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This is such a bizarre story. I don't understand why your run-of-the-mill phone scammer, who's looking to spam as many people as possible in the hopes of finding a mark, would escalate like this.
A few of these were lucky/educated guesses, but I'll take the bounceback after only getting 750 yesterday. www.maptap.gg October 27 98🔥 91👑 100🎯 99🔥 99🔥 Final score: 983
I think the idea that the betting patterns on crypto-adjacent gambling web sites have any relationship to likely outcomes in the real world is foolish. These sites are taking advantage of right-wing gambling addicts, they're not representing expertise at all.
Brazil elected Lula again tonight. Poll averages appear to have had Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro effectively tied, maybe Bolsonaro up 1 on Lula — so not sure why the markets had this race at 80-20 Bolsonaro. Markets might miss big in the U.S. midterms in 9 days too.
This is another example of what I was talking about on the weekend. Too many people have become convinced that any random chart they see must be a representation of some fundamental truth, even when there are methodological problems big enough to fly a plane through.
2. You can find many example of this inside and outside politics, but there's a real tendency now to present numbers, free of context or methodology, as though simply having a chart or a formula is sufficient to prove a point, without thinking about whether the evidence is any good.
Random thing I'm wondering about today: Why is the usage or non-usage of daylight saving time considered an area of provincial jurisdiction?
Another example for my argument that the government needs to put more resources into cracking down on fraud.
Another example for my argument that the government needs to put more resources into cracking down on fraud.
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if voting didn't matter they wouldn't be working so hard to stop you
The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.
I am pretty skeptical that there's a conspiracy to get the Musk documentary out of theatres. It did a little over $200 per theatre in its first weekend of wide release. How often do theatres keep dedicating space to movies that no one is watching?
This is really good. Among the many points this makes, two I want to pull out a bit: 1. I have made this argument before, but a lot of political spending *does not work* (or, more generously, there's no good way to know whether it works because it's impossible to measure the effects).
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Lots of good answers in the quote replies. One I didn’t see that is really big to me is the decline in smoking, especially in public spaces. Huge improvement to the quality of public spaces, and it’s saved many lives.
Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?
"It would be a crazy day for me if I was on a boat in the middle of the Adriatic Sea. That could happen."
70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Happy Wolves in the Throne Room day to all who celebrate.
Seems like a high-scoring day for everyone today. This isn't even in the top 10% of the global scores today. Usually 960+ gets you into the top 2-3%. www.maptap.gg October 23 99🔥 94🏅 94🏅 94🏅 100🎯 Final score: 963
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Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.
We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.
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Even though he's moved increasingly left over the years, I think Paul Krugman still mostly speaks to a pretty normie centrist audience, so I think it's noteworthy that he's making the case to that audience to take control Starlink away from Elon Musk.
Unless there's some important information about this story that hasn't come to light yet, it's difficult to think of any believable explanations for what happened here other than anti-Semitism.
"We made a very difficult decision": Australian indie showcase Freeplay reject antisemitism claims after delisting a Jewish sponsor who was allegedly accused of being a "zionist" https://bit.ly/4i3gqoc
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In 2016, we published potentially the largest single feature to ever appear in Game Informer magazine with a full oral history of the legendary studio, BioWare. We've made that feature available online following reports of the studio's impending closure. gameinformer.com/feature/2026...
The version of BioWare that made beloved RPGs like Baldur's Gate and Mass Effect hasn't really existed for a while now, but this is still a bummer.
BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I'll add that Mike Laidlaw, who used to be the director of the Dragon Age series, started up a new studio that put out an action RPG called Eternal Strands that I really liked. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPl1...