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.

Basically all of modern society functions off of the back of an elaborate , rigged gambling system.

That's what the stock market is, in a very real way.

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

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.

Just hop on another and block the old one

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

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

Black mirror is just how the world sees america.

I highly recommend watching South Park S27E5 titled Conflict of Interest

Aired September 24, 2025 , it explains how poly market works, specifically in the context of Israel's genocide and how it relates (and doesn't relate) to US Jews.

Poly market is a gambling platform where people bet on things that will happen in real life.

Bob made a bet that Iran would bomb Israel on some specific date.

Unrelated and unaware about Bob, Fabian is a journalist. Fabian wrote an accurate article describing an attack where Iran bombed Israel.

Bob's bet was wrong. He's about to loose a lot of money. So Bob threatens to kill Fabian. Bob tells Fabien he must change his story, so Bob doesn't loose money.

For an entertaining and sufficient way to understand what's going on, I highly recommend watching South Park S27E5 titled Conflict of Interest

Aired September 24, 2025 , it explains how poly market works, specifically in the context of Israel's genocide and how it relates (and doesn't relate) to US Jews.

Why not set up a Polymarket bet for how Polymarket is going to handle this? Or whether they face any kind of legal repercussions at all.