Shit, betting against other people sounds even MORE ripe for rigging results than betting against the house. That’s bonkers. Thanks for the info.

I’ve never looked into them. You aren’t betting against the house, you are betting against other people?

I have no idea. The whole idea seems so open to manipulation/corruption that I’m shocked that the businesses are working as well as they are.

Honestly, that’s awesome and should be the norm. If these fucking assholes are going to let people bet on random shit, they deserve to have random shit bite them in the ass. If they are letting people bet on EASILY gamed events, then they need to expect things to be gamed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Zampolli

First two paragraphs have the Trump connection and the ICE deporting his wife thing. The last 3 paragraphs covers his Epstein connection and the trafficking of his teen wife.

The story is even wilder when you take a look at who the Trump envoy to Italy is.

He’s the one who introduced Melania to Trump. He’s heavily implicated in the Epstein files. He had Epstein traffic a 17 year old girl to be his wife…

HE CALLED ICE TO DEPORT HIS OWN WIFE (the same one who was trafficked by Epstein and the mother of his children).

You’re right, you do sound dumb saying that. Mostly because of how stupidly unrelated it is when you think you are sounding smart.

If you honestly can’t understand the difference between your personal choice causing lung cancer in kids nearby you and you not liking the smell of my cheese pizza, then there is no point even talking to you.

While negatively impacting everyone around you.

Were you addicted to cigarettes before you tried a cigarette? The point being made is that if a kid has to go to a drug dealer to get a drug, they aren’t going to buy cigarettes in the first place. They’ll get addicted to a different drug, which might not be any better.

Because it isn’t just your body in your home. It is the entire healthcare system that has to deal with the impacts of smokers. It is the neighbors who have to smell it from your house. It is the kids of parents who are smokers.

You are looking at it from the perspective of someone who is already addicted, not from the perspective of an entire population of people who have never had access to legal cigarettes. This isn’t for people who are already addicted. This is to achieve fewer people from becoming addicted.

Yes, statistics show most smokers start smoking before the age of 16, so obtaining cigarettes legally isn’t stopping them. But the sheer number of smokers dropped when it became harder to find places to smoke after bar/restaurant/public area bans. It’s interesting looking at the trends of smokers over time. Adult use in the US has held a VERY consistent downward trend since the 1970s, holding around the same slope for 50 years. However, youth use dropped significantly right around the time cities and states implemented smoking bans in bars/restaurants/public areas. That is correlation, not necessarily causation, so I am not claiming it as fact.

I will say it is absolutely jarring to travel to Europe from the US. I travel a lot, and going from a city where very few people smoke (well, they smoke, just not tobacco) to almost any city in Europe is a shock to my nose. It doesn’t stop me visiting Europe every year, but man it does make walking on the streets there less enjoyable.

This guy billionaires.

I don’t know, I kinda see Trump as Biff Tannen, not Israel.

No, but when you’re being funded by millions of dollars of campaign contributions to go out and win people over, you have the money to have Hugo Boss on speed dial if you think how you look matters to people you are trying to convince to vote for you.

That means they either don’t think appearance matters, which is counter to pretty much every study on human nature, or they look that way intentionally. It’s one thing for a normal dude without much fashion sense or without the money to afford nice things to have ill-fitting clothes. It’s another when a politician with a team of advisors and a ton of money looks like this.

Also, Hugo Boss has been dead for 80 years, so of course nobody has him on speed dial.

India buying oil with Yuan.

UAE threatening a switch to Yuan.

The bricks are starting to fall, and it’s not going to be a graceful collapse.

Wait, so tourism counts as white privilege to you?

Wow, I’ll make sure I remind the 40 million annual Chinese people leaving the country on vacation that they are enjoying white privilege.

That… that’s not why China has an issue with Taiwan.

Like, at all.

You are right. This story does feel like a fluff piece to highlight the corporation.

It’s in the story:

“The potential annual earnings from working eight hours a day can be as high as $5,000 - ​a figure that far surpasses India’s per capita income of around $3,000.”

Nothing about that picture looks normal. The whole thing looks like an AI mockup of an ad.

Also, how often do people wear Doordash shirts while delivering for Doordash?