u/LifesARiver

It seems like a great location already set up for food service. What's the deal?

Edit: apparently it is considered part of the mall!

Being good at poker doesn't mean you will make good decisions when it comes to gambling.

It doesn't mean you can't get addicted to gambling.

I love poker, and there's lots of great stuff about it, but getting good at it didn't make me stop all bad decisions in my life, lol.

I think rather than trying to bring back David or reboot Legion, this would be a pretty awesome use of Hawley's storytelling abilities.

What do y'all think of players aggressively betting and building a big pot while seemingly paying more attention to a conversation with someone not in the hand?

OK, so the answer I saw most often in defense of low or no inheritance tax is that capitalism is *not* a meritocracy and was never intended to be so.

That's great! Capitalists did not always acknowledge this, so it's great to hear capitalists and socialists are aligned on capitalism mostly being a birth lottery.

Since we agree capitalism is not a meritocracy, and as such hard work and talent are negligable factors in success, why don't most capitalists support a massively robust social safety net to balance that out? Seems like you are just leaving money on the table, so to speak.

If capitalism is a system that rewards hard work and talent perfectly, why do y'all allow a perversion of this through inherentence? The lack of any relevant inheritance tax seems to overtly remove much of the meritocracy from the system.

Looking for what the title says. I got some great links, but they all suck on mobile. Atlas seems the best for Mobile, but it only lets you sort by day of the week for casinos that use their software.

Seems sus that it happens by accident every single time.

Clearly there should be some sort of penalty, but what? Here are some ideas:

1 round penalty and you still have to post the blinds.

3x bbs to each player at the table who didn't consent to the new setup

Forced dealer tip of $25

Any other thoughts?

IP laws are nothing but government sanctioned monopolies.

IP laws like patents and copyrights are not only a philosophical nightmare (how does one own an idea?), but they stifle innovation more than any factor.

I do think the one IP law with value are Trademarks. You should be confident that you are purchasing something from the company on the label.

Thoughts?

In hindsight, it was probably a bad idea ceding our critical communication infrastructures to capitalism.

The postal service - It was clean, efficient and timely. It blew out of the water all the private courier services out of the water. Then came neoliberal capitalism and the Post Office despite being a public service, as forced to turn a profit. As such, they allowed advertisers to run a amok overwhelming our mailboxes with literal garbage that goes straight to the trash. Then the neoconservative fascists gutted it anyway, despite turning a profit, so it wouldn't turn a profit so the private sector couriers can thrive despite sub par service like UPS, FedEx and others. We used to be excited to get mail, now we dread it.

Telephones - an amazing technology to connect us over massive distances. Fines fees and subscriptions priced massive amounts of the population out of the most basic communication method even today.

News media - once the most major way to get quality information about politics, the world, technological advancement. Now to compete at the top levels of reach you need to either be funded by corporations and billionaires, turn their platforms into ad farms, put their most critical content behind firewalls, or most likely, all 3.

Email - once a cool new quick way to convey a ton of information in an instant. People stayed in each other's lives longer due to the ease of communicating. Now, since we decided not to regulate it, it's so overflowing with advertising and scams, we only check it to verify our passwords.

Cell Phones - it was once illegal to get scam calls on a cell phone due to cost. That went away when incoming calls and texts stop costing the customer money. Now our cell phones are all but useless staying on silent all the time while we duck "Scam Likely" our newest nemesis.

How do we keep falling for this? How is capitalist indoctrination so strong that we let them convince us to not trust our own lying eyes.

My local card room fired all the people who ran the board. Now it's on the floor to run the board.

The change is painfully noticeable.

Rake increase, food cost increase, and layoffs. Not a great formula for the long term health of this place (Ocean's Eleven in Oceanside, CA).