John Oliver on prediction markets: ‘Betting on war is really dark’

Yeah, although they described it as how it was run by the pentagon, and almost exclusively for war related stuff. Now you can bet on, like, how many times Trump will say "nasty".

Why not both gif.

I think gambling has been incredibly normalised especially to Gen-Z As a millennial I still remember how much arguments were being had about loot boxes and rewards packs in games with random odds. At that time publishers acted like it was fun mechanics but now you're going to have entire generations normalised to gambling mechanics through gatcha games.

Naomi is prescient.

Actual gambling is at least somewhat fair

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“WE” don’t reward them. They built a system that rewards themselves and we are just meat in the grinder of that system. Defeatist? Idk… more realism than anything. But your take is not invalid. Our best traits preclude us from fully eliminating the worst and those who personify those traits … which is why the cycle will never end

Says the 3 month old account who didn’t bother to watch the show.

I tried to pick a selection of reasonably wealthy professions and make a thought experiment of if a group of them or someone in their category pooled resources together. I definitely agree it’s probably people much wealthier that would do this. But what’s stop a group of reasonably wealthy jerks from doing a coup? People can hire mercs from Soldier of Fortune Magazine. Or even dark web. Like I am sure in countries where the dollar is strongest even a group somewhat wealthy Americans could do insane damage.

The number of kids that get into football and boxing from rich vs poor families belies the notion of consent.

Many political prisoners have been freed. It’s not ideal but compare to how the Iran war is going. It’s not the same because back in 2024, maduro promised to respect election results then killed thousands of people and stayed in power despite losing by 70% and nobody cared. When maduro got kidnapped most Americans didn’t even know he was a dictator they kept calling him democratically elected. Nowadays the moment the regime touches a hair on someone’s head it’ll be international news because the U.S. will be considered responsible for it. As a Mexican whose country got hit hard by the Venezuelan migrant crisis, I was always sympathetic to their plight. It’s frankly quite horrifying it was this easy to end the regime yet nobody did anything for 10 years. Trump is awful, but it says a lot it was him of all people who finally said no. It should be shameful he had a more positive impact on Venezuela than Obama or Biden.