alottopro
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When you travel and you get to a hotel room, do you get organized before you leave the hotel room?
Meaning you unpack, you set up all your chargers set up your CPAP machine if you have one so you don’t die and basically get your command center operational.
Or do you just drop all your shit and go out?
There is only one right answer here
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Starmer biopic, Cutting the Half-time Orange. Who should play the lead?
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A US special forces soldier just got arrested for betting on the Maduro raid.
Master Sergeant Gannon Van Dyke helped plan and execute the operation to capture Nicolás Maduro in January. Hours before the raid, he placed $33,000 in bets on Polymarket that Maduro would be out of power by January 31.
He won $409,000.
He then asked Polymarket to delete his account to cover his tracks.
Polymarket reported him to the DOJ instead.
This is the first-ever insider trading case tied to prediction market event contracts. The CFTC and DOJ both filed charges. Van Dyke faces up to 20 years.
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@alottopro The best women’s football in conference standard if that. The women’s game lacks the physicality of the men’s which is why it will never be attractive to watch
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More reasons why BBC have killed Football Focus. Today they have Fara .& Ashley Williams, who the f**k is Fara? Next week they are live in Lyon for Arsenal’s women’s champions league semi, who’s interested??
FF audience was at least 90% men, BBC has tried to normalise women’s
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@DubaiAce They should design a version of the game for women - on the surface it will look similar, but may have different dimensions (field/ball/goal), times of halves etc. Half of why woman often look comical is that they are playing a game specifically designed for men.
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@alottopro I’m not interested in women’s football, I don’t know any man who is. Sky are just as bad, now instead of having the prem then the championship tables, they’re putting the women’s prem table after the men, why are we being force fed this shit. I’ve no problem women playing it
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@Bob_Somebody021 @willsolfiac ok it is a thought experiment... but imagine you choose red and half of humanity is wiped out, your friends/your family etc, and you the red button pusher was responsible. And you're only left with people who did the same as you. I'd rather be dead!
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@willsolfiac @alottopro Really? A Twitter poll where there's no chance of actual death is higher than a hypothetical real life scenario where you can actually die?
Like obviously we can't know but I would expect a massive decrease in an actual real scenario
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I always like this poll for exposing a specific type of person - the rational-but-hyper-narrow thinker. They're always unable to comprehend people choosing blue, even though obviously large numbers (IMO a majority) would.
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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Today, the Gambling Reform APPG publishes a new report calling for action on gambling advertising.
With industry spend saturating daily life, the case for reform is clear. Protecting children and reducing harm must come first. Listen to the APPG's recommendations⬇️
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They tried a ‘modern’ way and it failed because nobody truly wants women on football shows about men or coverage of women’s football.
Simon Evans@sgevans
Honestly this is really poor from the BBC. Not that I think they shouldn't change BUT you have an audience of around half a million people just for one regular time-slot. Even successful You Tube channels and podcasts would die for such an audience size. And you can't think of anything to do with that audience? You can't think of a way to engage them in a modern way? You are just doing to walk away and give up on such an established brand? Is there no creative imagination left at all?
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Is the first time the gambling regulator has been refered to in this way in Westminster?
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@jasontrost @semafor Are semantics the root cause of 95% of the discussion on the internet? Yes!
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Spoke at @semafor World Economy last week on the question behind the "is prediction markets gambling?" debate. Full talk + writeup:
jasontrost.com/notes/semafor-…
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@Tgb456123 @Tombrownlee The muddier the waters the easier it is for scammers to operate.
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@Tgb456123 @Tombrownlee Highly likely affiliated to/or are scammers imo
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According to Iain Duncan Smith, gambling advertising should be banned because it is "luring people into gambling more and more." 🤔
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@callistores Why do adults choose to spend their own money with black market bookies? Because the regulated market is no fit for purpose. I have no problem with black market bookies if they treat their customers fairly - nor should anyone else.
Fix the regulated market if you have a problem.
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NEW REPORT: We are short Sportradar Group AG $SRAD, a self-styled "Sports Integrity" leader with ties to illegal gambling, sanctioned parties, criminals, and a completely fake regulator. We believe Sportradar’s ties to illegality pose an existential threat.🧵
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