Toner is cheaper if you have a laser black only, lots of pages per refill.
At work I’ve installed 10 color inkjet epson L6460 printers 2-3 years ago and most of them I still haven’t refilled.
They come with 2 bottles of black ink and one of everything else, last forever, will print after 4 months unused if you do a print head cleaning (a few times in a row) and the Epson brand bottles are 8 - 12 bucks each.
For home use a cheaper Ecotank would probably serve you just as well.
Germany sold some submarines to Greece that were leaning over on one side out the factory
If you want a specific variety of a plant that’s patented by, say, Monsanto, you don’t own the seeds you get but rather their permission to plant them.
If you re-plant seeds in your own field produced by the crops of the previous year on that same field they can sue you and they will win (see Bowman v. Monsanto Co.)
Iran “attacking its neighbors” is one way to phrase the fact they are hitting back towards US bases they are being attacked from and also towards Israel which itself has attacked basically every country it has borders with and several that it hasn’t.
US is not by any means as authoritarian as China.
To achieve that, the US would need a government that controls mass media, kills people just for protesting, disappearing enemies of the government in remote prison camps with no oversight or accountability, have mass surveillance everywhere, make books illegal, demonstrably suppress all ethnic minorities, threaten religious leaders for speaking ill of the government…
All run by a hardline government that has a strongman leader that people respect and a cabinet full of loyalists with competence in the task they’re assigned.
Once the US achieves that last bit, THEN they’ll be as authoritarian as China.