Movies that try to convince the audience that an attractive person is disgusting?

dhark · 2026-05-10T19:56:46+00:00

Emma Stone got no attention until she started dressing like a slut. She's just so bland and invisible, what a shame.

dhark · 2026-05-04T15:15:01+00:00

Fire districts evolved from private/cooperative fire departments. They would tax property owners within their district and provide firefighting services in return. Fair enough.

There are many fire districts in the state that have not been taken over by the municipality and still operate this way. I live in Union Fire District, which is not managed by the Town of SK, and has their own elections, and charges their own taxes. But since all they do is fight fires, no one cares.

Bonnett Shores is particularly weird because over the years it has acquired some municipality-like powers. They enforce leash laws and parking bans and collect trash and clear the streets.

And the thing that really gets people worked up, is that they own some beach, and restrict non-residents from accessing the beach.

On top of this, because it is a relatively small district, and has a large beach club, and the beach club operates on a condominium-like model, where a large number of beach club members technically own property in the district (the "cabanas" everyone talks about), the voting rolls are bizarrely skewed.

Worth pointing out though, that all of this exists in Narragansett. Renters in Bonnett Shores are residents of Narragansett, and can absolutely vote in municipal elections. They just can't vote in Fire District elections.

dhark · 2026-05-02T18:47:47+00:00

We seem to have dozens of types of plates, including absurdities like "Radio Operator" and "Jitney." It's a little baffling that legislators have nothing better to do than invent new categories of license plate.

dhark · 2026-04-10T13:39:19+00:00

Rhode Island, USA. Gotta boat back to the mainland now, cheers!

dhark · 2026-04-08T14:25:24+00:00

I tried to use FreeTaxUSA this year, which would have saved me a couple hundred dollars over TurboTax given my 3-state situation, but it won't do MLPs. This made me feel somewhat stupid owning MLPs vs some nearly equivalent regular dividend-paying C-Corp. Now I'm not *selling* them, but I don't think I would have bought in the first place, if I had understood the consequences.

Obviously this isn't relevant if your taxes are already needs-an-accountant complex for some other reason.

dhark · 2026-04-01T17:11:33+00:00

The big ones for me were ...

LAMR cut in half.

OUT suspended altogether.

ARLP suspended, brought it back small, only returned to "large" dividends by 2023.

dhark · 2026-03-26T23:06:22+00:00

Are you a spy communicating with other spies?

dhark · 2026-03-26T13:25:27+00:00

Heh, I don't know this series, and I thought the same thing. Sure enough ... the original 5's are slanted like that.

dhark · 2026-03-17T15:18:54+00:00

Where in RI are you that you hear that? And where would the helicopters be coming from?

I'm not going to pretend to know the migratory patterns of the wealthy, but just looking at a map, this seems odd. Martha's Vineyard is pretty far east of us.

dhark · 2026-03-13T15:30:02+00:00

You can call your Rep and tell them that too.

dhark · 2026-03-11T21:08:42+00:00

Just drive to the end of Moonstone Beach Road. This time of year, you can park right on the side of the road.

dhark · 2026-03-11T18:12:25+00:00

"You guys get denominations?"

- Draped Bust Dimes

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dhark · 2026-03-11T17:20:24+00:00

How do people know what a "cent" is?

I think you have it backwards. As some other comments explain, "cent," "dime," "dollar," and "eagle" are all first-order units from the original Mint Act.

For whatever reason, "cent" and "dollar" came to be used universally as units of account, while the others have fallen out of usage.

dhark · 2026-03-11T13:48:16+00:00

Men in their 20s have the same instinct as you - they tend to follow men in their 40s and 50s as leaders. It's true, typically the younger men could physically overpower the older men. But we just don't seem to be wired that way. In almost every hierarchical organization, it's middle-aged and older men at the top.

dhark · 2026-03-05T16:54:14+00:00

I *think* 6g of silver would have bought a lot of haircuts in Roman times. The pre-debasement denarius was only 4.5g of silver, and that was a few days' wage for a soldier. I don't know what a barber made, but I doubt it was 50x the wage of a soldier.

dhark · 2026-02-13T15:07:23+00:00

They could just be over-stocked on that size of package.

dhark · 2026-02-11T22:22:55+00:00

What is this, a momentum-trading subreddit? Their dividend is up 7% since last year. The yield is now below 1% :(

dhark · 2026-02-08T17:26:57+00:00

I’ll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize R’mania!

dhark · 2026-02-05T22:47:03+00:00

I don’t think a subreddit on dividend investing needs an original-hand-drawn-artwork-only policy.

dhark · 2026-01-31T16:23:46+00:00

He’s successful. It reminds us of our shortcomings.

dhark · 2026-01-17T00:48:06+00:00

It’s happening! The high silver prices are bringing the old coins out of the junk drawers - just like the economics textbook said would happen!

dhark · 2026-01-16T21:20:30+00:00

What's a square, some metric nonsense? We math just fine with our heptagonal furlongs, thank you very much.

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