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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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[-] thefunkycomitatus@hexbear.net 72 points 2 weeks ago

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 36 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

it's illegal if you do it though

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 34 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] KoboldKomrade@hexbear.net 33 points 2 weeks ago

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 11 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, this is some The Boyz level writing

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] JustSo@hexbear.net 52 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] JustSo@hexbear.net 31 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 33 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago
[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

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[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 46 points 2 weeks ago

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 24 points 2 weeks ago

Just open a Keno bar like a normal person

[-] MayoPete@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

How has no chud come up with Patriot Paremovedo frothingfash

(I'm talking about the game in Japan with tiny metal balls shooting all over the place)

[-] mrfugu@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

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 2 points 2 weeks ago

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 4 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think paying out cash prices is illegal in Japan as well. They just have conveniently located stores that buy and sell metal balls.

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

Sometimes the slur filter is a thing of beauty

[-] Dr_Pepper@hexbear.net 39 points 2 weeks ago
[-] rubber_chicken@hexbear.net 38 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] JustSo@hexbear.net 23 points 2 weeks ago

bet u fivebux they dont hit it

[-] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 36 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] acab_means_cop_Dva@hexbear.net 36 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 34 points 2 weeks ago

I would love to people-watch there.

[-] BarrelsBallot@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] invo_rt@hexbear.net 33 points 2 weeks ago

slap this on a shirt and go

[-] 9to5@hexbear.net 27 points 2 weeks ago
[-] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago

Good bit tbh

[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 26 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 23 points 2 weeks 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

[-] MayoPete@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago

Polymarket geordi-no

Polycule? geordi-yes

[-] JustSo@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks 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

[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago

Sounds kinda sick actually I love charts

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 20 points 2 weeks ago

This could not sound more insufferable if they tried.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago

Ladbrokes with beer

[-] ahrienby@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago
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