Do you think that somewhere underground is a big evil witch who feeds on the groans of teens?

Imagine valuing your own opinions so little you invite random people with zero accountability to manipulate you.

If that is your desire read my snippy dissection of the transcript.

Le Guin was a real one.

There’s also a transcript at the bottom.

Unfortunately all the witty repartee in the world won’t alter the fundamental logic of capital. These ghouls are bought and paid for, they profit from our misery. Why would they fix it?

If they’re lucky one, maybe two idealistically motivate policies survive a career in party politics.

Shorty calling people against gambling ads “anti gambling zealots” I guess me, a homebrew is also an “anti drinking zealot” since I don’t want that advertised. I also love acid and don’t want that advertised so I guess I’m an anti LSD zealot too.

I HATE our lords and masters so much. Their spineless doublespeak, their beady-eyed bean counting. It’s so incredibly civilised to measure out acceptable allotments of misery.

we’ve always had a strong outdoors and sporting culture 8<

Yeah sure I guess

>8 and that tends to lend itself to betting and to gambling

say again? Playing cricket at the beach lends itself to betting how? Gambling industry defs tries to push this hard but I dunno if it falls out.

Australians lose an estimated $25 billion a year from gambling […]. And the majority of that is lost through poker machines, but certainly sports betting has been growing in recent years.

So… outdoors and sports doesn’t lend itself to gambling? Actually most gambling is indoors and not sports?

John, gambling victim: I think at the moment, the whole online gambling system is broken in regards to offering the vulnerable punters levels of safety and avoiding gambling harm. Because from my experience, these gambling companies are just there to try and extract every cent out of you.

John is close to realising the fundamental problem of corporations here. We’ll welcome you when you come round comrade.

Bill Shorten spoke out both on Q&A and on Radio National Breakfast about what he thought were the risks if you brought in a blanket ban on gambling advertising. He was worried that if you got rid of the gambling ads and had a blanket ban, that would see the demise of particularly regional TV, journalism in these areas.

So uh gambling is a tax on the vulnerable to fund sports? Sounds like an argument to nationalise the industry shorten, limit harms and so forth? I mean if sports in regional towns needs subsidies lets do it at least. I care more about that than pay rises for pollies and nuclear subs eh?

Steve Cannane: Now, I’m not sure what Bill Shorten was relying on for those figures. He’s never actually told us what the evidence is that suddenly that industry would all fall apart.

lol, lmao even

Steve Cannane: We spoke to Kai Cantwell on Radio National Breakfast. He’s the CEO of Responsible Wagering Australia, and they represent five of the largest sports betting companies in Australia. And he was particularly opposed to an online ban on gambling advertising. And what he was saying was that if you brought something like that in, you would then see an increase of illegal offshore providers and Australians gambling with those offshore providers.

Right, again someone making a strong argument for nationalising the industry then?

Steve Cannane: After that interview, I emailed his office and asked for a source for that Norway study. His office never got back to me about that. So we spoke to Stein Langberget, who worked for the state monopoly, because in Norway, it’s a state monopoly that runs gambling. It’s not private enterprise. And he said that it was only 6% of the market there was offshore. And he said they had decided themselves as the state-run monopoly to stop marketing publicly and stop advertising on TV because they believed it was harming children. And so they took that decision themselves.

Yeah ok so the above mate lies and evidence suggests nationalising it and banning ads?

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Seems like you’ll hate it. I would’ve thought you’d prefer guns in school and no welfare because governments governing pisses you off.

Are you planning on coming back or do you just it just annoy you that the usa isn’t the entire world?

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Pokémon let’s go (to the star for a cheeky one) Eeve

Why?

Put aside your nostalgia for the game for a minute. Wouldn’t it be better if the game didn’t feature the slot machines? They’re

a) not important mechanically, narratively, or artistically.

b) presenting something socially harmful and addictive with absolutely zero context as to those harms.

c) Potentially some of a generation’s earliest exposure to gambling, and presented as an annodyne game with some mechanical benefits to playing.

The goal isn’t to keep Pokémon out of the hands of kids, it’s to encourage people to not include this stuff in children’s games. Imagine if you could just light a ciggy at some point in the game to give your Pokémon 5 experience points or whatever, it’s a completely gratuitous and possibly harmful.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4593645

chemists live longer because all the poisons are fighting each other.

Industry pressure is my guess. Easier to start with the “nuh dah” examples than get caught in the lootboxes == slots legal battles.

Payoff is longer than 3 years so it won’t happen.

Much to my deepest regret.

I woke up at 3am to spend some time RPing a volcano on the dunny and things have marginally improved since then.

Tbh the remaining ramen looks tempting now, but my wife has taken away the sauce packets and hidden them “for my own good”.

I think sometimes when I try to point out that political violence underpins much of society people hear “violence is good actually”.

It’s frustrating because what I’m trying to point out is actually the opposite. Prostrating yourself lets other people use violence with no checks.

you can criticise the world without resorting to past = bad which often hides things we have lost.

Also oats are nutritious, delicious, and efficient.

How about pointing out how hard you work to afford food that is often thrown out lest it undermine keeping you slaved to “the economy” etc.

No actually I’m not done. Wanting fewer material things is good actually. Opulence need not manifest in terms of the aquisition of territory and things. What if you have a tiny home and breakfast gruel but you get idle time, community, gorgeous views, freedom etc.

the problems with society aren’t that you can’t eat figs every meal and stroll around your estate, it’s that mere subsitence demands your soul.

I dunno you tell me what the subtext of opening with defending the cops and denying that cops target media. Then goes into both-sidesism.

And then wow look at what happens later:

But to say we shouldn’t place any blame on individuals over-simplifies the problem. There are multiple issues at play here, I don’t think you can just wave away the personal responsibility of the individuals involved.

Oh look it’s both sides are at fault again. If you’re filming at a protest, or even attending you have some personal responsibility for getting collaterally shot in the face or teargassed.

This is nonsense, the violence is extremely asymmetrical and involves the use of indiscriminate weapons. I mean imagine if a protestor fired rubber bullets or teargas into a crowd to hit a shell or LM exec, what would anyone be saying about that person? He’s not presenting some nuanced critique, he’s gone straight into defending violence which would constitute literal war crimes if it wasn’t the police doing it.