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I’ve seen 3 articles posted about this, and the fact that the monkey’s name is Punch has made all 3 headlines very unnecessarily difficult to parse.

Perhaps they are hoarding friends, and their collection has just begun!

Shouldn’t the labels be the other way around?

I guess when they type like a fourth grader, anyone putting in minimal effort must be AI.

That is fun sounding; too bad it’s VR + mobile and not… a more reasonable set of environments!

Technically not, but the fact that you felt the need to make a rude comment is what I take issue with. Personally I don’t think we need that energy on the fediverse.

You know, I would totally play an extraction game where you play as a squirrel gathering nuts and things.

Geez, here I would have thought someone on db0 would be more accommodating of someone not wanting to participate in corporate social media.

This makes it sound like a durian smoothie would be great, but also I don’t think I could handle the smell.

The distinction is that NIMBYs only object to the infrastructure when it’s in their back yard. I think the majority of people object to these data centers anywhere, but only have voting power to directly oppose them in their back yards, so that’s where their effort is spent. I haven’t seen anyone say “I definitely want another massive datacenter to go up, just not here.”

Can’t tell what size it is, but it looks like maybe 11x14 or larger?. Check prices here (purely for general comparison): https://www.michaels.com/shop/frames

Absolute cheapest they come is $5, and they go up considerably from there.

Art is subjective; it’s worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it, but frames have a non-subjective value and it’s at least $5 in this case.

I mean, honestly, the frame looks nice, that alone is probably worth at least $5. The painting is just getting thrown in for free.

Then there’s those incredibly annoying instances where you find a post by someone having the exact issue you are, and they reply to their own post with “Found a solution - issue is resolved”, but don’t note what the solution was. Those people are infuriating.

It’s not like stealing, it is stealing.

Like most things in life, in moderation it can be fun. Adding some stakes to an activity can make it more exciting.

It becomes a problem when people don’t have the self-control to self-regulate, and when it’s designed to prey upon those people specifically, or to prey on desperate people who feel like it’s the only chance they have to get ahead, or who don’t have a good understanding of the risks or chances of winning.

Humans as a whole are bad at understanding probability, and our brains are wired such that the happy chemicals we get from winning are more impactful than the unhappy chemicals we get from losing. As such, someone can be losing money overall, but still feel like they’re winning, or at least, still get the rush from winning even though they’re way down overall. That’s dangerous, and gambling companies are designed to specifically target those people and exploit those destructive behaviors. It’s like the experiment with the rat that was given a button to give itself happy drugs, and it just sat there pressing the button constantly. Basically, the regulations are necessary because of capitalism, and because without them, those people would very quickly ruin their lives given the chance while the companies running the operation give zero fucks about it.

Then there’s the fraud. Look at prediction markets. They’re rife with fraud and bet fixing and it’s not only politicians and policymakers doing it. John Oliver had a piece on this recently where he goes into some detail, but there’ve also been articles about journalists getting harassed and threatened because they report on something that would cause a Polymarket loss.

In conclusion, some humans are shitty and we need regulations to keep shitty people from doing shitty things.

That’s crazy talk, there’s no way that would work. Has even one country managed to pull that off?

Especially nice given they included everyone in the deal, not just themselves, which likely would have been an easier sell.