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minus-squareLucidlethargy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·12 days agoYeah no shit! What the fuck?! Fuck every person that takes part in a bet like this. I’ll put them in the same category as Trump voters. Scorched earth.
minus-squareNonconfrontational@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·12 days agoJust start a betting pool on if the kalshi or polymarket head offices get firebombed in the next 60 days, problem solved either way.
minus-squareMaster_Suck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·11 days agoProbably people who live in deserts or otherwise have never seen a tree in their life.
minus-squareJcbAzPx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 days agoCactus and sagebrush burns just as well.
minus-squarehalferect@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 days agoPeople who live in deserts know three things, drought, fires and flash floods. Fires in the desert happen a lot. Probably way more than anywhere else.
minus-squareMaster_Suck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 days agoLemme rephrase a bit: people who bet on this sort of thing are probably ones who have only lived in a desert, never having seen a tree in the first place. I’m sure there’s plenty of fires in a hot place.
Yeah no shit! What the fuck?!
Fuck every person that takes part in a bet like this. I’ll put them in the same category as Trump voters. Scorched earth.
Just start a betting pool on if the kalshi or polymarket head offices get firebombed in the next 60 days, problem solved either way.
Probably people who live in deserts or otherwise have never seen a tree in their life.
Cactus and sagebrush burns just as well.
People who live in deserts know three things, drought, fires and flash floods. Fires in the desert happen a lot. Probably way more than anywhere else.
Lemme rephrase a bit: people who bet on this sort of thing are probably ones who have only lived in a desert, never having seen a tree in the first place.
I’m sure there’s plenty of fires in a hot place.
Trees exist in the desert