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.

Nice try, Kai. You lost me at “my child”.

I vote for putting REGULAR glasses on the dog though. He can do that all day.

Downvote all you like. I’m happy picking the jobs I want and don’t have to maintain proficiency in a bad tool I hate using. You do you.

It’s just not worth it to me to wait several minutes for things to properly boot, be nagged with updates and aggravating messages, and then have my system start thrashing halfway through my day. I don’t care how good the pay is - I don’t use tools that will aggravate me. They can hire someone else.

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.

Depends. I’ve happily turned down jobs that required me to use Windows and the amount of daily frustration I avoid as a result is worth every bit of the pickiness.

I thought we confirmed “that” was “get vaccinated”

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.

You mean my emergency disk space?

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.

M’linux

Yeah… game development layoffs are highly visible to us because game development is a high visibility, closely watched industry to obsessive nerds, but this is happening all the time in all kinds of industries.