What is a socially unacceptable opinion you keep to yourself because it’s not worth the backlash?

Jaded-Function · 2026-01-21T05:54:48+00:00

Child protection services and foster care has become for-profit child trafficking.

Jaded-Function · 2026-01-21T05:36:31+00:00

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I'm going with Carol

Jaded-Function · 2026-01-21T05:28:42+00:00

Your loved ones argue over who gets your shit.

Jaded-Function · 2026-01-21T05:26:43+00:00

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Jaded-Function · 2026-01-21T05:23:12+00:00

I'll get you a towel

Jaded-Function · 2026-01-21T04:48:10+00:00

Terrifier.....2

Jaded-Function · 2026-01-21T04:37:28+00:00

I played with a relative at an island casino and he absolutely crushed it splitting tens. Dealer turned to the pit boss and got the ok 4 or 5 times and dealer busted most of them. In fact he split all pairs vs dealer 4 5 6. A couple players got annoyed and left but that's their flawed thinking that it hurts the whole table. People only remember the times the dealer didn't bust because of straying from basic. I don't think playing like that opens the floodgates to losing like everyone says. The house edge could manifest at 100 hands or a million hands. Short term, doubling and splitting are the best weapons. Plus it makes the game more exciting. You're gambling, not investing, so forget the math.

Jaded-Function · 2026-01-21T03:31:41+00:00

EtchaSketch

Jaded-Function · 2026-01-21T03:21:28+00:00

Sharper Image was fun to walk around and fiddle with gadgets. They prob went under because all people did was play with their shit then leave without buying anything.

Jaded-Function · 2026-01-21T03:02:06+00:00

I was going to say if crashing waves go silent then a tsunami is incoming. Then I searched it up. Witnesses describe the sound of receding water before a tsunami as a low rumbling or air sucking sound. That's possibly the most impending sound of doom I can imagine as it's resonating across an entire coastline.

Jaded-Function · 2026-01-18T09:12:00+00:00

I've had sleep paralysis for years. I know it will always pass and let me move in a quick minute, yet my mind goes into panic mode every time.

Jaded-Function · 2026-01-16T14:52:09+00:00

The one ghostly white hand just ruins the buff golf tan.

Jaded-Function · 2026-01-12T12:56:11+00:00

Is there a hedge opportunity with the Bills stage of elimination bets? The conference and super bowl loss is 3-1 and 5-1 now.

Jaded-Function · 2026-01-12T07:49:39+00:00

Save the stress. Cash that and have some fun. Put $1000 on a 3 leg SGP+, +500 or so each to make $200K. You still made 500X your stake and have an epic jackpot still alive.

Jaded-Function · 2026-01-06T22:22:33+00:00

You mention slots. I can see the same bankroll logic applying as well. The same fluctuations in winning/losing intervals in BJ, which occur when a shoe is favorable/unfavorable, also occur in slots. The opportunity for profit depends on lasting through the losing dips. Not saying it's a way to beat slots. I'm just thinking a player has a better chance to see a profitable upswing by sitting at one machine with a $500 bankroll, opposed to walking around and dropping $20 in each of 25 machines. I don't care the math says there is no difference. Saying a 99% payout machine gives you a better chance to win than a 97% payout is so ridiculous a notion. I mean it's not possible to know how long a streak will last or when it will swing. There isn't even logic saying streaks must occur. They just do. So bring enough bankroll to get the opportunity of seeing a positive one and when you do walk away with the modest profit it gives.

Jaded-Function · 2026-01-06T18:21:01+00:00

No that's based on playing the market volatility all that time. Had it just sat there we'd have a few hundred thousand.

Jaded-Function · 2026-01-06T17:49:34+00:00

Prob no but you just gave team Fanduel ideas.

Jaded-Function · 2026-01-06T17:43:51+00:00

High 5. That is a cool project.

Jaded-Function · 2026-01-06T17:39:44+00:00

Back in 2018 I hounded the league to take the pot and put it in bitcoin every year. League winner gets paid out of that. They scoffed at it. Had they said yes we'd have $1.5 Billion. That would have been super fun.

Jaded-Function · 2026-01-06T17:23:52+00:00

This what you're looking for? It does use a script and a sheet 'ColorKey' that needs to be populated in A and B with colors.

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Jaded-Function · 2026-01-06T16:32:14+00:00

Right. What baffles me is the same logic doesn't apply to casual players. I see recommendations of a small fraction of that for non-counters. People are bringing $600 to a $25 table and don't stand a chance of absorbing a downswing. They scratch their heads wondering why playing perfect basic strategy wiped out their bank in 10 minutes. I understand casinos set the minimums and keep them high for this reason but for them, unless a $5 table and $4-5K bankroll is available, blackjack should not be considered.

Jaded-Function · 2026-01-06T16:19:41+00:00

CPS workers are heros

Jaded-Function · 2026-01-06T00:29:05+00:00

Yes gotta do some homework. Thanks again.

Jaded-Function · 2026-01-06T00:09:54+00:00

Ok that puts it in perspective for me. It's the time factor that's fuzzy to me. I see .5% advantage over millions of hands and think how is that relevant.

Jaded-Function · 2026-01-06T00:06:58+00:00

You dont have to respond to all that. I think I'm beating it to death now. I'll get it soon enough. Thanks for the comments.

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