MolotovHalfEmpty
A couple of years ago there was a study conducted here in the UK that found that over 25% of children had placed bets and gambled through 'legal' vendors. This shit is everywhere and it's fucking horrifying.
I've been trying but I'm just one man with a spade and a bad back. Plus I keep planting vegetables in the holes I make.
Stop trying to make us feel better.
Spontaneous
I'm travelling on Saturday through a bit of country that the last time it was 28/29C,like it's supposed to be this weekend, & I was going through it was basically just one big wildfire. I suspect it will be the same.
Britain cannot cope with heat. And that's just the actual land and infrastructure, never mind the fact that no where has any air conditioning.
If you discount the head, Xi looking a little bit... Hex shaped.
Also, the wood for the trees exception: "We" don't do this stuff, but the official US intelligence state does via its backdoors.
I think it's this too. I think Tucker is looking at the likely outcomes here that either, despite all the bluster and some missile strikes Trump moves away from war with Iran in a climbdown that further splits his base & cooks him with Washington hawks, or he escalates and joins a war on Iran on behalf of Israel that's already incredibly unpopular before US planes start getting shot down and ships sank and bodies start coming home in coffins on TV at the airport. He's positioning himself outside of the lose-lose scenario using their incompetence as the predetermined arguement for why he's not a dove / pro-Iran etc.
Getting that valour in before they formally take over the US state.
Give Greta a drone.
Yes.
Pretty much all of the biggest games with under 16s (Fortnite, Roblox, CoD etc) pay millions (if not tens of millions) to behavioural psychologists who basically all do the work under pseudonyms and strict NDAs to avoid legal liability and public condemnation.
But even then video games are the symptom not the disease... (This is gonna be long)
It's been impossible to watch any sport for at least a decade without being bombarded with betting ads. When the sponsorship regulations lifted everything in sight (not just sports teams) became sponsored by betting companies. A lot of less prosperous towns have dozens of betting shops as the only profitable and consistently open business on high streets (main street) - this was sometimes true in the bad old days of ex pit villages but now is everywhere. Maybe 20% of all paid, non target advertising (TV, radio, online) here is gambling related. Every major satallite TV and broadband company has it's own casino and gambling company, often prioritised and delivered to you as a customer whether you like it or not.
The gambling industry, more than even arms or landlordism, has totally taken over the funding of literally all MPs and politicians (often for embarrassing figures). Over a decade ago now, when my (shit, centrist melt) MP where I used to live lost their seat, the gambling industry paid them £3k a month to write four articles a year plus a white paper about how 'the working class' (which he was very much not a part of despite his attempts to pretend otherwise) saw regulation on gambling and help for addicts as patronising nanny statism. When said former MP was about to regain a small amount of influence in parliament they were immediately gifted three weeks in the US all expenses paid by a betting company lobby group.