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@levisan I'll take the hit: I believe gambling for money is morally wrong.

I don't mean penny stakes, but any case where actual money or meaningful stakes are on the line -- especially with children and young people.

it is my belief that gambling trains people towards associating euphoria with risk. It is also the case that those so trained are easy marks for financial predators (ic, "the house".)

The benefits are few: you might learn to pick on people's tells, and perhaps there's a social benefit, but at least half of that is also true of a crack house.

Ref: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/

@levisan similarly, "fighting the Nazis in ww2" is a bit like Iran declaring war on the Republicans.

@gwensnyder.bsky.social seems very similar to the "words are violence" argument often heard from the left. Can you cite an example?

@lupyuen curious price difference for paperback vs. electronic!

@falken get a Psion organiser and you can take the fun with you. :-)

Anyone here working with and FreeIPA?

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