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Fair enough, yarn and notions will get more expensive. There's also the issue of access to supplies in the first place just because JoAnn was a lot of people's only option.

Oh, I don't mean on an industrial scale. Sorry for any confusion. I was thinking of small-scale artists who have crochet businesses. It might be easier to sell $30 plushies if all of the plushies from Vietnam (and other places known for cheap hand-made products) are now $50.

Something tells me that they are not publishing his name because they're betting that his future patients would feel differently. I would not want to see Dr. Rapist for any reason, even if he's the best physician in the city.

You could check for yourself: https://www.protondb.com/

If a game is rated Gold or above, it's generally good to go on most systems. Platinum is the best rating other than Native, which means it's a game with an official Linux version. Proton is the reason I switched to Linux.

Bronze and Silver games might play fine too, but you'll either have to do some tinkering or it just won't work. It's not that often that these games work "out of the box."

If their cost goes way up, that might make hand-made American items comparatively affordable, maybe for the first time in modern history. It's (potentially) a good thing for a bad reason, I guess.

In his summing up the judge said “It has been proven that sexual intercourse took place at a time that she was in a state that meant that she couldn’t possibly consent to it. The offence is serious and unacceptable.”

Wow, we can both read! That's awesome. Now one of us just has to work on their comprehension and maybe even finish the article next time...

I don't think that you understand this very well. You definitely don't need a monopoly in the video media platform space in order to restrict competition to an unfair degree. For example, the forced sale of Fox Sports to Bally in 2021 by the courts in order to retain a small modicum of competition in broadcasting despite the existence of other networks. Maybe you should look into it a bit more before you declare it's not an issue?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law

Society can't do much against laws that actively foster wealth hoarding.

Increase corporate tax rates, shut down loopholes, go after companies that use tax havens, fine corporate irresponsibility commensurate with the damage it causes (no ticky-tack fines), imprison white collar criminals and seize their assets, limit executive compensation relative to the lowest-paid employee, outlaw stock buybacks, etc.

If Tesla stocks rebound, rich people are even dumber than I had thought. Makes you laugh even harder at the thought of America as a meritocracy.

I wonder if this is how people felt when Shakespeare invented a bunch of words. Slang turns complicated concepts into shorthand so that, once a definition has been established, more important discourse can occur.

If you're annoyed that you still have to learn new things as an adult, I have some bad news about the rest of your life.

Canadian journalism is full of nepotism, favours, and exploitation. It's been getting worse since most of our news organizations became American-owned over the last decade or so.