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It's a masterpiece and Chris Sawyer is a genius.

He's a weak, frail manchild masquerading as a cartoonish supervillain. Fuck him.

The truly insidious calculation they all eventually got to is that in Trump you have someone that is somehow even more insecure and craven than them and can be straight bought and sold to the highest bidder. They give Trump the superficial credibility of having ostensibly smart people behind him, and Trump gives them the benefits of being adjacent to his non-stop corruption and self-dealing machine.

Zuck is Thiel's mouthpiece, through and through. And it explains everything about Meta.

Susquehanna. Jane Street. Two Sigma.

It's not some rando two towns over. The PMs get paid to front run access to these market makers, who crush the retail bettor, er, predictor.

You literally say it yourself!

Christ, man. Stop digging. You fucked up, stop moderating, and move on.

A lot? Yes.

DFS, in particular, was and is very legitimately a game of skill. (In fact, looking at it from an Elo perspective and from the perspective of "Who should win?", it's more of a game of skill than the sports themselves!) There was absolutely no reason for it to be made illegal, other than to protect the tribal gaming interests in California and Florida. They pushed back so hard and with such little justification that the tide really, really turned against them in a much more broad way than they ever anticipated.

The ironic thing is, Matt King at FD and Jason Robins at DK probably would have been perfectly happy if the outcome had been that they be allowed to merge and that DFS is legalized and regulated. Instead Robins is a billionaire and Flutter made the best corporate acquisition of the 2010s.

OK.

No one gets paid $150,000 to not say what they're supposed to, and even then, they lost the case. It was unconvincing and, to quote the judge, "he cherry-picked and misrepresented study results and refused to acknowledge the role of genetics".

I mean shit, that's marginally better than the absolute garbage of Wakefield but not by much. It's embarrassing that this is where we are.

As someone who broadly identifies as a former Republican, and by that I mean your classic small-government, leave-me-alone type, I absolutely abhor what has become of the GOP. It's just so, so embarrassing.

With that said, he's the CEO, he represents the interests of the company and the shareholders. Given that the corrupt fat fuck President clearly punishes companies that are not sufficiently prostrate before him, it's the right thing to do despite it being morally and ethically empty.

Just staggering incompetence.

Yeah, hilarious. Ell oh ell oh ell.

So lame.

Fort Lauderdale is over 260 miles from Tampa. How in the world is that closer than trying to turn around and land in Tampa?

Between stories like this and the ones about runway incursions, it does sometimes feel like our system is beyond the breaking point and that we're on the precipice of a disaster. On the other hand, I can't remember the last time there actually was one and it's very possible that the fact that we only hear about when things go wrong is coloring my perception.