Essential and non-essential are almost meaningless distinctions for most goods people use on a daily basis. I could LIVE on beans and water. Do I NEED toothpaste? Aspirin? How much am I allowed to enjoy something before it’s a non-essential good?

People paid more for something because they were forced to, and it wasn’t for any economically necessary reason, and the cause was illegal, making it tantamount to theft, and refunds to companies equivalent to receiving stolen goods.

Nitpicking the necessity of the good is a cheap excuse to do nothing, not a gotcha.

Let them. It’s better than “nobody will let it be fair so we won’t even try.”

Take the total tariff income, divide it by the number of people in the country, and send out the checks.

It’s the ONLY legitimate way to handle it.

Is it beneficial to risk your own job to save your company from its own stupid leadership knowing they’ll learn nothing and do something worse down the line?

Asking legitimately.

Computers still exist and they still have browsers and they still work for your bank’s website.

Even in the browser of an unverified phone.

People who can vote and do not could just as easily have been lazy Trump voters as anything else. They’re political dark matter. They don’t absolve a populace.

“Of the people who didn’t bother to make a choice at all, maybe most of those didn’t want this” is not a compelling argument.

How about you guys kiss the pimpliest part of my ass instead?

Don’t worry. They’ll catch up with us eventually.

And everything will be on fire.

What are you talking about? She’s got this.

I’m afraid this meme is going to break its hip.

Vibe coders: “I don’t get it.”

My takeaway from this is if the paneling were made of wood it might actually be a nice looking vehicle.

Yeah… the risk/reward does not have a good skew.

Guys, check it out! I did it! Privacy respecting smartglasses!

Yeah… it sure seems like bubbles just… don’t pop anymore.

Turns out the market can stay irrational FOREVER.