canada has issues with food security, but tariffs are the dumbest conceivable approach.

rather, we need direct investment in local greenhouses - which have, in recent years, been increasingly wasted on growing marijuana.

canada has issues with local pharmaceutical production and the manufacture of medical equipment, but tariffs don't address any of the causes of the problems, they just increase costs and make things worse.

again, we need direct investment to build industry.

we can pay for this direct investment by taxing the americans when they buy our exports.

canada is not interested in darwinian-style capitalism and doesn't want to participate in trump's schemes. 

we should broadcast that with our behaviour. we should act like adults and punish the americans for acting like children.

the situation isn't equal and it's not helpful to pretend it is.

we have industry that manufacturers for their market because it costs less. trump wants to increase costs to create jobs. that isn't rational, and may kill the industry altogether, but they can do that.

they don't have industry that manufactures for us, even if they sell things here. we'd have to force them to build parallel everything, which is inefficient and expensive, and they won't do it.

we're better off letting them sell things here cheaply and sending them a bill for their antisocial behaviour. we should be unilaterally applying tort law on them, and holding them liable for failing to adhere to kantian ethics. we can do that with export taxes.

there will not be a trade deal signed before august 1st, or at all.

at best, we can try to shift import sources from the us to mexico or brazil. that might hurt them, but it doesn't benefit us.

our strategy should be focused on self-interest, not on harming others.

are there industries that currently manufacture in the us for the canadian market that we can bring to canada by increasing tariffs?

i can't think of anything.

we'd simply be punishing our own people. we should not do that.

responding with tariffs doesn't help canadians.

canada is currently beset with weak leadership. it needs to grow a pair and slap down some export taxes.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/canada-aims-for-new-us-trade-deal-by-aug-1-as-trump-threatens-35-tariffs-carney/

i'm utterly disgusted - and baffled and shocked - by mark carney's attempt to channel sarah palin.

yeah, smelling the burnt one a few times has me feeling pretty sick. ugh.

on second thought, i think there is a coil in the other one. i'd like to find a way to test the components, before i buy anything.

i am expecting i won't find a direct replacement. i might find a used diaphram. i think this is beyond that. 

i sent a query to celestion as to what other models of tweeters they might recommend.

i'm looking for two t3679 tweeters.

i'm going to want to compare costs for replacing the diaphrams with just buying new tweeters. i'm apprehensive that replacing the diaphrams won't be enough and i should just replace the whole things.

i think it's possible that the 20 watt nad wasn't enough for the celestions, and it took a few weeks for the damage to build up. you can blow a tweeter like this by underpowering it.

the other tweeter does have a coil, but it smells like it was recently burnt and has clear damage to it. i suspect this tweeter can be fixed, but i don't really know how. 

it worked as recently as june 29th, as i was able to play the tears for fears record on that date. that would indicate that the tweeter was damaged sometime after that.

i remember turning it on briefly on the 1st and i do recall a short in the system that i traced to a faulty rca wire and replaced. 

was that the cause of my headache? i'll note i smelled a strong burning smell.

whatever the cause, these speakers are not usable for the foreseeable future and i'm going to have to plan around it. i now have a vintage burnt out celestion tweeter, and a tweeter that doesn't seem to be labelled (or lost it's label) that has no coil.

given that they're both blown, i should just buy two new tweeters, in a matching set, and plug them in.

one of the tweeters has no coil. i have to presume that's the one that never worked. let me open up the other one.

in a small room, i need at least one tweeter. i don't want to listen to bass music.

they were working a few weeks ago.

 set up the jvc and the panasonic, which was the previous known good. i'm going to play through the tears for fears with the bass set to 0 and the treble set to 10 over and over for a while and hope they "come back".

i noticed that they are currently both depressed. that was not the case previously; previously only one was depressed. but they have no markings and no way to tell which is which.

something i might consider doing is buying a pair of separate tweeters and putting them on top of the celestions through the second speaker out, but i don't think that will sound very good

i don't have time for this right now.

so, there's no music in the bedroom for the foreseeable future because the speakers are broken. unfortunately. 

the tweeter in my other celestion has recently broken :(.

i don't know if they're worth fixing or if i should just throw them out, but they're entirely unlistenable at this point. there's no frequency response above 2000 Hz. it sounds like a cell phone. gross.

i'm not 13 years old and i can't listen to music through a cell phone.