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by mint5 5mo ago
Water tax is different in many ways, and a bad comparison. Also that water tax phrasing is bizarre, like saying people in famine areas are being silly for refusing to buy food on the moral principle of high cost. Ignoring the other flaws wi
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by mint5 5mo ago
That makes a ton of sense except one killer flaw - literally killer. People will put off buying new tires to dangerous extents. Yes Some people already do that, but adding any meaningful fee/tax on new tires will most certainly lead t
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by mint5 5mo ago
They talked about Iran giving up its HEU, i.e. basically returning its uranium stocks to the Obama deal days when Iran agreed to even get rid of its modest quantity of medium enriched uranium. Why are people so literal these days? The poste
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by mint5 5mo ago
I don’t think it’s a win, I said that in the context of the comment above. Note the question mark
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by mint5 5mo ago
Except oil prices are predicted to remain over $100 for at least the rest of this year. It’s not a short term thing.
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by mint5 5mo ago
You do realize food and fuel didn’t just rise 1% on an annual basis? Right?
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by mint5 5mo ago
Umm okay so many other aspects of the cpi respond slower and this is a recent shock… Food and fuel are more sensitive and respond first. There’s been no time for the effects to really get into the others. And Food and fuel having huge jumps
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by mint5 5mo ago
So a win will be returning to Obama’s Iran deal? And the reason no one brings up Ukraine is because we used more interceptors in three days than were sent to Ukraine in the entire 4+ years of war. It’s a complaint that doesn’t make sense un
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by mint5 5mo ago
“ For the US, the only pain is inflation” That is not correct and the comment you replied to even pointed out several ways it hurt the US other than that Inflation is the only Immediate pain. The other harms will play out over years. While
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by mint5 5mo ago
“It’s clear that Polymarket and Kalshi host these markets to serve bettors, not to produce useful information. Take Kalshi’s “Best AIs this week?” markets, which not only cover too short a time period to be useful in any decision.” Yeah the
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by mint5 5mo ago
Yes my comment was a bit of a knee jerk reaction to seeing a statement, but take a pause and consider what caused it. It shouldn’t be surprising that a call for shrinking government after the doge fiasco raises counter examples, especially
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by mint5 5mo ago
I too pine for the days when we could easily have fun by lighting the rivers on fire to pass the time.
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by mint5 5mo ago
If gambling wasn’t about the money then it wouldn’t be centered around money.
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by mint5 5mo ago
Southwest was very different and I personally preferred it. But Now it’s undifferentiated itself. I have no reason to prefer it anymore other than if it’s the best on route and price. After all, it’s undifferentiated now.
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by mint5 5mo ago
“ If you and I flip a coin for $100, there's no scam.” statistically over a time with a fair coin, they’re coming out even. Add in the house taking a cut each time, now everyone but the house is guaranteed to lose. Sounds like a scam t
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by mint5 5mo ago
No no no, the outcome revealed new information as the market intends! That info is that people had discounted the rare weather event “a 10% chance of localized hairdryers” on the day in question. The bettor predicted this better than everyo
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by mint5 5mo ago
It’s a scam when the house takes $1 from that $100 each time. These unlicensed internet gambling halls most certainly take their cut, whatever that amount is.
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by mint5 5mo ago
Why are you narrowly focusing on gluten intolerance when this line of comments appears to be denying whether gut biome is worth caring about due to having impacts on health?
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by mint5 5mo ago
“I don’t understand it well enough in my opinion so we shouldn’t care about it”? I’m pretty sure there’s hundreds of things we rightly understood are detrimental centuries before we knew how it worked. Aka pretty much everything bad before
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by mint5 6mo ago
But why does everything need to be sweet? Most things don’t need sweetened and shouldn’t be sweet. Of the things that do benefit from sweeteners, they always need like 1/5 the level added. Americans have been trained to love saccharine
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by mint5 6mo ago
And Ideally not connected to company WiFi
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by mint5 6mo ago
Info available to everyone? Yeah nope. That’s like saying the moon is cheese with a straight face. All anyone knows is that some bloke put money down an hour before the bet resolves. They don’t know squat about what info those betters have.
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by mint5 6mo ago
Ah yes historical events, the famously reliable predictor of future events until they aren’t.
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by mint5 6mo ago
“indicator that there is insider information.” But that’s not the claim people bandy about on the gambling markets. They claim it incentives sharing of info, but what you’re saying is it’s only sharing meta info. That the info remains secre
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by mint5 6mo ago
Please Explain how a last minute insider info bet helps the public in any way or fashion aside from fleecing fools of their money?
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by mint5 6mo ago
How does making a wager cause insider info to be public? All it means is an anonymous account placed money on the outcome, how does it make public anything that an insider knows? It doesn’t. It incentives them to keep the info secret in ord
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by mint5 6mo ago
Wrong. While I agree about younger people’s impression and experience with apps and the internet, that is not what companies are responding to - in fact it’s backward. Companies have for ages pushed apps due to more control and data. That’s
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by mint5 7mo ago
No one here is saying this is China fault, they’re saying the current situation is on par for how the USA, China and Russia treat the world. In this thread the only reason people have brought up Chinese issues are because the strong defensi
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by mint5 7mo ago
Are you claiming Harris or Biden would have bombed Iran like this? That does not sound credible, but if the other party wouldn’t have attached Iran then this is not business as usual, it’s the GOP as usual.
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by mint5 7mo ago
>“Think about it. If someone actually bombed or invaded the continental US you'd have woke libs cheering for Donald Trump” I think this is a scenario Steven miller fantasizes about while playing with action figures but that’s the cl

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