I mean, probably dont want to hear this but if all of your hobbies are complete sausage fests but you want to meet women organically you should try out some hobbies that women are more likely to do. Dancing classes, cooking classes, improv comedy groups, yoga, certain adult sports leagues etc. Once you have a few women friends it becomes much easier to meet more and most women would love to set up their friemds if they think you're cool.
Yeah and that's the risk you're supposed to take on when you invest in property to rent. The things you mentioned went up max 8% in my area but the rent increase was closer to double that. It's greed, plain and simple. Landlords raise rent because they can.
I like curbside in theory but I've been burned enough times with either items being out of stock or weird ass/ more expensive substitutions makes it feel not worth that hassle
all of that blood is on the hands of the Israeli apartheid regime
Huh? How do you figure that? Isreal has done a ton of fucked things but that doesn't excuse massacring civilians. If you want support in fighting your oppressors you don't go around committing war crimes of your own. Both sides suck here.
Because AZ represents almost 40% of the ecommerce market, because no other company is as horizontally and vertically integrated, because no other company has the same stranglehold on third party sellers. I'm not defending the practices of other retailers; that isn't what this lawsuit is about. It's the practices COMBINED with the unique position that AZ holds where they control so, soooooo much more than any other retailer. Honestly AZ is like textbook monopolistic and if you still can't see how that's a bad thing I can't really help you any more.
Remember that AZ takes a percentage cut of each sale and is also able to ship cheaper than basically anyone because of their position in the market. So imagine you have a product, and in order to make a profit from said product you have to charge $x. But in order to profit after Amazon's fees you have to charge $x + $y on Amazon's platform. So that's where the "prices too high" cones from. If your product does well on amazon they'll make their own version and sell it for less than $x. Now you get less sales on AZ and you can't go back to selling on your own site because you can't compete with your higher shipping costs, plus AZ can run at a loss on the product they copied from you until you're out of business.. This is where the "prices too low" comes from; the price AZ can offer is too low for you to compete with. After you go out of business, AZ can charge whatever they want. So you see "prices too high" again.
When you start selling a new product you take on risk because there might not be a sustainable market for it. AZ never has to take this risk, but they can reap the rewards from your risk if it does well.
Unless it's changed, I'm pretty sure you do have to pay extra for amazon to store items. It's not a lot, but when i dabbled in selling on az using them to store and ship had an extra fee involved.
If they cared only about true ownership yea. But GoG doesn't have every game Steam has. If they had the same selection i could easily see more people switching. I and I'm sure many others use both.
and the version locked exclusives in each generation are day 1 dlc
I can see how it would be seen this way, but imo the intention from the beginning wasn't that people would buy both/all three versions per generation, it was to encourage people to trade with each other. Which absolutely worked when it came out. It was a totally new idea that definitely helped sell more people on the games, because they could connect with friends and trade or battle, with later gens adding even more features for when you connected.
I could see making the dlc argument these days, but at this point you could also argue it's just out of tradition.
How do you keep the pants dry