- FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish27 minutes
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.
2 hoursThey should make wildlifes illegal and this whole thing will stop /s
- CIA_chatbot@lemmy.worldEnglish6 hours
No shit you dumbfucks, prediction markets incentivize a fuck load of illegal shit and corruption and should be banned
- Thorry@feddit.orgEnglish6 hours
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.worldEnglish5 hours
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.
- minorkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish5 hours
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.
- ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 hours
It’s……well actually less likely than you’d think but it’s still a big fuckin’ problem.
- 8 hours
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.worldEnglish29 minutes
Thanks for the insider info. Someone go put a bet on this guy not escaping climate change or arson gambling markets. /s
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.
- 3 hours
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.
- 3 hours
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
- 7 hours
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.worksEnglish3 hours
The 3 seasons of Washington: windy rain, smoke, and lukewarm rain.
- BigMacHole@thelemmy.clubEnglish5 hours
I PRAY to GOD that Prediction Markets WRITE LEGISLATION to STOP People from putting a Viral Bet on if Billionaire Island in Florida will BURN DOWN! PLEASE just let us bet on OUR deaths NOT the Deaths of Rich People!
-Republican Voters!
- Danarchy@lemmy.nzEnglish5 hours
Just stick to betting on wholesome things like if a kid’s gonna croak from cancer
