Legalized sports betting comes with a hidden public safety cost: a measurable rise in violent and impulsive crime on game days––even in states without gambling, according to new research led by the University of Michigan. Researchers from U‑M and Rice University analyzed crime incident data from 2017 to 2021 and found that states that legalized sports betting after the 2018 Supreme Court decision in Murphy v. NCAA saw significant increases in assaults, larceny and vehicle theft during and immediately following professional sports games. Crime levels rose the most when betting outcomes defied expectations––for instance, when underdogs won. The research is published in the Journal of Sports Economics.
My tuxedo cat Spud. He's an absolute godsend with the conditions of the house im living in atm. He keeps everyone happy. He was a stray, I think dumped but he was adamant of making a home here and now he's very much loved. Cats have always found their way into my life, I guess because I'm an Aries and cats are an Aries spiritual animal.
I don't think sports broadcasts should be allowed to advertise for sports betting platforms. It encourages gambling and makes it more normalised than it should be. Yes this is about hockey but I think it should not be allowed for all sports. No commercials or calling out odds in the middle of the game. Just let me watch without trying to get me to gamble.
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*non-magic*
Grim
- Rink Cat
- Wandered in one day and never left
- Doesn’t like many people
- Only really likes Yuu
- Can be found all over the rink
- Has been on the ice before
- Fell on his face
Dire Crowley
- Judge/ Events coordinator
- Eccentric personality
- Yuu’s “guardian”
- Plans skating competitions, Hockey games , speed skating events
- Annoying but has decent enough intentions
Divus Crewel
- Judge/Costume maker
- Eccentric interests more calm personality
- Yuu’s actual guardian and emergency contact
- Makes the most beautiful costumes imaginable
- Made Vil’s most popular costumes
- Also makes Riddle and Kalims costumes
Azul Ashengrotto & Jade leech
- Both are 19
- Both are sophomores
- Azul is majoring in business
- Jade is majoring in microbiology
- Azul is going to start a business
- While Jade is going to be a mycologist
- Package deal announcers
- Where one is the other is
- Very polished and have all of the lingo down
- Lowkey kinda informative
- Do they run a betting ring? Maybe.
- Will they ever admit it? No.
- They have a good relationship with Yuu only because Yuu looks the other way with the betting as long as they get some of the profit
- They respect it
Idia Shroud
- Is 20
- Junior at Night Raven
- Majoring in business
- He is going to take over the family business
- Family is a sponsor of the events
- His family is also HUGE in the ice sports equipment industry
- Need figure skates? His family sells them.
- Hockey stick? Family sells them.
- Speed skating blades? Sells them!
- He’s loaded, enjoys betting, and is super smart.
- So he’s the statistician azul and jade work with.
- He interacts with Yuu but not often
- He’s polite but sticks to himself
Ortho Shroud
- Is 16
- He’s a high school student
- Because he’s Idia’s brother he knows about the betting ring
- Lowkey extorted a cut of the money from Idia
- Idia jokes (not really he’s kinda scared of his brother) that Ortho is a mini Azul
- Really average high school student
- He’s friends with Yuu and that’s how he got the score keeper role
- He only really talks to the tweels, Azul, Yuu, his brother, and the freshmen
Silver
- Is 19
- Sophomore at night raven
- Majoring in psychology
- Wants to understand the human brain
- Has narcolepsy
- He used to be a figure skater but once after a performance due to all of the adrenaline his narcolepsy was triggered and he fainted, he hit his head on the ice hard and since then.
- Lilia is his guardian he was adopted by Lilia when he was 9 and Lilia was 20
- Now he just watched practices for the hockey team and for Lilia
Trey clover
- Is 20
- Junior at Night Raven
- Is a culinary major
- Is going to be a pastry chef
- He’s going to take over his family’s bakery
- He runs the rinks concession stand in exchange for using the industrial kitchen in the rink
- Yuu has no idea why the rink has an industrial kitchen, it’s not needed.
- He’s very sweet to Yuu and often makes them sweets as a thank you
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Not only have betting apps and sites become increasingly popular in recent years, but they're getting increasingly mask-off, too. I don't get ads for betting apps where they show people buying luxury cars, the ones I see are about paying off student debt, or "saving money on groceries," like it's some kind of personal financing app or something.
It's evil. It's so fucking evil. And so depressing. They know their demographic is desperate, struggling people, and they want to make even more money off of them.
Don't trust them. Not even the apps where you bet $5 on silly things to treat yourself to a coffee. Don't even let it be a last resort. It is very difficult to have self control when someone's job is to trick and manipulate you.
#I even avoid gacha games just because it's possible I could get hooked#a part of me hopes it's outlawed (gambling and/or advertising it) but I know that's just treating a symptom of the real issues#(the real issues aka impossible cost of living/healthcare + insanely low wages + joke of a job market)#gambling#betting#sports betting#personal finance#anti capitalism#late stage capitalism#until those are addressed it might do literally nothing