Post B1PPlihdDACfLkrNqq by futurebird@sauropods.win
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(DIR) Post #B1PPlihdDACfLkrNqq by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T12:02:03Z
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"Would you ever put a prediction market in Roblocks? Let kids bet with their robucks?"Insane combinations of words that should never occur. Anyone even discussing such questions ought to be put into prison. However...Moments like this make me more determined to help kids build an internet they can control. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE8Lt5mBQb0
(DIR) Post #B1PPljWg9N2Ju4k9Q0 by Extra_Special_Carbon@mastodon.world
2025-12-19T13:43:39Z
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@futurebird There is a Roblox prediction market?This is s five alarm fire for me. I’ve got a kid on it a whole lot.
(DIR) Post #B1PPlkRkjAgql5RjNY by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T13:44:57Z
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@Extra_Special_Carbon They have not implemented this yet. But I think roblocks has many bad actors and you can't count on them to really look out for bad content. I requires more supervision.
(DIR) Post #B1PPll56MsAKj7r9iC by Extra_Special_Carbon@mastodon.world
2025-12-19T13:56:47Z
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@futurebird Yes, I know this. Oddly, my weird 10 yo daughter appears to be aware as well. I was impressed.
(DIR) Post #B1PPlq0K44JVzkeuSO by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T12:27:00Z
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In the US churches are excited about trans people existing and other deeply counterproductive nonsense. What if we could redirect them to being mad about gambling again? That seems like a much more productive project if they can't be convinced to help the poor... which the Bible says they ought to be.Gambling is a sin. Do your conservative politicians care about how it's destroying people's lives at all?
(DIR) Post #B1PPlx0a1Vg9iZpiKW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T12:29:56Z
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Of course, addressing gambling would mean addressing the "sins" of members of their own congregation. It's easier to rail against outsiders you know nothing about than making your own house better.
(DIR) Post #B1PQ0LB2xe3ujLafU8 by MedeaVanamonde@beige.party
2025-12-19T13:57:52Z
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@futurebird it kinda weird in religious context about gambling here in the middle of Hanukkah.
(DIR) Post #B1PQ0mN1rCgp4KP7PU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T13:59:22Z
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@Extra_Special_Carbon If I knew a kid who was "really into" roblocks I'd talk with them about what they like about it and just have sincere interest on what it's offering them. Don't tell the Australians but roblocks *is* "social media" just as much facebook or mastodon. And as you know I'm a big fan of social media. At the same time, many of the implementations for young people are just terrible. I hope this isn't coming off as either too critical or nosy.
(DIR) Post #B1PQ0n9awdXPUx7u6q by Extra_Special_Carbon@mastodon.world
2025-12-19T14:02:10Z
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@futurebird She likes playing with her friends. This kid needs that social outlet too.
(DIR) Post #B1PQ2V2rF98Fukn1KC by GLaDTheresCake@todon.nl
2025-12-19T13:26:14Z
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@futurebird Something about splinters in other eyes and rods in your own... I'm sure someone said something like that I don't remember whom.
(DIR) Post #B1PQ2VrCDzOkQsLDmq by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T13:26:54Z
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@GLaDTheresCake don't we all have rods (and cones) in our eyes?
(DIR) Post #B1PRdBh8FaYYZKgZUW by RogerBW@discordian.social
2025-12-19T13:03:44Z
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@futurebird "It's not a sin when good Godly people do it." See also domestic violence.
(DIR) Post #B1PTF7vCpJMvpEvIeG by GLaDTheresCake@todon.nl
2025-12-19T13:30:05Z
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@futurebird Must have been the optometrist telling me that, you're right!
(DIR) Post #B1PWQX8VifD94iHF5M by semitones@tiny.tilde.website
2025-12-19T12:33:22Z
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(DIR) Post #B1PWr6bAUhkkaXLsum by Gurre@mastodon.nu
2025-12-19T12:41:38Z
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@futurebird As someone working in the gambling (sportsbetting) industry:agreed on all points. Regulate! including strict rules on where adds are allowed, how they are allowed to look/sound, etc. Same as for tobacco & alcohol, really. Society would be better off without it all, but as I see it the best way forward is allow but tightly regulate. Just like one should with tobacco & alcohol.
(DIR) Post #B1QAhsBchkwrRzYWvI by zannesan@mastodon.social
2025-12-19T23:07:27Z
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@futurebird my mom, an evangelical, always equated the stock market to gambling. Earning interest on money is also a “sin”. Asking for prayer offerings apparently isn’t though.
(DIR) Post #B1QEpVeKmQ73gdskZE by kirby@freerobuxextremist.com
2025-12-19T23:53:12.452650Z
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@futurebird You spelled Roblox and Robux wrong.. : )
(DIR) Post #B1QF0vGNtBdWJO7cX2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-19T23:55:48Z
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@kirby I am thirty or forty years old and do not know these things.
(DIR) Post #B1QF5fiv5p9TZ1jYpM by Zettour@gearlandia.haus
2025-12-19T23:56:43.747602Z
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@futurebird Gambling is a lost battle in society, no point in fighting it except at the individual level with people you know.
(DIR) Post #B1QMibAMfc88P14zse by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2025-12-20T01:22:07Z
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@futurebird I'm old enough to remember when the usual suspects were really really mad about adultery. That is an actual commandment of the Ten variety. It features prominently in many clear-as-day Bible passages without claiming knowledge of ancient Aramaic, antidiluvian cultures, or kabbalah to tease it out of the text.I think they gave up that crusade after the 20,000th church or political leader got caught. For one thing, the moral shame campaign was clearly not working. For another, I suspect it became clear they risked alienating their base by attacking a behavior clearly practiced by a significant percentage of the faithful. I think that is why those kinds of churches turned most of their vitriol on lgbtqia+ folks. Scapegoating is much easier and more popular when the target group is small, has no real political or social power, and can be visibly distinguished from the "decent folks".