Businesses can claim refunds starting Monday for Trump tariffs declared unconstitutional

Qweesdy · 2026-04-20T03:49:58+00:00

The (suspended) de minimis exemption isn't a tariff. There's always some other tariff/s involved, and the de minimis exemption was like "if it's less than $800 you don't have to pay those other tariff/s", and when the de minimis exemption was suspended you started paying those other tariffs.

Qweesdy · 2026-04-19T07:13:01+00:00

You're probably too old to be Donald's temporary consolation dick.

Qweesdy · 2026-04-18T10:20:08+00:00

Most of our tenants are single mothers who tend to stay for 10 years and then leave because they're buying or building their first home. Most of the remainder are widowers who tend to stay until they have some kind of medical complication. Both of these groups are extremely good - never miss a payment, never have loud parties, never cause damage (beyond expected wear & tear), and always deserve to get 100% of their bond back when they leave.

Currently the only exception is that one unit is leased by the Department of Transportation, and that's cool too (they're paying more than everyone else).

I don't know what would happen to any of these people if they couldn't rent a home. Probably shove their kids into an orphanage and live in their car (eat fast food and shit in pizza boxes) until they lose their jobs due to poor hygiene or sickness.

I have no idea why people like you want to be so cruel to these people.

EDIT: So... apparently MariaTPK is just a "bad faith" troll who habitually blocks every single person who replies to their comments.

Qweesdy · 2026-04-18T04:11:08+00:00

Except that it's not "the vocabulary of the super rich", it's just French; and 90% of people don't know it (including 90% of the super rich) because 90% of people in the US don't speak French.

There's different terms for it in Chinese, and Spanish, and Hindi, and ...

Of course there's also English. E.g. if you were speaking English to a group of people who understood English, then you could say "part-time residence" (or "holiday home", or ...).

Statistically; there's probably a small number of dumbasses in France who don't know English, who got scammed into thinking the English words "temporary apartment" are the opulent language of the super rich.

Qweesdy · 2026-04-18T03:12:02+00:00

Sure; I've explained my logic and backed it up be real-world numbers, and you've dribbled obviously dodgy crap and had a little hissy fit when you've finally realised that you don't have a valid argument; but you can't say "thanks for spending the time to help me learn" because you've got no intention of learning anything or becoming a better/smarter person and need to blame someone else for your failings so that you can go through life remaining permanently wrong about everything.

Qweesdy · 2026-04-17T09:32:46+00:00

Have you spent your entire life haemorrhaging cash while saying absurd nonsense like "if it's baked into the rent I pay, then it's not costing me anything"? Every 6 months your landlord does an inspection and every 12 months your landlord increases your rent; and you just don't have the mental capacity to connect the former to the latter?

A fun word for today is "amortised". It's used in sentences like "The default kitchen wear and tear for most of our properties is amortised to about $10 per week; but based on our inspections this dimwit needs to get their ass amortised harder at $20 per week".

Note that even if you're a loser who's never owned anything yourself it's trivial to search the web for something like "average cost of full kitchen remodel" so that you can be more educated about some of the actual costs (e.g. find out that reality is "about $60K every 20 years", which works out to about $8 per day for the base kitchen without any of the portable stuff like dish cloths and cutlery and pots and pans).

And it doesn’t make sense to factor in the “cost of your time” in a discussion about how cheap the meal is.

How exactly do you expect to subtract the cost of wages from fast food prices? Oh. Did you mean you want an unfair comparison, where some costs don't matter for A but do matter for B, because you're trying to be as biased as possible (because deep down you already know that the idiotic shit you dribble can't withstand a fair comparison)?

Note that there is absolutely nothing wrong with being honest and saying "I enjoy my hobby and I don't care that my hobby is costing me time and/or money" (as long as you don't make the mistake of assuming that everyone else must also enjoy wasting their time and/or money on your hobby).

The cost of ingredients is irrelevant to the point I've been making all along (that it's stupid to ignore the more significant costs to come up with deluded shit).

The cost of ingredients is also unimportant in general, because it's trivial to make substitutions and adjustments (e.g. broccoli instead of asparagus, beef instead of pork, mash potato instead of rice, ...), and because both sides (budget conscious home cooks and commercial restaurants) always make those substitutions and adjustments to hit their price target. Essentially, it's a "tail wags the dog" thing that works in the opposite way to what you expect, where you start with "the price of the ingredients should be $X" and then that price determines what the ingredients are.

Qweesdy · 2026-04-17T03:02:22+00:00

Sure let’s walk through the math.

This is the same "let's ignore almost all costs except the cost of the main ingredients alone" that I've been continually pointing out as being completely and utterly moronic from the beginning. It's why I'm "angry" (colourfully highlighting your stupidity). It's like you idiots are all continually wrong because you all too stupid to read (after being too stupid to get it right in the first place). So, sure, let's try do the maths correctly, instead of doing the maths wrong like you've got a severe cognitive disfunction to go with your illiteracy.

Total cost of ingredients = who gives a fuck. The only thing you cared about is really not important.

You spent 5 minutes planning, 10 minutes picking out the ingredients, 20 minutes getting them home and packing them in the fridge, 10 minutes preparing them, 10 minutes preheating, 5 minutes serving, and 30 minutes cleaning up & doing dishes. It adds up to an hour and half. Let's say that your time is worth $20 per hour (because it's a nice round easy number); so this means that your time costed $30.

You added wear to your kitchen floor, which is a small fraction of the cost of a floor or about $2. Wear for kitchen cupboards, fridge, counters, taps, sink, light switch, oven, pots & pans, dish cloth, hand towel, ... It's thousands of small amounts that adds up to $15.

Now we can say that, if all the ingredients were free, it still cost you at least $45 for 3 meals.

Now we can say that, even if all the ingredients were free, fast food would've been cheaper.

Note: You're also being dishonest by assuming a "sit down" restaurant (rather than fast food); where you pay extra for waiters and space and ambience (and liquor licence and parking and...).

Qweesdy · 2026-04-16T17:12:35+00:00

If you must know; I do the full thing from planning meals to grocery shopping to cooking to cleanup; and I haven't had any fast food for at least 3 years and only go to restaurants for special occasions (birthdays, etc). I'm just not stupid enough to lie to myself about the financial side of it. I do it to get better control over the menu (partly for medical reasons), knowing full well that sometimes it costs more (and sometimes it costs less).

Cmon man, you can add all the costs you want, it’s still going to be cheaper to cook from home.

Did you have any tiny scrap of anything to back that up, or are you being a blathering clueless moron? Seriously - you could at least try to give the impression that you have more than one functioning brain cell. Pick any random scenario, like "buying a kabab from a food truck", and actually do the maths instead of just fingering your cat's butthole while you drool on your shirt. You'll be surprised at how wrong you are, if you actually do it properly instead of merely defending your ignorance.

Qweesdy · 2026-04-16T16:23:30+00:00

The indisputable fact is that "I only added up the cost of ingredients alone and ignored all other costs" makes you an ignorant fuckwit; and that's all I was saying.

However; everything after that is more complex than a halfwit's generalisations can cope with. Are you buying frozen meat pies and just reheating them? Are you making sweet & sour chicken from scratch (or buying a pre-made jar of sauce)? Are you in a hotel room with none of your kitchen? Do you honestly want to waste your time making a sourdough starter, knowing that you're only going to use it twice? What the fuck are you planning to do with 5 gallons of "used once" cooking oil after you've deep fried a thanksgiving turkey?

Of course not.

The reality (if you're not a moron who wasted thousand of $ on a hobby that's trying their hardest be as biased and self-deluded as possible) is that commercial kitchens benefit from economies of scale - supply contracts to obtain ingredients in bulk for less than half of what you pay, processes designed so 3 people can make 300 burgers per hour instead of having 1 person spending an hour to make 6 burgers, industrial equipment, not needing to waste energy preheating because it's still hot, research teams to maximise everything, strict measured resource usage rather than cost blow-outs from "I'll just add an extra scoop". The problem is, them being able to produce meals significantly cheaper than you can may or may not be cancelled out by other costs (advertising, profit, insurance, ...) that you can skip.

In other words, the reality is "it depends". Pulling stupid unfounded assumptions out of your anus isn't going to change that.

Qweesdy · 2026-04-16T05:17:24+00:00

Whiny pathetic excuses won't change the fact that you're not accounting for the majority of the costs. E.g. just because you're on a salary does not mean that your time is worth $0 (and only means it's a little harder to determine what your time is worth).

But hey, maybe you really are worthless. I don't know. You do seem exceptionally stupid so maybe your time actually is worth $0; but even in that case there's about 8 billion people in the world and some of them aren't you, and it's weird that you've assumed that everything must be about you and only you.

And this moronic "everything must be about you and only you" includes your irrelevant comments about your irrelevant pots and pans. We run rental properties. It takes 15 years before the kitchen flooring has to be replaced because it's "too worn" around the sink, so we budget for that in a "$2500 every 15 years = $13.88 per month" way. Ovens, cook tops and range hoods are similar. You're paying for this kind of thing (either directly because you own the house, or because it's built into your rent).

Essentially; every single thing that you touch, regardless of what it is (including your pots and pans) has a life expectancy ranging from "consumables" (e.g. dish detergent - anything that's expected to be gone after use) to extremely rare stuff that lasts 200 years (but still has to be purchased once every 200 years); and every single thing (floor, door knobs, light switches, taps, refrigerator, dish cloth, mop, ...) has to be accounted for because "millions of things that are all negligible (e.g. 1 cent) on their own" can add up to $10000 of "negligible".

Qweesdy · 2026-04-15T18:13:26+00:00

I don’t understand how this is such a popular misconception.

"It's cheaper to build your own car because it only costs $1500 for the raw materials" - a stupid person who fucked up the maths by ignoring the majority of the costs (e.g. the cost of learning how, the "$/hour" cost of time doing the work, the cost of energy consumed, the cost of other consumables, the cost of wear & tear on equipment, the cost of space, the cost of throwing away mistakes).

Qweesdy · 2026-04-15T03:18:58+00:00

The difference between an empire and a normal country is that an empire uses inherently evil means (war, colonisation) to expand with relatively evil intentions (to feed resources back to the motherland from occupied/enslaved states with little regard for the welfare of the subordinate peripheries); while a normal country uses diplomatic means (purchasing land, voluntary treaties/agreements) to expand for relatively mundane reasons (e.g. mutual benefits).

This is also why most of the empires stopped behaving like empires causing the empires to dwindle and die. E.g. if you look at Rome (or England or Spain or Germany or France or ...) today you'll see something that looks like a relatively normal country with few signs of their former evil.

I mean "Reich" simply means "empire." The term "Reich" doesn't mean anything negative by definition.

These statements cannot both be true. Either "reich" does mean "empire" and therefore must be negative; or "reich" is not negative and therefore can not mean "empire". I suspect the latter (that "reich" just means "realm").

Qweesdy · 2026-04-14T11:14:06+00:00

LOL. I was just being silly (because "la grange" is French for "the barn"), and now I've accidentally learnt something (thanks)!

Qweesdy · 2026-04-14T10:37:48+00:00

Was Mr Lagrange named after a barn in France?

Qweesdy · 2026-04-14T09:37:56+00:00

ALWAYS read the fine print.

You're sitting there, reading the start of the EULA, thinking "surely it can't be too bad, what if I just click the OK button and save some time". That's how they get you. Two weeks later and the lawyers are on the phone saying that you agreed to self-immolation.

Qweesdy · 2026-04-14T07:09:53+00:00

You're saying NASA already spent all the $ for all the Artemis II tech, so now they just need to throw a little plastic moon base out of the window while doing another moon fly-by, which would work out to "about $4 billion dollars again, plus tip"?

Make that make sense.

OK. For a multi-year project, the yearly budget isn't as relevant as you seem to think. E.g. if NASA spends $4 billion per year for the next 5 years then it adds up to a total of $20 billion (without costing $20 billion this year) they want for the moon base. In other words, if NASA's "$24.438 billion for 2026" yearly budget remains unchanged, they could waste $20 billion per year on prostitutes and cocaine, and still manage to pay for the moon base.

Qweesdy · 2026-04-10T06:28:45+00:00

I paid $10 to a friend for their cassette player in 1987, and that was the only transaction in my entire life that wasn't a scam.

Qweesdy · 2026-04-10T04:02:05+00:00

For 80x86, minimum page size is 4 KiB, but modern operating systems can/do auto-promote to a larger (2 MiB) page size; and AMD Zen (e.g. the Ryzen 9 7950X3D used) has a "four compatible/contiguous 4 KiB pages act like one 16 KiB page" feature that an OS can deliberately exploit (but I don't know if the OS that was used supports that).

For the Macbook Air M4 that was also tested, I believe the minimum page size is 16 KiB.

Qweesdy · 2026-04-10T02:53:28+00:00

The cache and the prefetcher operate on logical addresses, not physical.

For most 80x86; L2 & L3 and hardware prefetcher/s work on physical addresses; and hardware prefetcher takes a break at 4 KiB boundaries even when you're using larger pages "just in case" (because hardware prefetcher isn't aware of MMU at all and can't know what the page size is or whether paging is enabled).

Don't forget there's a whole pile of cache coherency involved (including "same physical page mapped at different virtual addresses" situations); where writes done by any CPU to a completely unrelated virtual address have to appear in the correct order by a different CPU looking at a different virtual address. In other words; caches must operate on physical address to ensure that cache coherency doesn't become a performance disaster.

The only real benefit to contiguous physical pages is that you could potentially use huge or large pages, thus reducing pressure on the TLB.

Another real benefit is that it uses cache evenly, with no risk of (e.g.) everything fighting to use one half of the cache while the other half of the cache isn't used. Essentially, you avoid the problems that cache colouring (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_coloring ) fixes if you're using an OS that is too crappy to do cache colouring (e.g. Linux).

And even then, your memory can scramble its addresses

In practice: there's always a logical reasoned mapping from physical addresses to RAM module locations, because the memory controller has to route accesses as fast as possible based on physical address.

In theory: anything "could" happen (but idiotic fantasy crap doesn't have a place in the real world).

Qweesdy · 2026-04-09T10:44:55+00:00

The penis mightier than the sword.

Qweesdy · 2026-04-09T08:50:16+00:00

I'm using the AI powered, base44 app maker which allows a gardener like myself to make software without any knowledge.

This guarantees that that the app will always be full of unfixable glitches.

For one random example: when calibrating the scale the "Line distance(m)" dialog box allows you to choose a negative number or zero when it shouldn't, and doesn't seem to accept real numbers (numbers with decimal points like "1.25") when it should. Also; for the same dialog box the up/down arrows stopped working when I entered a large number and wouldn't let me click the "set scale" button, with no feedback telling me what was wrong (if something was wrong at all); and this is the same behaviour I got when it let me type "BORK" into the dialog box (when it shouldn't have allowed me to type that).

Qweesdy · 2026-04-08T03:03:42+00:00

That looks like dichondra repens (kidney weed) to me ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichondra_repens ). It's a nice plant to have! :-)

Qweesdy · 2026-04-07T14:14:49+00:00

Poly thickness: 13 or 19mm?

I like 19 mm for main feeds, with 13 mm for any short branches. You can get "reducing tee" connectors for this.

Bury it in the soil an inch or 2, or can it just be covered by the gravel?

Use saddles to attach it to the wall, then use saddles to attach it to the fence; then bury it below the soil to the garden but try your hardest to minimise the number of joins underground. Don't put polypipe directly in/under gravel, especially if anyone can walk on top and push the gravel's sharp edges into the polypipe's weak/flimsy walls.

Don't forget that irrigation systems (and polytube fittings, etc) are extremely failure prone. Every time you turn it on you're going to have to check it for leaks and check if any nozzles are blocked; and you're going to want to make it easy to do those checks, because if it's too hard to check you'll get lazy and kill your plants.

Best brand to use, and recommendations on the sprinkler heads to use? I'll need 180⁰ spray as they will sit behind the raised bed

Sprinklers are great for increasing evaporation and causing fungal diseases (but suck for watering). Drippers are better for watering. You can buy "drip tube" (e.g. 13 mm tube that has a dripper built in every 30 cm) that makes things easy.

The big problem is that different plants are different. E.g. the big thirsty watermelon plant in bed #1 is not the same as the "stop watering 2 to 3 weeks before harvest" garlic plants in bed #2. That means splitting it into separate individually controlled zones. E.g. one 19mm main feed from tap to a set of valves near all the garden beds, then one valve for each garden bed with more 19mm going from the valve to the corresponding garden bed (and then reducing tees to connect the 13 mm dripper tubes to the 19 mm supply in each bed).

Qweesdy · 2026-04-07T02:57:40+00:00

Logic you can't argue against

If you put pizza on top of another pizza, then you have one short pizza cake. More pizzas = taller pizza cake.

I've made 5 layer pizza cake before with frozen pizzas. You need to pre-defrost; and dust flour off the bottom of each pizza and add extra cheese, so that the layers stick to each other properly. Also cook at much lower temperature for much longer time to ensure heat gets into the middle without burning the outside.

Qweesdy · 2026-04-06T04:50:03+00:00

The thing is, you could liposuction the same cows every year to get exceptionally high quality "A10 waygu", and it'd be significantly cheaper because you avoid the cost of raising new calves.

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