Until one landlord defects to improve their occupancy rate.

Game theory

Formally, market efficiency makes this impossible without price fixing.

Practically, UBI does result in mild inflation of consumer prices in most models, but it’s because the market changes shape slightly to meet new consumer demand, as opposed to a blanket price increase of everything.

Places are symbolic, often institutions by which the perpetrator feels betrayed, excluded, or neglected: school, community, religion, government, society, etc.

As to why figureheads, authorities, owners/elites, and similarly logical representatives are less common targets, I suspect it’s the same reason why smaller acts of violence often target the innocent: primal dynamics behind the cycle of abuse. The hurt/abused are made to feel weak and associate abuse with strength. Unless the original abuser is perceived as newly vulnerable, a weaker target is then sought, and the abuse is perpetuated rather than reciprocated.

It’s helpful to bear in mind, because the most common forms of perpetuated abuse are subtle enough to go unnoticed by most, including various microaggressions, exclusive body language, backhanded compliments, contrarian and adversarial mannerisms, etc. More noticeable are things like verbal insults or threats, bullying, theft, vandalism, and the like, but these are often treated as isolated behavioral problems. Acts of physical violence are of course most noticeable, but are usually preceded by other signs. Anyway, if you notice someone is hurting, or you are hurt yourself, don’t ignore it. We must look out for each other.

Yes, however

they are in fact just awful hurt people

Some are less familiar with kindness than others.

Do they accept credit cards?

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Well the EU is being more proactive about it than over here in the US. Our regulatory bodies have been hobbled continually for decades, and now I guess we just let these giant corporations do whatever they want.

I’ve noticed people often have completely different answers to the question of who bears the greater responsibility for successful communication (listener or speaker). I’ll add this one to my file.

Hmm, that sounds like slightly non-techsavvy legislation, especially if they haven’t considered the possibility of bad actors

IIRC Epic has been caught several times in the past few years breaking store rules, like sidestepping the platform payment system and misrepresenting data collection attestation. I don’t think it’s anti-competitive to decline to sign a vendor’s apps. I mean, I like Epic’s developer platform, but it sounds like their lawyers are high if they think EU courts will force another company to do business with them, especially if management has been intentionally abusing the system.

Soapbox: You there! Are you tired of getting sand kicked in your face? I ask you: why does the US have public debt without public equity?

Public funding, subsidy, stimulus, and infrastructural spending should purchase public equity that can only be bought back from the public via surplus taxes. We don’t have to call it socialism. It can be capitalism proper. But it’s the people’s capital and labor being lent, interest-free. They should expect a return. Fair is fair.

It’s simpler and stronger than labor unions. There’s no collective bargaining for temporary compensation, no dues, no pickets, no fuss. The pension is paid from the start by public endowment as a matter of course, eliminating the underlying financial insecurity employers exploit. The free market is more free when poverty can’t dictate your fee.

And besides securing the future for so many people, it would change the way citizens see themselves and the world around them, the stake they have in their governance and economy, and would certainly reframe public discourse.

1. National healthcare is clearly overdue vertical integration that would curtail inefficiencies and improve outcomes.
2. Entitlements like UBI could then be ordinary financial vehicles, annuities of the ever-expanding public trust.
3. National debt would become leverage for a better future rather than a burdensome inheritance.
4. Conservative rhetoric would sound hopelessly plebeian against an owner-proletariat. Whining about unfair government handouts has no place where everyone is granted the same share of public dividends.
5. Many large private interests that have historically gobbled up public funds would quickly see the public become majority shareholders, effectively nationalizing many industries that should have been long ago. In particular, many nonprofits would coalesce into the bonafide public works they should have been all along.
6. It even allows the good intent of inheritance without compounding generational inequality, and your safety net is not contingent upon means testing or number of years working. Were you just born? Welcome. You’re covered.

Public equity unlocks the logical, humane, and sustainable version of capitalism in which every worker is vested and shares both the means of production and the value they produce.

This one. It might feel huge at first but that world is small. Your paths will likely cross again.

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IANAMD but might indicate capillary damage and thus some chance to displace follicle with scar tissue.

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Agree with others but would add “pump cover,” especially if it looks like they’ve been at it a while.

Lifters often wear a hoodie or an oversized shirt for their warmup sets. Once their muscles look slightly bigger (pumped) due to increased tone and circulation, off goes the pump cover.

This grand reveal is usually for the benefit of other lifters in the vicinity and isn’t necessarily sexual in nature.

Edit: not judging anyone. I do it too.

Ah understood

Isn’t it an electron app?