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Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 13 hours ago

Polymarket Decides Incentivizing a Nuclear Detonation Might Be a Bad Idea

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Polymarket Decides Incentivizing a Nuclear Detonation Might Be a Bad Idea

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Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 13 hours ago
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The prediction market platform recenlty pulled trades on the probablibly of a nuclear weapon being denotated.
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    Among a whole host of other things, gambling has really gotten out of control

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      Anyone wondering why Islam prohibits gambling should immediately be shown this headline

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    The market self regulating 😌

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    [America’s hardest working gamblers being mugged by woke executives]

    kelly Polytically incorrect

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    What about betting on a percentage of people living in fallout shelters in the near future? Unrelatedly.

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    Murphy warned that allowing these wagers to go on could create incentives for people in the Situation Room to think about how they could profit from military decisions instead of focusing on national security.

    Can’t incentivize winning the big upset “no US war crimes for a day” bet

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      anakin-padme-4 So that means they’ll be removing all the other bets that offer a perverse incentive for our leaders to abuse their positions of power for their own gain?

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    Betting on the collpase of capitalism

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      What do you plan to do with your winnings?

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        Gold plated Fallout power suit to flex on the poors as I’m walking around the irradiated hellscape that used to be my house

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        Increase shareholder value 😤

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      Betting on USSR 2 Electric Boogaloo with Cyborg Stalin

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        I would bet against it, so i have money to lessen my sorrow when Cyborg Stalin does not happen.

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    Good, now for housing and business

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    Reminds me of this scene in Bowling for Columbine where the brother of Oklahoma City bombing accomplice Terry Nichols reluctantly concedes that there should be some limits to the right to bear arms.

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      … He cocked a .44 mag and put it to his temple right in front of Moore right before this.

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