MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoThey hated him, for he spoke the truthlemmy.todayimagemessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1570arrow-down116
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minus-squareGhostalmedia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·9 months agoAttend a gamblers anonymous meeting and you’ll meet a lot of people who have lost more than 100%
minus-squareMacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todayOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·edit-29 months agoThat’s because they were gambling with other people’s money. If you only bet with what you can afford to lose, that’s never going to happen.
minus-squaremaniclucky@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down2·9 months agoWoof that slope is slippery. The trick is measuring what you can afford, and a lot of people aren’t great at measuring that.
minus-squareMacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todayOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·9 months agoYeah, well, that’s their problem, isn’t it.
Attend a gamblers anonymous meeting and you’ll meet a lot of people who have lost more than 100%
That’s because they were gambling with other people’s money.
If you only bet with what you can afford to lose, that’s never going to happen.
Woof that slope is slippery. The trick is measuring what you can afford, and a lot of people aren’t great at measuring that.
Yeah, well, that’s their problem, isn’t it.