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Maybe it’s the guys who sell post-rapture pet care hedging their liabilities.

Robin Hanson, an academic pioneer of prediction markets, considered the insider trading to be a feature not a bug. But from his perspective the point of the markets were to make accurate predictions, not to have a fair betting platform.

If I go when schools out it’s me and a bunch of yoots.

We also know that his original story was they best he could concoct given the public facts at the time. It was almost heroic. And a bold faced lie.

But I’m sure the second story, also the best one could come up with given the known facts today, is actually the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

@Doctor-Phibes said in It’s time to fucking die already:

I read somewhere that a populist is somebody who gives people what they want, whereas a leader is somebody who gives people what they need.

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

I just checked, it is.

Rogan having none of the administrations latest line.

What if we had an entire foreign policy based on the petty resentments and insecurities of one fragile man?

I know people who know Oz. He’s opportunistic and a grifter to be sure, but he’s not a kook.

Yeah him too but I happen to be talking about the park bench socialist.

Running uphill with skis on. I didn’t know this was a thing. Sub six minute mile? Amazing.

You have to wonder how much Trump coin they bought.

I think it’s just a TNCR Twitter glitch.

It’s video of Trump being interviewed where he says he was going to lower the tariff on Switzerland but:

“I didn’t really like the way she talked to us… So, instead of giving her a reduction, I raised her to 39%.”

Textbook national emergency.

The numbers prolly ain’t good.

Im sure he’s telling the whole truth this time and not just concocting the best possible story consistent with the facts that are public.

Prediction markets are federally regulated so states can’t outlaw them. They are open to 18 year olds, most sports books require 21. Betting is common among young men so they get used to using prediction markets long before they’re eligible for sports book apps.

I don’t know if they’ve caught up to betting apps but they have innate advantages.

How it started:

How it’s going: