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• JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not sure when gambling became legal & so ubiquitous, but I miss the days when gambling was illegal & could only be done underground. Gambling was illegal because it’s addictive & destructive.

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  • boraginoru@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Gambling seems to me like one of the most destructive addictions out there. If you have money you can pretty much consume as much drugs as you want and still have money. Gambling is the one addiction that scales with your income and can leave pretty much anyone homeless no matter where you start from. It’s terrible

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  • alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When The House is also The White House, they can do as they please.

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  • Mulligrubs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When you make gambling illegal, you create a mafia or it’s equivalent, over and over and over again, no exceptions.

    The mafia is even MORE destructive than gambling alone for many detailed reasons.

    Creating black markets is always a mistake, one that has been re-learned many times.

    Not to mention, throwing people in dungeons for gambling is counterproductive, morally bankrupt, and flat-out evil

    Addictions abound, everywhere. It’s part of being human and that’s okay

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• nightlily@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The most risk I ever take with my money is an indexed investment fund and even that feels a bit much at the moment.

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• alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Honestly idk if I have the gene, but I do have anxiety and that seems to be enough.

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• redsand@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was going to ask if you were Australian. Be sure to post this on your local instance

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• Jaimesmith@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Me blocking ads like Neo and they still keep spawning 😭

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• Impractical_Island@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I feel a simlar way in that when the police are always taking it in itself, watching, seeting me up, and so I have to walk through the minefield exploding below when I walk pass the middle school I live here next to on everyday. Soneyime multiple time a day. It such!

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, that’s how it feels to have a pi-hole with expansive blocklists and a wireguard VPN so I can access the pi-hole ad blocking from my phone wherever I am. I never see ads, even on my phone. uBlock and other browser based adblockers are great for computers, they’re less effective for phones whereas network adblocking like Pi-holes are super effective on phones.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not saying pi hole isn’t great, but ublock origin works pretty well on Firefox on phone

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