Why do hotel minibars still exist when everyone knows the prices are absurdly inflated?

Here is the dirty secret of the hotel industry: for the vast majority of hotels, the minibar is not a gold mine. It is actually a money pit. Most people assume minibars exist to gouge guests wit…

Top stories for Long   Why do hotel minibars still exist when everyone knows the prices are absurdly inflated? Kevin Miller • Answered January 28 Here is the dirty secret of the hotel industry: for the vast majority of hotels, the minibar is not a gold mine. It is actually a money pit. Most people assume minibars exis... Read more » 3K 151   Why is the "Holdo Maneuver" from The Last Jedi so controversial? Kevin Yue, former Military History Teacher • Updated April 26, 2021 Because the Holdo maneuver is so powerful it literally makes all depicted military techniques obsolete. It upends every single space battle strategy we've seen in any of the... Read more » 1.3K 238   Do marriage counsellors ever tell couples to divorce? Chris Geller, lives in Melbourne, FL (2019-present) • Answered January 30 Mine did. We'd been seeing her for a few months when we got into an argument in front of her. She asked me to come back the next evening, just me. When I did, she told me "... Read more » 2.6K 153   What happens if you eat 50,000 calories in 24 hours? Does most of it become fat? Doug Freyburger, 20 year hobbyist studying low carb metabolism • Answered November 19 "What happens if you eat 50,000 calories in 24 hours? Does most of it become fat?" If you eat one meal that is far outside of your usual, our bodies are not good at absorbin... Read more » 127 12   Why is C faster than C++? Sid Wanderleaf, knows English • Answered February 9 To the extent it is, it's because of classes. More specifically, dynamic polymorphism (any time "virtual" enters the picture). They were great for the 1980s and '90s; but by ... Read more » 144 12   Why were the U.S. troops in Vietnam so thin compared to the US troops nowadays, especially during the Global War on Terror? Jack Riley, former USMC Vietnam, Sq Ldr, 3 PH, Silver Star,CSniper • Answered February 7 I was a Marine Grunt, so I will answer this from another perspective. I was in Marine Corps shape at over 200 pounds when I arrived in July 1966. After joining my infantry ... Read more » 2.2K 150   Why are switches connected to the neutral wire and not to the live wire? Chris Muir, Plumbing and Electrical Pro at Lowe's (2016-present) • Answered February 11 Interesting story: When I was a young boy, my father wired up a light and a switch over the stairs to the basement, but when he tried to switch it on, it promptly tripped t... Read more » 339 54   Can a narcissist realize they lost a real one? If they can, what do they do? HABIT, I've been diagnosed for several years. • Answered February 27, 2025 I'm a diagnosed narcissist. The real kind, with NPD, not the watered-down abuser type that everyone and their mother likes to call your shitty ex because they like to throw... Read more » 919 202   How many galaxies disappear from the observable universe each year due to cosmic expansion? Steve Baker, Senior Software Engineer (2013-present) • Answered February 13 This is one of those wonderful calculations - where you have absolutely no comprehension of how big the answer will be until you crunch the numbers! SO HERE GOES: Space expan... Read more » 759 92   MIT SOLVES ROMAN CONCRETE PUZZLE Alessandro13 • Posted Feb 16, 2025 We may finally have discovered how Roman concrete was so strong. The ancient Romans were among the greatest masters of construction and engineering, with several of their works surviving to this da... Read more » 252 9   If I tap my brakes just enough that my stop lights illuminate to brake check a tailgater and he skids off the road and crashes, am I in any way liable? Amanda Maher, former Many Places • Answered February 28, 2025 My friend was driving and I was a passenger. Speed limit was 45, he was going just a smidge over. A cop came up behind us (no flashing lights) and was riding my friends ass... Read more » 1.1K 211   Will Bill Clinton ever admit he was in the Epstein files? Franklin Veaux, lives in Portland, OR • Answered February 6 My dude, I am in the Epstein files. I'm serious. I'm in document EFTA00700657.pdf in DataSet 9, as a top writer on Quora. Epstein created a Quora account, which means he rece... Read more » 3.9K 607 Read more in your feed

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BREAKING: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers an astonishing eulogy for the end of American dominance thanks to Donald Trump: "This bargain no longer works." It's rare that a world le…

Top stories for Long   Brian Thomson • Posted Jan 20 BREAKING: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers an astonishing eulogy for the end of American dominance thanks to Donald Trump: "This bargain no longer works." It's rare that a world leader s... Read more » 7.6K 927   Are smokers happier people? Feef, studied at Bachelor of Arts Degrees in Journalism • Updated Fri I'm 52 and a life-long smoker. My entire life, the bulk of my social network of close friends, boyfriends, (ex)husband, and live-in partner have been non-smokers. To be more... Read more » 1.3K 114   If the Normandy landings had failed how long would it have taken the Soviet army to conquer western Europe? Thierry Etienne Joseph Rotty, former Central Planning at NATO • Answered January 21 It would not have happened. In 2014 Stalin's private archives were declassified. Had the Normandy Landings failed, the Soviets would have halted at the Vistula River and take... Read more » 2K 152   US doctors have recently admitted that if sugar level is 250, it is normal. Does that mean putting people on insulin is a very large scale scam? Wayne Bottlick, Type 1 diabetic May 1966; biochem student in college & since • Answered July 10, 2025 Q: "US doctors have recently admitted that if sugar level is 250, it is normal. Does that mean putting people on insulin is a very large scale scam?" A: No; no U.S. doctor h... Read more » 354 30   Zapruder Film High Definition (HD) with Close Ups William Whitten, Autodidact Sociopolitical Journalist • Updated Feb 15 After the head shot Jackie Kennedy crawled onto the trunk of the limousine to retreive a piece of skull and brain that fell onto the trunk. It is clear in the Zapruder fi... Read more » 345 128   What is the costliest coding error anyone has ever made? Theodore Smith, Senior Software Engineer at PHP Experts (2012-present) • Answered August 5, 2024 On this day, exactly 12 years ago (9:30 EDT 1 Aug 2012), was the most expensive software bug ever, in both terms of dollars per second and total lost. The company managed t... Read more » 2.2K 126   Do marriage counsellors ever tell couples to divorce? Chris Geller, lives in Melbourne, FL (2019-present) • Answered January 30 Mine did. We'd been seeing her for a few months when we got into an argument in front of her. She asked me to come back the next evening, just me. When I did, she told me "... Read more » 2.4K 144   Why are attractive men so rare? Thomas Cayne, Writer, painter, thinker, madman. • Answered November 4 It is well known that there are much more geniuses among males than among females, but on the other side of spectrum, it is alas also so that there are much more male retar... Read more » 385 130   Rai, studied at Harvard University • Posted Sep 28, 2024 Iranian Officials state that a Group of Officers and Commanders with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRCG), including Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan, the Deputy Commander of Operations... Read more » 3.2K 313   What's a work dress code rule that completely backfired and created more problems than it solved? Sandra Burns, Degree Business Administration & Accounting, Rowan-Cabarrus Community College (2... • Answered January 24 I worked at a Main Office for a professional business. We didn't have walk in clients. So, it was decided that basically we could wear what we wanted. Most wore nice jeans,... Read more » 1.5K 80   At what net worth do people transition from being well-off to truly wealthy? Andrew Diamond, studied at University of Pennsylvania • Answered August 3, 2025 That's a very individual answer. Ask 100 people and get 101 different answers. That said, I think you are: Well-off at a net worth of $2 million plus a paid-off home and paid... Read more » 315 39   China claims that they can detect F-35 aircraft from 1200 miles away. What do you think of that? Franklin Veaux, lives in Portland, OR • Answered February 15, 2025 If you're sufficiently technical, yup, absolutely. You can totally detect that there's an F-35 (or any other kind of stealth aircraft) within 1200 miles of you. So check thi... Read more » 3.3K 167 Read more in your feed

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