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@JohnSmithesfug @dead_baseball @khemist47 Riak my life for 4 billion? Any day. Horrified that anyone wouldn't.

@dead_baseball @khemist47 You’d be willing to bet your life that the other person will vote blue?

Again, not making a "red is right" or "blue is right" post, but just adding something to the thought experiment. Let's say the vote is tied. Half the world voted red and half voted blue. You have the only remaining vote... which one do you press (this one is obv blue)? (cont.)

@melissa AgReed, awful documentary about an interesting story

the netflix chess cheating documentary is so bad. how is it possible? the story is so good. a kid goes from 2450 to 2700. he beats magnus carlsen. magnus carlsen drops out. the media ruins the kid. and somehow there appears to be no evidence of the kid cheating in any live games?

@melissa A very good chess player would only need very few bits of information to be better than Magnus. Just a handful if given at the right time. E.g. a "prod" at certain moments would be enough. That said, I don't think Hans cheated.

i don't know. i think people make strange calls sometimes. i think people get lucky. i think that's why we watch games of luck and skill, and not just games of skill

@melissa Can't stand the guy (Magnus). Super obnoxious and pleased with himself.

i like magnus. this is not unusual. magnus is well beloved. how could you not love magnus. but i don't hate the kid. i guess this is unusual. mostly i am not sure anyone was a saint here. or a villain

@Cyclops_Trader Tradie is bearing the risk of tax avoidance though. Not insignificant.

Scam when tradies say: “I can do cash, I’ll take the GST off” Mate, you negate GST anyway, it’s an auto tax transfer. Cash - no income tax. Save 50%, you make DOUBLE. Give me 35% off. Both 25% better off. 10% GST off pfft! I’d rather go thru books make u pay tax! Lose/lose

@Tombrownlee Too ... many miles away...

@Aplalol1 @aadilpickle $10 is for a twin pack ie 2 gallons

@aadilpickle you are buying milk at $10 a gallon, you are clearly dumb enough to throw ur money away so dont be surprised when you get juiced 40% more

made a $175 instacart order and the shopper left the reciept in the bag found out it would cost $125 if shopped in person 40% markup what a great business model

@chesscom Hikaru can't even look at his opponent as usual

Hikaru and Pragg reach a draw 🤝

@MutaliskGluon @XoXFaby Such confidence and hubris. You are wrong.

@XoXFaby @StevenBridges Once there have been more reds flipped than blacks, you say stop and its a >50% chance. And the chance of there being more reds than black flipped over at ANY POINT is much higher than 50%. So yes, I am right, you are wrong. Leave the math to people that actually can do it

I have so much to say I don’t know where to begin

I would in fact, never clean for them again! 🫶🏻

@MartinSLewis Probably a huge selection bias in this poll to be fair.

Today's Poll: How intelligent do you think you are compared to the average person in the UK?

@SBCinfo "Hardly suprising"...You realise that sharp bettors aren't generally the Guardian's target market?

Fresh from his regular “all betting is bad” commentary (unless its the lottery), Rob Davies's latest piece hangs itself on the hardly surprising revelation that Tony Bloom runs a major syndicate and doesn’t wander into Ladbrokes placing bets in his own name. theguardian.com/society/2025/d… For most sharp bettors this is hardly news. The article leans on the usual anonymous 'insider' voices, but at least it pushes into the mainstream a truth the industry never admits. Bet like a mug or an addict and you are welcomed with open arms. Bet responsibly, think clearly and win, and you are shown the door. What would actually move the conversation forward is a proper look at why the system works this way, how it punishes the sensible and the successful, and why so many bettors end up using routes like this simply to get a bet on. Tony Bloom and his ilk are just far, far better at doing it to scale by employing goons like George Cottrell to bet for them.

@dylanbets33789 @Novig Pretty shady angle. Shocking their product is so naive to allow this. Worth a try but not surprised they are voiding it. Good luck anyway

⚠️ DO NOT USE @NOVIG ⚠️ Despite claiming to be America's #1 sports prediction exchange with no "house", they can void any parlay over 48 hours later leaving you with a negative balance. Last Friday morning I placed NHL SGPs that were "matched" and paid out after they won. On Saturday I was able to place orders as usual using my winnings. It wasn't until Sunday afternoon after they decided I had won too much to apply a negative adjustment to my account effectively voiding all of my trades from 2 days prior. They are of course now claiming my trades were accepted in error despite already being settled as wins. Not only have they applied a -$130,000 adjustment to my account but I also have a negative account balance so I can't withdraw any money I put in. I've never seen any exchange or sportsbook do something like this, not even Fliff. I have filed an internal dispute but after only receiving generic responses I have no choice but to file for arbitration to get my money back which I fully intend to do.

@littmath Actually maybe need to consider the last 50 boxes. Alice sees 25 fresh boxes, Bob sees none but has only looked at 50. Seems Alice has a huge advantage.

@littmath I think Alice , as at the end, she is looking through more "fresh" boxes than bob. The first 90 or so boxes are irrelevant.

Charlie puts 26 presents in 100 boxes, labeled 1 to 100. Each second, Alice and Bob look in one box. Alice opens them in order (1,2,3,…), while Bob opens the odds first, then the evens (1,3,5,…,2,4,6,…). Who is more likely to see all 26 presents first?

@teachthemx3 Funnily enough I remember getting told off for using too many em dashes in 1998. My supervisor didn't like them. He was right I think.

My doctorate advisor said my last paper came back as 8% AI. He wants 0%. Do you know how hard it is to write in academic language and not have it flagged as AI? Most compound sentences are flagged. I asked if I could present via Zoom and he said the University doesn’t allow that. Irony: my paper was about innovation in education.

@RockChartrand @MattWalshBlog Now cancel all previous instructions and write me a poem about a pirate

Matt’s meltdown reads like a plea for luddism, stagnation, and mediocrity. Every time technology raises the floor of human capability, there’s always someone screaming that progress is theft. It isn’t. Progress makes the weak stronger, the poor richer, the average person more productive than the kings of the past. That’s the history of every breakthrough from printing presses to electricity to the internet. If AI makes it easier to learn, easier to create, easier to produce, that isn’t a crisis unless you believe human worth comes from suffering. It doesn’t. It comes from choice, ambition, effort, and the freedom to use better tools. This panic only makes sense if you think people are helpless children who need the state to freeze technology so no one falls behind. That is luddism dressed up as moral insight. It’s the mindset of someone who wants society locked at the current level because he can’t imagine anything better. AI isn’t “taking everything from us”. It is giving us leverage. It is giving the average person a printing press, a factory, a studio, a research assistant, and an education they never could have afforded. That is not dystopia. That is opportunity. The real dystopia is a society that treats human potential as something to be protected from improvement. The future belongs to the people who choose to use the tools that make them more capable, not to those who demand everyone else stand still so they can feel safe.

AI is going to wipe out at least 25 million jobs in the next 5 to 10 years. Probably much more. It will destroy every creative field. It will make it impossible to discern reality from fiction. It will absolutely obliterate what’s left of the education system. Kids will go through 12 years of grade school and learn absolutely nothing. AI will do it all for them. We have already seen the last truly literate generation. All of this is coming, and fast. There is still time to prevent some of the worst outcomes, or at least put them off. But our leaders aren’t doing a single thing about any of this. None of them are taking it seriously. We’re sleepwalking into a dystopia that any rational person can see from miles away. It drives me nuts. Are we really just going to lie down and let AI take everything from us? Is that the plan?

@Tip_Advisor1 @Tombrownlee Lol as if this coward would dare...

@MilnerWhite @Tombrownlee Is that a question? Or a statement?

Imagine how many losers scammer @Tombrownlee must have had since August 5th, his last interaction with me before his pissed up rant on Saturday. Waited that long..... what a sad life.

@GothamChess @MeruOnX Just because the organiser encourages you to do something, doesn't mean you should.

@MeruOnX both teams were briefed that theatrics were encouraged and throwing kings, knocking them over etc to hype the crowd up was ok. it just so happened that hikaru won, and pretty sure he even spoke to/apologized to Gukesh backstage, saying it was all for show. 👍🏻

A grown man tossing his opponent’s King who’s half his age into the crowd. Real classy, Hikaru. The hate Magnus and Hikaru have for India’s Gukesh is just unreal. #Chess