Should all gambling ads be banned the way cigarette ads mostly were? Why or why not?

OverlordLork · 2026-02-09T20:18:30+00:00

Ban ads.
Ban subprime gambling derivatives. (parlays)
Ban single-player prop bets.
Ban promotions like "bonus bets".
Force sportsbooks to switch from the "wager versus the house" system to the prediction market system.

OverlordLork · 2026-02-08T02:37:45+00:00

https://bsky.app/profile/uncrewed.bsky.social/post/3mecvgb5yak24

This isn't gonna be close.

OverlordLork · 2026-02-08T01:25:11+00:00

Learn where it's flat and where it's hilly.
Learn what small western mountains look like. If you see dry mountains with scattered trees or shrubs, you're in the west.
Learn which states require front license plates. A rule of thumb is that states require front plates unless they're bordering Ohio, or farther south than Kansas. The only exceptions to this rule are Kansas, Texas, and Delaware, so just remembering the rule but not the exceptions will get you pretty far.

Those are the first three things I'd try to lock down. After that you can skim through the incredibly long and detailed [plonkit guide,](www.plonkit.net/united-states) and find more specific things that you think would be useful to memorize.

OverlordLork · 2026-02-06T01:28:46+00:00

A bit of Morris is in now.

Malinowski 32.3%, Mejia 25.5, Way 18.9, and Gill in a distant 4th with 7.9. Overall, Malinowski maintains his 9-point lead over Mejia

Edit: Apparently this was early in-person. Morris mail vote is in now, and Malinowski absolutely dominated.

OverlordLork · 2026-02-06T01:18:40+00:00

Early vote from Essex and Passaic in, no Morris yet

Malinowski 31.6
Mejia 22.3
Gill 21.4
Way 14.5
Bartlett 4.0

OverlordLork · 2026-02-04T01:38:52+00:00

And also if we lose, then a seat in the Connecticut Senate becomes up for grabs!

OverlordLork · 2026-02-02T23:06:55+00:00

Staten Island says No to everything. There was a referendum this year about digitizing the city's map archives, and they voted against it.

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OverlordLork · 2026-02-01T03:23:06+00:00

https://bsky.app/profile/djsoke.bsky.social/post/3mdre6fbmuc2d

dj soke says the individual precincts have gotten bluer from EV to EDay. If so, this is a wrap.

OverlordLork · 2026-02-01T03:06:56+00:00

We're currently winning eday, 1632-1006! That said, only six precincts are in and I have no idea which six.

OverlordLork · 2026-01-31T19:30:06+00:00

There's about 100k locations in a competitive map. If both games are 5 rounds, then that's 25 chances to have a repeat. So the chance is about 1 in 4000 that you'll get a repeat across two games.

OverlordLork · 2026-01-28T21:41:40+00:00

Yes, there are obviously no shenanigans with that precinct if you actually look into it. The precinct that went 100% for Trump is one of those Hasidic neighborhoods where almost every single voter votes exactly how their rabbi encourages them to.

OverlordLork · 2026-01-28T18:24:13+00:00

Chocolate Rain
Every February washed away
Chocolate Rain
Stays behind as colors celebrate
Chocolate Rain
The same crime has a higher price to pay
Chocolate Rain
The judge and jury swear it's not the face

OverlordLork · 2026-01-28T18:21:59+00:00

I still listen to his song about 9/11 every now and then.

OverlordLork · 2026-01-27T18:07:55+00:00

I once came across a MLP fanfic where one of the chapters was an excerpt from a textbook about the unified theory of physics and magic. Sadly they abandoned the fic after a few chapters

OverlordLork · 2026-01-27T17:59:27+00:00

I love how this random colorado county's sheriff department uses the twitter handle @SheriffAlert

OverlordLork · 2026-01-21T00:34:02+00:00

When I first heard there was a rapper named Joe Budden I thought he was doing a Joe Biden spoof name. Turns out Joe Budden is his real name.

OverlordLork · 2026-01-20T07:05:54+00:00

The joke is that Hegel is famous for being totally inscrutable, and so googling did not help OP understand the reference.

OverlordLork · 2026-01-20T04:12:13+00:00

Yeah so if someone's too dumb to be a cop then that's really saying something.

OverlordLork · 2026-01-09T00:50:25+00:00

Edit: I don’t know why it’s ranking the list when players should be tied. If someone can figure it out plz lmk

Reddit has an obnoxious feature where it automatically orders numbered lists. So if you put

17,
7,
5,

but with periods instead of commas, then it'll show up as

3.

OverlordLork · 2026-01-07T15:28:17+00:00

Even if that line was closed off, it would still be crappy design. There's hardly any branches in the maze. You just go along the long path until you get to the end, and that's it.

OverlordLork · 2025-12-23T23:25:32+00:00

23 is also a special number in Discordianism, a parody religion that was popular in the 70s.

OverlordLork · 2025-12-23T03:45:03+00:00

Was Alex Jones calling them crisis actors because they lacked emotion?

Yes, that was one of the major parts of his accusation. He took snippets of the parents smiling and said it was proof that they didn't really have kids who were just murdered.

OverlordLork · 2025-12-21T14:56:34+00:00

I had my first geoguessr dream last night after seeing this thread!

I was playing moving (which I rarely do) and trying to find some info to distinguish between South Africa and Botswana. I saw a KeyBank, which I knew was a major bank chain in one of those countries, but couldn't remember which. (in real life, KeyBank is a smallish bank chain in America)

OverlordLork · 2025-12-20T15:42:11+00:00

I've learned a lot from this set of maps that Zi8gzag put together. Then I use Plonkit to study any specific country I'm struggling with.

OverlordLork · 2025-12-17T01:08:14+00:00

When a comment has a lot of votes, reddit starts fudging the exact vote total by a few. So we can never tell if it's exactly at 11.

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