Currently, due to recent litigation, importers and companies are able to request tariff refunds. So if you paid a tariff directly, then you can request a refund and the government is required to pay you back. This is already decided and there is a refund request website.

Current lawsuits like this one are saying that Amazon requested the refund because they have the tariff receipt, and they’ll get the refund. Folks are suing Amazon because while they have the receipt, they passed on the charge, meaning they didn’t really pay the tariff in actuality. So they’re arguing that if the tariffs are illegal (already decided), and that tariff refunds are being sent out (already decided), then companies should also be required to refund their customers for the increased costs they passed along (lawsuits like this one).

It’s common sense. If a company charged 10 dollars for a product before the tariffs, charged 15 after the tariffs because it cost them 5 dollars in tariffs, then they still made the same profit after the consumer bought the product, and the consumer paid the tariff. So when a refund goes out, companies should have to return that tariff charge to the consumer. They’ll literally make the same profit and the consumer will be reimbursed then for the tariff charge they paid. This is the precedent we want to set, because otherwise consumers get screwed both ways while large companies get to pocket tariff costs. This is class warfare; working class and small business owners are losing.

I think we’re in the “how long for Taiwan to develop a nuke” waiting room right now.

A data center that will employ like 100 people and destroy their local air quality (probably), blast tons of light at night (definitely) and otherwise destroy the local ecology.

They really want to put us on hardware as a service. Eventually you won’t be able to buy hardware, digital ownership will be eroded, and you’ll pay more for it than if we’d kept the hardware market alive. Better to just cut the cord now and if it doesn’t run on your old pc just don’t run it. Don’t pay for streaming services.

If a company adds a tariff charge to its bill when a consumer pays, or it can be shown that they passed along a charge by raising the price by the tariff amount or similar, then it is clear the consumer paid. The party paying the tariff is the consumer. Suing for a refund sets precedent, and how the current round of tariffs were deemed illegal in the first place.

I guarantee they’re already navigating an AI hellscape. The problem are not insurance workers or working class wage workers, it is the system that is designed in such a way that instead of these folks facilitating actual care, which would be good and right (let’s catch fraud and such, and also make sure we have efficient claims services even with single payer so that treatment is even more cost effective). Better we have solidarity and convince the workers of these companies that they could still have jobs in public sector with equal pay and better benefits with a single payer system.

There are vanishingly few people getting mega wealthy off of insurance in the US. It’s not the wage workers. It’s the wealthy class siphoning our money and stealing while we die from preventable diseases.

Thanks for sharing this, though I still can’t get this to properly work (errors with bad vulkan layer / some swap chain error). I’ve installed gamescope with 25.08 and mango is also 25.08. Used proton up qt to install proton ge 10.34. Alas, until 64 bit comes out I prefer steam flat pak but it’s a little sad not to have hdr.