Same betting app you can bet on the impacts of climate change, promoting gambling on a collapsing government

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• Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  🤣 this is so dystopian and these betting sites have crazy conflicts of interest. I hate the human world more and more with each passing day. I’ll stick to my nature thank you.

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  • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s wild that this site has full CFTC certification since 2020. Like the only things they were restricted on betting was terrorism, war, and gaming.
    Apparently everything else isn’t a conflict to the government if it makes poor people give up their money to the wealthy.

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    • NotSteve_@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      gaming

      that seems so out of place its kind of hilarious

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  • WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Remember the admin is setting up to sell our nature.

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• YoFrodo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Every post of this ad is just free advertising for them

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  • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I would hope the lemmy user base would be capable of telling its users that this is a terrible gambling site.

    Plus they already have over 2 million users. It exists without me mentioning its name. The best i can do is call it dumb publicly.

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  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I would just assume the regular Lemmy-joe to be intellectually capable to already know. I mean, they’re obviously not here for the gigaquad of funny memes 😊

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• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  An argument I’ve heard for allowing this is, at least it means the public will have more reliable advance information, since insiders are incentivized to bet on what they know will happen in order to take everyone else’s money, which happens before that information gets into the news.

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  • SL3wvmnas@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well depends on the definition of public… When Peter Thiel invests heavily in a platform like polymarket all it does is tell him if his political power is showing. Everything else is breadcrumbs we are allowed to see…

    Much like with similar markets, robinhood comes to mind, I suspect this is of similar cloth (hugely profitable to the insiders, sometimes profitable to the outsiders and the public ““findings”” get massaged by their marketing department.

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    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m not sure what you mean, in this case the definition of public would be anyone who can see the state of the market (everyone), and so can see when insider trading visibly moves the price. The idea being that doing the insider trading unavoidably leaks the information in this way, they can’t hide it unless they can manage to actually prevent all insiders from trading on their inside knowledge.

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• robocall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Some boomer told me Trump wants the shutdown to be 47 days because he’s the 47th president. It’s terrible, but I could see it.

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• Covenant@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A couple politics will place a bet as soon they know before the public does.

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  • Artisian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If so, you can use the market to get early notification. Your payout should not get smaller by more people entering the market (YES shares when it’s at 99% probability are worth less than YES shares at 50%)

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• Artisian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I admit to feeling better about betting on political events than the stock market. At least the events are real, no?

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• nunya@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Latest South Park episode covered this type of “business” pretty well.

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Are we all going to burn to death or not? Place your bets, gentlemen!

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• obinice@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oof, which country’s government is collapsing this week?

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I feel like Marx must’ve predicted this

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