For any finincial anything always do a round trip with a $10 too see if it's possible.

Yup, this has been going on since the very early days of online casinos. A buddy of mine get screwed out of a few thousand playing one of those Caribbean poker sites because the Caribbean "bank" which handles the deposits didn't participate in the US banking system, and he'd checked a box which certified that he was a citizen of St Lucia or something. Whoops.

Have you seen who's making the laws?

I remember a time when Gambling was poison to professional sports. I'm not talking about office fantasy teams, or small bets between friends. I'm talking capital G Gambling. Professional Gambling run by businesses and gaming commissions. Professional sports tried very hard to distance themselves from gambling, so much so that Vegas didn't have professional sports teams. Now there's a ribbon on the screen showing Gambling stats the whole game. It's ridiculous.

Now I know we can't put the genie back into the bottle. Gambling apps are here and they're not going anywhere. We can stop the ubiquitous ads. We've done this before with cigarettes. It wouldn't be hard. Take down the ads, stop showing betting lines during the game, remove any mention of it. Cause right now it really looks like professional sports and gambling are joined at the hip and before too long American professional sports will be more about gambling than the game. Which lets face it, professional sports are about being a profitable business first and a sports team second. We've just completely forgotten about the game to make another quick buck.

Hahahaha yeah I’m there with you on the Beat Bobby Flay. I end up watching that or like Storage Wars, occasionally I’ll catch Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. But mostly it’s a lot of shit I wouldn’t have wanted to watch back when cable was the standard.

And my viewing habits have just changed so much that even if something is on that I would watch, I already have access to it elsewhere so I’d rather not watch it on cable.

The high seas are peaceful and serene. Yar.

Sorry, I can't read your comment because ozempic blinded me

Why?

That's the perfect reply.

Bingo

So the 24 hour and 90 day periods are different? Maybe it's because of the LLM but they're presented as the same thing.

One tactic on social media is to delete as much as you can, change all your profile data so it's bogus, and retroactively revise as much of your comment history so that it's meaningless, such as NSA haikus.

That way the account may not be closed, but it's toxic. It will poison algorithm analyis, your consumer profile and AI scraping.

The Escapist refused to let me close my account in the early 2010s. So I did this.

fair enough...

they should 100% be put in jail for this

I'm uncovering my calves... Ooo hot, right?

Spend $5 now to get 10 spins on the lucky wheel, and you just might win a tease!

well, most donors also own the press so i guess this ain't happening at large.

Jesus - that comms so dead I didn’t think it actually existed…

Ahem, it's your freedom to be ripped off!

I wonder how MAGA would frame this? "Unlike in Socialist Europe, our successful companies are free from the oppressive, anti-business protection racket their citizens have to deal with"

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