In my country casinos and gambling are prohibited, so I didn't have much contact with them early on.

But, I remember very well an afternoon I spent in the company of my uncle and my father... we were in a bar, with many pool tables, foosball, and there was also a "video game" with hypnotizing flashing lights

I pestered my dad a lot to play there, I think I was like 12, and then he finally bought me some coins.
I confess that I was quite frustrated, because the toy seemed to be interesting, but it was very boring, I couldn't understand how to "play" and quickly my chips ran out.

I never saw that machine again, I think the police seized it, and it took me a few years to understand what a slot machine was.

The disputes for the presidency of the United States of America have always had this history of being very accentuated and with great division among the population.
This is really not a good thing for a country, because the more divided it is, the greater the people's "temperamental" problems.

In a scenario that proves to be more favorable to a given candidate, the minority is already beginning to accept defeat before the elections, and when it arrives, spirits are more stable.
However, when there is a very fierce clash, the surprise is left for the last few moments and a large part of the population cannot accept defeat or it takes a long time to process it.

In the last US elections we saw vandalism, recently in Brazil, which also had a very close election (50.9% x 49.10%) there was also unprecedented depredation in the capital.

We hope that the upcoming US elections will be an example to the world and not another disappointment with scenes of vandalism.

Olha, eu acho que se a algo de ruim acontecer, o investimento em um imóvel ainda pode não ser um boa escolha.
Mas eu entendo porque as pessoas pensam assim...
O fato de você ter a sua própria casa, quitada e com o registro no carório de imóveis, sabendo que não há nada que possam fazer para te tirar mesmo que VOCê esteja cheio de dívidas, nome negativado e contas bancárias bloqueadas.
A casa, sendo a única que tu possui no nome, é sua e de sua família, não pode ser confiscada jamais. Então, pelo menos é algo em que você pode ficar tranquilo para dormir e saber que amanhã à noite voltará para o mesmo lugar, à luz de velas talvéz caso cortem a energia , mas ainda será no seu travesseiro.

Eu sou totalmente leigo no assunto, mas eu acho que a reciclagem no Brasil ainda é um grande problema que poucos governantes tiveram a coragem de fazer sair do papel, muito se fala mas pouco se faz.

Eu acho (novamente... sou leigo e estou deixando apenas minha opinião) que para iniciar qualquer reciclagem é preciso ser feito um investimento muito grande em conscientização, pois primeiro é preciso fazer com que a população separe o lixo do reciclável, depois algo maior ainda em logística para recolinhemento desses materiais e por fim se obtem um retorno baixíssimo e demorado.

No caso da extração do ouro desses componentes, creio que deva ser preciso algum processo bastante especializado para poder separar e reciclar esses materiais nobre (não é só o ouro que se extrai proveito nesses eletrônicos), sendo então algo muito mais difícil.

Felizmente, existem muitas empresas dispostas a rasgar rios de dinheiro para investir nesses projetos, o que falta é a vontade de iniciar de verdade projetos assim.
Um exemplo, é a Itaipu Binancional (a usina no oeste do Paraná). Conheci de perto o setor social deles, os caras possuem bilhões do orçamento sobrando e não encontram projetos para investir, é lamentável.

Something very curious I read today about the main Brazilian football championship....
The Twitter profile @gerasofascore used artificial intelligence to recreate the 26 team mascots that will compete in the championship this year.
And they were really, really good.
In order not to pollute this topic too much, here is the link with the images:
https://extra.globo.com/esporte/mascotes-de-26-clubes...

Now, the next step would be to create NFTS with these characters, I think that would sell really well.

 

This VF23 was really beautiful, which is how the new body model was called. It has a very innovative design bringing black as its main color in most of the car.

In fact, the American constructor has changed the car a lot compared to last season, leaving aside that homogeneous white for a beautiful combination of black, white and red.
Of course, all this change has a meaning, as the team's colors are directly related to the new master sponsor of the team, since before the car was inspired by a Russian supplier, but whose contract was broken in 2022 with the beginning of the war in Ukraine.

Has the Haas performance also changed radically?

The 2022 cup was really very atypical, much more frustrating than seeing Italy not qualify (and for very little, not even Portugal), was seeing other favorite teams for the title being eliminated prematurely.

In 2026, in fact, there will be more space for the traditional teams that we know, and certainly all those from Europe will have to qualify, but I believe that the difficulty level will be even higher than the one we saw in the last world cup event, and I think that many more "surprises" await us.

Again, I believe it will be difficult for us bettors to make any money with the predictions of the next FIFA World Cup.

Bah, passou raspando entre os dois
Sou muito azarado mesmo, não é possível, oque fiz para merecer uma coisa dessas?

Parabéns pelas conquistas @rdluffy
Faz algum tempo que eu não participo mais dos sorteios que tempo por lá, o que é muito desleixo de minha parte já que toda semana aparece alguém fazendo um sorteio totalmente gratuito.

Infelizmente, alguns possuem limitação de entrega para alguns páises, incluindo o Brasil, mas certamente se for participar com frequência dos que são aplicáveis é bem provável que uma hora ou outra todo mundo ganha alguma coisa.

Sobre essa da Alpen Coin, o endereço BTC foi você mesmo que criou ou ela já veio com a private-key oculta?
Não sei qual é a reputação desse colecionável, mas depois do último incidente que houve com as Collectibes, te diria para tomar cuidado.

Pelos seus últimos compartamentos "estranhos" aqui no fórum, acho que tu tá trabalhando para a RFB

In 2022, Ferrari started out proving to be very competitive, winning two of the first three races but, as the championship progressed, the problems presented by the team paved the way for Red Bull's dominance, ending in Max Verstappen's second championship and in the Taurine conquest. of the Constructors' Championship.

However, there are indications that the Maranello team should be faster in 2023 due to several factors... on Pirelli tyres, especially the front ones to reduce the excess front output, something that was seen a lot in 2022, among other details. I think we will see fewer mistakes from Ferrari in 2023.

Ferrari will present the successor to the F1-75 on February 14th, we'll see what's new.

In my country we have the following saying: "An empty mind is the devil's workshop".

When we're alone, we usually get out of our routine and often run out of things to do, it's in those moments that we fall into the temptation of doing what gives us the most pleasure, for some it might be gambling, for others it's social networks, pornography or games.

We usually only "disconnect" from the addiction when something calls us back, it could be physical exhaustion or zero bankroll.

Gambling needs to be well controlled, whether financially or in terms of time control, for the latter, there are several applications that help us to maintain control.

Well, looking outside of gambling, we had great successes like for example Axie Infinity, which had its own currency, despite running on the Ethereum platform, but even so in the end it lost practically all its value.

Not to put you off, but casinos have a much more segmented niche and no matter how good the games are, users want to be able to easily make deposits and withdrawals without having to convert their funds.
Loquity and security are paramount, I find it difficult to get such an innovative service that can counterbalance these requirements.

In fact, but I still believe Trump is the overwhelming favorite to win the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, even though DeSantis is rising in national profile, he is unlikely to catch up with Trump

According to the latest poll taken by the Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll and released by The Hill, 48% of Republican voters said they would support Trump for the nomination, while only 28% would support DeSantis. He's up a mere 3 points, still a long way from catching up with Trump.
Trump definitely managed to maintain his popularity, although DeSantis' strength is well recognized, he is far from representing any risk to Trump's candidacy.

Does anyone here know of any site that accepts bets on these preliminary injunctions?

Falando concorrência, com a queda da FTX o que sobrou para brigar por esse mercado que no momento me parece estar sendo dominado muito bem pela Binance?
Se bem me lembro ainda tem a Coinbase, Bitfinex, KuCoin, certo?
A muito tempo utilizo somente a Binance no cenário internacional, então me perdoem essa ignorância. Mas eu realmente queria saber se á alguém que, além do FUD, poderia oferecer algum perigo à Binance no cenário atual.

Very crazy that, Brighton refused an offer of 68 million euros, they definitely do not intend to sell the 21-year-old player in this transfer window, since, with the sales of Marc Cucurella to Chelsea, Neal Maupay to Everton and Leandro Trossard to Arsenal itself, they have a good amount of money in their pockets, it is not prudent to have more casualties in their squad since money is not an issue for now.

However, Arsenal, which is the current leader of the Premier League, needs to hire in midfield, nothing urgent, this was a long-term goal, but with the injury of midfielder Mohamed Elneny, the movements intensified and with that, Caicedo passed to be the target of the London club, which runs out of time, since, in England, the deadline for transfers is January 31.

I'm sure Arsenal will make a new investment for the player, will they offer the 80 million?

Eu não entendo de termos técnicos, mas o Vitalik deve entender bem de como funciona a rede da Ethrreum, não sei se ele se daria ao trabalho de fazer tudo isso sabendo que poderia ser em vão.

Eu digo em vão, porque ao contrário do que tu falou de que a maioria vai desistir e somente alguns com muio tempo livre saberão, é mentira.
Pois quando um souber, já irá publicar a informação e o mundo todo voltará a monitorar determinada conta sabendo que ela é do Vitalik, ou não?

Enfim, eu acredito que nesse momento de repressão/controle que as criptos estão tendo por parte dos governos, já deveria de alguma forma terem desenvolvido alguma ferramenta, melhoria, protocolo, etc que pudesse anonimizar as transação com BTC e ETH sem precisar recorrer à serviços de terceiros.
Ou a forma como eles foram desenvildos de fato não permitiriam tal inovação?

Ah sim, tô ligado.... Mas tá de boa, pesquisando pelo nickname que utilizo aqui e em outros lugares é mais facil ainda chegar ao nome completo, não é uma identidade que eu faço tanta questão de esconder.
Mesmo assim, agradeço sua preocupação e aviso.

Pelo menos agora eu mudei de endereço, então os vazamentos da Ledger e da Celsius (não sei se nesse último tinha endereço) não podem mais ser utilizados para alguém chegar até mim e tentar usar o ataque da chave de fenda de 5 reais.


Compreendi, mas de fato acho que essa questão do valor mínimo poderia ter sido levada em consideração. Eu fiquei muito mais assustado quando me falaram dessa carta do que quando eu soube do caso da Celsius pela internet

Além de que, essa carta chegou super atrasada, com o tempo de resposta para início do processo legal já esgotado.
Um email hoje em dia é assumida como legalmente notificado em vários países, eles poderiam ter feito isso, ou não?

Exactly, and to complement this analysis, we can also mention the fact that the best soccer players (in quantity, not just the best) are Brazilians, making Brazil the country that most "exports" players, followed by France and Argentina.
The information was obtained from a study carried out by the "CIES Football Observatory" which monitors 135 football leagues around the world.

Returning to the subject of the topic, and complementing your information....

In fact, it's impossible to predict at this moment with any guarantee who will be the winner of the Brasileirão.
They say that after the half of the championship it is already possible to say that, but it is still a tournament that has a lot of "rotation" of winners.
We have many very good teams, in fact the Brasileirão is an extremely difficult championship.

Yes, he is absolutely right.
Today access to gambling consists of taking your hand in your pocket and unlocking a device, so in less than 2 minutes you are already betting.
Cryptocurrencies have also made addictions much easier, as it is currently much easier and less bureaucratic for you to move funds from your self-custodial wallet to your online casino account than worrying about withdrawals or withdrawal limits at conventional banks.

However, we must remember that online casinos, when well chosen, are much safer compared to physical casinos. In addition to other benefits that are not discussed here.

So, quickly answering your question: Yes, they become addictive faster, but for those who know how to control themselves, there is only advantage in using them.

Honestly, I think it's very wrong to say that men or women prefer certain games more, it depends a lot on each person's personality, regardless of their gender.
To cite a good example, I believe many of you must know Vanessa Selbst....

Professionally, she has a degree and works in law at Yale, but she is a woman who became known as "the legend of poker" in a time not too distant from today, a sport that, according to statistics, has 95% of the spots in their tournaments filled by men.
Vanessa played 12 years as a pro before retiring in 2018, not before winning no fewer than 3 World Series of Poker titles. She ultimately managed to amass over $12 million in prize money.

The preference of gambling games has no gender, they are chosen based on the personality and skill of each player.