Should I buy a Powerball ticket?

[RandomGuy]

If you’re even being one quarter serious about the “any fraction is greater than zero thus rounded up” stupidity, you should research the viability of suicide.

"thus rounded up"? (not sure what you mean by that)

I don't look at it as if I have any chance. It is mildly amusing entertainment for a few minutes. I figure I spend 15 bucks buying/renting movies on a regular basis, a dollar for this stuff every few months is along the same lines. A fair part of it in Texas goes to school budgets, so has that added benefit, in my view.

[TimDunkem]

Derp just said oxygen isn't important in the Nick Cordero thread in the off topic section.

Seriously.

[Chucho]

Gotta be old, Asian, black or female to win.

[Chucho]

Derp just said oxygen isn't important in the Nick Cordero thread in the off topic section.

Seriously.

Wouldn't be surprised if he auto-erotic asphyxiates himself to chump posts, tbh. So maybe he's right from his own personal viewpoint. Let's hope he goes David Carradine levels.

[SpursforSix]

The current jackpot is 87 million. A ticket costs $1 and the odds of winning are 1 in 292,000,000, but according to alt right math thats rounded up to 1 in 10, meaning that for $1 I can buy a powerball ticket with a present value of $8.7 million.

Am I missing something guise? Seems like a good deal tbh.

Bend over, I'll ing give you Powerballs.

[baseline bum]

half serious:

Yes. One ticket. positive fraction still larger than zero.

I will occasionally buy a ticket for fun on that basis. I put it it the entertainment budget.

Never bought a lottery ticket in my life and plan to never buy one either. Can't understand why anyone would ever spend a cent on a lottery ticket. I don't like giving money away.

[RandomGuy]

Never bought a lottery ticket in my life and plan to never buy one either. Can't understand why anyone would ever spend a cent on a lottery ticket. I don't like giving money away.

I have actually gambled exactly ONCE. Bet $50 on a blackjack hand. I won, and walked away. Had a wonderful steak dinner in the casino restaurant and went on my merry way.

[spurraider21]

Never bought a lottery ticket in my life and plan to never buy one either. Can't understand why anyone would ever spend a cent on a lottery ticket. I don't like giving money away.

lottery is just a poor tax