I’ve seen the spam racks. Not of russian trolls but of chinese commercial bot farms which I heard are same as Russian troll farms. It’s basically one person with a rack of 10-20 phones. I don’t know exact operation procedures but my guess would be it’s a mix of manual and screen scraped process. Maybe phone automation is better now so it’s more automated but human labor is so cheap in these countries that it makes no sense not to at least have someone on admin role.

People are blissfully unaware how few rights animals have and how common these type of problems are. Especially here in Asia animal rights are not existent to the point where there are many dark networks like this and people stealing pets for food etc. China in particularly is probably the worst place in the world to be a non human animal.

I used to write dark web scrapers for detecting fraud and shit you see there is absolutely insanity salvaged only by the fact that it’s incredible minority of people who are this deranged as in 0.00001% in grand scale of things.

You literally said “transfers their income” you fucking Muppet lmao

Some of their income. Pittance for damage they inflict on the society.

Probably but it also restricts opportunities for lower class people like let’s say you’re building a business contact and want to take them to a casino. Now obviously you’re being restricted just because of your current economic position. If anything lower classes should have fewer restrictions not more.

I don’t think we need to babysit “the poor” but instead support people with social nets and provide opportunities for growth. The Singapore style of governing is oppression disguised as progress.

Absurd lie.

Just because there is a statistical aspect to it doesn’t make it gambling. By your definition literally everything is gambling which is a very small brained take.

Sure thing bot. Have a day.

Source? You’re just posting some AI hallucinations.

Lmao this is not true. I’m personally familiar with this issue.

It’s not only about addiction. Gambling industry is very corrosive overall being a major source for money laundering, financial exploitation and source of conflict. Generally I’m very libertarian but gambling is just an incredibly toxic industry because it has so many invisible costs that is more than just addiction.

How are you sourcing these claims? I from a gambling friendly country and now live in one where gambling is illegal and the societal damage caused by gambling is very noticeable. Though, I’d say big chunk of it is coming from gambling advertisements and legal physical casinos with no advertisements allowed would be very fair compromise imo.

You’re diminishing the harms of gambling. Entertainment is cheap and one of societal areas where we can afford safety.

No insurance is risk distribution. We all pay 5$ so none of us needs to pay 5,000,000$ which is not economically sustainable. What insurance companies get is administrative overhead fee. This has nothing to do with gambling.

Eh literally everything is entertaining so it’s not a very interesting metric to measure anything.

Gambling is fundamentally rigged. It’s a mathematical tax on society and should be banned all together.

The only sound argument in favor of gambling I ever heard is the prediction market one where gambling inputs generate data on public census. I’m not particularly sold on that but other types of gambling like sports don’t event have this leg to stand on.

Ah yes the class separation - the usual approach to every problem in Singapore

A lot of ruzi sympathizers especially on the .ml instance.

For what goal? Nuke wouldn’t accomplish anything and everyone knows this.

LLMs - you can just talk to your computer. I used computers since the 90s and that has always been the ultimate scifi dream and it’s here.