"Without a doubt, prices were raised."

Some were but we do know that in aggregate prices were not generally raised because we experienced no significant net price increases or inflation in consumer goods.

"How are you going to pay "the consumers" back?"

The ironic thing is that's what Trump wanted to do and these same people were foaming at the mouth about it.

"I don't understand it could work any other way than the people who directly paid the tariffs (businesses for the most part) should be the ones that get their money back."

Hopefully they prioritize companies which altered their supply chains to domestic product to the point that nobody else sees a penny until their great great great grandchildren's lifetime.

Tariffs were specifically introduced into our law for the purpose of impacting trade policy, not raising revenue. Whether you want to group them as taxes in a single umbrella or see them as distinct is purely semantics, they remain distinct in intent and practice from taxes intended to raise revenue. While many note taxes discourage the thing which is taxed tariffs may well be the only taxes implemented with that as the primary aim.

Ideally a tariffs is rarely paid because it discouraged trade with the tariffed party and if it is paid it likely did not result in increased price to the consumer [as we've seen from the lack of inflation brought by Trump's tariffs] but rather a reduced profit for the seller. Why? Because tariffs aren't blanket.. they are competing on price against other parties who pay lower or no tariffs.

It is not known. Despite being oft repeated TDS the pricing data shows no significant post tariff inflation.

It’s been in literature the plan with this approach is to automate autonomous delivery trucks that serve as primary cargo transport, data hub, and recharging station. That way the van just makes periodic stops with the drones solving the last block problem. I don’t know if they will use that approach anytime soon though.

Someone needs to explain to the Amazon drone software team that Simultaneous Localization And Mapping isn’t literally the acronym.

I was incredibly sick having 8 hours a day or more screen time, sometimes even 80 hours in a week. Now with this I don’t need to work anymore cutting out the vast majority of my screen time.

Another and oft overlooked problem is that nearly all strong scents are mild to powerful drugs that affect all kinds of bodily functions commonly being anti inflammatory like aspirin or ibuprofen. People say vaping is dangerous for your health but then scent emitters are advertised as plug one in every room and two in bathrooms where you breathe them for a majority of your lifespan. It’s true the quantity is much lower per breath, but people who vape go through about the same or far less actual fluid and the mechanism for aerosolizing is identical as they both use a batting to get the oil to flow and increase surface area while a heated coil does the vaporizing. Many people have sensitivities including life threatening ones but these bio active chemicals are stuffed in everything from laundry detergent to perfume products to body products and incense likely has the strongest exposure risk. People tend think of that sensitivity as a random bizarre reaction to something inert and not an adverse reaction to being drugged against their will. At least after all the deaths and hospitalizations they are now required to put that on air fresheners.

The half life of uranium isotopes are on the order of 10^6 to 10^9 years while the half life of radium isotopes are on the order of 10^1 to 10^3 years making radium thousands to billions of times worse, plus it’s hard to get specks of uranium or any solid into the body while you will breathe radium gas easily. Radium is so very very much worse than uranium for radiation.

My favorite meme is “Iran up your gas prices!”

Yes, I know we are at war with you, but could you keep shipping us the refined fuel and all the parts we need for bombs and planes we can’t make for ourselves please?

V2H still isn’t able to be commonly installed for most regions in most vehicles. However, last year we had an extended outage of two days and my EV was at about 50% charge. It has V2L (vehicle to load) standard and I just ran an extension cord to several refrigerators and a chest freezer, used it for lighting, charging phones, powering my router and modem, the gas oven/stove, and still drove it (after unplugging) and it was awesome. Saved hundreds of dollars in groceries from spoiling and kept us entertained and comfortable.

This is a good argument to move from a level 1 or slow level 2 charger to a high power level 2 charger. You can reasonably get a 11.5kW charger in the US, our slow chargers are usually around 1.8kW. While Europe has 2.3-3kw and go to 11 or even 22kW if your home has 3 phase power. If your vehicle can support it you will be able to get over 7x the free electricity and perhaps full charges for free.

Yes, that’s the /s

Maybe they can make up for it by dramatically raising prices both of the movie and concessions. /s

If not sooner any part for any intellectual property of any design of any kind. It really gets under the skins of companies when instead of being forced to buy a cheap plastic part for hundreds of dollars you can just print it for a few dollars of filament.