Matching payment method/date/cardholder name to bank statements. You can prove that you paid X amount of money to Y company on Z date, and the matching itemized receipt received from that company indicating that you bought A, B, and C products that may have been tariffed.

Harder to prove if you paid with cash or gift card. Doable, but probably more trouble than it’s worth to effectively collect pocket change after lawyer fees take their cut from the class action settlement.

Not that difficult, actually. The company pays a tariff on the specific product being imported, which would have been recorded. Customers who then buy those products should receive itemized receipts, either physically from a store or electronically via email when buying online. The receipt should also indicate a payment method that can likely be matched to a bank statement if needed.

Match the itemized receipt to the tariffs paid, there you go.

The harder part is directly linking the tariffs paid to the price the consumer paid. The tariffs were inconsistent and changed a few times, and we don’t know if all price increases were caused directly by tariffs or if there were other factors as well. Moreover, some companies ate the cost in some cases, notably Nintendo, who chose not to increase the original pre-tariff price of the Switch 2, but did for Switch 1 and accessories for both systems. Nintendo will likely be refunded for all of those, but not all of that was a cost passed on to the consumer, so it’s hard to figure out at that specific a level.

This lawsuit is definitely going nowhere, at any rate, so this is basically all just idle musing.

Yeah definitely a trick of the light, that part that curves suddenly catches the reflection of the sky in a way that makes it seem almost translucent.

Stronghold Crusader is a 24-year-old game.

If anyone happened to play this game at launch in their teens or onwards, they are at an age where they need to start have conversations with their doctor about screening for health concerns that come with senescence. Colonoscopy/prostate exam/mammography/etc.

The photo is cropped below the window, you’re only seeing the door panel. No part of the window is visible.

The Korean text is literally the English words “Egg in Hell” rendered in Hangul.

What the heck is “Fθcking” supposed to be? I truly wish I knew, but unfortunately it looks like the puritans got there first.

Not to mention the companion app itself is scraping telemetry data:

• What phone you use

• What network it’s connected to

• What times you use your phone

• Approximate location

• A list of other apps you have installed

And that’s all before we get into the nitty gritty of how the user actually engages with the app content, or other device permissions the app might request. Maybe “Location” for recommending preheat times based on distance, maybe “Camera” to check doneness, maybe “Nearby devices” to pair with first-party accessories, or maybe “Photos and video” for some shoehorned social media component.

They can ask for any permission for ostensibly innocuous/justified reasons, but once those permissions are granted, they have full access to that data to do whatever else they want with it. They’ll know who you are, where you are, when you’re there, what you’re doing there, and who else you’re with.

I once made a computer factory that was essentially a large floating octahedron. It had a condensed feed of materials coming in from one point in the bottom and a few drone ports to bring in other completed parts around the middle. I didn’t plan for it, but just started building stages wider as I went taller until I noticed subsequent stages required less space, after which I started going in reverse.

My latest challenge mode in that game is to try and develop infrastructure while destroying as little of the natural environment as possible.

This has led to building a number of offshore plants, but the difficulty is having to still run materials to them before unlocking drones to do it for me.

Whenever I have to build in the interior, I’ve tried to focus on building tall instead of wide so that it doesn’t take up much land space. But that does cause the horizon to become cluttered with a few industrial spires.

I can’t help but have to destroy some of the environment to get early biofuel power going, but I focus on finding as many crash sites as I can early on to skip to coal as quickly as possible.

So what you mean to tell me is that every 3D printer in New York is going to come with an index of firearm components?

Find someone who’s had a colostomy

“Mighty kinda ya” would not be out of place where I live, no. A dated expression as a whole, maybe, but spoken with a casual flow, that’s how it comes out.

I suppose one could also write it as “kind o’ ya” but “kind o’” is what is being truncated into “kinda”

kinda is just another way to say “kind of”

“How kind (nice) of you” and “My kind (sort) of people” are both appropriate uses of “kinda”. I hear it used more for the latter than the former, to be honest.

Also, it’s casual language anyways, so why even try to bring grammar into it, much less while being so confidently wrong?

Midwest.social is in Germany? Interesting

Hopefully Ukraine requires no further US aid. With Orban out of the picture, maybe the EU can finally step up to help in a bigger way.

That really needs to be their next PR campaign.

At the same time, Google hates people using their name generically for web searching because it risks them losing the trademark.

So I guess I am conflicted, because I hate to acknowledge Google more than I need to, but would love to see the term become meaningless.

This one even commits the cardinal sin of presenting itself as a transparent image but really just has a checkered background baked in.

Ok this is honestly an amazing read. I’ve had too much circus in my life, not enough bread apparently.