2pt_perversion
I think "cause" is a little bit of a strong word here unless there are studies I haven't seen. The studies I've read are about correlation between simulated gambling and problem gambling. A child who spends a lot of time on simulated casino games is more likely to problematic gamble as an adult - but that's not a causal link. The child could like the simulated gambling and real gambling because they were already predisposed to gambling in general.
The problem with loot boxes and micro-transactions tied to chance is they let kids actually problematic gamble. And this lootbox/real world money style of gambling is also correlated with problematic gambling in adulthood yet they're being left at mature instead of 18+. It really doesn't make sense treating simulated only gambling harsher.
Read the article, they mean both.
While I'm happy they're doing something, they got it backwards. In my opinion games that have simulated gambling but don't take any real world money should be mature (age 15 suggested) or even unregulated, and games that have real world money that control an element of chance should be 18+ (legally required).
Here's some games/series that would be 18+ if released under this law: Pokemon Red and Blue, Ni No Kuni, Knights of the Old Republic, Witcher, Yakuza, Fallout New Vegas, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Fable, Mass Effect, Jade Empire, many more.
Simulated gambling isn't really a problem it's the real world money tied to elements of chance that's the problem.
This might be the dumbest thing a candidate in this race has said and that bar is pretty high considering Trump might think political asylum and insane asylums are the same thing.
Not a democrat, not really a republican either. Mostly just crazy.
- Supports Trump 2016
- Supports anyone but Trump 2020 - Briefly likes Bernie but then mainly has a parasocial relationship with Tulsi Gabbard (offers to write speeches, sends speeches to their email). Eventually gets on board with Biden Harris.
- Somehow likes Kim Jong Un, has another parasocial relationship inviting to Hawaii and asking to be an ambassador.
- Latches onto George Floyd protests supporting police reform.
- Latches onto Hong Kong supporting independence. Again reaching out to be a kind of diplomat in a parasocial relationship with Carrie Lam and including his phone number and email. He does that a lot.
- Latches onto supporting Ukraine. Has a parasocial relationship with Zelenskyy. Goes there and volunteers to help recruit eventually but people thought he was nuts over there. Kept offering to provide thousands of Afghan soldiers?
- Asks Elon Musk about selling him a rocket to attack Putin...
- Latches onto Taiwan supporting independence. Again offering thousands of Afghan soldiers.
- Writes a book telling Iran they should assassinate Trump.
- Believes China has a pneumonia bioweapon it's using to silence democracy
- This election his dream ticket was Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley (and yet Ramaswamy is not pro Ukraine while Haley is so I'm not sure why he'd want Haley as the VP)
https://i.imgur.com/MU5PECk.png - here's a png of some of the tweets he made
There shouldn't be any paid resort trips for judges in the first place, even with disclosure.
Week long colloquiums at a resort in Montana paid for by some conservative group? Why do judges need a colloquium in the first place? They don't need to go to a conference to tell them how to judge things based on political lines. There's already a system of judges that's supposed to interpret grey areas of the law as a group that's the whole point of appellate courts and the multi-judge panels on them.
The specific one I was watching was just talking about dead reckoning based on the same principle, but mapping seems like it could be a natural next step for the tech.
I watched some technical video the other day about a quantum guidance system and for a brief second I thought it might be a flat earther conspiracy because a handful of the field specific jargon in the beginning sounded made up.
The same thing as layoffs and downsizing but you only lose the people who are really good at what they do and can get jobs easily elsewhere. What a brilliant idea.
I'm doing my part by writing really shitty foss projects for AI to steal and train on.