Look man its Peoria. It knows what it is, there's no need to lie to you
Its a cute ad meant to convince people from nearby to go there rather than on a more expensive trip
Since he was fired last month, Ukraine's defense minister @FedorovMykhailo has asked @elonmusk several times to help Ukraine destroy Russian missile launchers. Musk refuses.
"Elon keeps saying it’s time to make a deal" with the Russians.
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A woman won $127,000 at a casino she'd gambled at every week for eight years. As she celebrated with the dealer and the whole table, a pit boss pulled her aside and said she couldn't have the money. She'd technically been trespassing the entire time, and hadn't known it.
– Denise Ezell, 65, had been a regular at MGM Grand Detroit for about eight years, gambling there weekly without a single issue.
– On October 30, 2023, on what she described as her last bet of the night, she played a side bet at the progressive blackjack table and was dealt a four-card straight flush.
– The dealer, the table, and everyone around her erupted, congratulating her on what turned out to be a $127,000 jackpot.
– This won't happen with prediction markets
– A pit boss then approached and asked for her ID, which she assumed was routine.
– Minutes later, casino staff told her she couldn't be paid. She was, according to them, trespassing.
– A prediction market doesn't work that way. There's no house, you're matched peer-to-peer, and your payout comes from the person who took the other side, not a company deciding whether to honor the number on your screen
– The reasoning traced back to a single incident from 2015, when Ezell got into an argument with her cousin over shared betting money, and a security guard told her to leave for "panhandling."
– She says she was never formally notified of any ban after that night, and continued gambling regularly at the same casino for the next eight years without incident.
– "Do you think I would have gone down there and spent my money for eight years, knowing I was trespassing?" she asked reporters.
– After months of trying to resolve it directly with MGM and the Michigan Gaming Control Board, she filed a federal lawsuit in June 2024, seeking the $127,000 jackpot plus an additional $75,000 in damages.
She spent eight years and thousands of dollars as a welcomed regular. The one night she actually won big, the casino remembered a decade-old excuse it had never bothered to tell her about.
The city council is trying to veto Mamdani’s housing nominee because he wrote a paper for Stanford law school policy review blaming NIMBYs for imposing stringent requirements on new housing, driving up costs
@Uzin_qion@gray_ifor_win87@mehdirhasan Its not like he is the only ex Muslim with this kind of story. Also the Quran does seem more explicit than the Bible when it comes to many problematic things.
@eagle_left@putICEontrial There is no genocide. Palestinian terrorists started another war their asses couldn’t cash. Then their dumb ass supporters FreePalestine aided Netanyahu with Trump. FreePalestine are the dumbest muthafckas on EARTH. Enjoy Trump and Bibi’s new Gaza.