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[whenthewallfell]

Doing another wooly round up because I can and I'm super happy with how they all turned out!

The patterns are: Easy V by Caitlin Hunter, Rift by Jaq Cieslak, Retro Autumn Sweater by Off The Hook (crochet), Halibut by Caitlin Hunter, and Dreaming Cat by StuffTheBody (crochet)

[xxemo-hubrisxx]

I've started using cotton thread instead of polyester where i can and its making me so happy!!!!

[thedailyplatypics]

One of my platypus shirts finally being worn appropriately

[spock-smokes-weed]

my dad bought me a Zoro shirt from hot topic (rare w for him) and I was looking inside at the tag and it said it was 100% cotton and uhhhh

I know what a cotton t-shirt feels like and there is no way in hell this thin, shiny ass material is not at least 70% polyester

[frmulcahy]

Cotton voile my best friend cotton voile

[goonslife]

Eye Contour Serum Kit – Hydration & Anti-Aging Care for a Youthful Look

Il kit siero contorno occhi è un duo di prodotti per la cura della pelle appositamente progettato che fornisce idratazione profonda, nutrimento e benefici anti-invecchiamento alla delicata pelle del contorno occhi. Questo kit include un siero per il viso e una crema per il contorno occhi, entrambi formulati con ingredienti naturali di alta qualità per aiutare a ridurre gonfiore, occhiaie e linee sottili, promuovendo al contempo un aspetto fresco e giovanile.

Siero per il viso: idratazione e rinnovamento della pelle Il siero per il viso in questo kit è una formula leggera e ad assorbimento rapido che fornisce un'idratazione intensa e nutrienti essenziali alla pelle. Progettato per migliorare l'elasticità e la luminosità della pelle, il siero penetra in profondità negli strati della pelle, promuovendo la rigenerazione cellulare e un colorito più liscio.

✔ Idratazione profonda: aiuta a mantenere l'equilibrio dell'idratazione, mantenendo la pelle morbida ed elastica. ✔ Stimola la produzione di collagene: supporta l'elasticità della pelle, riducendo i segni dell'invecchiamento. ✔ Leggero e ad assorbimento rapido: assicura una rapida penetrazione senza lasciare residui unti.

Crema contorno occhi: cura mirata per uno sguardo più luminoso La crema contorno occhi è formulata per affrontare i comuni problemi della zona perioculare come gonfiore, occhiaie e rughe. Contiene una miscela di ingredienti naturali noti per i loro effetti lenitivi, rassodanti e illuminanti.

Ingredienti e benefici principali: ✔ Caffeina naturale: stimola la microcircolazione per ridurre gonfiore e segni di affaticamento, rendendo gli occhi più svegli e rinfrescati.

✔ Fito-retinolo (alternativa al retinolo di origine vegetale): un ingrediente naturale delicato ma efficace che stimola il turnover cellulare e migliora la consistenza della pelle, aiutando a levigare linee sottili e rughe.

✔ Acido ialuronico: fornisce un'idratazione intensa e rimpolpa la pelle, riducendo la comparsa di linee sottili e mantenendo un aspetto giovane e radioso.

✔ Olio di argan: ricco di vitamina E e acidi grassi essenziali, questo ingrediente nutre e protegge la pelle, migliorandone la naturale luminosità ed elasticità.

Perché scegliere il kit siero contorno occhi? ✔ Formula a doppia azione: il siero e la crema per gli occhi lavorano insieme per massimizzare l'idratazione e il rinnovamento della pelle. ✔ Ingredienti naturali e delicati sulla pelle: privi di sostanze chimiche aggressive, adatti alle pelli sensibili. ✔ Leggeri e non unti: perfetti per l'uso quotidiano, anche sotto il trucco. ✔ Soluzione anti-invecchiamento efficace: riduce le linee sottili, il gonfiore e le occhiaie con un uso costante. ✔ Adatto a tutti i tipi di pelle: che tu abbia una pelle secca, grassa o mista, questo kit si adatta alle tue esigenze di cura della pelle.

Come usare il kit per ottenere i migliori risultati Applica il siero viso:

Usa alcune gocce sulla pelle pulita. Massaggia delicatamente con movimenti circolari verso l'alto fino a completo assorbimento. Usa la crema contorno occhi:

Prendere una piccola quantità e tamponare delicatamente intorno alla zona degli occhi con la punta delle dita. Evitare il contatto diretto con gli occhi. Usa mattina e sera per la massima idratazione e benefici rassodanti. Incorporando il kit siero contorno occhi nella tua routine di cura della pelle, puoi ottenere un aspetto idratato, giovane e fresco, assicurandoti che la tua pelle rimanga liscia, radiosa e piena di vita ogni giorno.

[ilookattextile]

Idk exactly how to explain this but the softness of real wool and real linen is very different from the artificial softness of polyester “sherpa”, fuzzy faux-fur, spongey acrylic knits and people have gotten too used to the soft plastics and now associate wool with “itchy” and linen with rough and cotton with “too heavy” and then go and wear 100% polyester fleecy sweatshirts and say it’s so warm and cozy but actually they’re just staticky cooking in their sweat locked inside a plastic membrane and you are paying too much to be wearing filaments of petroleum products and the money isn’t going to the people sewing them either. I’m saying you all need to touch grass and the grass in this situation is good quality textiles made of natural fibres.

[damon25]

Why Use Cotton Momie Weave Table Linens for Restaurants on Festival Occasions

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[theknightlywolfe]

I suck at all fiber arts (except cross stitch thus far, but I just started) but many of my friends fiber art and I enable by gifting high quality material supplies so yes, I would love the infodumping about the material because it's the only part of the whole thing I have any clue about.

Every time I give someone a knit/crochet gift I have to resist the urge to infodump about the fiber. No one but me cares what kind of wool blend it is, they just want to know if it can go in the washing machine

[alenasbdesign]

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[phoenixyfriend]

Ko-fi prompt from @liberwolf:

Could you explain Tariff's , like who pays them and what they do to a country?

Well, I can definitely guess where this question is coming from.

Honestly, I was pretty excited to get this prompt, because it's one I can answer and was part of my studies focus in college. International business was my thing, and the issues of comparative advantage (along with Power Purchasing Parity) were one of the things I liked to explore.

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At their simplest, tariffs are an import tax. The United States has had tariffs as low as 5%, and at other times as high as 44% on most goods, such as during the Civil War. The purpose of a tariff is in two parts: generating revenue for the government, and protectionism.

Let's first explore how a tariff works. If you want to be confused, then you need to have never taken an economics class, and look at this graph:

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So let's undo that confusion.

The simplest examples are raw or basic materials such as steel, cotton, or wine.

First, without tariffs:

Let us say that Country A and Country B both produce steel, and it is of similar quality, and in both cases cost $100 per unit. Transportation from one country to the other is $50/unit, so you can either buy domestically for $100, or internationally for $150. So you buy domestically.

Now, Country B discovers a new place to mine iron very easily, and so their cost for steel drops to $60/unit due to increased ease of access. Country A can either purchase domestically for $100, or internationally for $110 (incl. shipping), which is much more even. Still, it is more cost-effective to purchase domestically, and so Country A isn't worried.

Transportation technology is improved, dropping the shipping costs to $30/unit. A person from Country A can buy: Domestic: $100 International: $60+$30 = $90 Purchasing steel from Country B is now cheaper than purchasing it from Country A, regardless of where you live.

Citizens in Country A, in order to reduce costs for domestic construction, begin to purchase their steel from Country B. As a result, money flows from Country A to B, and the domestic steel industry in Country A begins to feel the strain as demand dwindles.

In this scenario, with no tariffs, Country A begins to rely on B for their steel, which causes a loss of jobs (steelworkers, miners), loss of infrastructure (closing of mines and factories), and an outflow of funds to another country. As a result, Country A sees itself as losing money to B, while also growing increasingly reliant on their trading partner for the crucial good that is steel. If something happens to drive up the price of B's steel again, like political upheaval or a natural disaster, it will be difficult to quickly ramp up the production of steel in Country A's domestic facilities again.

What if a tariff is introduced early?

Alternately, the dropping of complete costs for purchase of steel from Country B could be counteracted with tariffs. Let's say we do a 25% tariff on that steel. This tariff is placed on the value of the steel, not the end cost, so:

$60 + (0.25 x $60) + $30 = $105/unit

Suddenly, with the implementation of a 25% tariff on steel from Country B, the domestic market is once again competitive. People can still buy from Country B if they would like, but Country A is less worried about the potential impacts to the domestic market.

The above example is done in regards to a mature market that has not yet begun to dwindle. The infrastructure and labor is still present, and is being preemptively protected against possible loss of industry to purchasing abroad.

What happens if the tariff is not implemented until after the market has dwindled?

Let's say that the domestic market was not protected by the tariff until several decades on. Country A's domestic production, in response to increased purchasing from abroad, has dwindled to one third of what it was before the change in pricing incentivized purchase from B. Prices have, for the sake of keeping this example simple, remained at $100(A) and $60(B) in that time. However, transportation has likely become better, so transportation is down to $20, meaning that total cost for steel from B is $80, accelerating the turn from domestic steel to international.

So, what happens if you suddenly implement a tariff on international steel? Shall we say, 40%?

$60 + (0.4 x 60) + 20 = $104

It's more expensive to order from abroad! Wow! Let's purchase domestically instead, because these prices add up!

But the production is only a third of what it used to be, and domestic mines and factories for refining the iron into steel can't keep up. They're scaling, sure, but that takes time. Because demand is suddenly triple of the supply, the cost skyrockets, and so steel in Country A is now $150/unit! The price will hopefully come down eventually, as factories and mines get back in gear, but will the people setting prices let that happen?

So industries that have begun to rely on international steel, which had come to $80/unit prior to the tariff, are facing the sudden impact of a cost increase of at least $25/unit (B with tariff) or the demand-driven price increase of domestic (nearly double the pre-tariff cost of steel from B), which is an increase of at least 30% what they were paying prior to the tariff.

There are possible other aspects here, such as government subsidies to buoy the domestic steel industry until it catches back up, or possibly Country B eating some of the costs so that people still buy from them (selling for $50 instead of $60 to mitigate some of the price hike, and maintain a loyal customer base), but that's not a direct impact of the tariff.

Who pays for tariffs?

Ultimately, this is a tax on a product (as opposed to a tax on profits or capital themselves, which has other effects), which means the majority of the cost is passed on directly to the consume.

As I said, we could see the producers in Country B cut their costs a little bit to maintain a loyal customer base, but depending on their trade relationships with other countries, they are just as likely to stop trading with Country A altogether in order to focus on more profitable markets.

So why do we not put tariffs on everything?

Well... for that, we get into the question of production efficiency, or in this case, comparative advantage.

Let's say we have two small, neighboring countries, C and D, that have negligible transportation costs and similar industries. Both have extensive farmland, and both have a history of growing grapes for wine, and goats for wool. Country C is a little further north than D, so it has more rocky grasses that are good for goats, while D has more fertile plains that are good for growing grapes.

Let's say that they have an equal workforce of 500,000 of people. I'm going to say that 10,000 people working full time for a year is 1 unit of labor. So, Country C and Country D have between the 100 units of labor, and 50 each.

The cost of 1 unit of wool = the cost of 1 unit of wine

Country C, having better land for goats, can produce 4 units of wool for every unit of labor, and 2 units of wine for every unit of labor.

Meanwhile, Country D, having better land for grapes, can produce 2 units of wool per unit of labor, and 4 units of wine per unit of labor.

If they each devote exactly half their workforce to each product, then:

Country C: 100 units of wool, 50 units of wine Country D: 50 units of wool, 100 units of wine

Totaling 150 units of each product.

However, if each devotes all of their workforce to the product they're better at...

Country C: 200 units of wool, no wine Country D: no wool, 200 units of wine

and when they trade with each other, they each end up with 100 units of each product, which is a doubling of what their less-efficient labor would have resulted in!

The real world is obviously much more complicated, but in this example, we can see the pros of outsourcing some of your production to another country to focus on your own specialties.

Extreme examples of this IRL are countries where most of the economy rests on one product, such as middle-eastern petro-states that are now struggling to diversify their economies in order to not get left behind in the transition to green energy, or Taiwan's role as the world's primary producer of semiconductors being its 'silicon shield' against China.

Comparative advantage can be used well, such as our Unnamed Countries (that are definitely not the classic example of England and Portugal, with goats instead of sheep) up in the example. With each economy focusing on its specialty, there is a greater yield of both products, meaning a greater bounty for both countries.

However, should something happen to Country C up there, like an earthquake that kills half the goats, they are suddenly left with barely enough wool to clothe themselves, and nothing for Country D, which now has a surplus of wine and no wool.

So you do have to keep some domestic industry, because Bad Things Can Happen. And if we want to avoid the steel example of a collapse in the given industry, tariffs might be needed.

Are export tariffs a thing?

Yes, but they are much rarer, and can largely be defined as "oh my god, everyone please stop getting rid of this really important resource by selling it to foreigners for a big buck, we are depleting this crucial resource."

So what's the big confusion right now?

Donald Trump has, on a number of occasions, talked about 'making China pay' tariffs on the goods they import into the US. This has led to a belief that is not entirely unreasonable, that China would be the side paying the tariffs.

The view this statement engenders is that a tariff is a bit like paying a rental fee for a seller's table at an event: the producer or merchant pays the host (or landlord or what have you) a fee to sell their product on the premises. This could be a farmer's market, a renaissance faire, a comic book convention, whatever. If you want to sell at the event, you have to pay a fee to get a space to set up your table.

In the eyes of the people who listened to Trump, the tariff is that fee. China is paying the United States for access to the market.

And, technically, that's not entirely wrong. China is thus paying to enter the US market. It's just the money to pay that fee needs to come from somewhere, and like most taxes on goods, that fee comes from the consumer.

So... what now?

Well, a lot of smaller US companies that rely on cheap goods made in China are buying up non-perishables while they can, before the tariffs hit. Long-term, manufacturers in the US that rely on parts and tools manufactured in China are going to feel the squeeze once that frontloaded stock is depleted.

Some companies are large enough to take the hit on their own end, still selling at cheap rates to the consumer, because they can offset those costs with other parts of their empire... at least until smaller competitors are driven out of business, at which point they can start jacking up their prices since there are no options left. You may look at that and think, "huh, isn't that the modus operandi for Walmart and Amazon already?" and yes. It is. We are very much anticipating a 'rich get richer, poor go out of business' situation with these tariffs.

The tariffs will also impact larger companies, including non-US ones like Zara (Spanish) and H&M (Swedish), if they have a huge reliance on Chinese production to supply their huge market in the United States.

If you're interested in the repercussions that people expect from these proposed tariffs on Chinese goods, I'd suggest listening to or watching the November 8th, 2024 episode of Morning Brew Daily (I linked to YouTube, but it's also available on Spotify, Nebula, the Morning Brew website, and other podcast platforms).

[osbazzar]

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