Mario kart is the first thing mentioned after the Wii itself.
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL over 40 000 people have used the social security number 078 05 1120 in the United States.English
10·1 month agoThere’s only a billion possible nine digit number. There’s no algorithm to them. There might have been some level of regional allocation since my sister and I have the same first 3 digits, but I doubt that’s still a thing. Also TINs issued to corporate entities also draw from that numbering system, so there are significantly less than a billion possible SSNs
There’s about 350 million people in the US.
Just make up a nine digit number that doesn’t start with an 9 (IIRC TINs use the range of numbers starting with 9) and you have a better than 1 in 3 chance of getting it right.

An economy is strong not because there are many dollars of value in it, it is strong because many dollars of value move within it. The movement is the key thing people miss. The fact that there is $100 worth of food in a system means nothing if it never moves from the grocery store to a home, to a hungry person. The rich don’t get rich by moving value, they get rich by hoarding it, weakening the economy. A rich person buying all the food and only giving crumbs to the few workers they need would break the system. When food or fuel were scarce during recent history did we allow single rich families to buy it all? In order to keep the system functioning it was rationed. Why is capital any different?