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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 ch…

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…

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 gambli…

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 s…

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…

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 wage…

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.or…

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 els…

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 rebuil…

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 littl…

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 suddenl…

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 scandal…

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 plausabl…

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 c…

This title really needs a (2010) added.. the question/answer is from 15 years 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 mu…

The alternative, letting the deficit grow while continuing to cut taxes, hasn't worked out either though

Its amazing to me how many people find the thought of societal collapse more palatable than raising taxes on corporations and capital gains.

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 pla…

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…

"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 c…

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.