nifty@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 months agoNate Silver predicts Trump has 64% chance of winning the electoral college in latest forecastwww.msn.comexternal-linkmessage-square161fedilinkarrow-up1238arrow-down144
arrow-up1194arrow-down1external-linkNate Silver predicts Trump has 64% chance of winning the electoral college in latest forecastwww.msn.comnifty@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square161fedilink
minus-squareBilliam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up89arrow-down5·2 months agoNo, Nate is not part of 538 anymore. He now works for a crypto betting website partly owned by Peter Thiel. I’ll let you decide how neutral that makes him.
minus-squarerhythmisaprancer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoBoo, what does this mean for 538?
minus-squareSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·2 months agoHe’s a degen gambler who admits in his book he was gambling up to $10k a day while running 538… It never made him go “huh maybe I fucked my employees because I’m a degen gambler.”
minus-squareDogPeePoo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up36arrow-down1·2 months agoPeter Thiel, the same guy who sold Republicans on JD the couch fucker Vance
minus-squarebss03@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoWhile that is also my pet name for JD, keep in mind it is aspirational, not historic.
No, Nate is not part of 538 anymore. He now works for a crypto betting website partly owned by Peter Thiel.
I’ll let you decide how neutral that makes him.
Boo, what does this mean for 538?
He’s a degen gambler who admits in his book he was gambling up to $10k a day while running 538… It never made him go “huh maybe I fucked my employees because I’m a degen gambler.”
Peter Thiel, the same guy who sold Republicans on JD the couch fucker Vance
While that is also my pet name for JD, keep in mind it is aspirational, not historic.