We should make sure every person on the Internet has their identity confirmed at the device level and then we can punish these people for writing the wrong Iran story.
- Department of War
The only way to fight this is to make a new bet on polymarket to profit off the odds that this journalist is killed by the gamblers in polymarket.
I was thinking it was just to not use polymarket but dang… I guess I was wrong.
nah, “vote with your wallet” can never work! You can only contribute to the problem more until it can’t go any further!
(i am not serious about any of this. a sane society would reject the existence of these “businesses” swiftly. if only…)
Vote with your wallet works if everyone agrees with you…
And the amount of people that love gambling makes it clear that most people do not agree with me.
US: promotes no gambling to children by suing Valve and their lootboxes mechanics
Also US: has an app where anyone can gamble on real life events.
🤷♂️
Polymarket is (or was, anyway) not operating within the US. These are non US people threatening the journalist.
It was not for a short period of time, but since 2025 it does.
My point that it was originated in US and is US based company that operates in US and globally - the same US of A which recently began fighting gambling in games, specifically Valve games.
Also, just recalled that US has a literal gambling city. Hi-fucking-larious.
no gambling to children
“protect the children” is used to justify all sorts of bad laws but there is absolutely no conflict between stopping something for children and allowing adults.
You: “The US is so stupid, it doesn’t allow marketing cigarettes to children.”
The “gamble on news” site causing psychos to threaten journalists wasn’t something I expected, but I blame a lack of imagination on my part regarding human depravity.
So what happens to him if he does change the story? Like… The new losers will be PISSED at him. It’s a no-win situation.
Also, the video of the strike clearly exists. If he changes the story there will be many other outlets reporting on the sudden change, the bets, the public requests for the change, and showing the video which apparently clearly shows a strike on Israel’s soil.
Shame death threats aren’t prosecutable
Hey, in this world even child rape isn’t, so I don’t know what we expect.
The real kicker is that this is from people who bet against Iran striking Israel.
Wouldn’t even bet my life Israel’s iron dome is invincible, especially considering Iran already successfully broke through it last year.
Or you know, Gaza a bunch of times with pipe rockets.
The thing about these missile defence systems is that, regardless of how advanced a system is, it can always be overcome by sheer volume of fire.
A common tactic is to saturate the sky with cheaper dummy missiles/drones that don’t even have warheads, just to deplete missile defence stockpiles and protect the real missiles/drones from being intercepted.
This is happening a lot in Ukraine too.
TLDR; You’re right to believe Iron Dome isn’t invincible because there’s no such thing as an invincible missile defence system.
That’s thee dumbest bet i could imagine.
Timing is everything
Krauerking, I am writing you regarding return2ozma’s post. In just 10 minutes you could save more Lemmy upvotes than you have made in your whole life. Think wisely! Many Lemmings with many upvotes put many upvotes into this situation!
Ah crud. At least it is just upvotes. If it was UpDoots I would have been forced by their value.
I’ve received death threats, it’s not difficult. Welcome to social media.
Next in the news “I was down voted on Reddit and then someone told me to die in a fire”
Most of us receive them on our pseudonymous accounts, he literally had his full name and face attached to the news article he wrote.
Okay, well I received death threats on FB with my full name and face attached to my posts.
It was for making fun of Trump if I recall correctly. It could have been Biden, I’ve gotten death threats over both of them. So to me, it’s not rare at all, it’s not even unusual in my experience.
You are allowed to disagree because his name was on the article with his photo, so now it’s for reals! Whatever.
Next in the news… “I was playing fortnite and someone told me to kill myself!!!”
You do see how these are very different from being told to lie to enrich someone else?
Like if you said someone told you to kill yourself in fortnite so they could win a polymarket bet that would at least be related and a fun comparison story.
This is like saying, well sure you shot your husband for beating you but, me, I ignored it for years when my sister was being abused by her husband. Its not related and just sorta makes you look miserable and bad in comparison rather than relatable.
You can reply how you want but this is not gonna go well in conversation.
There is no better way to enshittify something than to crowdsource it
What a stupid world we’ve allowed to be concocted.
Yup.
Past few years I’ve been reading a shitty sci-fi series. In this series there’s a race of creatures whose entire society is founded on gambling. They bet on everything, and people frequently bankrupt themselves. The moment you look at that world-building with even a little bit of scrutiny it falls apart in its stupidity.
This is even dumber.
Lol pretty sure I know exactly what series you’re talking about (beer can?). You’re right - it’s dumb, and the writing isn’t exactly Dickens, but it’s funny. Almost finished with the series myself. Something to read until something better comes along, at least.
Go get yourself a juice box!
When I first started the series I almost quit at the first book, it felt very American Military masturbatory, and I wasn’t a fan. Eventually though, the worldbuilding and the cast captured me. At this point however it feels like the author signed a contract to squeeze out a quota of books and quality has suffered. It’s gotten so intensely formulaic to the point of not being interesting. I’ve fallen victim to the gamblers fallacy though so I’m still reading it; I just want it to end.
At this point you can tell that he struggles to make compelling storylines because he’s started writing self-contained short stories he’s throwing in at random parts of the book just to pad it out. It’s a good move though, I think they’re my favourite parts of the recent books.
Overall I like the series, I just wish it hadn’t been dragged out so much.
Most cyberpunk read today.
How that shit is not illegal is beyond me. Gambling is already predatory but outside of sports and in fucking armed conflicts is abhorrent.
We are in the crime is legal era
Crime is legal… to the degree that you are sufficiently connected.
🔲 - White
🔲 - Male
🔲 - Cis
🔲 - Hetero
🔲 - Christian (preferably conservative evangelical Protestant)
🔲 - Politically conservative
🔲 - Wealthy
The more of these you can check off, the more crimes are legal.
“For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law.”
Crime is legal for the powerful.
Skin color and religion varies by country.
Because Trump took charge of the SEC. The crypto just handles payments - the market itself is centralized and exists with the permission of the state.
Wake me up when there’s a bet that angers people in power, it gets censored, and someone launches a fully p2p version.
So uh… what are the odds on polymarket for the guy getting killed?
Can you put out a contract on someone just by betting on polymarket that they won’t die by a particular date?
I think they already do that, didn’t people make money off betting on the ayatollahs death?
Advanced money laundering skill: 100
Lmao I think technically that would work… but I also don’t know how tightly polymarket polices/moderates wagers like that.
… Will you be the one reporting it? If so, I’m sure we’ll get to know each other very well.
“If you decide to go with your ego and not with your head, you are leaving behind dozens of wealthy people from all over the world who will know that you performed market manipulation and stole from them. They know who you are, you don’t know who they are. It took them less than 5 minutes to find out exactly where you live … how often you see your lovely parents … and exactly who your … brothers and sisters are.”
So the guy threatening the journalist to change his story so the gambler can make money isn’t market manipulation, but the journalist not changing his story is…
What scary about this, and it was mentioned in the article, is how future stories by less than ethical “journalist” can be purchased so that one side can become rich. Fuck accuracy it’s all about the money.
Well it’s not like that is already the case with social media, but I would like to think there is at least some aspect of reporting that is based in ethics and truth.
Polymarket is one of many direct evidence of the impending fall of society.
It’s one of those things that would seem excessive in a story.
A place so decadent that everything was to bet for. Even as the world ended around them, they gambled on how.
It’s the real life version of the intro to Cyberpunk 2077, with the radio host talking about bets on the death toll in Night city.
Cyberpunk was supposed to be a dystopia, not a fucking instruction manual!
But seriously, I’ve lost about all enjoyment in cyber-dystopian stories because these days they cut depressingly close to home.
yeah I’ve had so many story ideas just end up being too on-the-nose. and a few that are “if I put this idea out there, someone will use it and make things worse for people I don’t know.” I don’t need that kind of karma.
A place so decadent that everything was to bet for. Even as the world ended around them, they gambled on how.
20 years ago, if you wrote a story about a dystopian future sci-fi setting that included polymarket, readers would interpret it as a heavy-handed metaphor for widespread cynicism and derealization
Really seems like a future dystopian sci-fi, where the main character is going to bring the whole system down.
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Oh yeah, it is messed up and doesnt even cover the section where apparently another journalist the writer knows was bribed to try and coerce the flow of information to get that win. It basically confirms that there is already a willing lack of integrity somewhere to think it would work here.
A few hours later, a colleague from another media outlet messaged me. He said that someone he knew asked him to ask me to change the report on the missile impact in Beit Shemesh, and that it would be “negligible” for me if I did make the change.
Going further, the acquaintance even offered the journalist compensation, from his winnings, if he managed to convince me to change my report.
Time to boost this post. I have received death threats from Zionist, but I have a feeling these poly market people are scarier since they have money on the line
