I thought this was going to be another seedy story about fighting copyrights in the creative commons a la Micky Mouse or some other kafkaesque run-around, but it's delightful and glad everything worked out
Alcohol is the only painkiller which can be infinitely self-administered. There's value in that. It's quite ancient, been proven to work, which is why it's probably stuck around so long.
What are you talking about? Fatal alcohol poisoning hits long before infinite self-administration. And there actually are many other far safer painkillers than alcohol.
Right, it's almost like necessity and desperation cause people to do desperate things. If I take your money and give you no resource in return, that's a degeneration.
I thought the commonly-held definition of gambling is: "it's gambling if it introduces risk."
e.g. a transaction to buy paper towels is not introducing risk, since I pay an amount and get something.
If I have a chance of not receiving those paper towels if I put money in, then it's considered gambling because the inherent activity introduces risk. It's the same reason the lootboxes were considered gambling at first, and the same reason I classify betting on a chess game as gambling. You're player may potentially not win.
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