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How the Sports Betting Industry Quietly Consumed America(youtu.be)

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Unironically ban all gambling

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CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.net
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lmao literally half my coworkers are on this shit

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Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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Yeah. They spend a lot of money to make it addictive as they can, and people are bad at stats.

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aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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:what-the-hell:

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SoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.net
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When you have a lottery ticket it feels like you have a shot at getting rich and living the good life. For most people who buy lottery tickets the abysmally small chance of winning is actually their best chance of getting rich.

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newerAccountWhoDis [they/them]@hexbear.net
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Reminds me of that posts about an experiment with swimming/drowning rats

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barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.net
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My brain which doesn’t find gambling fun stays winning.

Also yes ban all gambling, if people want to gamble let them gamble with some friends in their homes.

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invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.netM
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Only fun gambling is gambling for who buys the next round or social poker with a $10-$20 buy in

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ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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My hatred of losing money outweighs my enjoyment of gambling. But if you make the cost something like pointless time instead of money, I’ll gamble all day long.

Minecraft enchantments? Just give me a little more exp this next one will be a winner.

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SoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.net
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Once for a company party they had two casino workers come and set up a blackjack and a roulette table. Everyone then got a stack of chips and we played the games for an hour or two. It was great fun but a huge part of the fun was how we were not playing with real money and could just laugh about how nobody had any chips left after two hours.

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pastalicious [he/him, undecided]@hexbear.net
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One of my coworkers is super into sports gambling and another is super into crypto. [Pam no difference dot gif] but at least the gambler isn’t trying to convince me to join him every single day.

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invo_rt [he/him]@hexbear.net
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:same-picture:

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determinism2 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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The crypto gambler has an incentive for others to buy in.

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keepcarrot [she/her]@hexbear.net
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State run gambling facilities to make gambling boring.

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ZoomeristLeninist [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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:side-eye-1: looks at the lottery

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