Our entire reality is run by bad ideas now.
Don’t worry, pretty soon AI will take over, I’m sure it will bne fine.
It is astonishing how much insanity we have to tolerate. It is quite evident that gambling is harmful for all, yet we do nothing but remain ageist against the minorities and barely solve the real issue.
Things are escalating further and further. This isn’t some regular gambling any more, it’s a crime on humanity. Polymarket is the enabler, and as such should be banished. Incentivising peoples misfortunes is anti-humanity.
Bro working at Nuclear Missile Command: “I am gonna make so much money on this bet!”
99 Kriegsminister
Streichholz und Benzinkanister
Hielten sich für schlaue Leute
Witterten schon fette Beute
Riefen: „Krieg!“, und wollten Macht
Mann, wer hätte das gedacht?
Dass es einmal so weit kommt
Wegen 99 LuftballonsMoney that won’t be worth anything moments later.
99 Jahre Krieg
Ließen keinen Platz für Sieger
Kriegsminister gibt’s nicht mehr
Und auch keine Düsenflieger
Heute zieh’ ich meine Runden
Seh’ die Welt in Trümmern liegen
Hab’ ‘n Luftballon gefunden
Denk’ an dich und lass’ ihn fliegenCollect money, convert to bottle caps.
I have little faith the international community would sufficiently sanction and punish this.
That’s… not exactly what I meant.
And yet you’re both correct.
It’s ok, MAD will take care of it.
Who exactly is doing the “Mutually Assured” part for Iran?
If the US deploys a nuke in Iran:
- as long as it’s not an ICBM over adversaries, it won’t trigger immediate response systems. Tactical nuke would probably be the choice.
- Russia won’t nuke the US back for this. China won’t nuke the US back for this. Iran doesn’t have nukes, though could do a dirty bomb or something – but that’s not consistent with MAD. Pakistan is cozying up to the US for their war in Afghanistan, and India isn’t highly aligned. There’s no way the EU would nuke the US in retaliation, they’d only deploy them defensively.
- As much as I would want, I can’t see Canada or Europe severing all ties with the US or going to war over it, which would be the only acceptable responses.
I do not want the US to do this, they absolutely shouldn’t, but I fear they could do it and it would stir up only a tepid response from protesters and not governments.
Russia nukes Kyiv, China nukes Tokyo, North Korea (assuming delivery capabilities) nukes Seoul, India probably drops nukes on China and Pakistan, etc. It’s the actual Domino Theory people were talking about during the Cold War, they just thought the domino was communism. Once the bandaid gets ripped off and nuclear weapons are an accepted and normalized tool of conventional war, they’re now EVERYONE’S first resort.
Well for one thing, if the US breaks the nuclear armistice then surely russia will point to them as they follow suit.
Then Europe will be in the awkward position of deciding whether retaliation is called for. If they don’t retaliate, putin keeps nuking ukraine. If Europe does retaliate, putin nukes NATO and the world enters a full-scale global war likely ending in nuclear armageddon.
Any use of nuclear weapons in any context will have catastrophic results.
Not that the current “leaders” of the US care about that at all. They’ll hide out in their bunkers while we all fry for their piss poor decisions…
Foresight is for libtards.
(/s)
boutta be a bunch of millionaires in Bellevue NB
How are these betting sites even legal I thought betting was illegal in most states
You’re not betting, see? You’re buying/investing in a “futures contract” in an open market and there’s no house edge!
TL;DR it’s gambling but structured in a way that evades current regulations.
Stock markets are legal in most states, so betting is legal in most states if you do it in a way rich people like.
Nope, sports betting was decriminalized a few years ago. And everything got so much worse.
Especially since they also legalized advertising for gambling services.
“Oh don’t worry, just include a disclaimer about gambling addiction and seeking help and I’m sure everything will be fine…”
…while they promise free money and instant wealth to some of the most vulnerable and impoverished people in the US…
And… hate to say it, but there are a lot of people with 80-90 level IQ in the US. Many of them struggle with things like forecasting consequences, longterm planning. They are extremely vulnerable to these manipulative marketers.
I can’t recall whether he discusses the legality of it, but YouTuber Drew Gooden has a video where he provides a lot of information about online gambling.
The Internet is global.
Also, it’s only illegal if you get punished for it.
I’m worried about how few people understand this.
Pure degeneracy
WSB went corporate. The true degenerates who couldn’t get to Wall street or the Vegas strip had to go somewhere.
Lame :(
Hmmm. Not sure how perilous the denotation of a nuclear bomb may be but a detonation of one will be an absolute nightmare…
(I bet the spell check missed it completely since both are correctly spelled, but of course context… and is a perfect example of why actually proof-reading your work before you post it is advisable. Oyyy.)
the subtitle has “probablibly”
At least we can say it’s unlikely to be ai slop.
Right now a bunch of countries have operational nuclear weapons (and this ends in 1998). No one has used one in warfare since 1945 - right now there’s basically a fragile truce on nuclear war. Putin threatened to use one but even he didn’t actually pull that trigger.
If someone does… then I expect everyone does.
If anyone was dumb enough to use a nuke and also be proud… it will be trump…
“It’s armageddon, we did it for jesus! I am the angel of war!”
“A day’s wages for a day’s grain! Keep your hands off the wine and oil, peasant!”
Or Netanyahu.
It’ll just be on some other platform. Gambling is spreading. It’s in fucking everything now.
What’s the over under for it moving to another platform?
I wonder when Yahoo News will start allowing bets.
I’d put money on “within 90 days”. France just sent nuclear armed jets to its allies.
Anyone else wondering if this was a distraction from the other polymarket news related to Iran?
Please, do tell.
Yeah, that sounds about right. I wonder if Pete made him some beer money.
I don’t know but maybe it was “number of children murdered in cold blood this week”
Are we at that level of depravity for capitalism yet?
Who am i kidding? Of course we are.
