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gambling has been around longer than rules..... longer than morality... and the alphabet. whether you’ve ever rolled dice or not, you’ve for sure gambled before. everyone has. ancient myth even credits one man, palamedes, with inventing both letters of the alphabet and dice, which means the same figure tied to language and reason also gets blamed for chance. the story gets stranger from there. the article below, pulled from a 1967 issue of monsieur, goes into how dice moved f

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it’s hard to compare modern immigration to someone’s great-grandfather showing up in 1910 because the actual rules are completely different. people treat the ellis island era like it’s the end all be all, but it just isn’t. it was one moment. and short one. the system we have currently isn’t some ancient, permanent structure. it’s not what granpappy patricks experience. it’s recent, and it was built with very specific goals in mind. for some extremely simplified and brief his

lizzie magie filed her patent in 1904. she called it the landlord’s game . it wasn’t meant to be fun, exactly. it was meant to show something. land ownership concentrates wealth. rent rewards people who produce nothing. once monopolies form, outcomes stop being accidental. the instructions said all of this plainly. people ignored the lesson and kept the game. over the next few decades, the board drifted hand to hand. homemade versions. penciled-in street names. no official ma

atlantic city has never been a city that exists quietly. it has always been a place people pass through, linger in, leave, return to, and talk about later. a city built for visitors, but kept alive by the people who stay. a place where attention concentrates instead of disperses. that matters.... most advertising today disappears the moment it appears. it scrolls by. it refreshes. it competes with a thousand other things asking for the same second of attention. atlantic city

i SO was disappointed to read the philadelphia inquirer piece on atlantic city. not because the reporting was factually wrong, but because it leaned so heavily into a familiar crisis framing that this city has worn for decades. the headline tells you what to think before you’re allowed to look around. trial. fire. fear. repeat. the article stacks the mayor’s trial, new york casinos, and the peanut world fire into a single narrative and calls it a diagnosis. uncertainty is tre

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