Even something as simple as suggesting "Hey, these figures are made in Vietnam instead of China, so they're lower cost right now" is political. It is, as you said unavoidable.
Other people had already responded with answers that fit the specific question prior to me responding. I was just adding an additional possibility to consider.
The problem is that they're actively impacting your ability to participate in many hobbies, or eating up funds on necessities that force you to forgo other things entirely. It's not that we're just repeating "tariffs bad" when talking about them, it's that they're actually factoring into decisions being made in order to live our life.
You're saying that people who are old can't learn or be taught how to use a modern communications tool. Who's really being ageist here?
My 70 year old father can handle most things on his cellphone with just a few minutes of someone walking him through it.
Also, as of 2023, only 10% of the world population is over 65, so between the fact that there aren't actually that many old people and some of them definitely CAN operate modern technology, it's a good solution for most situations.
Those are often right.
People frequently aren't asking the right questions because they are thinking inside a box that doesn't need to exist.
Sometimes there are legitimate reasons why these options don't work, but most of the time they are the superior choice.
Both of those first two studies (the third one is not a study) say that there's actually not a significant harm, especially just for nudity.
Not to mention the fact that they're both really old (pre-2000) and based on data collected from the 1970s to the 1990s and pre-date home internet access and only from data collected in the US(actually only in 3 cities in California)
If people are forced to still spend an extra 30% on a wide variety of items, they're going to have to save that money elsewhere by not buying something.
Maybe if some orange turd wasn't busy fucking up everything from board games to airplanes politics wouldn't come up so much.
Hard to have a conversation without it when there's a massive tariff on every single product related to work, hobbies, and even just living.
Instant pot
I have two, and I cook in them 3-4 times per week for my family