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flvegan

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1. As with any "betting" the house always wins. Beyond this

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Sat Dec 20, 2025, 01:54 AM

Dec 20

it's all how these "prediction markets" will game the users to lose, or those with better info to win (see insider trading, our congress knows that pretty well).

And for the last (not) fucking time, "it's a big club, and you ain't in it"

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