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.

I will never feel bad for UK having to deal with “migrant crisis” after terrorizing the world for centuries

I think it’s more complex than that. Why can’t Germans solve this via those democratic solutions and threaten entire EU project by their inability to act against serious threats.

People keep kicking AFD can down the road for years now. I’d point to the paradox of tolerance but this is more of a case of laziness and lack of responsibility - no one has the balls to end the rising nazis. Why?

My original comment implied that this will lead to militarization of europe - I’m not calling for tanks. Polish and other countries will not wait for AFD to start building camps, this will end very badly if not dealt with ASAP.

28% is fucking crazy. What the actual fuck Germany, is it time to split it in half again?