I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn if you believe that when you bet on the stock market or on the sports market for each and every particular bet involving millions of people the maximum profit is not reaped by a half a dozen of insiders who trade on inside informations and their only problem is not being too obvious about it.

Also even if they get caught the millions of people wagering are still getting fucked because there is not a redo or making people whole when the insider traders get caught (which is a tiny percentage of the time)

Palantir leadership has a long history of needing to be cruel and antisocial in a very loud way in order to feel alive .

Where are the ginormous protests that happened during the Iraq invasion?

Me thinks it was not about right or wrong but fear of a new Vietnam type draft.

Now that war has changed there are not similar type of protests because it's the missiles and drones doing the killing

I think they don’t have an argument because technically the missile can be de-activated up until the last seconds before it reaches its intended target

Still it feels surreal to argue about these things , bomb dropping on humans and other humans attacking each other for the privilege to have their bet honored on when said bombs dropped on the other side of the world

I guess people in intelligence communities had these sort of bets going on ever since WW2 and Vietnam , but still it’s uncanny to see it widespread to potentially the whole population of the internet

Boots on the ground can happen at any time if Iran manages to either hit one of the thousands of US assets in the region or worse they resort to terrorism with a theatrical attack like 9/11 which ended up costing so many lives , money and freedoms ranging from TSA literally up your ass to the destruction of privacy online and offline…..and of course as we all know boots on the ground

Now let's wait for the retaliation of 'Team Orange Dictatorship'

I'd rather not...

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It's always like that. The poor billionaire soon trillionaire is getting bullied by the blogger. Not.

Do you even realize how dumb that sounds?

The German individual and I'd say even the European person is not that enthusiast about the concept of buying stuff.

It feels fake, not earned in a way , almost impersonal.

And even then there are exceptions for examole you can do all your banking on Revolut which is a Money Service Business and MSB aren't part of the CRS because they are not banks. And you can also buy shares on there.

Also there is not a single person who got taken out by the CRS and it's been in place for 10 years now

So if you hit it big you are trapped with the stock in your name and with this unrealized gains system

Europe has a different system , the broker doesn't automatically subtract the tax owed or even send the form to the tax authorities .

This leaves as potential taxpayers only those who cannot afford or don't want to structure their holdings via offshore entities

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Sewer stats tell us that in reality the most civilized places in the world have the highest amount of coke in their sewers.

Zurich, Brussel, Berlin, Melbourne, Billionaire's row in NYC, Nantucket [0]

For those who don't jump the hedonic treadmill blow is just edgy chic coffee with the thrill of doing something 'illegal' and snorting it instead of consuming it orally.

Of course if you take coffee and nicotine and that gives you plenty of stimulation for 6-7 hours you have no business moving into the stronger stimulants, although they are also availible not just in the form of blow but Wellbutrin, Adderall, Dextra etc and again plenty used in the most civilized places and not so much used in the less civilized places

[0]https://www.euda.europa.eu/publications/pods/waste-water-ana...

The most dense energy drinks have 350-400 of caffeine in a can these days and on top of that there's the taurine etc.

60 oz is 4 cans, do your math. 4 * 400 = 1600mg of caffeine alone

> > potential for generally destroying someone’s life is, while not at the same level, definitely in the same ballpark as crack, heroin, and meth.

That's more of the result of the enviornment and the associated people who frequent such circles and not the stimulant per se.