the reports were that you could totally tell. Creaks, groans, and rattles. Personally, with my tiny sample sizes, this holds true.

The average buyer doesn’t really care as long as their leased Mercedes makes them look like they are successful.

Yeah, and Putin is mad right back at him because he’s gonna take over Greenland.

I’m holding out for falling out a window.

It’s going to hit GM and Ford who are set up to build cars in Canada and USA. The cars they make in US rely on a global supply chain. It’s going to fuck every carmaker in the US market. Hyundais and Chevys are going to go up in price 30% overnight with the metal tariffs on top of all that.

Humans build with wood - furniture, houses.

Big, old trees have “no value” in capitalism, because they can’t be processed in industrial mills into furniture or house material.

Solution is to cut them down, turn them into paper, and use the land to grow new trees (“See how environmentally friendly we are?”) which can be used for industrial purposes.

It happens wherever there’s old trees and no protection and it makes me so sad. They’ll never grow back. There’s too much pollution, even if we gave them the time.

I’m making extra Easter eggs this year just for you, America.

I hope you’re right. I think that billionaire seeing markets dry up might be the only thing to slow it down though. With Canada, the USA has most if not all the natural resources it needs.

He’s a raving lunatic with the most powerful army in the world at his disposal, who has threatened to annex multiple sovereign states - and no checks or balances.

It will.

St John’s to St Pierre, with a branch line to Miquelon.

Yes, we know that the far right in Europe is supported by Pooty. This doesn’t represent a breakdown in unity.

Frankly, better one of his properties than Cambridge University.