Haha, that (poker night with the boys type thing) is probably an exception. I was mostly talking about casinos.

The 'house' in gambling terms is the establishment in which you are gambling. It's usually not an actual house.

Good news. I hope Canada gets there, but I doubt we will. We are too focused on oil expansion and infrastructure to pay any mind to the 'dirty poors' right now.

If we had kept Petro Canada as a crown corporation past the 1980s, we could be funding UBI NOW, but of course, conservatives fucked that up.

Statistically, this applies to all other forms of gambling as well. The house almost always wins.

At this point, I think a better term for both the US and Canada would be 'post-industrialized', rather than 'highly developed'. Honestly, we are both sliding backwards in terms of human development.

Lol

He was a carpenter...

My positive vision of masculinity is using your power to protect the vulnerable, rather than punching down at them. As others have said, that is what Aragorn did.

Ku Klux Kanucks double down. More at 11.

What's the official punishment for treason again? Used to be summary execution way back when, but I believe we eliminated the death penalty in 1976.

Edit: Just looked it up. 25 years. Ehh, better than nothing if it could stick.

Lately? Deliberately going on pages of their political adversaries to spout vitriol, and fully not expecting any sort of negative reaction from said vitriol.