According to this one report, Sixteen bets made $100,000 each accurately predicting the timing of the US airstrikes against Iran on 27 February. Later, a single user would make over $550,000 after betting that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would topple, just moments before his assassination by Israeli forces. On 7 April, right before Donald Trump announced a temporary ceasefire with Iran, traders bet $950m that oil prices would come down. They did.
These bets and other well-timed wagers accurately predicted the precise timing of major developments in the US-Israel war with Iran, creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers and experts over potential insider trading. Betting – once largely siloed to sporting events – has now spread to include contracts on news events where insider information could give some traders an advantage.
In case you're wondering (as I was) about where and how this shit is happening, turns out the proliferation of online betting markets like Polymarket and Kalshi has allowed bets on virtually any news event. It’s also easier than ever to buy commodity derivatives like oil futures, where traders gamble on what the price of oil will be in the future. What a world...
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Playboy, the iconic lifestyle brand that introduced generations of young men to the beauty of a well-developed cleavage, has officially launched Playboy Energy Drinks, an all-new product claiming to blend performance with pleasure.
As one reporter put it, they're 'designed to energize your day in Playboy’s signature flirty fashion'. Leading the lineup is the Lovely Melons flavor, alongside equally playful options like Naughty Berry, Sexy Peaches, Tropic Passion and Razz Bunny.
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Great overnight bag too!
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of doing shit like this? Rat poison has been found in a jar of HiPP baby food, police in Austria have said, after a recall of the product from more than 1,000 Spar supermarkets in the country over safety fears. Police in Burgenland said in a statement that a sample from one of the 190g (7oz) jars of carrots and potatoes baby food reported by a customer had tested positive for rat poison.
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Air rifles were mostly wooden in the early days, but back in 1882 an inventive guy named Clarence Hamilton made one of metal, built to fire a standard No. BB shotgun pellet, and showed the prototype to L.C. Hough, the firm’s general manager. Impressed with its power and accuracy, Hough reportedly exclaimed, “It’s a daisy!”
Hough’s notion was to manufacture the Hamilton rifle as a premium for farmers who bought iron windmills. But the farmers were more interested in the rifles. By 1890 Plymouth Iron Windmill had built, and given away, about 50,000 of them - at which point Mr. Hough decided they might just be onto something.
The company started selling rifles the following year. Business proved so lucrative that in 1895 Plymouth Iron stopped fooling with windmills altogether and changed its name to Daisy Manufacturing Co. - thus becoming gunmaker extraordinaire to generations of boys.
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PPKS with a black handle. Great .380.
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Cool comic, I haven't seen 'Get Fuzzy' in years!
ReplyDeleteOlder driver. Depth percveprtion is starting to go. I'm married to one. Have patience.
ReplyDeletepick up a Walther PPK in 22 while I was in west Germany. EX wife sold it during the divorce. found another one years later
ReplyDeletestill have it. very accurate pistol, easy to carry and never has failed in any way. but it is a German made one in steel.
like 1971-2 time frame . extra magazines will cost you though. factory ones are 100 and UP these days
the newer ones just don't feel the same as the old steel ones did, did try out a Iver Johnson made copy once that was
sweet to shoot. but the guy would not sell it.
Sorry, baltimoron’s say goin don tha ayshun hun….
ReplyDeleteWhat do you suppose you mean by that?
DeleteA man figured he could win the lottery by buying every single number combination. It would cost tens of millions but he could win hundreds of millions. He had a crew buy as many tickets as possible but time ran out. But in the end he had the winning ticket. True story, proving once again it takes money to make money.
ReplyDeleteA woman carries sticky papers and when someone parks like they own the place she'll write something nasty and stick several on the vehicle. Usually a big pick up. But these are permanent stickies that don't come off easily.
ReplyDelete$2.95 for a Daisey and they made a profit?
ReplyDeleteThe girls in prison movies don't look like the real girls in prison.
ReplyDeleteRemember how "climate change" was responsible for all of those wild fires in Australia a few years back? Turns out they were being set by Muslim immigrants (and the story was dropped). I expect the baby food poisoning to follow a similar story arc. Muslims are evil. Might as well just accept that fact.
ReplyDeleteSame in California only it was illegals. We'll never know how many are started by muslimes who are carrying out the imams orders.
DeleteStrategic betting on the war, is BULL SHIT! It's political payoffs, and money laundering!
ReplyDeleteIt is called insider trading. People in the administration with inside knowledge are making money on the backs of American service members risking their lives.
DeleteMy uncle gave me his pre-war Walther PP in the 7.65 that he picked up during WWII. It is The Safe Queen.
ReplyDeleteSophia Loren...net stockings always looked like some kind of skin disease to me.
ReplyDeleteWhen it's done right those skydivers with huge flags are an awesome, patriotic sight.
ReplyDeleteabout assholes who park like that. use roofing nails or drywall screws instead. only takes like one or two to fuck up a tire.
ReplyDelete2 inch ones seem to work the best. just saying, of course
Rather than slashing tires, just carry a couple of caltrops and drop one in front and behind two tires. Easy to make and they always land with one point up.
ReplyDelete380 seriously....if that's what you "strap on" a dildo would be more effective.
ReplyDeleteIf you're going to vandalize the car of someone who's parked like that, make sure it's the first person who parked like that, and not someone who was forced to park that way because someone else parked like that earlier, leaving "offset" parking as the only available option. All it takes is one asshole and limited available spaces to cause a persistent problem.
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