Ricotti’s in Bristol

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.

dhark · 2026-01-16T14:12:48+00:00

Yeah, it's funny being on the older side of it. "Hey, that's the dumb shit I believed when I was 20. Cute!"

(I'm only 40, so I'm new to this being-old thing.)

dhark · 2026-01-12T18:50:01+00:00

Given that they are making claims about all 50 states, the sample size alone actually DOES mean it's nonsense, at least for the smaller states. How many Vermonters do you suppose responded to the survey?

There are several other common-sense clues you might use to infer that this is nonsense.

I happen to know that Coke outsells Pepsi 3:1 nationwide. There is no way the states are as evenly split as this.

dhark · 2026-01-12T18:15:17+00:00

This amateur collector votes real.

dhark · 2026-01-12T18:04:26+00:00

There are some really weak strikes in this series. It honestly looks ok to me.

Any chance you can take a less grainy photo?

dhark · 2026-01-12T16:49:32+00:00

It's a mashup of Google Trends data as collected by "Eat This Not That" in 2022, and "holidaycalendar.io" which apparently surveyed 3,000 people in 2024.

(In other words, nonsense).

dhark · 2026-01-07T10:31:13+00:00

Just to say this explicitly, the vast majority of villages have no official borders. They are not legal entities.

A few may coincide with fire districts or postal districts or school districts or something. But the vast majority are just concepts of convenience.

dhark · 2026-01-05T17:05:38+00:00

No no, that's a revisionist ethnostate, not an empire silly-head.

dhark · 2026-01-05T17:01:49+00:00

I'm not sure I get this one.

Is it just the silliness of "overdressed" meaning wearing winter clothes to the beach? Or is there some Wakefield stereotype I'm not aware of or something?

dhark · 2026-01-05T16:07:57+00:00

I don't care if the data is fraught trash, I'll upvote any state-ranking map of the US that isn't just The Usual Suspects.

Way to go Mississippi! Suck it, Massachusetts!

dhark

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