I do play some, used to more in the past.

Ah! That's called a "negative pool", and when it happens, all winning bettors get a minimal positive payout, like $2.05 for a $2 bet. It almost never happens for "win" betting but you sometimes see it in the "show" pool (1st, 2nd, or 3rd place) for a big favorite. So that's a rare positive expectation. And people know this, and sometimes place huge bets to show on a big favorite, which gets you a few percent at a time until one loss wipes you out. It's called "bridgejumping", as in "if that horse doesn't at least come in 3rd I'm jumping off a bridge".

I think the only "reasonable" goal is (as you say) not to pick the winner, but to correctly compute the odds of each horse winning, and then only bet if you can get more than that. An extra obstacle here is the dynamic odds in paramutuel betting, where you don't know your final payout for sure. (There are markets where you can get fixed odds, but that's not the typical case for US racing.)

The gamblers are absolutely known to to be losing on average, because the way parimutuel betting works is that they put all the bets in a pile, take out the house percentage -- which pays for just about everything in racing except sponsored races -- and distribute the rest to the winners. And that take is not small; it's classically 17% for win/place/show betting and 25%-30% for exotics (top finishers in order or winners of multiple consecutive races).

Notice that Chipotle has introduced a "Protein Menu" of smaller, protein-focused portions. I'm confident this is 100% because of GLPs, which not only reduce appetite but require people to be sure to get enough protein.

It's ham radio, not HAM radio. Not even Ham radio. (Error in the linked article, so not blaming the editors for this one.)

Wait. When I give to a charity with a CC I'm supposed to deduct the CC cashback from the donation when taking a charity deduction? I see the logic but that's new to me. (Having said that, the standard deduction has become big enough that I haven't itemized in years.)

I prefer the Norman Bates School of Motel Management:

https://www.facebook.com/TonyP...

Literal pro tip, impressed.

https://evans-legal.com/dan/tp...

(why all this is bullshit)

There's always going to be some time at which the show becomes available, and before that it's not. How can it be otherwise?

And the "canonical" version of it stars a Russian actor as the King.

"Nearly half of Americans are using third-party antivirus software and the rest are either using the default protection in their operating system -- or none at all."

Thanks for that second part, which covers all possibilities. It's like "half of marriages end in divorce, and the rest end in death" -- it could not be otherwise.

I mean, in a sense, but if you couldn't hope to sell them for more later on the stock market that would make them less appealing as an investment.

That may what you'd like it to mean, but here's the text:

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi...

[38] Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
[39] But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
[40] And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.
[41] And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
[42] Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
[43] Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
[44] But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

Nothing here about "discouraging bad behavior", at all. "Pray for them" is the best I see here