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Columbia valley and Rioja, bitches. California wine is overpriced.
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Oct 14, 2017 01:42
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Bad? I thought a lot of state run lotteries put their profits into education funding. I guess it's a success story then? 
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Oct 14, 2017 01:44
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MRC48B posted:Bad? I thought a lot of state run lotteries put their profits into education funding. They do but poor people are buying the majority of lottery tickets so it's basically using escapism to tax people who can least afford it. After working at a liquor store for three years I am strongly against the lottery existing. Like I guess it's good that the money goes to schools and whatnot instead of a billionaire's pocket but the same thing could be achieved by just taxing rich people more and preventing idiots with no job from buying $20 of scratch tickets every day. my kinda ape fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Oct 14, 2017 |
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Oct 14, 2017 01:47
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I suppose I'd swim swam to the Zim zam
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Oct 14, 2017 01:47
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The effort
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Oct 14, 2017 01:53
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I guess I'd throw logs at directly at them.
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Oct 14, 2017 02:05
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CommieGIR posted:Guess what else Millenials are killing? I can hear my coworkers sprinting to the nearest 7-11 to buy an armload of tickets to show those snowflakes what for
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Oct 14, 2017 02:07
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Trump met with the president of the Virgin Islands today. I assume they had a thoughtful and engaging dialogue. http://www.newsweek.com/trump-doesnt-know-hes-president-us-virgin-islands-684308
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Oct 14, 2017 02:11
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the only good thing about trump sucking so bad is that nobody argues politics on fb anymore. all the trump supporters stopped posting a long time ago.
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Oct 14, 2017 02:12
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my kinda ape posted:They do but poor people are buying the majority of lottery tickets so it's basically using escapism to tax people who can least afford it. i worked a gas station counter for a while during college every morning there would be a crowd of olds storming in to spend what they had on scratch offs. They’d take their winnings, buy more tickets, and repeated until they were out of cash for the day we had to make a rule that customers werent allowed to scratch then in store because they eould take up all the counter space all morning. so instead they shuffle in one at a time, buy what they can, then shuffle back out to their cars and repeat. its poo poo, get rid of it
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Oct 14, 2017 02:12
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MRC48B posted:Bad? I thought a lot of state run lotteries put their profits into education funding. To add to what My Kinda Ape said regarding the taxes, when that money goes to public schooling usually that means an equal amount of the state's public school budget gets redirected to something else, so public schools effectively get no change in budget regardless of how much the lottery brings in. Or at least, that's how the lovely states get away with it while saying it supports public schools. The lottery effectively places a higher tax burden on whoever plays it while allowing some private entities (the retailers, the printing companies for the tickets, etc.) to take a slice too.
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:i worked a gas station counter for a while during college its a tax on the poor and stupid people. when i worked a similar job, i'd see the same people 5 days/wk at the same time blowing $20-$40 at a time on tickets and scratchers. Manyorcas posted:To add to what My Kinda Ape said regarding the taxes, when that money goes to public schooling usually that means an equal amount of the state's public school budget gets redirected to something else, so public schools effectively get no change in budget regardless of how much the lottery brings in. Or at least, that's how the lovely states get away with it while saying it supports public schools. casinos in non-traditional states seem to work the same way. its sold to people as supplementing the schools budget but ends up being all there is to it.
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Oct 14, 2017 02:14
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MRC48B posted:Bad? I thought a lot of state run lotteries put their profits into education funding. iirc some paper in Texas did an investigation into the lottery which stated back in the 1990s that it'd pay for education and in the end some trivial amount actually went to education. its basically a tax on people who are bad at math and in need of education.
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Oct 14, 2017 02:15
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vains posted:the only good thing about trump sucking so bad is that nobody argues politics on fb anymore. all the trump supporters stopped posting a long time ago. No they haven't. They just unfriended you. Almost a Win, except that they still suck the orange wang and Trump is still breaking things daily.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:iirc some paper in Texas did an investigation into the lottery which stated back in the 1990s that it'd pay for education and in the end some trivial amount actually went to education. its basically a tax on people who are bad at math and in need of education. Its a poor person tax.
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Oct 14, 2017 02:21
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CommieGIR posted:Its a poor person tax. 
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Oct 14, 2017 02:28
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What happened before state lotteries was organized crime running numbers rackets. Lesser of two evils IMO.
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vains posted:the only good thing about trump sucking so bad is that nobody argues politics on fb anymore. all the trump supporters stopped posting a long time ago. If only. You clearly don't have many 18-year E-6 idiots and crusty retirees on your friends list. It's nothing but Ben Shapiro and discredited propaganda websites, all the time.
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Oct 14, 2017 02:38
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I only play the lotto if its over half a billion then I'll spend like $10 on tickets.
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Oct 14, 2017 02:43
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Yeah, 500mn is enough for me to say gently caress it, I'll give it a try.
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Oct 14, 2017 02:45
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vains posted:the only good thing about trump sucking so bad is that nobody argues politics on fb anymore. all the trump supporters stopped posting a long time ago. Why argue when you’ve won and are in power?
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Oct 14, 2017 02:49
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Oh come on, this one's obvious. Save Trump, and then throw him back in and hold him down yourself.
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Oct 14, 2017 02:54
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I buy one ticket if It's over $500m. At that point, reward outweighs the math that my dumb ape brain isn't good at anyway.
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Oct 14, 2017 02:59
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Zeroisanumber posted:I buy one ticket if It's over $500m. At that point, reward outweighs the math that my dumb ape brain isn't good at anyway. Same deal with me. Plus its fun to think about the "what if" when there is a (incredibly small) chance of winning.
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Oct 14, 2017 03:07
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I buy scratch offs when I'm drunk. Otherwise I gamble on the stock market outlasting whatever nuclear armageddon we're heading for.
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ASAPI posted:Same deal with me. Plus its fun to think about the "what if" when there is a (incredibly small) chance of winning. Yeah, I'll spend a buck for a few minutes of daydreaming if it breaks like 300 mil
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Oct 14, 2017 03:14
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NUKES CURE NORKS posted:I only play the lotto if its over half a billion then I'll spend like $10 on tickets. I had a business professor go over the lottery and the take away was once the pay out crossed a certain number (I thought it was around 350 million), assuming you had the spare change to buy a ticket, you could potentially earn a lifestyle changing amount of money for a few dollars. But you have to play those few bucks to be eligible.
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Zeroisanumber posted:I buy one ticket if It's over $500m. At that point, reward outweighs the math that my dumb ape brain isn't good at anyway. If you buy 100 tickets your chances of winning increase by 10000000%s
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Donald Trump Tells Hate Group They Will No Longer Be Silenced Donald Trump has become the first president to address the conference of a recognised anti-LGBT hate group. Trump addressed the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit – classed as a “hate group” – as he told the crowds their anti-LGBT views would “no longer be silenced”.
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Oct 14, 2017 04:04
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Ireland's gonna have some poo poo weather in a few days. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCDAT2+shtml/140233.shtml
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LostCosmonaut posted:Ireland's gonna have some poo poo weather in a few days. RIP again Irish shellfish farms if this hits. They already got wiped out a few years back from another storm and have barely recovered since
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tastefully arranged labia posted:God bless that old pervert Seriously.
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Oct 14, 2017 04:34
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Wait, Hustler still exists? How?
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:i worked a gas station counter for a while during college I worked at a gas station and saw a lot of people win a lot of $100-200 scratch off prizes. I never saw one leave with cash.
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Xenoborg posted:I'm amazed the most the longest any "senior American officer" has spent in Afghanistan is only 5.5 years. That's actually intentional. They don't want officers pigeonholed, particularly in that level. Nicholson spent a bunch of time at NATO.
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imagine winning the powerball at $1bn, and then finding out 4 other dopes also won. you only get to keep 1/5 of the big check.
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vains posted:imagine winning the powerball at $1bn, and then finding out 4 other dopes also won. you only get to keep 1/5 of the big check. That's why you always take the randomized computer pick, any system you might devise for choosing your numbers will have surely been duplicated. Won't be more likely to win but will be less likely to split the pot if you do. I would love to see a histogram of all numbers played on all tickets for a single drawing. Expect heavy overrepresentation of 1-12, less but still much on 13-31
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