- 17 days
The fact that the US has turned literally everything into something you can gamble on really shows how much of a failure of a society the US truly is.
The social contract has been dead for 50 years and yet people younger than fifty still out there acting like nothings wrong, and all you need to do is “get a better job” and everything will be fine.
Man I’m not sure getting a better job is gonna help me escape climate change exacerbated wildfires, nor the gambling markets that incentivize arson.
- njordomir@lemmy.worldEnglish17 days
Thanks for the insider info. Someone go put a bet on this guy not escaping climate change or arson gambling markets. /s
- ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish17 days
You speak as if prediction market gambling started in the US. That’s as much bullshit as claiming it started in your country. Things like this have been going on for hundreds of years.
16 daysYeah, but not at the scale that apps and the internet allow and with the legal backing of the US government.
- Nonconfrontational@lemmy.mlEnglish17 days
And before that 50 years ago, what was the social contract like for a black person, a woman, or a native?
Your rosie view of the past, like America was ever a good place, is telling.
- WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish17 days
nobody said it was a good place. nobody painted a rosie view of it. we can admit when things get worse.
I wonder why do you have the worst takes whenever I see your name. why are you attacking those that are taken advantage of? whats in it for you for attacking this user?
- Nonconfrontational@lemmy.mlEnglish17 days
You view this as an attack on the user and not attempting to disillusion as many Americans as possible? I guess it’s more for possible future readers, but it’s definitely not an attack on the user.
I don’t give a fuck about your opinions on my takes lol.
- WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish17 days
Disillusion about what? does not seem like that user has written anything out of illusions.
I don’t give a fuck about your opinions on my takes lol.
but maybe you should when precisely nobody values what you say
- Nonconfrontational@lemmy.mlEnglish17 days
It’s funny that you refer to yourself as nobody, if a little sad.
At least he knows he’s a nobody, you’re the delusional one in this case.
- LePoisson@lemmy.worldEnglish16 days
Do you have any good takes or is your username meant to drip irony and that’s the point?
- LePoisson@lemmy.worldEnglish16 days
I’d say I mostly come by it naturally but sometimes it’s the drugs which, I guess, means it’s also on purpose. So both.
I still can’t decide if you’re an AI bot, a collection of users in a Russian (or other country) troll farm, or just a teenage / early 20s edgelord who’s lost their way looking for 4chan.
Like, honestly, it’s almost impressive how good you are at rage baiting folks. So far i’m going with your username being an intentionally ironic joke.
- LePoisson@lemmy.worldEnglish16 days
I know you don’t. Just musing “out loud” for whoever is wasting their time reading these godforsaken comments.
I just hope your attitude and demeanor offline are better than what you put out on Lemmy otherwise you’re gonna make life harder for yourself than it needs to be.
- postmateDumbass@lemmy.worldEnglish16 days
Where ever was there a good place?
A place without slavery, non consentual servitude, any and all injustuce, famine, or disease?
What is the standatd here?
- Nonconfrontational@lemmy.mlEnglish16 days
Because the rest of the world is shit doesn’t excuse the countless atrocities of America, lol. Great attempt at deflection, I guess?
- CIA_chatbot@lemmy.worldEnglish17 days
No shit you dumbfucks, prediction markets incentivize a fuck load of illegal shit and corruption and should be banned
- Thorry@feddit.orgEnglish17 days
Even if it were all above board, it’s just gambling and should be heavily restricted just as all other forms of betting.
- nullspace@lemmy.worldEnglish17 days
I’m against gambling, but at least with slot machines and poker tables there isn’t a cash incentive to go light the forest on fire.
- postmateDumbass@lemmy.worldEnglish16 days
With sports betting you are still not allowed to bet on your own games or leauges.
To remove betting on outcomes you control much of.
- minorkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish17 days
Given the texts between Daniel Cormier and Trump’s kid, it’s very obvious why they’re allowing this and what extent they’re willing to go to make money.
Yeah, just outlaw prediction markets that contain negative values. or political values, like who cares about weather predictions but anythijg that can change society needs a heavy block
This shit makes me particularly upset as the current Washington State fires were caused by an arsonist.
10,000 acres burning and only 13% contained.
- 17 days
I’m not even near the fires and I’ve been cooped up inside for days because the AQI is insanely bad all over the state.
- ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish17 days
The 3 seasons of Washington: windy rain, smoke, and lukewarm rain.
- 17 days
Right? Now I’m wondering if it was for some bullshit gambling payout.
A man suspected of starting one of three catastrophic Spokane-area wildfires on Saturday is facing additional arson charges after allegedly admitting to starting 25 other fires around Riverside State Park since last July, according to a memorandum prosecutors filed Wednesday in Spokane County Superior Court.
By Wednesday, detectives had corroborated evidence indicating the man started at least four of the 25 fires he had described, prosecutors said in the memorandum.
The 37-year-old was arrested Monday at his West Spokane apartment, two days after prosecutors allege he sparked the Old Trails fire. He was booked into the Spokane County Jail on suspicion of first-degree arson, where he is being held on $1 million bond. The man is scheduled to be arraigned 3 p.m. Thursday in Spokane County Superior Court.
Maybe, maybe not. This guy has been starting fires for a while apparently and this is after he murdered his father over dishes.
- 17 days
Holy shit 25 fires? It’s too bad it took this one to catch him. 1 million seems low for the sheer property value at risk alone, not counting everything else
- JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish17 days
That’s bond.
That’s not the price on his freedom forever. That’s the deposit for getting to have freedom while awaiting trial.
- 17 days
Yeah no shit! What the fuck?!
Fuck every person that takes part in a bet like this. I’ll put them in the same category as Trump voters. Scorched earth.
- Nonconfrontational@lemmy.mlEnglish17 days
Just start a betting pool on if the kalshi or polymarket head offices get firebombed in the next 60 days, problem solved either way.
- Master_Suck@lemmy.worldEnglish16 days
Probably people who live in deserts or otherwise have never seen a tree in their life.
- halferect@lemmy.worldEnglish16 days
People who live in deserts know three things, drought, fires and flash floods. Fires in the desert happen a lot. Probably way more than anywhere else.
- Master_Suck@lemmy.worldEnglish16 days
Lemme rephrase a bit: people who bet on this sort of thing are probably ones who have only lived in a desert, never having seen a tree in the first place.
I’m sure there’s plenty of fires in a hot place.
- ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish17 days
It’s……well actually less likely than you’d think but it’s still a big fuckin’ problem.
- JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish16 days
We’ve had major wildfires started by part time firefighters looking to create some work for themselves. Wildfire gambling is pretty much guaranteed to turn all of our countryside into ash.
- FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish17 days
It reminds me of a really great line from the movie Coming To America: “Imagine a country so free one can throw glass in its streets.”
Donald has personal financial interests in prediction markets and his properties probably have private firefighting. What the fuck does he care?
And for the next two years he’s going to have nothing to lose. We’ll see if there’s any America left once he’s done.
- 16 days
Why can’t these people just go to casinos and lose everything on blackjack and roulette like normal gambling addicts?
You mean go outside the house? Like some sort of peasant without the internet?
We should have Kalshi bets on whether these people will ever be able to break their gambling addictions.
- 17 days
But all the other forms of market manipulation are fine. Lol
They should make wildlifes illegal and this whole thing will stop /s
- pipi1234@lemmy.worldEnglish17 days
Oh man, This is it. I lost the last remaining smidget of hope on humanity.
This unironically for every business. Force them to pay us for peace.
