Spyke
rockSlayerreply
lemmy.world

Petition to make Red the person in the template instead of the other guy

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Justin Hawkins, belting: I believe in a thing called ass! Just listen to the rhythm of my foot!

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sh.itjust.works

Unfortunately his actor is also kinda ass. Idunno if trying to get a rapist a lighter sentence is worse than all the shit Chowder has done, but I'm fine with never seeing either of them again

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Grayoxreply
lemmy.ml

Need someone to photoshop one with Dale Earnhardt.

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lemmy.ca

I actually don't (well, didn't) mind advertising, to an extent.

I liked seeing what new products or services are out there, or deals I may have not known about otherwise; but advertisers have taken it so far that you can't have a reasonable amount anymore. You either block it all or get bombarded relentlessly.

I wouldn't even use an ad blocker if the ads weren't disrupting the content I'm actually here to see. YouTube for example was fine when it just had banner ads around the video player; as soon as they started forcing you to watch video ads to be able to watch the actual video you came there for is when it became a problem to me.

Gave em an inch and they took a mile. Now they get nothing.

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Yeah I don’t mind phone website ads that are just in the middle of content, but no you’re playing video ads which fuck with my hearing aids while taking up a third of my screen in scrolling. Fuck you no

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flerpreply
lemm.ee

There should be one specific place where advertisements are allowed and contained. If you need X, go to the X page on the one place for advertising and check out your options. No more shoving things people don't need down their throats. Make people seek out the things they need rather than be convinced they need what they don't.

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I'm okay with advertisements in things like television. Ad supported media is one thing, ad supported real estate needs to burn to the ground

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Hey we have a law for that in our country. There are some exceptions but those have to be individually permitted.

That being said fantasy sports bets and some other gambling games try to dodge the classification as a gambling game.

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lemmy.world

Gambling shouldn’t be advertised. Swedish radio advertisements is 70% gambling, and the remaining 30% is sex toys and car related services.

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Mr_Blottreply
lemmy.world

Interesting that all 3 will fuck you at some point tho

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lemmy.ca

Let's be honest, some of us could really use an air filter up there.

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lemmy.ca

Definitely not, but it might make it less toxic for everyone else. Like a catalytic converter for your anus.

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Oh my god. A butt plug that contains something that breaks down the fart smell. From what I can tell the stink component of farts (hydrogen sulfide) can react with a carbon catalyst and oxygen to produce elemental sulphur and water. So you just need a butt plug with an activated charcoal filter plus something to bind the sulphur to eliminate the smell. Even better, because your fart is passing through the chambers of the butt plug there will be no noise. So every fart will be silent and stinkless.

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lemmy.world

Heh you guys have sex toy advertisements on the radio? Were too prude for that in the US, instead we have prescription drug ads everywhere.

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kbin.social

nonspecific positive imagery and music

Ask your doctor about [results of syllable dartboard] today.

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lemmy.wtf

Speaking of the syllable dartboard, one of my favourite buzzfeed style quizzes from back when everyone was still doing them was called

PRESCRIPTION MEDICINE OR LORD OF THE RINGS CHARACTER

I'm pretty sure five or so people out of thousands got all of them right 😂

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Jamiereply
jamie.moe

Ask your doctor if Boromir is right for you.

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Shialacreply
lemmy.world

At least in germany its illegal to advertise prescription drugs

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onionreply
feddit.de

But we have a huge market for snake oil

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Yep. I had a very bad cough years ago, and couldn't sleep. My doctor asked if I'm interested in homeopathy. I laughed so hard that I started coughing really violently, and walked home with a codeine prescription that helped me over that flu.

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mozingoreply
lemmy.world

Y'all don't hear ads for stuff like Adam & Eve? Here in Texas we have ads for drugs and sex toys lol

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Drugs and sex toys are very Christian /s 😂

Reminds me of the states most common porn searches one year, where incest was top result in Utah. I think it was top a few years in a row.

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I've seen/heard a few ads for them, but it's not really common. Also I rarely listen to the radio anymore.

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Side effects may include shitting yourself in public, a horrible lingering stench that you can't get rid of, eyeballs popping out, ears flapping, nose elongation, heart attack, stroke, and death. As your doctor about it today!

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lemmy.ml

Is listening to the radio still popular in Sweden or is it dying off like in the US?

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Dojanreply
lemmy.world

My roomie's a trucker, he listens to the radio a lot. Otherwise I've no idea, don't think you listen to the radio outside of when you're in a car.

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My mother hears radio all day, cause its to quite at home if no one else is home and except that, the only place is car and at work but its mostly so loud at work or so much intergerence that you cant hear a thing. And maybe the super market if i dont have my own headphones on i get blasted with advertising radio of the supermarket. Nowhere else i hear radio.

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Dojanreply
lemmy.world

I belive we have really strict gambling laws, one of the reasons we never got arcade halls here. Online casinos and such don't count though, it seems. It feels like half a dozen pop up each week.

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lemmy.ca

I love the idea of equating arcades with gambling. In one you will always lose your money, and the better you are the longer you can play. In the other, the skill element is much less relevant.

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I legit never understood that one myself. I think it’s a mix of laws that make it infeasible.

Game machines are not allowed to be an establishments main source of income. This I think is targeted at gambling machines, slots and the like, because gambling is heavily regulated by the state, but naturally that also made arcades nigh impossible to run.

I believe there’s also some sort of law about the amount of such machines an establishment may have. Again, to prevent casino type establishments from existing. You can’t really run an arcade hall with two or three machines.

Then a more recent law enforces such machines to also give you a receipt? I dunno I didn’t read too closely, but I suppose machines of that kind don’t tend to have that sort of functionality meaning if you wanted to have an arcade hall here you’d need to custom order the machines.

It’s just not economically feasible.

And the most ridiculous thing is that while there’s not much in the way of physical gambling here, there are so many internet casinos I can’t properly convey how ridiculous it is. Like imagine an incredulous amount and it’s still more than that.

And the government is perfectly okay with that. They’re such incompetent buffoons.

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Socsareply
sh.itjust.works

Sweden has blackjack tables outside the bathroom in lots of bars so you can play while standing in line. Or at least they did the last time I was there.

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Yes, and my go to Chinese restaurant had two slot machines. They can have these things but they can’t be the primary income of the establishment.

Ergo no casinos or arcade halls, but blackjack at a bar is fine.

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sh.itjust.works

I have personally seen gambling fuck up way more lives than drugs, and this was before it was being shoved down our throats. It's honestly disgusting how shameless the advertising has been, getting people to gamble like degenerates in "garbage time." Or poking fun at people "losing their shirt" in Buffalo. And don't even get me started at how they are using fantasy sports to get kids hooked early.

Fuck this so much. I know entire families - children, parents, grandparents - who've been put through hell over this.

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yup, I worked at a horse track when I was in HS, and the gamblers AKA addicts had the exact same behaviors as drug addicts.

poor people getting exploited by the rich, but legal

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tehfishmanreply
lemmy.world

Man I really feel for that guy. I know it's easy to poke fun because it's the Internet, but he's clearly in genuine emotional pain

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Yeah no if he blew all his money on booze we’d be sympathetic to him as he’d be obviously a serious alcoholic. This is an addict suffering at the hands of his addiction.

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Mississippi grind is an absolutely incredible depiction of just how sad and devastating gambling addictions are. I can't recommend that movie enough (as long as you're ready for some sad storytelling).

Livestream online gambling is another one of those absolutely abysmal modern exposures that is going to completely destroy the lives of young men as they grow up, and I can't believe it's still legal

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Zanareply
lemmy.world

My step dad committed suicide after losing our rent money at the video poker machine at the bar.

It had such a big impact on our family that four years later my mom did too after struggling with depression over it.

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Grayoxreply
lemmy.ml

I'm so sorry for your loss, hope you are doing ok.

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Thank you, it's been five years since the loss of my mom. You never get over it, just better at dealing with it. I was never close to my step-dad.

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The fantasy sports are all about evading local gambling laws. Since only a handful of states even allow sports betting the only way to operate in those states is to have something which is legally distinct from gambling (even though it clearly is). It's similar to pachinko parlours in Japan.

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Grayoxreply
lemmy.ml

It doesn't matter if they choose to start, it matters that they weren't able to stop, gambling and alcohol have both been extremely normalized in our society and are destroying lives. We shouldn't have ads shoved down our throats for industries that profit off of destroying people's lives for a quick buck. Shit aint right. I'm not saying make the industries illegal, just make the ads illegal. Saying drink responsibly at the end of an alcohol ad isn't making anyone less of an alcoholic. And the tiny ass barely readable gambling addiction hotline isn't gonna help anyone with a gambling addiction from getting hooked on sports Gambling which is one click away on the app store.

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techtreply
lemmy.world

It matters from a cause-and-effect standpoint, but you're callously and self-righteously blaming their whole situation on it. That you stop trying to understand the situation at that point reveals that you're using it as an excuse to blame peoples' suffering exclusively on their personal choices to feel better about yourself. That completely ignores any circumstances, predatory draws, nonstandard brain chemistry, or other factors outside of their control and assume they had perfect, complete knowledge of the situation and consequences at the time -- which is honestly silly.

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Grayoxreply
lemmy.ml

Hmmm then maybe we should make ads glamorizing gambling illegal. I really dont understand what you are trying to say with your comments here...

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Gambling, alcohol, nicotine, and prescription medicine should all be banned from advertising. Sponsorship should count as advertising and thus be banned too.

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lemmy.world

and infomercials all night. someone must be sending them money or they wouldn't still exist

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It used to be! I left the US to work overseas from 97 to 2000, and when i came back everyone had heartburn and took "the little purple pill", the laws changed and prescription meds were now on every other commercial.

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bet packers, dumbass

commentators reading stat sheets for 3 hours has ruined sports for me. mute. Change my mind

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Your brain took the whole May off to try to comprehend its own stupidity. :-D

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lemmy.ml

Every bloody third advert on TV in Australia is a gambling ad, it's insane that we continue to allow it given how much of an actual widespread problem it is here. They have fairly lame government mandated warnings after each one but I doubt they do much at all.

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Rambireply

Same in the UK! When the pandemic started companies stopped advertising on TV because they weren't doing business anymore, except for the bookies (gambling brokers) so almost every ad was for them. And because people are on doors and probably bored/miserable I bet they did much more business than normal.

I don't think we have the warnings you're talking about here, except for sone text on the screen that says something like "gamble smart" lol

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lemmy.world

In my city the government runs the gambling, so I see nothing but government sponsored gambling, it's quite obscene.

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lemmy.world

Yeah that’s the thing. I Support gambling being legal, but it, alcohol, marijuana, tobacco, etc shouldn’t be allowed to advertise. These are harmful vices. It’s your choice to engage in them but advertising them isn’t cool

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I think they should be legal to do, but I'm a little more iffy on if it should be legal to sell or profit off of the addictive ones.
Gambling doesn't really bring anything valuable to society and it causes notable harm, so I see no reason we shouldn't tax gambling revenue at a nearly 100% rate.

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lemm.ee

Yep and as someone who watches a lot of sports I would love to see those ads banned. Also ban the pre-game odds shows and the in game odds updates.

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Grayoxreply
lemmy.ml

100% its so cringe, im ok with the fantasy aspect of it, cause it does take some skill, but the odds are just straight up gambling no if ands or buts. I dont know how gamblers in recovery even watch sports anymore... so glad i got addicted to gambling on stocks with wallstreets bets and learned my expensive lesson so that sports can stay pure for me and not tainted by my addictive personality.

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The fantasy games are just how they get kids hooked. It's very obvious to me as someone who has always kind of felt like fantasy takes some purity out of the fandom, that this has been a long term plan to normalize this kind of "skill" game so they can create exactly that pipeline.

But I mean, its probably just a crazy conspiracy theory that the NFL already had branded endorsement deals ready to go with a dozen different gambling houses immediately when the Supreme Court cleared the way for all this shit.

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lemm.ee

I wholeheartedly believe the vast majority of the hype surrounding sports is from gambling.

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Same. All I see on the tv are the endless floods of gambling ads and Medicare advantage ads in my state. Welcome to America. :/

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In Lithuania it's legal, but they cannot say any words like "let's play" or "best casinos" etc. I don't know specific, but most of casino/betting ads are like these (always with the weird/annoying voice)

NAME, casino!

NAME, casino!

NAME, casino!

NAME, casino!

NAME, casino!

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lemmy.world

Imagine if every ad was like that!

PUMA, sportswear!

AUDI, cars!

FOX NEWS, garbage!

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lietuvareply
lemmy.world

oh my god it annoys the fuck out of me. Since 2019 gambling companies and casinos can only show and say their name so ads went from This to This These ads are everywhere, i never gambled, but for someone who might be recovering from the addiction would be very hard to resist when constantly shoving these stupid ads everywhere.

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Grayoxreply
lemmy.ml

Wtf was going in that first one, lmfao.

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I agree. Here in Sweden we've had a huge surge in online casino ads on TV for the last 5 years. Maybe even more. Super annoying. Everyone hates them. But not much is done despite that.

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aussie.zone

It’s been about ten years since sports betting advertising has been permitted on TV in most Australian states. It has pervaded everything and made betting a normalised part of sport.

Most people hate it and want it gone, but clubs and networks are drunk off the money it provides so governments have been slow to move.

Please if your country doesn’t allow sports betting ads yet, put up a fight to stop it.

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Ontario just allowed it recently in Canada and it's all there is everywhere, it's disgusting.

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lemmy.world

If we ban betting on sports, they’ll just move betting to some other random indeterminate outcome. Like…which industries and markets are going to perform better than others month by month.

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wildgingerreply
lemmy.myserv.one

Woah woah woah, lets not get crazy, no one is trying to ban gambling! Just advertising it.

Whooo, thats a close one eh? Ban gambling. Ha! Whats next, ban cocaine?

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lemmy.world

I mean I think it should be legal. But also my main issue with legalizing cocaine is with the human suffering involved in its production. But we need to have no illusion here, gambling is an extremely addictive behavior with high destructive potential.

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The main issue with cocaine is that its pretty addictive and absolutely wrecks your body if you do it frequently.

The growing of coca trees is only a human suffering issue because its an illicit drug. If it was legal, it would be grown like any other crop. The issues with its cultivation would be the same issues with agriculture in general.

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There is so much cognitive dissonance between the warning at the bottom of the screen and the content of the commercial. Totally agreed.

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sopuli.xyz

In Finland gambling/slot machines/betting is monopoly from state and it is not allowed to be advertised. It is age controlled and all the money from the gambling go to charity/tax, and gambling addiction control.

I do like that system, even if it sometimes feels bit controlling people from theirself.

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"controlling people from theirself" also prevents them from drunk driving and killing others.

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Grayoxreply
lemmy.ml

Poor people

"Bet $5 get $250 in free bets if you lose!"

Shit is predatory as hell and is trying to get folks addicted.

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I feel like alot of em are casinos, Ceasars Sports book and Bet MGM come to mind.

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Gambling on sports is one of the oldest types of gambling.

And, look. If you have the cash to spare, and gambling isnt a vice for you, it is kinda fun. Thats kinda the problem, its easy for the average person to get into it with some friends as a way to have more fun watching the game only for that to be the first domino.

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lemmy.world

Lots of people. Probably the same people that play Fantasy Football.

People will literally gamble on anything.

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Socsareply
sh.itjust.works

Fantasy football is literally a 20 year plan to create a childhood gambling pipeline, which they finally pulled off with the recent rounds of regulatory capture.

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Apparently it's been a thing since the 50s, I only remember hearing about it about 15 years ago.

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I guess some way to change your mind is giving you a share of the money the gambling industry is paying for having this happen

Before it was outlawed, in my country some gambling website even paid to rename the league to "bet and win league"

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lemmy.world

Governments want that tax income. They want that business to boom. They don’t care about the side effects.

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It goes beyond tax money, but that's a part of it for sure. Gambling in the USA at least helps prop up the 'American Dream' by keeping the under privileged poor and in-debt. Because at any minute they could become mega rich! Except they won't especially as the addiction will tell them to double down and make them lose it all.

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lemmy.world

The worst are podcast ads. It's like 30% "you can win $100 on a $10 bet with promo code xyz" and 70% disclaimers and gambling addiction hotline numbers.

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Damn I listen to a LOT of podcasts and I've heard a ton of annoying ads but none for gambling. I must be doing it right.

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At least those are usually clearly marked and easy to skip in a halfway decent podcast player like Pocket Casts, though..

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sh.itjust.works

Good to see people agree on this. The way that gambling in sports has flourished really targets and is detrimental to young men, IMO. I've noticed that younger men tend to feel it's normal to risk a significant amount of money gambling on almost all sports, to include E-sports, when really it shouldn't be something they think about constantly.

I like gambling as much as the next person, and I feel like you should be allowed to if you're responsible, but I think we shouldn't be glorifying gambling like it's just something everyone does. Shame on all these celebrities using their status to trick younger people into gambling.

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It's honestly insane. I have been watching sports with the same group of people for almost 30 years now, and the past few years it's gotten fucking insufferable. These people genuinely believe that they've got a system going, doing bet arbitrage against their six different apps and seventeen different accounts. They don't even watch the fucking game. They are just watching phones and laptops. I hate it.

So what ends up is that I'm watching our team win, and happy about it, but half the room is punching holes in the wall because thirteen different stats across six different games didn't magically align to give them a 100:1 payout. Two of the original group have literally taken on major debt to fund their addiction and still think it's perfectly fine to keep betting.

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lemmy.world

I get why we want to get away from that dumbass(heh) that's the normal part of this meme?

But Red would give zero fucks about gambling.

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lemmy.ml

Red would however call you a dumbass for enabling people's gambling problems

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If Red met me his brain would literally explode because of all the different fucking reasons to call me a dumbass.

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I think he would call you a dumbass for getting into gambling, but would view someone running the business as just a businessman. He may be wary of the gang associating with him but I don't think he'd view him as a bad dude

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lemmy.world

Do they advertise sports gambling on tv?

In California I don’t see this. You do get the occasional ad for an Indian casinos, or Las Vegas though.

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bonn2reply

Some states have recently legalized it, and, oh boy, no time was spared filling every commercial break with ads for it.

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Edit his mug so it doesn't have that Nazis name on it. Maybe have it say boot or dumbass lol

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They legalized online gambling and ads for it a couple of years ago in the Netherlands. It's already causing problems with addiction. I personally think all ads for gambling and alcoholic beverages should be banned.

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I'm in Ontario Canada so it's extra perverse that the government runs all the gaming and ads

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It is illegal in some states. You should only be able to advertise things that are legal.

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Not sure you should even be allowed to advertise legal things except in very specific cases. It's an incredibly toxic industry that is doing a shitload of the heavy lifting of corporations destroying the world..

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feddit.de

I mean, everything that’s better than your average real life can be addictive. Should games not be advertised because some people are addicted? Should phones not be advertised because they have negative implications for your health?

I’m not particularly in favor of gambling ads, but where exactly would you draw the line?

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Gambling is designed to be addictive.

It's similar to how tobacco ads are not allowed.

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