So your assumption is that “lots of people are rich from making art”, and not “many people trying to do art professionally have that opportunity due to their generational wealth”?

Another side is that you’re also bound to their agreement. If the law firm was too soft on them, tough luck.

In an ideal world, we’d have government agencies prosecuting illegal stuff (and putting huge fines back into the economy) instead of hoping that private law firms will do a class action, but oh well.

Is the odometer not recorded when having yearly inspections? Or do people cheat it before those as well?

There’s normally two different fees when doing a card payment: the interchange fee (Visa, Mastercard, and the couple others), and the processing fee (Square, Stripe, PayPal, whatever).

Nowadays, interchange fees are capped to like 0.3% in the EU, but this wasn’t always the case. And for non-EU, the interchange fees are usually much higher.

So even if both a store and their payment processor is EU-based, Visa/MC is still giving at least 0.3% of your payment sum.

It also draws attention and could make you a target. Like, I disdain the whole “what do you have to hide” fallacy, but that’s the impression that’d be broadcast to anyone who sees your place on streetview if you were to blur it out.

I think the lack of profile-wide “karma” is one benefit, so there’s not as much incentive to farm imaginary internet points and such with the same old zingers. Who knows, but hopefully not.

How many of those thousands are actual good comments though? Last time I was there, I swear the majority of comments were from bots reposting the same comments that were in previous threads. It felt peak dead-internet.

The defense alliance is doing patrol missions, well within their own airspace. And when Russian pilots “get lost” and violate our airspace, is that also NATO’s fault? What’s the problem?