Losses were deductible until a few years ago. Now most people just pay on the winnings. Once the standard deduction was raised, that deduction went away. Losses maybe deductable if you itemize (?), but it's a pretty high bar.
Winnings over a certain amount are reported to the IRS. W-2 G
Handle is gross throughput, not consumer expenditure: over 90% of what is wagered gets returned to bettors in the form of winnings. That $1,000 in bets translates to roughly $100 in average losses per adult.
The market is big, but less than the more clickbaity headline would suggest.
For the low introductory cost of just 100 septims per annum.
Getting a car without a job is very difficult.
Old magazine adverts are a fun way to spend an evening.
The original Castle Wolfenstein went for $30 in the second issue of Computer Gaming World from 1982. That would be over $100 in 2026 money.
Maybe they're just one of today's lucky ten thousand.
Feeds/custom lists that you subscribe to rely on outside services. Bluesky itself is working for me. It may be just the one feed you're trying to view, or if it was all Bluesky, it's back.
Every human invention is about efficiency: making communication easier, killing people easier, extracting resources easier, more food, more leisure time, more comfort. We have put thousands of years of innovation into being more lazy about everything.
Meanwhile, cats sleep 20 hours per day and have humans to clean their box and fill their food dish.
Domestic house cats have already reached levels of evolution humans can only dream of.
Reminds me of this post from a while back:
QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal."
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
https://bsky.app/profile/panasonicdx4500.bsky.social/post/3m5hoirorms25
In my head canon for the Men in Black film, this was a signal sent to Elvis (who died the next day).
"Elvis is not dead. He just went home."
The normal price is $5 (USD) on Steam. Super strange.
Tyrannus tyrannus is too powerful.
Just because a 3060ti is technically capable of ray tracing doesn't mean I want you to keep turning it on every time the driver gets an update.
Same in Washington.