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njbill wrote: ↑Fri Feb 10, 2023 12:57 pm When the gambling sites are giving away money the way tobacco companies give away cigarettes to children in Africa, you have to think something is fishy.

Gambling is like alcohol. If you gamble responsibly, and in moderation, it’s OK. But given the huge amount of advertising and all the free giveaways, I have to think a lot of people out there are losing money. Money they probably can’t afford to lose.

PizzaSnake wrote: ↑Fri Feb 10, 2023 4:34 pm

njbill wrote: ↑Fri Feb 10, 2023 12:57 pm When the gambling sites are giving away money the way tobacco companies give away cigarettes to children in Africa, you have to think something is fishy.

Gambling is like alcohol. If you gamble responsibly, and in moderation, it’s OK. But given the huge amount of advertising and all the free giveaways, I have to think a lot of people out there are losing money. Money they probably can’t afford to lose.

Time will tell. They are, after all, businesses.

The Southland Corporation, aka 7-Eleven, has made a nice business out of vices: alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, gambling and sugar. So, hey, it’s a good business model — for them.

njbill wrote: ↑Fri Feb 10, 2023 12:57 pm When the gambling sites are giving away money the way tobacco companies give away cigarettes to children in Africa, you have to think something is fishy.

Gambling is like alcohol. If you gamble responsibly, and in moderation, it’s OK. But given the huge amount of advertising and all the free giveaways, I have to think a lot of people out there are losing money. Money they probably can’t afford to lose.

njbill wrote: ↑Sun Feb 12, 2023 3:54 pm Putting aside the wisdom of legalized gambling and the concomitant Big Brother issues, I am sick and tired of all the advertising by the gambling sites. Almost as bad as campaign ads.

I also hate that all the sports talk shows (radio and TV) spend so much time on the odds, the lines, the props. I couldn't give a rat's ass about whether some receiver gets more than X yards. Stick to analyzing the game.

Rant off.

njbill wrote: ↑Sun Feb 12, 2023 3:54 pm Putting aside the wisdom of legalized gambling and the concomitant Big Brother issues, I am sick and tired of all the advertising by the gambling sites. Almost as bad as campaign ads.

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sun May 07, 2023 11:39 am We made the decision to limit/eliminate tobacco advertising.
We decided to dramatically increase taxes.
Public health costs reduced dramatically.

We should limit alcohol advertising.
We have not yet made the decision to dramatically increase taxes.
Public health costs continue.

We should limit gambling advertising.
We have not yet made the decision to dramatically increase taxes.
Public health costs growing fast.

Freedom isn't free.

NattyBohChamps04 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 12:25 am

njbill wrote: ↑Sun Feb 12, 2023 3:54 pm Putting aside the wisdom of legalized gambling and the concomitant Big Brother issues, I am sick and tired of all the advertising by the gambling sites. Almost as bad as campaign ads.

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Glaten wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 9:24 am

PizzaSnake wrote: ↑Fri Feb 10, 2023 11:52 am "Sports bettors are predominantly male, surveys show. They are mostly under 45. Some are wealthy, but a Rutgers study found that half of sports gamblers earn less than $50,000 a year. Some hail from a distinct subpopulation of Americans who get a thrill from risking money on the Next Big Thing.

“You can kind of draw a through line from the people who were involved in the poker boom in the early 2000s to the daily fantasy thing in the 2010s and then to the crypto thing,” Barbarisi said. "

Under 45. Gambling away their family's future?

https://thehill.com/finance/3851713-spo ... opioid-cri

'Nower suspects most Americans remain naive about gambling’s ills, much as society once cheerily embraced smoking and drinking. “We are where cigarettes were in the 1940s and alcohol was in the 1950s,” she said.

Most Americans ignored the opioid crisis, a staggering increase in overdose deaths in the 1990s and 2000s, until the government and news media processed the data and tendered a response.

With sports betting, “you have the exact same players you had with opioids,” Fong said. “You have government. You have industry. You have civilians, a lot of whom will benefit from this. And then you have a population who will develop an addiction, let’s say 1, 1.5 percent of the population.” '

Most Americans are dumb as a box of rocks. Want some data? Take a look around you and observe their behavior and commentary.

Good day. Personally, I have a rather negative attitude towards sports betting, so I had such an unpleasant experience with it. Instead, a year ago I started studying the topic of cryptocurrency.

Since then I started trading on Binance. My main bet is on Bitcoin and Ethereum. as well as the Dogecoin coin. So far everything is going quite well and I have some results.

Also, from the beginning of trading, I created for myself crypto wallet for business. Cryptocurrency is many times more convenient to use than traditional currencies, because such payments are safer, they can be made all over the world.

Crypto has replaced gambling for me and I make pretty good money from it.