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       Norwegian fuel supplier refuses U.S. warships over Ukraine
        
       Author : hjjkjhkj
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2025-03-01 21:29 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | beebaween wrote:
       | Wonder how making the US your enemy is going to pan out lmao
        
         | Terr_ wrote:
         | > Wonder how making the US your enemy is going to pan out lmao
         | 
         | Quiet part out loud: One or more thin-skinned criminals within
         | the US government are likely to abuse the power of their
         | offices to illegally harm the company in revenge.
         | 
         |  _P.S.:_ ... And some people imagine that outcome, and their
         | reaction is _intense laughter_ , rather than disgusted anger.
        
           | johng wrote:
           | If a company refuses to work with you I can't see how it
           | would be illegal to not do business with them. Use your brain
           | and don't let your hatred for the President cloud your logic.
        
             | wryoak wrote:
             | Refusal of business is not harm. But telling someone to
             | "use their brain" _is_ tantamount to calling them an idiot
        
         | create-username wrote:
         | Wonder how making the world your enemy is going to pan out smh
         | 
         | Edit: "treating your allies like enemies"
        
         | bigyabai wrote:
         | In the case of famous petrostate Russia, evidently pretty
         | great.
        
         | dragonwriter wrote:
         | Seems to me a reaction to the US making itself their enemy.
        
         | duxup wrote:
         | I think we're making everyone our enemy...
         | 
         | Considering the US administration's childish choices yesterday,
         | what do we expect? Hugs?
        
         | palata wrote:
         | Okay let's take a deep breath and read slowly:
         | 
         | - Russia attacked Ukraine
         | 
         | - The US is making enemies out of ex allies
         | 
         | Not the other way around. It seems difficult to understand for
         | americans, for some reason, but the order of the words does
         | matter.
        
       | duxup wrote:
       | Trump administration is weakening the US in ways and with speed
       | that our enemies could never accomplish.
        
       | dagss wrote:
       | And a Norwegian cafe renamed one of their dishes [edit: American
       | pancakes] to "Canadian pancakes"!
       | 
       | Reminds me of "Freedom Fries"...
        
         | duxup wrote:
         | Were they American pancakes before?
         | 
         | Serious question, I just call pancakes, pancakes....
        
           | dagss wrote:
           | Ah right, I guess that name for them is Norwegian/European.
           | 
           | Around here, "American pancakes" are about 1 cm (1/2 inch)
           | thick and the size of a hand. Contains baking soda
           | 
           | "Pancakes" are larger, the size of a plate, and much thinner
           | (a couple of mm). No baking soda. Like the French crepe but
           | smaller diameter.
           | 
           | They taste quite differently.
        
             | sergers wrote:
             | Being canadian, you just described different styles of
             | pancakes that we just call all pancakes.
             | 
             | Thin, thick, size of a plate, sand dollar size, size of
             | your hands... just all called simply pancakes.
             | 
             | I find the thick ones not good.
             | 
             | Theres a chain of big pancakes size of plate restaurants
             | called dedutch pannekoek house, or just dedutch.
        
               | matt-p wrote:
               | But if you go to a cafe and order pancakes how do you
               | know what you'll get!
               | 
               | A simply unacceptable gamble in my mind! Imagine looking
               | forward to a normal pancake and getting a rubbery
               | American one popped infront of you.
        
             | craftkiller wrote:
             | FWIW you can get pancakes 1cm thick in both the size of a
             | hand and the size of a plate in the US. When they're the
             | size of a plate you usually get a couple just stacked on
             | top of each other. Source: I am American.
        
       | sirolimus wrote:
       | Go norway!
        
       | palata wrote:
       | Feels totally deserved, to be honest.
        
       | matt-p wrote:
       | Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
        
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