sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
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sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
6hr ago
I highly recommend reading the article I posted in order to refute this claim rather than demanding evidence without reading the evidence I already provided.
Here's one relevant excerpt.
We're looking at figure D, from the paper interchange income minus reward expenses, graphed against FICO score. And the upshot of this graph is that there is no part of the FICO score spectrum at which issuers continually rebate more rewards to customers than they earn in interchange.
sarker
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10hr ago
That credit cards earn revenue on interest does not imply that rewards are funded from interest payments.
sarker
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11hr ago
The article does not agree with PokerPirate's claim. It quite clearly explains that rewards are financed from interchange fees.
sarker
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13hr ago
This is not how it works.
sarker
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13hr ago
You don't think Double D Geopolitics is reliable?
be me, annoying Israeli tourist
Rules are for good goyim
start a "small campfire" to warm up my gefilte fish
Entire park burns
It's milei's fault for not spending ten trillion dollars to post a guard every twenty feet in los parques nacionales chilenos
(((Milei))) can't put out the fires because he's exported all the glaciers in a deal with (((Mekorot))
Milei cedes the charred hellscape to build the 'Zionist Explorer's Irgun Memorial Lodge'
Hashem's chosen people stay winning.
Is there anything more American than finding something new, civilizing it for the masses, only to lament and resent that the newly civilized space has no place for you? It's the plot of John Wayne's McClintock, where the old cowboy who killed the Indians and built the town regrets that both the daughter of his body and the son of his spirit can't experience pioneering the way he did, and the musical Rent where the hipsters who made the Village cool bitch that New York is cool now and they might have to pay money to live there.
Not really the same thing. It's more like shooting all the bison and wistfully remembering the days of the great bison herds without feeling any personal responsibility.
On a more culture-war and less FFT basis, I can argue there's a difference between what my wife did and the modern scene.
I am a discerning arbitrageur that leverages deep knowledge of the value of clothes with Gucci and Prada labels, you are a casual thrift store flipper, he is a drooling, smartphone scanning, drone NPC bugman.
As part of the above, the level of stuff involved is different. Mrs FiveHour would find the odd piece of Gucci or Prada and buy it for $10 and sell it for $300. Nowadays it's Banana Republic and Abercrombie getting sold at Goodwill for $20-25 and then resold marked up to $30-40.
Ironically, the first thing is obviously way worse. You're okay arbitraging away the opportunity to save 96% but think that arbitraging away the opportunity to save 17% is just going too far.
sarker
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1d ago
the Board doesn't really match American oversight concepts,
A disembodied extradimensional alien hive intelligence doesn't match American oversight concepts? I mean, true, but unless I'm not up to date with what's going on in Finland these days...
FORMER seems too inspired by the formori in form and concept
I assume you mean the Fomori? Maybe in the sense that FORMER is large and the Fomori are giants, but the Fomori are supposed to predate the Tuatha Dé Danann whereas FORMER is an exile. In any case, FORMER looks more like a HL2 strider than an Irish sea giant.
but the lack of air conditioners is not especially plausible
Is... Is the claim here that it's obviously not an American game because they didn't put air vents in the transdimensional liminal space?
the interior is a blend of every brand of brutalism ever, and that's necessarily going to include a lot of non-American influences.
Of course, there's plenty of brutalist American federal buildings. Given that the building itself is essentially an SCP, it seems fitting that it isn't constrained only by American styles or even any extant brutalist style in particular.
I've never stood next to a police officer as other people damaged property, no.
Ah, but that's not what I asked. The question is whether someone can reasonably confuse a broken window for an invitation.
But if that was the case and the officers approved of such conduct, as they did
Approved? Did they give the guy a handshake and $100 for breaking the window?
If you try to go through a window (already the sort of thing more often done by criminals rather than normal people), you're told there's a guy with a gun on the other side, the guy on the other side tells you not to go through the window - seems hard to believe that you thought you were invited to crawl through that window.
Babbitt had been warned not to proceed through the window: one witness recalled that "A number of police and Secret Service were saying 'Get back! Get down! Get out of the way!'; [Babbitt] didn't heed the call."
Personally, I haven't been in a situation where I found myself mistaking a broken window for an invitation to climb through the window and enter. Have you had this happen to you?
sarker
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3d ago
The Babbitt situation involved someone breaking a window and then Babbitt attempting to climb through the window. Breaking and entering is not usually part of nonviolent protest.
sarker
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3d ago
What's un-American about Control?
sarker
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4d ago
Trump:
We are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not, because if we don’t do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland, and we’re not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor... I would like to make a deal the easy way, but if we don’t do it the easy way, we will do it the hard way.
You're right that this doesn't mean Trump is going to invade, in the same way that "plata o plomo" doesn't mean you're going to get the plomo. However, the existence of the plata option doesn't make it not a threat.
sarker
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4d ago
Real talk, is there any quality evidence (e.g. a blinded RCT) in favor of collagen supplementation or even a plausible mechanism given that proteins are not metabolized whole?
sarker
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4d ago
sarker
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4d ago
The feelings of dread could have been an infrasonic effect.
sarker
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7d ago
Is this the antichrist Peter Thiel keeps talking about?
sarker
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8d ago
Important context: the guy only had kids in the first place so he'd have cover for his pursuit of his socially useless crypto business: https://x.com/jmrphy/status/1305527478635630596
This is basically no different from women who delay having kids so they can girlboss at a fake email job. Except that since he doesn't need to actually birth the kid he can work the fake job and have kids at the same time.
sarker
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9d ago
I don't know about exponential but sales in 2024 were much bigger than sales in 2023.
https://www.bts.gov/content/gasoline-hybrid-and-electric-vehicle-sales.com
sarker
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10d ago
"we're going to run the country" implies plans of running it in the future. They may not materialize (this is trump we're talking about) but saying there's no plan to run the country is obviously wrong.
sarker
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10d ago
it doesn't appear likely the US is currently "running" Venezuela and is not planning to run Venezuela
Trump:
We are going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition.
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11d ago
I guess he could put a shirt on first.
sarker
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11d ago
I came across this extremely homo photo of Che and Fidel while trying to find out more about their Rolex habit.
https://blog.eastmanleather.com/photos/default/Young-Fidel-Castro-and-Che-Guevara-Hotel.jpg
Books look real to me, just mirrored.
https://www.amazon.com/Ustasa-Croatian-European-Politics-1929-1945/dp/1892478013
https://www.amazon.com/VERIFIED-Ground-Kosovo-Verification-Mission/dp/B0CP8FZ9SL
https://www.amazon.com/Croatia-Under-Ante-Paveli%C4%87-Croatian/dp/178831087X
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