alt Hacker NewsThe fact that I can get stuck behind someone at the pharmacy checkout who is buying lotto tickets boggles my mind every time. Personally I think we need to go way further than this, but it's a start.
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Ensorceled • yesterday at 6:11 PM
I've walked out of the store and left my stuff on the counter when I realized the person ahead of me had about 50 tickets to scan. Multiple times. I'm not waiting for 10+ minutes for them to scan all their tickets and then buy $100 more tickets.
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sellmesoap • yesterday at 6:26 PM
It long past time we think hard about what is good for us at the pharmacy, sure there are a handful of life saving drugs, but then the other 95% of the store is pink tax and carcinogens.
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people tolerate the lottery because 1) it's run by the state, 2) the money goes into a tax fund that is used to fund improvements on the state level, 3) advertising is limited, and 4) it's limited to fairly straightforward scratchers or lotto-ball picks.
yeah there are always lines of rubes on friday gettin their scratchers, but there is little directly evil dopamine manipulation you'd see on apps