It’s a weird phenomenon I encountered as a data engineer inside corporations. Teams wanted to run endless queries off our API instead of using the snapshots we provided. Most of the apps didn’t have a justifiable reason for wanting up to the minute information. 🤷‍♂️

Generally no. One minor example I can think of is 两 and 二 which both mean two and it can be difficult remembering when to use one or the other. But to my knowledge it’s based on the way the number is being used not the item being counted.

For other things, Amazon is just paying a higher price for the goods due to tariffs, but they are not the one paying the tariffs and thus could not be the one to refund them.

The supreme court disagrees with you. Otherwise businesses wouldn’t have the option to seek a tariff refund: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-to-file-for-tariff-refund/

I’m assuming “tankie” is what liberals call leftists?