I recently figured out buying a pack of gum at the closest grocery store and using cash-back at the register is actually a cheaper way to get cash than the ATM outside the store charging $3 for a withdrawal. I dare…
Thats my point, the law has not caught up to new forms of gambling. The fact its legal to bet on whether another human being will live or die is not due to society condoning it. It's because when laws against such…
Just because gambling in general is legal doesn't mean every possible gambling event is legal. If someone got caught hosting a dog fight, they don't get off the hook because gambling is legal. I can't think of a single…
You realize that without the door it would be even more obvious whether the stall is occupied?
I agree completely, the game would get boring if things didn't constantly change. It was more-so the way they'd go about it, not the general sales strategy. Perhaps I should have said overpowered, typically they'd…
I used to play warhammer when I was younger and am honestly astounded gamesworkshop is still in business let alone one of Britain's biggest companies. At least in the 00s and 2010s, they were the epitome of a greedy…
When Biden tried to forgive everyone's student debt, the supreme court ruled it exceeded his constitutional power. So how on earth could the government legally garnish peoples wages for private debt?
Trump has been very open in his admiration of Andrew Jackson and emulating him. Its no mystry what would happen to the Greenlanders if Trump took Greenland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears
Imagine how much better things would be if we did have that discussion. Lets not make the same mistake twice
We had the capability to capture Iraq and Afghanistan too. Occupying a territory is the actual hard point. For one, Greenland is in the middle of nowhere compared to everywhere else the US has to keep eyes on, whereas…
I don't think you can capture a >800k square mile island in the same way you can kidnap a dictator.
Wouldn't they just burn down again?.. if this were any other properties besides high-priced real estate, people would be up in arms at the thought of government prioritizing rebuilding homes in wildfire zones.
Thank you for this comment! I am not a resident of California, I just read the news and the complaints I hear from people who do live there tend to sync up. I still have very little sympathy for the calls to outrage but…
So apparently the mass homeless crisis, forest fires, mismanaged water rights, declining schools, healthcare being taken away... all of that was just background noise until suddenly the state has crossed a line…
A while back there was some investigative report on a private intelligence agency based in India that revealed a lot of dirty laundry on an international scale. Nothing too scandalous but it shone a light on a company…
I believe their currency is under the direct control of the politicians/clerics running the country, and the government doesn't seem too concerned with the country. So its plausable they could be bribed to change…
I think drinking is declining for the same reason as dancing... any situation involving relaxing in a social way has gone from "what do the people around me think of me?" to "how could someone make what I'm doing look…
This is a strong argument in favor of hardware-based verification. Just force everything in the app store to verify whether a iphone is "child-locked" in some way. Also makes it much harder to bypass by users. And of…
The alternative, letting the deficit grow while continuing to cut taxes, hasn't worked out either though
My first reaction was almost "what else is new" but truth is that republicans and the left have mostly been in agreement about stopping politicians using insider information to play the market. This kind of thing only…
I'm struggling to find an academic source to provide any level of detail beyond confirming this basic fact, but Germany and Britain's economic ties before WW1 were actually not too different. They were rivals but also…
"Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below middle-school level increased nearly thirtyfold, reaching roughly one in eight members of the entering cohort." How is this even possible? Its…
America becoming a surveillance state means China has won. If not in terms of global power, then certainly in terms of their ideology vs ours.
I have a hunch California is going to a more competitive state next election cycle than people are assuming. Several democrats I know there are absolutely open to voting independent/republican and the tech industry…
Fascinating! It seems very far fetched to think this could lead to an ecosystem change, since deserts are very large and can't be covered in solar panels, and even a small layer of topsoil takes hundreds of years to…
I recently figured out buying a pack of gum at the closest grocery store and using cash-back at the register is actually a cheaper way to get cash than the ATM outside the store charging $3 for a withdrawal. I dare…
Thats my point, the law has not caught up to new forms of gambling. The fact its legal to bet on whether another human being will live or die is not due to society condoning it. It's because when laws against such…
Just because gambling in general is legal doesn't mean every possible gambling event is legal. If someone got caught hosting a dog fight, they don't get off the hook because gambling is legal. I can't think of a single…
You realize that without the door it would be even more obvious whether the stall is occupied?
I agree completely, the game would get boring if things didn't constantly change. It was more-so the way they'd go about it, not the general sales strategy. Perhaps I should have said overpowered, typically they'd…
I used to play warhammer when I was younger and am honestly astounded gamesworkshop is still in business let alone one of Britain's biggest companies. At least in the 00s and 2010s, they were the epitome of a greedy…
When Biden tried to forgive everyone's student debt, the supreme court ruled it exceeded his constitutional power. So how on earth could the government legally garnish peoples wages for private debt?
Trump has been very open in his admiration of Andrew Jackson and emulating him. Its no mystry what would happen to the Greenlanders if Trump took Greenland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears
Imagine how much better things would be if we did have that discussion. Lets not make the same mistake twice
We had the capability to capture Iraq and Afghanistan too. Occupying a territory is the actual hard point. For one, Greenland is in the middle of nowhere compared to everywhere else the US has to keep eyes on, whereas…
I don't think you can capture a >800k square mile island in the same way you can kidnap a dictator.
Wouldn't they just burn down again?.. if this were any other properties besides high-priced real estate, people would be up in arms at the thought of government prioritizing rebuilding homes in wildfire zones.
Thank you for this comment! I am not a resident of California, I just read the news and the complaints I hear from people who do live there tend to sync up. I still have very little sympathy for the calls to outrage but…
So apparently the mass homeless crisis, forest fires, mismanaged water rights, declining schools, healthcare being taken away... all of that was just background noise until suddenly the state has crossed a line…
A while back there was some investigative report on a private intelligence agency based in India that revealed a lot of dirty laundry on an international scale. Nothing too scandalous but it shone a light on a company…
I believe their currency is under the direct control of the politicians/clerics running the country, and the government doesn't seem too concerned with the country. So its plausable they could be bribed to change…
I think drinking is declining for the same reason as dancing... any situation involving relaxing in a social way has gone from "what do the people around me think of me?" to "how could someone make what I'm doing look…
This is a strong argument in favor of hardware-based verification. Just force everything in the app store to verify whether a iphone is "child-locked" in some way. Also makes it much harder to bypass by users. And of…
The alternative, letting the deficit grow while continuing to cut taxes, hasn't worked out either though
My first reaction was almost "what else is new" but truth is that republicans and the left have mostly been in agreement about stopping politicians using insider information to play the market. This kind of thing only…
I'm struggling to find an academic source to provide any level of detail beyond confirming this basic fact, but Germany and Britain's economic ties before WW1 were actually not too different. They were rivals but also…
"Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below middle-school level increased nearly thirtyfold, reaching roughly one in eight members of the entering cohort." How is this even possible? Its…
America becoming a surveillance state means China has won. If not in terms of global power, then certainly in terms of their ideology vs ours.
I have a hunch California is going to a more competitive state next election cycle than people are assuming. Several democrats I know there are absolutely open to voting independent/republican and the tech industry…
Fascinating! It seems very far fetched to think this could lead to an ecosystem change, since deserts are very large and can't be covered in solar panels, and even a small layer of topsoil takes hundreds of years to…