Lovstuhagen

Lovstuhagen, 13 hours ago

Mystery solved.

Probably told some backroom staffer “If they ever hit for $50k plus on anything, RUN THE ERROR MESSAGE…!”

Machines probably have backdoors for this supplied by the companies who make them, I imagine, and the manufacturer will go to bat for the casinos that buy this shit.

“Of course it’s a completely fair machine… and, of course, occasionally random errors in the favor of the casino can happen like this…! These are complicated machines, not just some vidya game…!”

Lovstuhagen, 4 days ago

… As a Christian, I approve.

The idea that the government should run off of some merciless view that the principles of free market capitalism dictate who eats and who doesn’t is completely bizarre.

I have nothing against capitalist Christians who think that the principles of capitalism are generally fine and that, otherwise, we have an obligation as Christians to feed the poor and it just so happens to not be the role of government, but any explicitly Christian state has to feed the poor.

Lovstuhagen, 4 days ago

It’s great - scratches the itch, overall. I sometimes pine for places where major debates on a specific topic constantly rage - ideally, I’d be able to discuss religion whenever I wanted, skipping threads I felt I didn’t want to wade into…

But it is a good enough replacement overall and I feel like we are proceeding to having such a size. I am also open to the idea that I have not curated enough to find a place where this si consistently happening in the Fediverse yet…

I was a fairly active member at Reddit with a good social standing, I made 1 “controversial” comment and I got perma-banned… this sucks.

There have been some controversies that have led to banning and banning of entire instances. Usually, this involves Lemmy instances that were tolerating a lot of blatant transphobic memes that cut deep and were very mean…

I get why people isolated them.

I am still worried, though, that there are people who would still react this way to good faith discussion where there are disagreements. While there are some places where that is for sure OK, I think there are some instances that might react so negatively as to want to ban a specific user or their instance over it. I may be overreacting but IDK.