Charlie

A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

JS Mill suggested a perfectly good principle for regulating gambling in 1859:

Individuals should be free to gamble (so long as it doesn't impede their ability to support their dependents), but nobody should be able to own a 'gambling-house'—meaning have a $ incentive to encourage others' gambling.

yeah the damage a single bad billionaire can do wildly outstrips any positive impact even a theoretically ideal billionaire can have

more, I think that the kind of person you need to be to become a billionaire tends to select for the worst outcomes in all but the rarest of cases

China’s 450km/h bullet train is the fastest ever built Dart between Beijing and Shanghai in under four hours, with airline-like business class comfort.

China is testing a train that will go 280mph, making it the fastest conventional train in the world.

The US can't get its shit together to build a single new line.

We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court.

That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits.

Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

"You don’t suppress votes in a primary to win the primary. Republicans aren’t on the Democratic ballot. Ken Paxton isn’t losing anything if more Democrats vote tonight.

But here’s what you do gain: you weaken whoever comes out of it. You damage the eventual nominee."

Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.

They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.

The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

Whatever you guys. The maul is a fine thing to get. I love it even.

But what I really want to see is for Pete to pick a fight with a Wall Street lobbiest.

Metaphorically I guess

Fuck yes.👇

Seems to me we are at the overproduction of elites stage of the oil age.

So, if woke 1 was both a nessecary correction but also a vehicle which younger people harnessed to try gain more power within institutions, and The Atlantic represents the old guard, then The Atlantic has decided to ward off a perceived assault on institutional power rather than learn and grow.

Part of the point of publicly accusing Republicans/'conservatives' of untrammeled, unprincipled will to power is to *induce them to prove it wrong*.

Posit their bad faith as true, and dare them to show it's not by accepting some major policy cost for the sake of democratic/constitutional principle.

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

The war's limited objectives:
-Destroy nuclear program
-Degrade ballistic missile capabilities
-Bring the armies of the world together to fight at the End Times and bring about the return of Christ

I don't like this Armageddon talk.

I can't use the following feed at 5am because it's all British politics that I don't quite follow. But I'm glad that nice plumber lady won

MTG is an antisemitic lunatic but this is just a literal description.

And what I miss about Facebook is all the people who threw me around 15 years ago would now tell me how decrepit they are.

But the problem is I won't be going to any tournaments until the kids are older and the world is saner and I'm afraid only one of those things is going to happen.

I have a familiar muscular pain in my neck I used to get after a six hour special training event or if someone really caught me good in a match but now it's just I took 3 falls without warmup at a birthday party at a kids gymnastics space.

A clip from the moment Hillary Clinton found out Lauren Boebert took an unauthorized photo of her deposition: 'I'm done!'

Happened to my best friend and then his folks. Easier for the young. Early detection is critical. French language ability can help in advanced cases.

in the latest example of how we're governed by the Make a Wish Administration, Melania Trump is presiding over a UN meeting

IIRC Tim Krahn recommends 10% Portland cement for wet climates?

Wow, a decent rip fence for an old tablesaw is way more expensive than most of the tools I've bought.

So tired of working with the jenky imprecise rusty piece of junk we inherited though.

Also "mulligan" suggests that pundits' employers think they made an error, when in fact they successfully did precisely the job they are paid to do: manufacture consent.

Trump is talking about the gold drapes at the White House after making remarks for a few minutes about the war he just started in Iran.

Gloves keep you from breaking the small bones in your hands!

Punches to the head weren't a thing before gloves!

I am going to go so far as to say that the Bluesky discourse on the Maine primary is almost totally divorced from what I can see and hear with my own eyes and ears.

It's all these friggin people from away.

Probably driving big shiny cars with MA or NJ plates.

And thank you for that!

It is very easy to find info on Platner. You were very responsive on here while you were running, though few seemed to notice unfortunately. LaFlamme and Costello are likewise nearly invisible except for those actively searching for other candidates.

We are barreling towards (or are already in) an escalating conflict at a level other than nation-states. The forces of oligarchy and autocracy against the forces of democracy and solidarity.

The billionaires are stateless and so the conflict is borderless.

Whoever wins things will look different.