I was a boss for a couple years. I didn't force anyone to come in but I did find that I got along better with the couple of people who worked out of the office just because it's easier to see someone as a person when you can sit near each other and BS all day as opposed to the ones who worked from home and I really only talked to when we were in meetings about work shit. I tried not to play favorites but that aspect did probably bleed into things a bit. We had a team chat going but only a few people used it (or they had one that I wasn't part of so they could talk without the boss looking over their shoulder, which is fine but it's hard to get comfortable with people you rarely interact with). I'm now on the other side of it with a boss who always works from home while I'm in the office and I'm struggling with that a little too because I have a hard time gauging if they're upset with me or if doing well when we only talk on the phone a few times a week.

I'm one that prefers being in the office. My productivity goes to shit when I'm at home because there's too much other stuff I can do. I also like talking to my coworkers face to face just in general because people are usually more empathetic in person. That being said I don't think it should be forced on anyone if it's not necessary to work in the office. The rest of my team works from home without issue as far as I can tell. We are fortunate in that our employer does not have an issue with WFH.

because it’s abundantly clear he wanted to kill those people

I don't see that to be clear at all. He fled from the first person who attacked him and didn't shoot him until they guy caught him and was trying to take his weapon after verbally threatening him. The other two men he shot both attacked him as well when he was fleeing the first incident. If I recall correctly one had struck him with a skateboard and the other pointed a handgun at him while he was down. Considering there were other people chasing after him he didn't shoot I'd consider him to have been fairly restrained. Usually people trying to fake a "I was just defending myself" defense put less effort into creating their pretext for shooting.

To me this entire situation was the people on both sides of it playing stupid games and winning stupid prizes.

I'm not buying a bunch of paper books and creating unnecessary waste just to make sure the author gets paid. I guess I could donate them but then the author loses sales that way. I'm certainly not rewarding the use of DRM by paying for it.

And reading comic books

What if I have 3 monitors but one is sideways?

I should have specified I was talking about ebooks. That's on me.

I buy DRM free books off humble bundle. Even if I already have previously downloaded them. I will not give money to anything with DRM on it if I don't have to. These authors aren't getting money from me because they don't offer a product I want (DRM free books). Other sources do have this product so they can blame themselves or their publisher for losing sales.

I own the 1000s of ebooks I've downloaded to my personal media server.

This was known back then. The judge blocked it. I can kind of see why because he didn't shoot any shoplifters. He shot people who threatened, chased, and assaulted him.

The whole situation was stupid and he shouldn't have been there but from all the video I've seen of the actual event he was pretty selective with his targets when it came to actually shooting people. It wasn't consistent with his bragging. I kind of wish people would stop giving him attention at this point because all they're accomplishing is giving him a platform to grift rightwingers from.

Getting to suicidey I imagine.

makes for good advertising

I haven't experienced them those but the pull down shades I've used in the past have thing where you can twist the rod to set the tension and make them work better. Does it have something like that you can do? Also I agree with you about just using curtains

What prevents companies in Canada from setting prices in such a way that they always round up?

There's no guarantee that such a law would be the same in America. The majority of our law makers are bought and paid for. It would be trivial to "lobby" them to just leave that part out.

My concern is not coming from any information provided by a lobby. It's coming from my past experiences seeing corporations jump on any and every chance to take more money out of my pocket.

“Even if they stopped making them I wouldn’t get that money back” except you would in the form of other places that the money could be allocated to.

More than likely it would go to some other graft, not anything that would benefit me. It might as well be wasted on pennies which at least keep corporations from increasing prices due to having to round. That at least keeps some money in my pocket.

What would be the mechanism by which this ‘price gouging’ would occur

The easiest method would be just to always round up. If they wanted to squeeze a little harder then maybe go up 10-15 instead. What's anyone going to do about it? You may say a few cents doesn't matter but I get a few cents cash back every time I use my card and that alone covers all my christmas shopping on amazon at the end of the year. It's not negligible. As for why it hasn't happened in canada, capitalism has escalated a lot since then and they've gotten a taste of what they can get away with during covid.

Everyone I know who's gotten on a plane in the last 2 years has come back with covid. Without exception.

I'm not reading all that. I rarely use cash so all the bits about time spent handling it don't affect me. Also it's not me paying to mint pennies, it's taxes, even if they stopped making them I wouldn't get that money back. It'd just be spent on some other bullshit. The only factor I care about is the prices of things and after seeing what they did with the excuse covid provided I don't trust corporations to not do it again.

Nah, getting rid of the penny will require rounding prices of things and there's no way stores won't take that opportunity to gouge us even more.

Yeah, I've seen people claim they stopped making them because they didn't sell but when I was in high school half the students had one of one sort or the other and then working at various auto shops afterwards they were at least as common as full size trucks if not more so. People stopped buying them because they stopped making them.

I just want to see what happens when a bullet train hits a moose.