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Well if they have a monopoly then someone should tell Diners Club, Discover and UnionPay to pack up shop and go home.

How is it a duopoly?

>The insane price of frames comes from a monopoly by Luxottica, which owns most of the retail outlets in malls in the US.

How is owning most of the retail outlets in malls a monopoly?

>I guess if that was true, Mensa would have a lot more members.

Being in Mensa doesn't really "get" you anything, so there's little incentive to train for an IQ test in the same way there are to use the same amount of time to train for other more materially valuable things, like a license or a skill.

Even if you have a number that they would accept you for, that doesn't even mean you would want to be in a back-patting social group.

im not surprised.

every (out of 10 or so) brit ive met overseas and had a good chat with out over the last 3 years of being an expat has been a neurotic and/or belligerent asshole whereas most of the americans (out of 20) were able to communicate and assimilate with the local culture.

its become such a pattern that i wont even speak english to a person with a british accent anymore. quite a few of them are just looking for physical fights. so strange.

and thats the end of my n=30 overseas brits and americans anecdote.