YHK - yet another hacker news clone

> "Emergency room visits for gambling disorders"

Huh?

> "More than 70 per cent of gambling disorder emergency department visits involved another mental health condition or heavy substance use and almost one-third of the visits led to hospital admission."

I assume they mean that these emergency visits were for things like drug overdoses and psychotic episodes in people who had gambling disorders, not for the gambling disorders themselves. What a strange way of writing this up.

Privately funded health care solves this.

Our incredible brains are easily high-jacked. Another concerning trend in global/societal mental health that stresses different parts of it (e.g. increased ER visits). If the entirety of humanity is a connected mind let's say, and more and more parts of it are being damaged by companies that capitalize on "flaws" in the human brain -- which means our shared mentality keeps weakening and can be exploited more and more. It's just so much easier now because there is a machine in your pocket full of endless ways to high-jack your mind and attention.

We live in really crazy/fascinating times, accelerating human problems at "internet scale".

> In 2024, Ontarians wagered $82.7 billion CAD on these sites through 2.6 million player accounts.

Truly astounding numbers. Without a doubt, online gambling is the most preventable public health crisis of our generation. None of this had any business getting legalized.