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.

Like Lenin, I suppose I find it hard to accept a congruence between bourgeoise religious zealotry and the imperative for socialist egalitarianism.

That image, if it’s even to be interpreted as authentic, doesn’t indicate anything more than the united front of the communists and nationalists during the Japanese occupation of China. An alliance of convenience that postpones the inevitable reckoning of incompatible ideology.

FWIW, Hamas is not the only resistance group in Palestine, just the most prominent in Gaza. There are other secular/socialist resistance groups in Palestine who aren’t trying to establish an Islamic theocracy that are probably more deserving of support.

Maybe a bit redundant these days. They’re effectively just “phones”.

Used to be that the label was needed to differentiate from earlier feature phones, but even the “dumb phones” of today primarily run some slimmed down flavor of Android. No one can escape the data harvest.

Jimmy Buffet - Margaritaville

Not enough songs out there for the people who know they were the problem.

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.

After getting a better look at the background, this seems like a misstep.

Agreed that Luminous was not exhibiting behavior that seemed becoming of an admin (borrowing the terms of the db0 folks, they appear to be a bit of a “shit stirrer”) but it doesn’t look like there was any direct call to violence towards Kaplan, as this whole debacle seems to imply.

Luminous is no longer an admin, so I don’t see why the defederation of anarchist.nexus needs to continue (given that its initial justification is already questionable). The main takeaway is that the admin team of Lemmy.world (or maybe just Kaplan, I don’t know who all the admins are) seem to be taking criticism of Zionism personally…which to me sounds easily solved by simply not being Zionists.

So, if the LW team are not Zionists, I don’t see why they shouldn’t just come out and say so, but then I guess I don’t see any other reason why someone would take a “death to Zionists” tagline personally.

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.

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.

What a joke. Guess they truly were losing way too many customers out of sheer greed.

The only interpretation I can take from this is that the business model is unsustainable, and anyone who sticks with it is just setting themselves up for disappointment down the road.

They’re in the stage now where they realized that $30/mo was pricing more people out than they were gaining in profit, so they presumably did their math and settled on their new ceiling price (which is still more expensive than it was this time last year). Only now they’re going to try and make up that cost by reducing the quality of the service, starting with removing Call of Duty.

It’s not going to stop at just removing Call of Duty. They still have a $7/user/mo deficit to make up for, and I doubt they’re going to make that back in new/returning subscribers. Wouldn’t surprise me if they decide Elder Scrolls 6 won’t be coming to Game Pass at launch either.

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.

Just a heads up that original run Dragonball contains a bit of nudity (Goku is often naked and they don’t hide it). It’s fairly innocuous but I know not something every parent wants their kids to see.

I think they meant to write incontinent

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?