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went to IKEA today to pick up a few items curbside and the parking lot was straight up black friday level packed, so please raise rates 1000bps
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Mar 24, 2024 17:35
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FizFashizzle posted:UK also has a social safety net (tatters of one anyway) compared to the United States where people are going to ruin themselves chasing that high. The sudden change is honestly as much of a problem as anything else. Sports betting in the US has always had an extremely bad reputation, even compared to casino gambling. I've been watching this massive advertising push normalize and de-stigmatize it in a pretty insane way among people who should absolutely know better, and that's ridiculously dangerous when you consider that you have access to this poo poo on your phone. It already feels like sports gambling is approaching a point where it's going to be about as normal as walking into a gas station and buying a lottery ticket.
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Mar 24, 2024 17:36
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I still remember poker being something old people played until I went to college, when suddenly the World Series of Poker went from some ESPN2 off-broadcast to fill time with to some cultural phenomenon. It felt like overnight every guy my age was buying poker chip sets and doing weekly Texas hold'em games when they barely cared about poker and gambling before that. I wanna say it was that movie Rounders that kicked it off but it may have been cashing in on it afterwards, I dunno. Anyway, all that poo poo was, and still is, dumb as hell.
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Mar 24, 2024 17:36
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Popoto posted:living outside the US, all that gambling news seems completely insane to me. it’s like peering into an alternate reality "Not everyone likes freedom as much as we like freedom" - Eric Andre
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Mar 24, 2024 17:37
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I am seriously thankful gambling does nothing for me. The only time I’ve ever done it was back when sketchy websites started popping up. I made like 100 bucks a game betting against the panthers to cover the spread because John Fox felt like a four point lead was insurmountable.
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Mar 24, 2024 17:40
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pnumoman posted:I still remember poker being something old people played until I went to college, when suddenly the World Series of Poker went from some ESPN2 off-broadcast to fill time with to some cultural phenomenon. It felt like overnight every guy my age was buying poker chip sets and doing weekly Texas hold'em games when they barely cared about poker and gambling before that. I wanna say it was that movie Rounders that kicked it off but it may have been cashing in on it afterwards, I dunno. Anyway, all that poo poo was, and still is, dumb as hell. the fact that the guy who came out of nowhere to win that tournment was named "moneymaker" and that the explosion in the popularity of poker from that time is literally called the moneymaker effect is a little too on the nose
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Mar 24, 2024 17:40
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pnumoman posted:I still remember poker being something old people played until I went to college, when suddenly the World Series of Poker went from some ESPN2 off-broadcast to fill time with to some cultural phenomenon. It felt like overnight every guy my age was buying poker chip sets and doing weekly Texas hold'em games when they barely cared about poker and gambling before that. I wanna say it was that movie Rounders that kicked it off but it may have been cashing in on it afterwards, I dunno. Anyway, all that poo poo was, and still is, dumb as hell. Yep. I had a weekly board game night with a pretty large group of friends around this time and two of them suddenly got extremely into poker and started insisting on having a few games whenever we got together. Which was fine up until the point they wanted to play for real money and got immediately told to gently caress off.
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Mar 24, 2024 17:45
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FizFashizzle posted:I am seriously thankful gambling does nothing for me. I bounced off gambling thanks to magic the gathering putting me off that whole concept
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Mar 24, 2024 17:45
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is pepsi ok posted:I keep seeing this kind of sentiment from gamblers. I was a huge sports kid. Playing travel baseball/football/hockey/basketball on 3-4 teams at once. I loved the tactics, the strategy, might of ended up coaching. Drunk in college I gambled on hockey in the olympics. I'd played some poker and had a site w/ prop bets on it. I bet Sweden to win and all sorts of prop bets on Henrik Lundquist to get shutouts. I think I won 6 grand which at the time felt like what I make in a year. My autism was pretty good at picking stuff I had hyperfixed on for years and I knew Henrik was running hot coming into that format where he's even stronger than NHL. Started down the fantasy hole. We rebooted a baseball keeper league 2x and I had to leave. It was "not fun" to participate in for anyone else. I pulled a Jordan and did 6 titles in 8 years. There was an entire sub-rulebook discouraging and punishing my daytrading. Abstractions of WAR/OPS and WHIP/ERA+. Environmental Factors, schedules. My brain was warped and ruined beyond repair by a vast arbitrary competitive landscape. Gambling ruined sports fandom, still fun to play tho.
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Mar 24, 2024 17:52
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This came up in, I think the Marx or Epstein threads, but even the left has internalized the belief that no vices are actually bad, and people should be able to destroy themselves because agency and personal freedom is all that matters.
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Mar 24, 2024 18:03
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Scarabrae posted:went to IKEA today to pick up a few items curbside and the parking lot was straight up black friday level packed, so please raise rates 1000bps I remember when my city got an IKEA and they straight up changed the name of the major road and highway exit it was on to IKEA Way. People love them some flatpack furniture.
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Mar 24, 2024 18:07
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:This came up in, I think the Marx or Epstein threads, but even the left has internalized the belief that no vices are actually bad, and people should be able to destroy themselves because agency and personal freedom is all that matters. We already decided that eating at applebees is worth a million dead americans, so why would we bother banning gambling? Freedom of treats is the first priority and everything else follows.
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Mar 24, 2024 18:08
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mistermojo posted:sometimes I think about using my big brain to make juicy bets or buy juicy stocks but then I snap out of it and realize no thats a stupid idea I made money on some of the free sign up bonuses but that era seems to be over.
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Mar 24, 2024 18:08
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Smoking bans are functionally ignored now with vaping. I see people vaping indoors all the time now.
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Mar 24, 2024 18:08
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Mr Hootington posted:Smoking bans are functionally ignored now with vaping. I see people vaping indoors all the time now. good
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Mar 24, 2024 18:16
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Smythe posted:good I shpuld be allowed to shoot them
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Mar 24, 2024 18:18
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Risk free investment https://twitter.com/TikTokInvestors/status/1771948918131003423?t=8-bj26B5cazXqddkrjl5lA&s=19 Release the documents! https://twitter.com/SenBlumenthal/status/1771270060385968351?t=Wk6SOgQE06XMDm-iQdi8sA&s=19 https://twitter.com/SenBlumenthal/status/1771270086906585093?t=hpXMrZ7t2eAL69eb7nOmmw&s=19
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Mar 24, 2024 18:20
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Release the drat files!!!
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Mar 24, 2024 18:24
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Mr Hootington posted:Risk free investment Farting in a bullhorn towards Blumenthal as a response
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Mar 24, 2024 18:26
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Popoto posted:living outside the US, all that gambling news seems completely insane to me. it’s like peering into an alternate reality Another great.one are all the pharma ads.
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Mar 24, 2024 18:26
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C-Bangin' it 
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Mr Hootington posted:Release the documents! The inscrutable Chinese and their evil, scary pink sauce videos. Shaking in my boots.
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Mar 24, 2024 18:29
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Democrats are getting wiped out like 2004. We're getting all time high's in 2025
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Mar 24, 2024 18:31
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The nukes are going to be launched and for 25 minutes the stock market will climb to ATHs
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Mar 24, 2024 18:32
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Nonsense posted:Democrats are getting wiped out like 2004. We're getting all time high's in 2025
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Mar 24, 2024 18:34
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Mr Hootington posted:The nukes are going to be launched and for 25 minutes the stock market will climb to ATHs mad?
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Mar 24, 2024 18:35
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post of the year 2024 if you get it
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Mar 24, 2024 18:35
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My silly pet theory is that the indoor smoking bans only got through because it made restaurant dining/bars more palatable to people that otherwise wouldn't want to deal the smoke. The idea being that it was ultimately better for business and only incidentally aligned with public health considerations. Very possibly wrong about this. The USDA points out that US food spending has recently been at an all-time inflation adjusted high, and that non-home spending took the lead over the past two decades:  Not sure it supports this hypothesis but that switch seems significant. Mr Hootington posted:The nukes are going to be launched and for 25 minutes the stock market will climb to ATHs
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Mar 24, 2024 18:35
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is pepsi ok posted:I keep seeing this kind of sentiment from gamblers. Anyone who knew people that were into fantasy football could've told you that was the expected result
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Mar 24, 2024 18:39
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People should be casual about gambling the way they are about religion, not dive in and base all life and interaction around it 
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Mar 24, 2024 18:41
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Nocturtle posted:My silly pet theory is that the indoor smoking bans only got through because it made restaurant dining/bars more palatable to people that otherwise wouldn't want to deal the smoke. The idea being that it was ultimately better for business and only incidentally aligned with public health considerations. Very possibly wrong about this. I think it's more that there was a very huge public information push about the dangers of smoking. In the late 90s there was that massive lawsuit where the major tobacco companies had to pay out billions, part of which went to fund the Truth Initiative which started running all those ads about how many people cigarettes kill each day
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Mar 24, 2024 18:42
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Make America Louisiana again
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Mar 24, 2024 18:45
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I was so good at fantasy Starcraft Broodwar proleague. I knew all the underdog players, made thousands of liquibet points off Perfectman (김태균 fighting).
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Mar 24, 2024 18:46
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a_gelatinous_cube posted:I remember when my city got an IKEA and they straight up changed the name of the major road and highway exit it was on to IKEA Way. People love them some flatpack furniture. it's the only affordable furniture and kitchenware though ikea also has some pretty lol instances of shrinkflation + inflation
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Mar 24, 2024 19:37
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is pepsi ok posted:I keep seeing this kind of sentiment from gamblers. not to go full goon but it's a lot like how pay 2 win and lootboxes and poo poo are ruining gaming for a lot of people
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Mar 24, 2024 19:40
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Xaris posted:it's the only affordable furniture and kitchenware they still make decent stuff but ya you really got to have a bit of insider knowledge on what to get these days
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Mar 24, 2024 19:41
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Cold on a Cob posted:not to go full goon but it's a lot like how pay 2 win and lootboxes and poo poo are ruining gaming for a lot of people sports you pretty much just have 1-2 channels owned by like comcast or disney or whatever, and like a handful of monopoly national leagues all slinging draftkings around.
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Mar 24, 2024 19:42
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Hell there is/was a lot stronger pushback against lootboxes than sports gambling and the sports stuff is way more in your face
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Mar 24, 2024 19:45
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Call of duty being pay-2-win won't stop being funny.
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Mar 24, 2024 19:45
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Xaris posted:tbf if you just avoid western AAA and mobile gaming and you just dont deal with that. there's approximately 9999 bazillion great games without any of that. you have to kinda intentionally seek out lootbox garbage i haven't played games in a long time now but i was under the impression the lootbox poo poo had invaded mainstream gaming pretty hard and wasn't just around the mobile poo poo fueled by whales. i'd also heard it's more about aesthetics than pay2win tho with the more mainstream games. anyhow i guess the sports equivalent would be watching pickup basketball at the rec centre instead of nba stuff 
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Mar 24, 2024 19:45
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Fortnite listened to their community and put in Earl the Chicken, but everyone got pissed after they bought and found out the skin was pay-to-lose. It has larger hitboxes.
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