MentatOnMelange

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by MentatOnMelange 1mo ago
https://www.kitco.com/news/article/2025-02-11/unseen-forces-... A year ago the opposite was being reported on. No clue of the relative numbers, but its telling none of the stories about this are providing the
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by MentatOnMelange 3mo ago
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 anyone to tell me with a
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by MentatOnMelange 6mo ago
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 barbaric practices we
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by MentatOnMelange 6mo ago
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 reason
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by MentatOnMelange 7mo ago
You realize that without the door it would be even more obvious whether the stall is occupied?
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by MentatOnMelange 9mo ago
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 intentional
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by MentatOnMelange 9mo ago
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 corporation squeezi
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by MentatOnMelange 9mo ago
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?
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by MentatOnMelange 9mo ago
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
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by MentatOnMelange 9mo ago
Imagine how much better things would be if we did have that discussion. Lets not make the same mistake twice
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by MentatOnMelange 9mo ago
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 its in the back yard o
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by MentatOnMelange 9mo ago
I don't think you can capture a >800k square mile island in the same way you can kidnap a dictator.
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by MentatOnMelange 9mo ago
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.
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by MentatOnMelange 9mo ago
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 thats a much more re
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by MentatOnMelange 9mo ago
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 expecting fair returns for pe
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by MentatOnMelange 9mo ago
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 that wanted to stay in
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by MentatOnMelange 9mo ago
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 monetary policy.
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by MentatOnMelange 9mo ago
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 st
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by MentatOnMelange 9mo ago
This title really needs a (2010) added.. the question/answer is from 15 years ago
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by MentatOnMelange 10mo ago
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 course no ris
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by MentatOnMelange 10mo ago
The alternative, letting the deficit grow while continuing to cut taxes, hasn't worked out either though
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by MentatOnMelange 10mo ago
Its amazing to me how many people find the thought of societal collapse more palatable than raising taxes on corporations and capital gains.
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by MentatOnMelange 11mo ago
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 becomes the
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by MentatOnMelange 11mo ago
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 major tradin
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by MentatOnMelange 11mo ago
"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 insane to m
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by MentatOnMelange 11mo ago
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.
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by MentatOnMelange 11mo ago
The supreme court sets the ethical tone for the entire judiciary, since they're the final say in court rulings and usually (not always) highly respected jurists. In terms of a code of ethics, this survey is like jaywalking while there&
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by MentatOnMelange 11mo ago
People are able to take out loans using their stock as collateral. Why sell when you can borrow against them for tax-free hard cash?
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by MentatOnMelange 11mo ago
As a native english speaker, personally I have zero problem with this change. If the Turkish government was actually demanding other languages change the name that'd be weird, but its a request not a demand.
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by MentatOnMelange 11mo ago
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 (from the outside) a

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