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Not_mikey

@ Not_mikey @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society

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  • Both your replies seem very light on arguments and refutations and heavy on name calling, so i don't think intellectual honesty is something you're a good judge of.

  • Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society

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  • sports being trivial and that the whole thing is irrelevant anyway

    Do you know what betting is? The point is to turn the trivial and irrelevant into high stakes and relevant. Flipping a coin is trivial, but if you bet $100,000 that it will be heads, then that coin flip matters a lot more.

    I didn't say porn was bad, I was just using it as an example of something kids aren't allowed to do but obviously do anyway. I don't give a fuck if children watch porn, that's actually trivial because most of the time they aren't losing anything and they arent being bombarded with ads for it everywhere they go.

    I stand by what I said about 18-25 year old, especially for young men they're judgement on risk is horrible and having billion dollar companies exploiting that is wrong. I'm not arguing for Banning it, just for the companies to stop the predatory behavior and ads. In general I think we need to ban all ads for addictive substances / behaviors as it harms those with addictive tendencies.

  • Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society

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  • children two steps removed

    The main market for these apps are 18-25 year olds who are losing a lot of money on it, and like porn I doubt they're just starting at 18. Even if they are i still consider them kids as there brains haven't fully developed yet.

    Even the younger children are being bombarded with ads for them whenever they watch a game. Watch any American sports game and you'll see that every other commercial, and every square inch of the screen that's not the game is for sports betting. Children are very vulnerable to advertising.

  • Gov. Newsom threatens to withhold billions from California colleges that sign Trump's 'compact'

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  • Is there any evidence it stood on two feet? Figured it would look more like a gorilla then this.

  • YouTube will start using AI to guess your age.

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  • I assume they already did this for advertising purposes, just like every other platform trying to guess your demographics to sell you more useless shit.

  • AOC Reportedly Gearing Up for Big 2028 Campaign

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  • the vice presidency isn't worth a bucket of warm piss

    John Nance garner, former vice president to FDR (before truman)

  • Las Vegas tourism decline leaves casino workers struggling to find shifts

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  • The only thing that'll improve attendance in Sacramento is if they put a giant shade over the stadium. No one wants to sit in 100 degree Sacramento heat to watch a team lose.

  • Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show

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  • the flying "car" in question. Just seems like a quadcopter to me, but I guess that's why I'm not in marketing.

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene Issues Warning About Jews Taking Over ‘Christian Patriotic Turning Point USA’

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  • The quote in question in reference to AIPAC:

    Do not allow a foreign country, foreign agents, and another religion tell you about Charlie Kirk. And I hope a foreign country and foreign agents and another religion does not take over Christian Patriotic Turning Point USA.

    You were so close MTG , if you just dropped the Christian nationalist shit I'd agree with you. I guess this is the best you're gonna get on the right, though, and most of the other right wingers are supporting Israel for other Christian anti-semetic reasons, so lesser of two evils, I guess

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene Issues Warning About Jews Taking Over ‘Christian Patriotic Turning Point USA’

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  • She's referring to AIPAC. She seems to think Charlie was opening up to allowing other perspectives on the issue of Palestine besides unequivocally supporting Israel before he was shot. Now she's afraid they will take control of tp usa and shut down any debate on the issue.

  • “China keeps the algorithm”: Critics attack Trump’s TikTok deal

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  • IMO, the algorithm is overhyped, and the secret to tik toks success is its scale. If you gave metas algorithm the same amount of data to train on and the same amount of content to recommend, it would be equally as addictive. It might suck at first but give it a couple months and people won't be able to tell the difference between the old algorithm and whatever oracle creates.

    It's just like chatgpt, given the same set of public data any company with sufficient engineering and compute resources can make there own model that performs very similarly.

    In an ideal world we'd have algorithmic choice, like in bluesky sort of, and we could actually compare different ones, but that would cut into the profits of the data monoplies.

  • MTG warns Epstein clients she’ll ‘say every damn name’ on House floor as she tells sex abuse victims, ‘Give me a list’

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  • Twice, she's surprisingly pro-palestine and a lot better then most dems on calling it a genocide and for an arms embargo to israel.

    Horrible on almost everything else though...

  • There are two types of users

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  • I don't think daily usage necessitates addiction. In my opinion addiction is continually use despite negative repercussions because of fear of withdrawal / not being able to operate without it.

    Like I have sugary coffee almost every day but I wouldn't say I'm addicted because I'm not experiencing any negative consequences from it. If I were gaining weight or having heart problems and still kept to it then I'd say that's an addiction.

    Same with pot, some people can use it every day without suffering many consequences. If your gaining weight from the munchies, or getting a smokers cough, or becoming antisocial etc. and still use it, that's when it becomes problematic.

  • Flexing meme

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  • No joke this is how I got my girlfriend of 5 years, had on my tinder bio:

    i can solve a rubiks cube in under 60 seconds

    ....

    if for some reason you haven't already swiped right here's some other stuff

  • What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?

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  • Lately it's been the waymos (driverless cars) in San Francisco, assume it's the same in the other couple cities there going. They've been going a couple years now so they've been normalized for locals but every so often I see people taking pictures of them or waving there hands in front of them trying to fuck with them.

  • How would you propose we actually combat climate change?

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  • How would you propose we actually combat climate change?

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  • That 80% may care, especially since climate change will hit them the hardest, but there's a lot less they can do to lower emmisions. Ask them to:

    • stop flying
    • stop driving
    • stop buying cheap plastic clothes, toys etc.
    • eat less meat
    • don't use as much AC

    They'll just reply OK, already doing all that...

    The richest 10% globally (~$50,000) account for half of carbon emmisions while the poorest half only account for 10%. The problem isn't that the top 20% are the only ones who care, the problem is there lifestyle is disproportionately causing this.

  • How would you propose we actually combat climate change?

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  • Decentralization in general is less efficient and therefore requires more resources. For example small scale farming has less yield per acre compared to large scale farming, thus you have to use more acres to produce the same yield leading to more environmental destruction. Or with the small local workshops, each of those workshops will require a vast array of machines and tools to handle every situation, some that may be rarely used if at all, so you need to produce thousands of copies of these tools for every shop that may not be used, using more resources, as opposed to having to only create one copy for a central repair facility.

    The cost, including the environmental cost, of transport rarely exceeds the gains in efficiency from centralization. Working at an office for a computer job is the exception as theres very little gain. But working from home in a job where you cant send your work over a wire to the next worker would obviously lose a lot of efficiency from work from home.

    We don't want to spread people out, the more spread out they are the longer it will take to get places and the more likely they will use a car. We need people in dense centralized places because that's where we get these efficiencies of scale. Public transportation becomes better with density, distribution of goods becomes easier, heating and cooling large complexes is more efficient than individual homes.