Shit, betting against other people sounds even MORE ripe for rigging results than betting against the house. That’s bonkers. Thanks for the info.

I’ve never looked into them. You aren’t betting against the house, you are betting against other people?

I have no idea. The whole idea seems so open to manipulation/corruption that I’m shocked that the businesses are working as well as they are.

Honestly, that’s awesome and should be the norm. If these fucking assholes are going to let people bet on random shit, they deserve to have random shit bite them in the ass. If they are letting people bet on EASILY gamed events, then they need to expect things to be gamed.

I think it is more of a token gesture to try placating people who are so unhappy with his current term.

“Sir, the polling numbers are looking pretty dire!”

“OK, give the poors something to make them happy. I hear they like the Mary Jane.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Zampolli

First two paragraphs have the Trump connection and the ICE deporting his wife thing. The last 3 paragraphs covers his Epstein connection and the trafficking of his teen wife.

The story is even wilder when you take a look at who the Trump envoy to Italy is.

He’s the one who introduced Melania to Trump. He’s heavily implicated in the Epstein files. He had Epstein traffic a 17 year old girl to be his wife…

HE CALLED ICE TO DEPORT HIS OWN WIFE (the same one who was trafficked by Epstein and the mother of his children).

You’re right, you do sound dumb saying that. Mostly because of how stupidly unrelated it is when you think you are sounding smart.

If you honestly can’t understand the difference between your personal choice causing lung cancer in kids nearby you and you not liking the smell of my cheese pizza, then there is no point even talking to you.

It’s understandable. Your job as a fartographer has to be so time consuming. The sheer amount of data to pour through must be overwhelming.

Those were all before he became POTUS. Everything he has done since then has been using every single bit of power he has to funnel money to his family and friends, which then goes back to him. You don’t think he’s getting a kickback on all those insider stock trades on oil futures that suspiciously happened right before going into Venezuela and also happened right before going into Iran?

You are right that he probably doesn’t have that much money in the bank, because it is all distributed around to insiders who will give it back to him.

While negatively impacting everyone around you.

Were you addicted to cigarettes before you tried a cigarette? The point being made is that if a kid has to go to a drug dealer to get a drug, they aren’t going to buy cigarettes in the first place. They’ll get addicted to a different drug, which might not be any better.

Because it isn’t just your body in your home. It is the entire healthcare system that has to deal with the impacts of smokers. It is the neighbors who have to smell it from your house. It is the kids of parents who are smokers.

You are looking at it from the perspective of someone who is already addicted, not from the perspective of an entire population of people who have never had access to legal cigarettes. This isn’t for people who are already addicted. This is to achieve fewer people from becoming addicted.

Yes, statistics show most smokers start smoking before the age of 16, so obtaining cigarettes legally isn’t stopping them. But the sheer number of smokers dropped when it became harder to find places to smoke after bar/restaurant/public area bans. It’s interesting looking at the trends of smokers over time. Adult use in the US has held a VERY consistent downward trend since the 1970s, holding around the same slope for 50 years. However, youth use dropped significantly right around the time cities and states implemented smoking bans in bars/restaurants/public areas. That is correlation, not necessarily causation, so I am not claiming it as fact.

I will say it is absolutely jarring to travel to Europe from the US. I travel a lot, and going from a city where very few people smoke (well, they smoke, just not tobacco) to almost any city in Europe is a shock to my nose. It doesn’t stop me visiting Europe every year, but man it does make walking on the streets there less enjoyable.

Republican member of committee: “It’s very unlikely this is a coincidence. This is a grave national security threat.”

Democrat member of same committee: “We’re holding the investigation, but this is very likely a coincidence.”

Daughter of one of the dead: “From what I know of my dad, there’s no train of logic to follow that would implicate him in this potential federal investigation,”

I don’t get why she felt the need to leave Trump’s Cabinet. Was she not abusing her power enough to maintain standards?

Did anyone else check the link in this story?

AOL has this under the Entertainment section. That’s certainly one way to look at this information.

For every credit hour a STEM major spends in a humanities course, a liberal arts major should have to spend in a technical course.

You mean like how a History major at Purdue is required to take 5 Science courses, while an Engineering student is required to take 5 Gen Ed courses (only 3 of which need to be in Humanities)?

While maybe not eugenics, it is 100% white nationalist.

This guy billionaires.