Yes, and what if we saw what happened on Ferengi ships, with Ferengi replicators? Perhaps those are controlled by profit-seeking corporations, and have no such limits in the name of "personal freedom?" ;)

Hogwash. Give people smart phones that haven't been fine-tuned to be addictive and see what happens then.

^^^ Much less brittle nerds & ignoramo jock heads

Reagan, not Nixon

Cambodia is not really a democratic country. It still an Autocracy.

I think the USA is the only 1st world country with legitimate problems in the potable tap water department.

Well, them and Canadian Indigenous reserves lol. But those have been described as 3rd world anyways.

This won't end well lol

On the contrary, this will end with wells

This won't end wells?

Damnit... upvote

What I'd like to know is why did legalizing sports betting = complete change of the sports media landscape? Like the question asked doesn't seem to be around how sports betting has been integrated. it's just "is sports betting good or should we ban it."

Im fine with sports betting, what Im not fine with is my hockey games being saturated with ads, odds, and commentary about something that they keep telling us is tangential and not supposed-to-be-taken-seriously!

The whole thing is pathetic and I don't see how it's sustainable. There's going to be a Mothers Against Gambling movement or something after enough lives get wrecked.

And I'd like to add that most of the people throw the term around "lives get wrecked / ruined" flippantly around this, but that's exactly what it is. Your life is wrecked, you can't fix it, nothing can fix it. If only you never started gambling...

> What I'd like to know is why did legalizing sports betting

Financial interests.