Krauerking@lemy.lol to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agoGamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile storywww.timesofisrael.comexternal-linkmessage-square93fedilinkarrow-up1516arrow-down17
arrow-up1509arrow-down1external-linkGamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile storywww.timesofisrael.comKrauerking@lemy.lol to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agomessage-square93fedilink
minus-squareP00ptart@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·8 hours agoPolymarket is one of many direct evidence of the impending fall of society.
minus-squareT156@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·3 hours agoIt’s one of those things that would seem excessive in a story. A place so decadent that everything was to bet for. Even as the world ended around them, they gambled on how.
minus-squareNihilsineNefas@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-22 hours agoIt’s the real life version of the intro to Cyberpunk 2077, with the radio host talking about bets on the death toll in Night city.
minus-squaretiramichu@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 hour agoCyberpunk was supposed to be a dystopia, not a fucking instruction manual! But seriously, I’ve lost about all enjoyment in cyber-dystopian stories because these days they cut depressingly close to home.
Polymarket is one of many direct evidence of the impending fall of society.
It’s one of those things that would seem excessive in a story.
A place so decadent that everything was to bet for. Even as the world ended around them, they gambled on how.
It’s the real life version of the intro to Cyberpunk 2077, with the radio host talking about bets on the death toll in Night city.
Cyberpunk was supposed to be a dystopia, not a fucking instruction manual!
But seriously, I’ve lost about all enjoyment in cyber-dystopian stories because these days they cut depressingly close to home.