I hate this instance of the multiverse.
Just hop on another and block the old one
Which cyberpunk novel is this one pulling from? Yakuza hunting down a reporter over gambling losses isn’t one I remember.
The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner gets close. It introduced the idea of gambling on world events back in the 70’s under the name Delphi Pool. Great little read, too.
Coincidentally, we’re steadily on our way to living in the kind of future he predicted in his other book, The Sheep Look Up.
You’re missing the part where they bet whether a missile hits their country or not
Life is so much more fun if you could not only lose your sanity and life, but also your liquidity.
KAKEGURUUUI DESHO!
Isn’t polymarket partially run by the Trump family
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/26/polymarket-secures-investment-from-trump-jr-backed-1789-capital.html
Yes, this is a way to do insider trading at scale with crypto markets to get money from idiots who are still clinging to NFTs and make the money disappear
This started here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWVKiBsdvRA
I want to make this perfectly clear. “You wanna make a bet?” died in fucking elementary school for me. Like it should for every mature, sane human. Gambling is for, and done by, the most immature, underdeveloped losers in our society. I’ve never once met someone who went to a casino and told me about that I didn’t instantly lose a measureable amount of respect for. I would have absolutely no qualms about levelling every casino on the planet and forcing the property owners to donate the land to public park space.
You are not “winners with no winnings”. You are losers.
The fact that it is growing in popularity and we now have douche canoes on polymarket every second commercial just tells me we’re devolving.
I dunno, I have a lot of respect for people who gamble in casinos and get kicked out for winning too much against the house because they’ve mastered card counting and pattern recognition.
I also don’t see a big problem with people occasionally hitting up a casino for some fun once in a while - it’s no different than hitting up an arcade really.
My problem is the industry preying on people who don’t know when to stop and get suckered in by the advertisements. That and people like this toddler in the article that likes to make bets but can’t stand when they lose.
I don’t care for organized gambling either, but this is so over the top hahahahaha
God forbid a couple buddies see who’s buying a drink or two over game of chess or pool
Okay, I’m no proponent of gambling, but the brain’s chemical reward for winning gambles is real, it’s addictive, and calling everyone with a gambling addiction an immature loser that just needs to grow up is about as helpful as telling someone with cancer to just get better. Blame those that are exploiting them. Shame rarely helps the ones who are exploited. 90% of the time they are shaming themselves more than you could possibly fathom.
Scummy black market-ish betting on bad things results in attracting bad people, shocking.
“I make my living on the evening news,
Just gimme gimme something,
Something I can use.
People love it when you lose,
They love dirty laundry.”💕🎉 WE’RE ALL IN HELL! 🎉💕
military correspondent for The Times of Israel
Eh, let them cook
These suckers are going to spend $900,000 on an assassination?
Words are cheap
Can somebody eli5 me this? I am not sure I am getting it
Polymarket is a place to put bets on anything: if the groundhog sees his shadow, if a hurricane makes landfall, if the US bombs Iran. You know just fun betting. Except now people put down huge sums, and just prior to the Iran war, insiders were putting down MILLIONS on the war starting that day. It makes it immediately obvious there are dangerous conflicts of interest.
But, who pays? I could bet you a million I will eat a sandwish today
If betting on Polymarket, you would actually have to stump up that money first, and the other person would have to do the same with whatever bid they wanted to use. Then, in order to get any kind of reasonable payback, you would need thousands of other people to make a bet for or against, using their own money.
The payout isn’t on someone making a bet on themselves, no-one else would bet for or against that as the stakes are so small. The payout is on large-scale events that are - ostensibly - out of the control of the bettor or bettee.
Polymarket is no different than betting on the outcomes of horse races or sports games, it just opens up the thing being betted on to anything and everything. People will still bet. The key is how “un-rigged” it appears to be.
Oh, so I can post a bet on anything. And the game only starts when somebody picks up the other side: betting against my prediction.
I thought gambling was supposed to be illegal outside of Nevada? WTF is going on out there?!
