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Imagine a sports bar… but just for situation monitoring — live X feeds, flight radar, Bloomberg terminals, and Polymarket screens.

https://xcancel.com/Polymarket/status/2034272538465841410

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[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 10 points 12 hours ago

They should run a bet about when the bar is destroyed.

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 13 points 15 hours ago

Polymarket geordi-no

Polycule? geordi-yes

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 7 points 14 hours ago

Good bit tbh

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 22 points 17 hours ago

If there was any single location that deserves some kind of pillar of lightning to come down and scour it to the bedrock it’s whatever room is full of whoever it was that makes these things happen

[–] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 12 points 16 hours ago

The PRC doesn't need military satellites to aim their dongfengs. Just open up a web portal where we can put in coordinates for them and the American Century of humiliation will have started by lunch.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 16 hours ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 16 points 19 hours ago

"Hey do you wanna go to the pub or the pub that Gives You Anxiety?"

[–] thefunkycomitatus@hexbear.net 41 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

If I were a hacker a DC bar full of drunk congressional aides placing bets on their unprotected phones and the bar's lowest bidder ass touch screen computers would be a magical opportunity.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 22 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

it's illegal if you do it though

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 22 points 22 hours ago

Learn to not get caught, learn to quadcopter/drone.

[–] KoboldKomrade@hexbear.net 16 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

If this were a scene in that Watchdogs game from like a decade ago, I'd say the devs were being lazy and making the most dense place for causing chaos/getting hacks (or whatever you do I forget at this point). Like write about hacking your way into tracing some press loser to a bar or something more creative.

But instead its close to real. tequila-sunset

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 4 points 14 hours ago

Yeah, this is some The Boyz level writing

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 7 points 22 hours ago

This is just "How do we make a bookies for wine drinkers?"

[–] ahrienby@hexbear.net 10 points 18 hours ago

Someone will counter prediction betting by preparing in advance against the expected outcome.

[–] acab_means_cop_Dva@hexbear.net 24 points 21 hours ago

I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 32 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine a sports bar… but just for situation monitoring — live X feeds, flight radar, Bloomberg terminals, and Polymarket screens.

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 23 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

tbh if this wasn't run by polymarket it would be a pretty cool idea for a bar damnit.

[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 17 points 22 hours ago

A bar but it's just the /c/news megathread is more like it.

[–] BarrelsBallot@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Any texan's with an Iran shirt wanna go to DC?

[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 23 points 20 hours ago

slap this on a shirt and go

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 29 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Of all the things we could have in the world, we somehow end up with bars designed to cater to an even lower form of gambling

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Just open a Keno bar like a normal person

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 7 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

How has no chud come up with Patriot Paremovedo frothingfash

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 3 points 10 hours ago

Sometimes the slur filter is a thing of beauty

[–] mrfugu@hexbear.net 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

A gambling pinball machine could actually be pretty cool. Pinball old heads might not like it but I would sure like it a lot better than the slot machine slop that is now at most gas stations and dive bar in the midwest.

Upper midwest already had their gaming shit like keno and the pull tab thing which will always be better then losing all your money to the flashing lights money taker machine.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

A gambling pinball machine would run into all kinds of weird old timey laws, because pinball machines were invented in the first place to avoid gambling laws

[–] mrfugu@hexbear.net 1 points 8 hours ago

That’s what I thought at first but I couldn’t find anything like that. But tbf I’m no legal expert and I only looked kinda hard.

[–] Dr_Pepper@hexbear.net 28 points 23 hours ago
[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 19 points 22 hours ago

double fisting two beers as fast as I can before throwing a chair through their stupid fuckign electric globe screaming "PREDICT THIS"

[–] rubber_chicken@hexbear.net 18 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I'm generally against flying two planes into things, but

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 13 points 21 hours ago

bet u fivebux they dont hit it

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 19 points 23 hours ago

I would love to people-watch there.

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 13 points 22 hours ago

Sounds kinda sick actually I love charts

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

This is how you kill a meme btw. Yes even you polymarket you cringe fucks.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 7 points 16 hours ago

We could make bots that pretend to be old people excited about it.

“This puts rizz in my aura, sixty-seven was a great year” meemaw

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 22 hours ago

This could not sound more insufferable if they tried.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 8 points 22 hours ago

Ladbrokes with beer