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Senators demand crackdown on wildfire “prediction market” bets | Fire experts warn such markets could incentivize arson. (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 131 points 3 months ago* (13 children)

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.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    You speak as if prediction market gambling started in the US. That's as much bullshit as claiming it started in your country. Things like this have been going on for hundreds of years.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    And before that 50 years ago, what was the social contract like for a black person, a woman, or a native?

    Your rosie view of the past, like America was ever a good place, is telling.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Where ever was there a good place?

    A place without slavery, non consentual servitude, any and all injustuce, famine, or disease?

    What is the standatd here?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (5 children)

    Do you have any good takes or is your username meant to drip irony and that's the point?

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  • [–] -3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Are you stupid on purpose or does it come naturally?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I'd say I mostly come by it naturally but sometimes it's the drugs which, I guess, means it's also on purpose. So both.

    I still can't decide if you're an AI bot, a collection of users in a Russian (or other country) troll farm, or just a teenage / early 20s edgelord who's lost their way looking for 4chan.

    Like, honestly, it's almost impressive how good you are at rage baiting folks. So far i'm going with your username being an intentionally ironic joke.

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  • [+] -2 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I know you don't. Just musing "out loud" for whoever is wasting their time reading these godforsaken comments.

    I just hope your attitude and demeanor offline are better than what you put out on Lemmy otherwise you're gonna make life harder for yourself than it needs to be.

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