“sorry, I can’t deploy to Iran today, I have to wash my deck”

dryer lint fires tend to happen most often by the lint not getting cleaned out, and getting squished into the internals and coming in contact with the dryer heating elements and igniting. Lint is basically a perfect tinder material, because it burns fast and hot. You can actually save your dryer lint to use for campfires. in my experience, it’s nearly as good as char cloth.

I think the reality is that “leaders” know this already, but a lot of them just don’t care.

They want their castle populated with little laboring serfs they can see running around. Remote work is something that used to be the realm of those leaders, who came in once a week in between thousand-dollar business lunches they flew first class to, and they’ll be damned if the peons get even one of their 'special privileges '.

Next they’ll be expecting to be compensated for traveling for work, and commuting will be classified as traveling for work! What a crock, having to pay people for the things the company demands they do!

Just a way to legally grift. This isn’t even gambling, it’s just a get-rich-quick scheme, like crypto.

I don’t know where you got the idea that sports betting is the only betting with a wagered outcome, that’s basically all card or table games at a casino.

My point of mentioning casinos having more than just slot machines is to say that they are first and foremost gambling establishments. Not every game in a casino actually is gambling, either; a lot of them have regular arcade games too.

The question of whether trading cards and loot boxes are gambling from a legal perspective is down to how the laws are written, and the laws in the US currently haven’t defined them as such so far, because there is no wager on a specific outcome.

If loot boxes allowed you to pay more in order to get more good items on a ‘win’, my guess is they’d be smacked with a gambling designation instantly.

Or if trading cards allowed you to wager on the presence of specific cards in the pack, and win additional booster packs if correct, for instance.

If casinos want to say some of their games have been improperly classified as gambling because those games don’t have those characteristics, they certainly can go to the gaming commission or take them to court and argue that (and depending on the game they may even be correct), but since they have to have a license anyways for all their other games that definitely are gambling, they probably won’t care to.

And there are in fact slot machine games that aren’t gambling (e.g. CloverPit), that just simulate playing a slot machine without actually having any real monetary mechanic (apart from paying for the game), so just being a slot machine doesn’t inherently make it a gambling game.

Not to go too philosophical, but every physical item you buy is physically unique from each other one. Even with processes like Six Sigma to minimize variations, each car, table, chair etc is physically unique, and each in ways that affect its performance. You could buy 100,000 chairs of the same kind, and figure out which one is ‘best’ based on some characteristic (e.g. max weight), but that doesn’t make “buying a chair” gambling, just because you may will get a worse or better chair each time.

I’m in Germany right now, and it’s crazy how much more smoking of cigarettes there is than in the states. I hadn’t realized how much it’s disappeared in the US until coming here and smelling cigarettes everywhere

Except slot machines do allow different wagers to get different monetary returns. Also, casinos are not just slot machines, but lots of other gambling games as well.

Parental controls usually only require a password to unlock or bypass, so if you’re worried you’ll just unlock it yourself you may want to ask a trusted friend/ family/ partner to set the password for you.

Not really, it’s a way to sell you 25 year old games for $50. They saw Nintendo’s Virtual Console and wanted in on that same grift.

How so?

Yes, they’re exactly that; plush doll random chance boxes. It’s funny because gachapons have actually been in the US and Europe for 50+ years, but no one ever really thought of them like this because the toys inside never had real value.

Remember these outside of supermarkets?

I mean gambling in general, not just loot boxes or TCGs. Gambling is not a bad thing. Gambling addiction is, but it’s bad because it’s addiction.

me to know which people to block

Frankly, I don’t mind. I don’t love being accused of posting in bad faith and berated just because you forgot what you originally posted. Cheers.

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Yep. There are too many people who don’t understand addiction, and think that gambling is the root cause problem, rather than one of many systems that preys on addiction disorders.

The reality of addiction is that it will always find something to fulfill it without treatment, and banning or regulating every trend of collectibles that pops up is not an actual solution. Banning or regulating specific structures that intentionally prey on addiction is important.

Too many people mistake their feeling-based objection to gambling that was inherited from the protestant moral objections, with actually being about solving predation on addiction.

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MVV app is super convenient, but I could still use the kiosks without too much added delay. MVVswipe is like 30 seconds to “check out” a ticket, MVV kiosk machine is like 90 seconds. The biggest inconvenience is having to find a kiosk outside of a train station.

Holy hell it’s been a while since I heard that name… I remember putting Cyanogen on my PSP back in the day.

*laughing as Atlassian dies*

“I guess I was the…”

*puts on sunglasses*

“jeer-a all along.”