My wife has an Etsy shop that has a large percentage of American customers. We had to change our shipper to one which would handle the tariffs on our end (cost $10 USD/mo for the new shipper account) and she raised her prices 40% across the board since we have to pay for the tariff on our end so we don't have to deal with customers refusing to pay the tariff and complaining to Etsy).

I believe Etsy is also dropping support for creating Canada Post labels, so we won't even be able to use them for shipping domestically.

EDIT: I'll still be able to use Canada Post for domestic shipments.

All this due to the elimination of the de minimus exemption.

I read somewhere that you should never look down on anyone for mispronouncing a word because it means they learned it by reading.

As a childhood bookworm, that lesson stuck with me.

Not sure where the article is getting the $100 from. I read the executive order itself (needed a shower afterwards) and didn't see anything about lowering the limit. It was removing the limit altogether so all packages would be subject to greater scrutiny.

You're correct that all this work is still necessary to ship. We'll be trying it out for now, but if the tariff cost isn't covered by the blanket increase in prices, or if the process is a huge pain in the ass, we'll likely just stop selling to the U.S. altogether. The shop is there to cover the material costs for my wife's hobby, so I'm not terribly worried about a drop in sales as a result.

I also had to do farm labour (picking fruit) before I was legally allowed to work at 14. I was taken advantage of (financially) that whole summer - underpaid, and occasionally worked an entire day and got stiffed outright. I've never stopped working since then (I'm in my early 50s), aside from a few months of unemployment between jobs that was more stressful than working. I'll likely have to work until I die.

Fuck that shit.

My kids are 18 and 20 and as long as they're in school, it can stay that way. Once you start, you don't stop. I'll let them enjoy it as long as they can.

I remember watching the shorts on The Tracy Ullman Show before The Simpsons got a show of its own.

Same. I live 30 minutes from the border and haven't been since before Trump's first term. I hope my brother and his family, who live in California, stay healthy, because I wouldn't even fly out for their funeral.

You're obviously aware of their playstyle, and if they aren't very well versed in the rules, maybe you could roll a couple of melee focused spellcaster (Hexblade Warlock, Bladesinger Wizard, etc) options for them and have them choose from one of them rather than relying on them to come up with something on their own? They'd still have some agency, but would play a character that better suits their playstyle.

Oh, and make sure the options don't have a dagger in their equipment list. 😄

Similarly, insurance will cut off long term disability claims when there's no end in sight because it's cheaper for them to pay out a settlement than continue to pay LTD indefinitely.

I switched from Nova to Smart Launcher and haven't looked back.

I'm using the same one. For Democracy.

Smart Launcher will allow you to swipe up, down, left, and right to launch shortcuts.

The paid version will also allow you to use icons to open widgets in a pop-up.

For me it was in my SIM card settings: Network & Internet > SIMs > .

Bottom option was a toggle for "2G network protection".

The "World Series" of baseball is the example I would use. All but one team is based in the US.

Not quite true. Boomer is based on the baby boom after WW2, so 1945 onwards. 80+ is a better demarcation. I only nitpick since my father and in-laws are 78 and true boomers.

I found that hitting 50 was that point for me.