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Technology has fueled a sports betting boom and a spike in problem gambling, addiction therapist warns::There's been a surge of young problem gamblers since sports betting was legalized. An addiction therapist warns AI-powered sports betting has spurred a public health emergency.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

How’d we get into this mess with pro sports or well especially the NFL? By smoking marijuana of course. Baseball was that boring and marijuana caused or helped prevent the spread of Lyme disease, it either causes or prevents you from visiting out door grassy or wooded areas. We got Lyme disease occasionally while in high school from going into the woods for

Why did we use or smoke marijuana, because we were kidnapped by hepatitis in different letters. We were leaving the pavement or backyards, to get some oxygen and to smoke a bit of marijuana, occasionally some got planted by seeds being tossed on the ground without any plan to ever pick the plants. Otherwise it was just the buying and selling of narcotic pills that would go on.

We knew we had to leave society and return to social security numbers.

The U.S. mail and airports caused this to not go on, probably because after achieving the mission marijuana and drugs or opiates/benzodiazepines/stimulants were no longer desired.

This was the mission to leave the city/society, and create a new life from scratch. And trying t keep it the USA government wise

Houses were out of question we returned to the crusades or mid evil times by leaving the pavement and road system, this bid back when not every road was paved, it was common for there to be small dirt roads where there were farms and food companies/production. And near by there is houses spread apart or in wooded areas with small trees, and that’s where chewing tobacco comes from, because smoking lowered the immune system down but if you’re also smoking or especially eating marijuana then it doesn’t matter. But using any tobacco can cause issues in your life if you don’t use weed or other drugs.

If you don’t use any form of tobacco then they will kiss your ass instead of try and piss you off or target you. This is why we liked the eastern renaissance thing better with higher oxygen levels instead of radiation supposedly helping us fight disease. Anything you change artificially and they just try and change it back through a computer line up of this world making it seem like a video game we’re all in, well shit this video game sucks. It didn’t rock at all, we all just sit around using it staring at c code. But that’s what c code or c plus was for, stopping us from doing bad things or going places where we’d encounter extraterrestrials or diseases.

As pot smokers or drug users I knew not to really look at computer monitors or the whole thing may go under, this is why it was game consoles only, which caused games to still be sold in that way, and co soles themself screwed up the drug thing that went on, it really was just cars, clothes, money, hoes, food, automobiles, jewelry, drugs, but I guess a lot kind of goes with money, but tv could screw things up if it prevents socializing.

Or to smoke it while you used it but it meant it was a disease stopping you from using it if you don’t continue after smoking weed, because pot wasn’t really viewed as bad or there were just different types of computers or the same software. This is why python or Linux or no computer use unless it was for music or movie production was more common. But where does writing or creating animations or games fall into that list. It seems the guys at Nvidia and possibly AMD or Intel want you communicating to them with it or about it to get included, we just don’t know how much money they expect to get or how much we’d get or whether they’re just trying to sack us or things would have actually went on with new ideas about doing things, or new game creation, new applications/programs, or new products. But economics you know that whole adult routine with or without music isn’t desired by certain people. But shit new phones and other things are still developed and sold on the market. Maybe the market is fake or they do some planned economy of phone service through phone stores, well shit purchasing your service online would have screwed everything up. We just didn’t start buying it in person or weren’t on anyone’s plan anymore like having no medical insurance, mine as well bundle that together because both may be useless just like having a bank account, no bank account fee after so much is the account means the bank does something with money to generate money or they sack you for it and you just don’t withdraw 1500 bucks ever again and you use it, but that’s take years to test.

But you may just have to pitch it to Bellevue investments and then they show up with some programming or unlocked or production computer from decades ago for you to create whatever thing you’re making it on. Instead of taking the computer science education route but with all the fraud that went on, banking and websites couldn’t be that hard to start or to accept a transaction, or whatever supposedly government exists was directly involved.

I went to a university of Michigan football game once or twice, and while using a bit of weed before and after, everyone had cancer from automobiles burning real octane which prevents hairloss, but just back then ion cures for cancer were unknown or you just stumble upon the removal of it by traveling places, oxygen in the woods and visiting high n ion areas.

Basically you’re supposed to be have cancer to just sit around watching football or other sports games. It’s just the summer fall season no one stayed in the house because the weather cools down and there’s all different get togethers that go on probably through porn and the movie industry preparing for migration. This is why Michigan was a weird place, because of migrations, but there’s a rental/housing market, so they get short leases, find rooms, or they own more than one house, or they live in automobiles or sleep outside when they migrate, but the customer base or traffic number increases during the warmer months. Nothing actual Michigan based went on because of migration or barricades cause it to go on, Michigan is this weird island peninsula place that you’d be shocked any temporary migration into went on. Furthest we’d need to go is like indianna or Tennessee but Florida is possible. But this was before cars that made migration less possible or common or it’s done differently.

Basically it became where like no one else watched football or sports. So I said pot smokers and or stoners watch the national football league games but no one else does. So to cover this up I switched to power watching baseball games and put all my money in and on watching comerica park and not just watching sports played there. Downtown was a different kind of area. I knew not to bother playing sports at young ages or life expectancy was going to be very low, and we knew the type of health change that takes place from weight training and running and eating carbs and protein and using steroids or growth hormone. It’s like they wanted everyone looking old and decrepit if it was an issue.

This is what made the movie Harold and Kumar go to White Castle exist, visiting university areas or the campus without being a student or even under aged and seeing what everyone actually does. I was usually looking for service industry work myself (electrical, plumbing, construction, body/mechanical auto repairs, anything, weed and fast food was expensive but affordable, it’s just no one else wanted to do that type of work they wanted to be medical staff, nurses, business workers or accountants, or they all were medical based, we knew with drugs and food a certain way that there was no need for medical care or they were just helping people that couldn’t take care of themselves or were actually physically or even mentally injured.

But mostly employment fraud and theft or embezzlement is what they all wanted to do or is what they did for a living. They all became like a walking or even driving plague.

So the service industry turned into carpentry, or sculpting/artwork, painting, or even inventing new things, football and college were both freemasonry based. Which didn’t really make sense unless you went to Philadelphia.

As a last resort I’d become the government but ih yeah I was a bank. It’s like all the college students from 2008 to 2012 were fake and everything was for student loan money as a way to fund pornography or medical fraud or whatever goes on, it increased their money pool that they can work with as some planned economy.

It could also be the disease thing that caused them to live like that with not repaying loans but living in houses especially in neighborhoods didn’t make sense based on the crusades that still went on outside of these places.

These movies were supposed to be simple in the way the story is. It shows you how simple it is too make a movie out of anything you have especially if you include drugs, alcohol, or sex as a theme. Or a real situation or activity that people like pot smokers or college students get into or do. Another option was two dudes walking to buy a bag or weed or going to someone else’s house or party. A mile or two walk could be quite more than a simple walk there and back. Teenaged movies were kind of simple, gossip and drama goes on with possible illegal activities or sexual encounters, or dangers. It can be a comedy, drama, action, tradgedy, or even a horror movie. When you see millions as a movie budget it means tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars, a typical movie budget was like 15 to 50 grand. They add 3 or 6 zeros onto budgets or revenues. This all started with the Harold guy in that movie. It was probably filmed in Michigan or Colorado, or places like Oregon or eastern Canada.

Marijuana is supposed to be different though, it’s supposed to be more like herbal solutions or Ypsilanti and western sunny places. People did things like skateboarding or rollerblading, whatever goes on with hotter weather and grassy wooded areas or on pavement. Not everyone focuses on going swimming but they may swim occasionally or at night.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

The NFL has changed the way local governments are and same with now federal politics, gay brown women do this sports, government and school thing. And now they’re all trying to do drugs and listen to music. I’d say no there won’t be any male prostitutes, instead they’re all hit men. Hit men changed the way society was, it truly brought us in to the future, where corrupt shit does or doesn’t go on, but it sure can’t all be fake.

Stadiums aren’t really worth any money, they are just built even sometimes by one person. A city buying or building a stadium and trying to win games doesn’t make any sense. On a local levels sports and economics was stupid. It’s just like visiting an up north like Coney Island or diner, that’s what working was was standing around in groups trying to generate money or enjoying the weather, and then attending meals, that’s what being on vacation was. They do all this to buy Frito lay products and Mc Donald’s and sodas, I guess they don’t smoke cigarettes anymore or never did. They also don’t drink alcohol.

Lake St. Claire isn’t even near Claire Michigan. They pretend they all live in Claire or Mackinac Island as Detroit and Grosse Pointe. Yeah some military fort you got there. We’re never watching 17 or more football games again, it sucks entirely. We can’t watch the entire season and watch the play offs if the team loses, so it’s just watching play off games or the league won’t exist at all.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I can believe it. Every commercial break is an ad for sports betting.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Some sports broadcasts literally tell you the betting odds during the broadcast now, it's kind of disgusting.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Holy shit. That’s trashy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So in practice I believe a person should be allowed to gamble within reason. That being said the gambling business seems built on exploiting the end user and enabling/proliferating addiction.

I’m hoping it settles down like legal weed did. It will always have the client base but the newness will wear off hopefully.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Shocking: industry that sells addictive product engages in behavior to increase addiction to product

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe this experience will teach us a lesson that will be passed on throughout history so that something similar can be avoided in the future?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That’s a good one. I laughed out loud at wotk

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I’m hoping it settles down like legal weed did

legal weed never ruined anyone's life, unlike gambling addiction

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Agree 100%. Enforcement against weed was more harmful than the drug.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Yeah, and even for those who let weed get out of control in their life, dropping weed and moving on is far easier than climbing out of the hole you can get into with gambling.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s the regulations, not the technology. It was ruled that sports betting is “skill-based”, and then these apps exploded.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What sucks is once the US made that ruling and these companies became incredibly rich there, they suddenly had the resources to start lobbying other jurisdictions to change their regulations as well.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ontario made it legal for sports betting awhile and the amount of ads I’ve been getting for that stuff has been really annoying. Can’t even listen to a podcast or watch tv without getting sports betting apps crammed down my throat.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I've noticed the same, and it's horrifying when you think about the cost of all those ads and how it's mostly funded by people with gambling problems

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

This seems like a great place to plug my upcoming fantasy baseball betting DApp. /s

😅

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Very interesting article. I think with the amount of cash flowing into betting business and being used to lobby or finance campaign we won't see any regulation anytime soon.

We knew Tabaco was unhealthy already in 1947, it took 50 years to get serious regulation. Maybe in 2068 we'll fix betting issue, that's only 2 generation lost.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It started off slow, but now a bunch of my buddies place bets on like every little sports thing. It ruins the game for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That's rough. I once knew a guy at work who was suffering from gambling addiction. Actually pretended $600 was stolen from him at work just so he could have a report to show his landlord or something bonkers.

I also knew a lady who had broken her arm, waited until the next day and then pretended she fell at work, got rushed to the hospital and immediately got LNI. The temp who was replacing her discovered like $50k in fraudulent checks.

Every single penny had gone to slot machines, of all things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It’s a strange feeling seeing these people with high tier players cards, and it’s their first time in a casino.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I don't trust the Gamble-Tron 2000, I only place my bets according to Smooth Jimmy's Lock of the week

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Next Sunday on CBS, the Super Bowl will, for the first time, be held in Las Vegas… a fitting venue given the prominent role gambling plays in sports today.

America has recently brought its age-old love of sports betting out of the shadows and onto our phones… and this has created an all-time mismatch, pitting man against machine: gamblers—overwhelmingly young men; versus gambling companies, armed with sophisticated AI, data, and engineering, enticing fans to make snap bets, not just on games, but on every play within games…The early results?

So far, that crisis hasn't happened… but, the last five years have given rise to a surge in young gambling addicts… Joe Ruscillo, now 26, says his problem started in high school… then, in 2022, sports betting apps came to his home state of New York.

Jon Wertheim: I think people who aren't familiar might think of the typical gambling addict as, you know, a middle-aged guy in a windbreaker who's betting his retirement savings.

A decade ago, Levant was a trial lawyer, whose gambling addiction was so fierce he used client money to fuel his habit, leading to his disbarment… in his current career, he's noticed today's desperate gambler looks—and acts—a lot different.

Recently, he paired up with Dick Daynard, a law professor at Northeastern University and architect of the first major lawsuits against the big tobacco companies.


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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah. I shouldn't be able to lay in bed, stoned AF and bet on dog racing in a country I'll never visit.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I suspect that a lot of this will blow over as time passes. It's a novelty now, but people will quickly grow tired of it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah gambling is definitely just a passing fad. It’s not chemically addictive at all

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not gambling in general, THIS form of gambling. But I guess it's easier to not show charity in your interpretations and go on the attack.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

So THIS form of gambling isn’t chemically addictive?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I disagree. The legit sites might be a novelty that will lose its coolness factor (and I think that’s generally good), gambling has always been a harmful addiction and this just makes it faster, easier, less regulation. In my experience, gambling is now by far the most common spam I get, both ripoff and legit. It’s everywhere.

One of many harmful factors is the numerous scam sites for gambling. However legacy gambling was heavily regulated to ensure some sense of fairness and transparency, but online gambling could be anything. The history of legacy gambling is a good indication that if they’re not forced to have standards, they won’t.