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You are not allowed to just enjoy things anymore, all things must be monetized. The major sports leagues did not locate a franchise in Vegas for decades because they didn't want to present the appearance of impropriety, and it took less than a decade to knock all that poo poo down. Sports radio this year around here used to be wall to wall coverage of baseball spring training, now it's two hour long gambling prospectus shows advising you to lay a bet now on the 2024 Super Bowl winner (Dallas is 13 to 1!).
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Mar 20, 2024 14:52
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Beached Whale posted:We're going to leave so many people with crippling gambling addictions once this is all said and done. Half the screen is going to be stupid prop bets with insane odds that trigger the 10% of people predisposed to compulsive betting to throw money away into the skinner box until they're out homeless on the streets. I'm sure they've got services on the backend analyzing which bets are the most profitable and presenting them to users so they continue to lose money. I know other people in this thread have talked about legalizzed gambling turning them off of sports and I have to agree that it's getting beyond ridiculous at this point, just sheer naked capitalism exploiting peoples addictions in such a gross way. YouTube TV just made it so you can watch four games at once to replicate that sweaty anxious gambling pit feeling in your living room
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Mar 20, 2024 14:55
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selec posted:YouTube TV just made it so you can watch four games at once to replicate that sweaty anxious gambling pit feeling in your living room "yes hello i'd like to sign up for the Uncut Gems package"
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Mar 20, 2024 14:55
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The mob asking for a bailout as the corporate gambling parlors put them out of business
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Mar 20, 2024 14:57
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The NBA is already the fakest league. Gotta be so easy for refs to make bank on the side managing games.
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Mar 20, 2024 14:58
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:"yes hello i'd like to sign up for the Uncut Gems package" my buddy (who shares his YTV acct with me) signed up for it and im pissed it only works for games. I want to watch four episodes of Law and Order at once, to see if I can make the parlay
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Mar 20, 2024 14:58
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This is on all day every day and they do their best to make it look like one of those MSNBC financial shows 
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Mar 20, 2024 15:00
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Thank God I don't give a poo poo about professional sports or the people betting on them.
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Mar 20, 2024 15:07
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Thank God I don't give a poo poo about professional sports or the people betting on them. all of the kids who watch sports as a pastime are now being conditioned to think the only way to enjoy them is to put money on the game, and that objectively sucks for them and for society
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Mar 20, 2024 15:09
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Thank God I don't give a poo poo about professional sports or the people betting on them.
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Mar 20, 2024 15:09
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Orvin posted:At what point will this cause professional sports to implode? I know there is still plenty of premium consumer left, but at some point the small market teams will have to start falling away, right? Eventually it will just be like 4 or 8 big market “Harlem Globetrotters” and maybe a handful of Washington Generals left floating around on life support. I think the number one lesson of the 21st C is that nothing ever implodes, just gets shittier and shittier
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Mar 20, 2024 15:10
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mawarannahr posted:they're all chuds Yup. They should be killed
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Mar 20, 2024 15:10
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really loving cool that I'm getting spam calls for work on my personal cell phone now.
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Mar 20, 2024 15:12
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:all of the kids who watch sports as a pastime are now being conditioned to think the only way to enjoy them is to put money on the game, and that objectively sucks for them and for society mawarannahr posted:they're all chuds
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Mar 20, 2024 15:16
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mawarannahr posted:they're all chuds The word you are looking for is mark, they're all marks. Pepe Silvia Browne posted:all of the kids who watch sports as a pastime are now being conditioned to think the only way to enjoy them is to put money on the game, and that objectively sucks for them and for society Hopefully they learn their lesson and stop caring about sports. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Mar 20, 2024 15:16
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:The word you are looking for is mark, they're all marks. Nerd.
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Mar 20, 2024 15:18
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:The word you are looking for is mark, they're all marks. 
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Mar 20, 2024 15:20
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:it seems like within my lifetime all pretense of wanting to have a career that helps people or the world or does anything useful has been completely dropped. I think that the Healthcare Worker worship that was dropped as soon as it became inconvenient during Covid was the last straw. Now everything seems to very openly be about Maximizing Passive Income. Not working is actually good. Let your money work for you. Become a Parasite. Only suckers do real work. im starting to think we entered some new kind of stage in capitalism. a late stage in its inevitable progression if you will. maybe we could write a book about it together and generate a passive income stream
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Mar 20, 2024 15:21
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In Training posted:Nerd. They don't like me either because I called them marks for playing magic the gathering and Pokemon as a stand in for sports. It turns out you can call everyone a mark for participating in capitalism, but ironically they must participate in it to survive. Hello my name is Mark
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Mar 20, 2024 15:21
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Xaris posted:Ublock Origin Use Ghostery too
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Mar 20, 2024 15:23
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Chad Sexington posted:The NBA is already the fakest league. Gotta be so easy for refs to make bank on the side managing games. I stopped giving a poo poo, partly because the Sixers are bad and their window is closed (assuming it was ever really open to begin with) and because the whole league is super corrupt
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Mar 20, 2024 15:27
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:The word you are looking for is mark, they're all marks. it's actually called "sporpsball" get it right next time
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Mar 20, 2024 15:28
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the nba will stop being corrupt when the guy who ruined it retires for good, his son sucks and that grift ends with daddy.
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Mar 20, 2024 15:29
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Enjoying this half hour this morning https://m.soundcloud.com/thesocialistprogram/new-us-threats-against-russia
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Mar 20, 2024 15:34
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:They don't like me either because I called them marks for playing magic the gathering and Pokemon as a stand in for sports. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLhoDB-ORLQ
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Mar 20, 2024 15:40
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Nonsense posted:the nba will stop being corrupt when the guy who ruined it retires for good, his son sucks and that grift ends with daddy. ..LeBron James??!
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Mar 20, 2024 15:45
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mawarannahr posted:free money for Conputer Boeing Intel spun off their fabs (who the gently caress knows why they did this but it means they're making chips for whoever now) and this looks like it's funding for the fab portion specifically. Not terrible, I guess. And they're even building something somewhere sensible instead of in a desert.
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Mar 20, 2024 15:48
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 Tag yourself; I'm "retire at 55".
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Mar 20, 2024 16:06
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https://x.com/PiQSuite/status/1770433116781330843?s=20 First United now Ryanair
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Mar 20, 2024 16:07
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ryanair is still ok with taking 737MAX deliveries, even late, he's really just traveling there to request they put a coinop door on the lav
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Mar 20, 2024 16:08
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selec posted:YouTube TV just made it so you can watch four games at once to replicate that sweaty anxious gambling pit feeling in your living room this helps ensure I never loving listen to a single commercial
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Mar 20, 2024 16:20
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Precambrian Video Games posted:
Seems reasonable if you're going to die on time at 65
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Mar 20, 2024 16:22
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webcams for christ posted:btw people today were exchanging BTC for $8k to $12k worth of Tether. very normal and stable asset that's a flashcrash the exchanges do periodically to liquidate trading positions and transfer assets from their
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Mar 20, 2024 16:31
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Beached Whale posted:We're going to leave so many people with crippling gambling addictions once this is all said and done. Half the screen is going to be stupid prop bets with insane odds that trigger the 10% of people predisposed to compulsive betting to throw money away into the skinner box until they're out homeless on the streets. I'm sure they've got services on the backend analyzing which bets are the most profitable and presenting them to users so they continue to lose money. I know other people in this thread have talked about legalizzed gambling turning them off of sports and I have to agree that it's getting beyond ridiculous at this point, just sheer naked capitalism exploiting peoples addictions in such a gross way. This is so loving bad. Like, it's really loving bad. I'm losing my mind because of how blatantly bad this is and it's just, like, completely fine and nobody cares.
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Mar 20, 2024 16:31
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they’ll make alcohol illegal again before they make sports betting illegal
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Mar 20, 2024 16:32
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it’s going to come out that the games are fixed and there will be some noises for a couple weeks and everyone will just carryon as normal by next season
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Mar 20, 2024 16:35
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Paradoxish posted:This is so loving bad. Like, it's really loving bad. I'm losing my mind because of how blatantly bad this is and it's just, like, completely fine and nobody cares. Dred Scott, Citizens United, Gambling
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Mar 20, 2024 16:35
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Dredd Scott was rectified with 800,000 Americans dead. Citizens United is easily the worst in history
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Mar 20, 2024 16:36
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triple sulk posted:top five all time worst scotus ruling It’s insane that we’re combining “no such thing as society” with a libertine perspective on vice, without a social safety net.
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Mar 20, 2024 16:41
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post hole digger posted:the analytics boom is a direct and significant contributor to the current sports gambling boom, so if anything its a huge net negative for the average fan. it might help dave tepper save a few million bucks though so its impossible to say if its bad or not. My favorite discovery about sports betting is if you win they can just say "whoops, those odds were obviously an error" and not pay out in most states, lol. weirdly they never seem to do that when people lose.
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Mar 20, 2024 16:43
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