To wit, you can send a message by adding a “Trump Tariff Tax” instead of changing your base price, just to clearly articulate to the simpletons that thought this would lower costs

Well, your state still decided to guzzle his balls anyway. And seriously? Of all the shit, THIS was the one? Not the LGBT discrimination, the blanket pardon of ALL the J6 traitors, the attempted removal of birthright citizenship, the mass deportation orders…I could go on…but the name of something impacts NO ONE. Sorry, but this is like #999 on the priority list

Apparently not enough to vote for someone else…

Sometimes a simple mistake leads to an act of disobedience that shines a light on the foolishness of the rule in question. This is one of those times. A dress code like this is also a way of gatekeeping players that may not have the means to meet the dress code.

I’m not suggesting they need to scrap the level of decorum entirely, but allowing for modern interpretations of business attire is reasonable.

Also, he offered to correct the faux pas the next day of the tournament, and they refused. The article mentioned they also forced someone to leave to change their shoes - which was also ridiculous. Magnus just has enough clout to stand up to this. I wouldn’t be surprised if they amended the rule.

It’s a bigger blunder for FIDE…they get headlines now that they kicked possibly the current most famous player in chess over a dress code violation that was not in the least distracting to other players.

He didn’t show up in a T-shirt and jeans, he wore a blazer and a collared shirt.

They just look follish for digging their heels in

Well, they stated the reason in the goal. Hence writing a goal?

I’m not a landlord. And you’re just incorrect. This is no stupid questions, but there are plenty of stupid answers. The great recession was caused by homeowners and banks making loans they shouldn’t have with adjustable rates and predatory practices (ever heard of a NINJA loan?) that greatly increased demand for housing, and then the banks created derivatives on derivatives that all went up in smoke when the underlying loans defaulted. This resulted in many people losing their homes, but more broadly financial markets tightened and housing starts plummeted, which is responsible for the housing shortage today. We had like 5-10 years of development well below replacement.

I would also point out that most local zoning laws make multi-use housing like apartments that we lust for in the 15 minute city difficult to build in favor of the single family home. I would argue that is actually the average homeowner’s fault more than a landlord.

“The alternative to landlords is not everything being government housing, but also that’s not an issue if you take away landlords and stop them from having any power…”

What the actual fuck does that mean? Do you hear yourself? The alternative is not the thing I said, but something else that still remains imaginary.

You know housing costs money to build right? So, for that to happen, someone has to invest. There are these institutions called banks, maybe they haven’t made it to lunatic Island where you live, but they charge interest so you can have money today to build or buy rather than waiting years to accumulate that money.

Now that housing is built, the person that built it wants to sell it. Someone buys it and then someone lives in it for a cost. Without government intervention, what is the alternative?

The problem is not OP’s Aunt or even most apartment management companies, but I will give you that Private Equity getting into single family housing is a problem. That should be addressed, and I seriously doubt it will.

If landlords are so evil, would their tenants alternatively buy the apartment where they rent? People rent for many reasons - perhaps they can’t afford to buy , or perhaps they like paying a fixed amount so someone else can fix the house when things break.

Either way it isn’t the landlords fault that many cities have restrictive zoning laws and we are still reeling from missed housing development during the great recession. Demand for housing has well outdated supply and inflation has made the inputs more expensive, thus prices have gone up. More supply will help reduce the rate of increase, but real prices will not decline without another deep recession, and the impact of that would still be temporary.

If landlords are middleman, would you prefer everyone lives in government housing? Explain the alternative in your fantasy land related to housing, not some ridiculous anecdote about charging for air.

I just heard an NPR piece about an organization that helps people get lower rate mortgages spark controversy over requiring members to vote to retain membership. Someone opposed to that said it may be in violation of federal election law because it would deprive people of a rate discount for not voting, which could be seen as paying for votes.

Meanwhile, this is about as blatantly illegal as it could be

Well, if you can’t find anything to confirm your bias, then it is probably wrong. Public Transit often loses money and is owned and operated by government.