A mistake was still made

Yep, it happens. And it was not even a mistake by Flock, apparently — not that it matters. Mistakes will continue to be made — they don't mean, Flock is doing anything wrong, or that police has to be "defunded", or Capitalism overthrown. But Slashdot is running multiple anti-Flock articles every day, it seems — like they did against Walmart some 15-20 years ago.

Can't shake off the feeling, this is a part of a propaganda campaign...

I mean sure Japan doesn't have nukes.

They've got a large nuclear power industry with reprocessing and etc and socks of literal tons of plutonium.

They keep trading places for the top fastest supercomputer.

They have a solid fuel scientific satellite launcher with mobile capability from when you just need to launch a satellite from an undisclosed location after a long time in storage. It's not an ICBM no not at all. But if it were it would probably be the best in the world. Good job it's for scientific satellites.

Japan's been hovering around the "we could have nukes by next Tuesday" point for quite a few years now.

The argument against it was in the summary.

The argument, that participants can influence the outcome — if financially motivated by the betting — is but a tertiary afterthought. That may have some merits, but it is not new — regular financial markets have learned to deal with insider trading, and we have criminal laws against such activity. It is not a reason to ban the betting outright.

But the original journalist, the submitter, and BeauHD obviously emphasise the "ghastly" aspect... And this appeal to emotion is, what I find contemptible.

I'm 99% sure somebody has already been killed because of Flock

But you don't have evidence, do you? Just like those January 6th "insurrectionists". Only they don't get any "Insightful" moderation for some reason...

Flock does not pull any triggers — it only informs police, that a suspect (or, more likely, the suspect license plate) has been spotted in a certain location. That's all. The actual reaction is than up to the officers.

If anything, it is only more certain, multiple murders — and other crimes — have been prevented by the timely(ier) detention of the criminals. And, additionally, by successful prosecution of them thanks to the video-evidence. But Grok could not find any comprehensive stats for me, so I'm not including any evidence either.

Fuck Trump Musk AOC Sanders far right n' left tech bros ICE Islamophobes antisemites mullahs pedopriests nationalists

Some libido you've got there!!

still fine ?

Fine? No, I'd be devastated by the death. But why would somebody else's making money — not "out of it", but by predicting it — affect me at all? They didn't kill the child. They didn't contribute to his dying.

Yeah, going home from a funeral — of anyone close to you — and watching people carelessly enjoying their lives unaware of your tragedy is annoying. But you don't get mad at them. Or, maybe, you do — because you're a fool controlled by emotions, rather than rational thought.

Bettors should not be rooting for an experimental medicine to fail just to earn a buck

Why not? If that is one's way to pursue happiness and it does not hurt anyone, what argument is there against it?

"It's quite ghastly."

That's not a reason...

Aw man :(

No a double standard between people driving cars and literally everything else.

Motor vehicles are (in American terms) a 9/11 equivalent every month, year in year out and it barely gets a mention Dave for the odd bit of victim blaming especially if the victim was on foot or on a bike. Nothing else gets the same bladse treatment.

Even so, law enforcement would also have access to the cellular records of countless individuals, the vast majority of whom were merely passing by a location at the 'wrong' time

What if, instead of asking: "Give us the list of everybody using this tower during this period", police asked for something narrower, like: "Give us the list of everybody using this tower during this period, and this other tower at this other period" (which is, what police would've done themselves)? What would make the request palatable to the Court — and Slashdot?

Enough AND-clauses until the resulting list is shorter than a certain number? 500? 50? 5? What if it becomes so short, the phone company employee(s) themselves can identify the suspect(s)?

I can't place a Polymarket bet on there being a hurricane and then go out and cause a hurricane.

Admitting your weakness is the first step towards growing strong!

Seriously, though, I do acknowledge this as a (potentially) valid concern in my next paragraph. But there are lots of other cases, where the bettor either has insider knowledge prior to betting, or can affect the outcome afterwards — both legally and otherwise. Lawmakers betting on financial markets' moves in response to their own legislation is still legal, for example. Other methods exist for the rest of us.

Yet, this proposal is limited sorely to setting wildfires and for the most bullshit reasons of all: "all so the rich and powerful can profit". Hence my contempt...

I'm sorry to hear that. I have CFS/ME which seems to be similar, so I know a bit of what you are living with.
At least in my case things did get better eventually, so don't give up hope.

Thanks. For me, it played hell with my joints (that was the main symptom) to the point where I even (probably due to inflammation) got minor nerve damage. I basically couldn't stand still for more than about 5 minutes without one foot going both painful and numb. I also picked up wrist, shoulder and some other injuries. Basically everything started injuring my joints while I had it. The problems are slowly fading, thankfully. Amazingly it wasn't even a bad case. It was basically like a really nasty cold until I had taste loss (oooh COVID) for a few days but also covid toes. I'd had worse before, without the long term effects.

Whether SARS-COV-2 was real

It was.

or rebranded flu

It was not.

It dropped to 99.8% if you were over.

This is not true.

forced medication

No one held a gun to your head and injected you. But conversely you have no right to breathe your virus on anyone. Freedom means you can choose to not be injected and a building owner can choose to not open the door to you.

Personally I'm not a fan of Ivermectin.

This is an almost fractally stupid sentence in only 7 words, congratulations. It's not a club. It's a medication for treating certain parasitic infections.

It causes infertility.

It does not.

Tim Truth covered a lot of it (his videos were delete from YouTube, but you can find them on Odysee and Rumble

No thankyou.

including how the "main-stream-independent" media was pushing Ivermectin.

The who with the what now?

where as the official jabs also caused turbo cancer

They did not.

First vaccine I had made me feel like utter shite for a few days to the point where I took a day or two off work.

On the other hand I'm still suffering the after effects of mild long covid 6 months later.

If they could create a generic flu one that would be great,

Ain't gonna happen: it mutates too fast, but that's why the mRNA one is good since a shorter lead time leads to more accurate predictions.

Yes, sadly, they do not cure mental illness.