Unironically ban all gambling

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Does anywhere else have a row of slot machines at every supermarket, gas station and kiosk or is that just a Finnish thing

    • Eris235 [undecided]
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      2 years ago

      Not too many places in the US as far as I've seen, but that is everywhere even vaguely near Las Vegas.

      Though you can buy those 'scratch offs' (I think) everywhere in the US, usually at supermarkets and gas stations.

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        You can get scratch offs at any Finnish supermarket and kiosk (think 7/11 but wayyyyyyy smaller and with a way smaller selection) :shrug-outta-hecks:

        All gambling (with the exception of dubiously legal foreign online gambling) over here is run by a government-owned company

        • SoyViking [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Denmark also have a government-owned gambling company that does lotto, scratch-offs and sports betting. They're present at every kiosk and supermarket and also run a sizable online casino. They used to have a monopoly on gambling but due to the EU's liberal orthodoxy the "gambling market" was "liberalised" opening up for predatory betting companies to suck money out of poor people.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      In Denmark it's not that common but you'll find small depressing rooms with slot machines at some head stations or small convenience stores. I've never seen it at a supermarket.

    • SaniFlush [any, any]
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      2 years ago

      Gas station casinos exist but not everywhere. They're more visible in poor parts of the States, it's like a parasite on the ass of the nation's impoverished people.