They're not gambling if you have a real-world stake in an outcome addressed by one of these markets.

I have a real-world stake in the outcome of a roulette spin. Either I win money or I don't. How is that any different than saying I win or lose if something happens or doesn't happen on one of these markets?

Both the theme of the story and the AI brain fart. And I suppose the suckers who voted for the YOB, too, while I'm at it?

*sigh*

s/This is/These are/

"These is not the wild coincidences you were searching for."

Not finding any funny, so forced to look for the low-hanging fruit? "Today's Slashdot: These are not the jokes you were looking for."

That's it? All the funny that Slashdot could handle these days? This story had great potential for laughs, but...

But not via Facebook or the cesspool formerly known as Twitter. Assassinated and left, respectively. Slashdot used to be a pretty good source of Funny, but that must have been before the AI sock puppets took over the Internet.

Just kidding. Most of the sock puppets are too stupid to be AI-based slop. But they are apparently giving me a fixation on or some kind of obsession with their vacuous enshitification?

Even though I don't even know what sort of humor I was hoping for on this story, I'm sure AC's brain fart was not it.

Just read another book with something about why anonymity encourages people to become worse people over time... Must have been in the Facebook-related stuff.

Me? I didn't even want to use GitHub but Claude.ai made me do it.

For some reason, the Control Panel is still here after 10+ years of trying to get the Settings app to be feature complete

Because Control Panel is the best and fastest way to find what you want. It is clearly laid out, descriptive, and allows you to get things done.

Whereas, Settings is configured as if someone threw a ball of yarn into a box and let a cat play with it, then the cat threw up from playing so hard.

No, it's fine. Texas says so.

Only Funny on the ripe target? Too bad.

Just reading Mindf*ck and feeling like it explains a lot about how America was made so ungreat. Not enough there about who got the loot, but I've already gotten sick of books about cryptocurrencies and blockchains.

Oh, just fsck off.

Anyway this branch should be blamed on the Apple fanbois if'n I remember the history correctly.

I bit surprised to see an Amazon story without "evil" in the comments. Not surprised there is no Funny.

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124.4 meters (408.1 feet) tall, 9 meters wide, 5,500 metric tons at launch with a TWR of 1.6. Should leap off the pad and hit max Q in 45 seconds. These engines are grossly overpowered for the launch mass, which implies another stretch. And they're a work of art.

I have to go see one of these launches one day.

And they're not done. Raptor 4 is in the works. They really are going to Mars. The long dry spell of "boldly go" is coming to an end.

Yeah, the joke I was expecting, but thanks anyway. Slashdot favors low-hanging fruit these years?

You could have mentioned the robots. Mostly thinking about those Chinese robots, but the critical question is when the robots are capable of building enough infrastructure needed for a factory to produce more robots.

Beware the paper clips!

YOB stands for YUGE Orange Buffoon because I don't like the brand. You guessed correctly even with the minimal context and I have no doubts about your reference.

Heck, at this point I don't even want to use the word as a verb. But you might prefer to think of a different word for B depending on the context and your sentiments.

But mostly disappointed (again) that the active discussion failed to produce any jokes. Or perhaps the moderation failed again. But a day-old discussion is effectively dead on Slashdot and I don't want to search for the possible jokes that might be lurking around here somewhere...