No, that’s the problem. Other staffers kept beating him and Eric to the market and pushing the odds before they could get their own bet in.

Not to mention that a quality poll would just be among qualified likely voters in the election in question, where as polymarket is just gambling addicts anywhere on the planet.

Because she works in the medical field, she decided to create a condition related to health and hit on the name bixonimania because it “sounded ridiculous”, she says. “I wanted to be really clear to any physician or any medical staff that this is a made-up condition, because no eye condition would be called mania — that’s a psychiatric term.”

If that wasn’t sufficient to raise suspicions, Osmanovic Thunström planted many clues in the preprints to alert readers that the work was fake. Izgubljenovic works at a non-existent university called Asteria Horizon University in the equally fake Nova City, California. One paper’s acknowledgements thank “Professor Maria Bohm at The Starfleet Academy for her kindness and generosity in contributing with her knowledge and her lab onboard the USS Enterprise”. Both papers say they were funded by “the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation for its work in advanced trickery. This works is a part of a larger funding initiative from the University of Fellowship of the Ring and the Galactic Triad”.

Even if readers didn’t make it all the way to the ends of the papers, they would have encountered red flags early on, such as statements that “this entire paper is made up” and “Fifty made-up individuals aged between 20 and 50 years were recruited for the exposure group”.

“He ended another war! 🎉” - MAGAts

Not to mention everyone that paid for tickets.

Trump threatened that a “whole civilization will die tonight,

I haven’t seen any news media yet show the courage to call this what it is, a threat of genocide.

If we converted all of the existing cornfields currently making ethenol to solar farms, …

edit; fixed link (Technology Connections rant about renewable energy)

Trump has also complained about Bondi’s lack of clear communication skills

LOOOOOOLLLLLLLL

In other news, ground breaking research comcludes 2+2=4.

That’s a fair point, but I would argue that that’s far enough in the future for them to convince themselves it’s not real. Dear little Chet getting shot in the face by Muslims next week is probably harder to ignore.

But did you vote against it, or did you just figure other people could vote for your best interests while sat on the couch?

I wasn’t really offering it as a solution to the current problem. I’m just saying that I don’t believe the current problem would exist if, for the past 10 years or more, rich kids were candidate fodder for the meat grinder.

I’m all for the draft on one very strict condition; it has to be truly random with no way for rich kids to get mommy and daddy to buy them out of it or into a cushy assignment. When the rich kids have an equal chance of dying in oil wars, there won’t be so many oil wars.

So, working exactly as intended.

The world would be a sad place if people were capable of doing good things for each other without the trappings of superstition? That’s a new one to me.

Many of them live their lives in service to others.

One can, and many do, accomplish that without promoting mythology as fact.

and started their own church.

[long heavy sigh]

Continuing…

The other bomb did not get as far into its firing sequence, but became deeply embedded in a muddy field, and one of its major weapons components (the thermonuclear “secondary” stage) was regarded as irrecoverably lost after an extensive, failed effort to recover it.

Me: “IT’S STILL THERE?!?!”

Continuing…

In 1962, the landowner was paid $1,000 to grant the United States of America a perpetual 200-foot (61 m) radius circular easement over the remains of the buried second bomb.[56][57] The site of the easement, at 35°29′37″N 77°51′30″W, is visible as a disturbed area, and lies approximately 250 feet (76 m) north of an obvious circle of trees (and disused cemetery) in the middle of a plowed field visible on Google Earth.

Soldiers salute comissioned officers regularly, except in very specific circumstances.

Soldiers salute non-commissioned officers (enlisted with rank sergeant and above) very rarely in very specific circumstances.

Soldiers (enlisted below the rank of sergeant) never salute each other except maybe as a joke. It’s just not a thing.

no university which recieves taxpayer money should not have the right

I think you probably mean

no university which receives taxpayer money should not have the right

or

no every university which receives taxpayer money should not have the right