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Re:Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desk... by forgetfreeman on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @09:05AM (#43254745)
Eh, there's latency in some places sure but a bunch of cuts are going to have rather obvious and seriously negative impacts on the financials around this summer's harvest, and the Ag lobby usually doesn't fuck around. It'll be interesting to see how farm communities are kept in the traces then.
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Re:Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desk... by hedora on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @09:51AM (#43255394)
Yeah; China’s counter-tariffs on ag start today.

Also, Ontario supplies half the US’s nickel, and is threatening an embargo. That’d shut down a bunch of our factories in short order. They could also cut off electricity supplies to the north, but I get the impression the US grid would mostly absorb that (probably thanks to investment in smart grids for renewables, ironically).

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