Our place is ventilated well enough that I don’t need to open the windows for ventilation or to manage humidity per se, but I am fortunate enough to live in an area with good quality air, so I often do in spring/summer/fall just because it feels fresher.

In winter, I don’t want to freeze or waste energy, so I usually keep them closed. But once in a while, if I have my computer running for a long time and the heat is also on for the rest of our place, I may crack the window a bit just to keep that room from becoming unbearably hot.

Terrarium is probably what they meant, though it wouldn’t surprise me if the term might be used differently in different languages, even.

I don’t believe that it was explicitly stated that refunds had to happen, but the avoidance of that possibility was a motivation of the dissent.

In his dissent, Kavanaugh wrote that “the refund process is likely to be a mess”, which operates under the assumption that refunds remain on the table now that Trump’s tariffs were ruled unconstitutional.

I’m guessing it will come down to individual lawsuits by the affected parties against the Trump administration to make the specific case that refunds are needed and justified. If a few succeed, that sets the precedent for more. At that point, the government may decide to simply set up a refund program to reimburse folks and try to save some money by not challenging every claim in court.

Some was context pulled from this NPR article:

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/21/g-s1-110987/supreme-court-tariffs-refunds

Ancient Chinese emperors used to drink mercury to achieve immortality, too. 2000 years of history couldn’t be wrong.

I’m not too worried about additional tariffs passing through congress, though. That would have been the safer approach to try from the beginning if Trump’s people thought they could make it work. They opted for this workaround loophole nonsense specifically to go around congress because they had already ruled out the possibility of congressional approval.

I just don’t think Trump could ever manage to get enough support from congress. Certainly not with how unpopular the tariffs currently are, and certainly not right before the midterms.

To add, refunds are only going back to the businesses that directly paid the tariffs. But those businesses were already offsetting the costs of their goods to counterbalance them.

Outside of a few more consumers being priced out, a business playing their cards right may not have actually had too much of a hit to their bottom line under tariffs. But now, in addition to the profits they made by increasing prices to offset the tariffs, they’re going to get refunded the cost of the tariffs anyways.

So the one left holding the bag ends up being the American consumer and taxpayer, who has struggled to afford basic goods throughout Trump’s presidency, and will not see any returns from the tariffs either, as all of it comes right back out of tax revenue.

Not that the American public were likely to see any tax relief or benefit from the tariffs in the first place, mind.

Businesses will get refunds, but not any of the consumers who paid higher prices for the tariffed goods.

I doubt we’re likely to see many prices come back down from their tariff-inflated values either.

Thomas, Alito, and Kavanagh were the dissenters.

Worse for sure.

At my age, they were already married with kids and had enough to build a dream house in a decent town. Both had stable jobs that were considered good despite neither having a college degree.

I’m in a decent job that pays me (on paper) more money than my parents used to make, but I had to get my master’s degree to get here, and I’m still trying to pay off 8 years of student debt (though I’m getting closer each paycheck).

Between that, rent, and the sheer cost of everything these days, my partner and I are nowhere close to the point where we could afford a house, and we definitely could not afford to have even one kid, let alone three.

We’re at least not living paycheck to paycheck, but there have been industry layoffs left and right that have me feeling like any day could be my turn. I’d love to have more of a safety net in that situation, but there’s not all that much left over for us to put towards savings or retirement. Meanwhile, my parents are retired now, while I’m fully expecting to work until I die.

Edit: Forgot to clarify that this is the US, if the existence of student debt wasn’t already a giveaway.

A bike for a bike leaves the world on foot.

Wow it’s so much cleaner. And we can just turn this on all the time?

Doesn’t seem to do anything with Alexandrite, does Photon fare any better?

Is that what it is? I thought it was just my app being weird, but then I see similar stuff in the browser, too.

The article could have led with the addition that she is a Republican politician and left readers to fill in the blanks themselves.

Yep, was surprised when my friend told me what his aphantasia was like.

When I was a kid, I had watched some movies so many times that I could actually play back the entire movie start to finish in my head, with visuals and audio. Made some long car/bus trips more bearable.

When I read books, I usually end up casting characters using celebrities I know, and enter a sort of flow state where I watch it play out in my mind like a movie. Voiced dialog and cinematography and everything.

Surprised me that a lot of people just can’t do that. They understand everything but just can’t visualize.

For what it’s worth, there are more people at the summer Olympics than the winter ones (~10,500 in Paris and ~2,900 at Milan according to Wikipedia) but still one would think there should at least be 1/4 as much if they’re just looking at athlete numbers alone.

That’s normally what the charge of “manslaughter” is supposed to be used for in the courts. Murder would be with intent, manslaughter is any other act with deadly consequence.

Why that didn’t happen in this case is beyond me.

They can definitely use it, it’s not like it’s even something you need an LLM for. You can have an AI do whatever and then just supplement a query that searches for “th” and replaces it with thorn.

Ecosystem lock-in is likely not a concern for the average person, though. If they just need a computer to browse the web and edit some basic documents, everything else is just fluff.

I’m just recommending that folks treat the answers to the security questions, at a minimum, like they treat their passwords themselves. The security questions are a way around the password, and so they should be kept just as secure and hard to guess.

If you’re using a secure password manager, great, that’s exactly the best approach. The majority of people don’t, which is where this sorta thing becomes an issue. If you have a password manager and the service you’re using forces you to answer security questions, of course you can let the password manager generate something just as random as the password itself (provided it can remember it and can track which term corresponds to which question). For anyone who does not, it’s just important to choose something you’ll remember but no one who knows details about your life can simply guess. Otherwise it doesn’t matter how secure your password is.