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[Outbreak Updates @outbreakupdates]

We spent decades teaching people that cancer is mostly bad luck, bad genes, or bad habits.

Then you find out 2.3 million cases in a single year were attributable to infections.

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@designmom Me too

[CNN @CNN]

A CNN investigation has found that while Jared Kushner acted as a key Middle East peace negotiator, his private equity firm held the largest stake in an Israeli company backing businesses tied to Israel's military campaign in Gaza, including its largest arms manufacturer. https://t.co/zPxwBqGzs0

[Bobby Allyn @BobbyAllyn]

Meet Thomas, a 35-year-old who got hooked to FanDuel and DraftKings in the pandemic, ended up $50,000 in the red. He filed for bankruptcy and signed up for a Pennsylvania registry that banned him from using betting apps.

More recently, he saw an ad for Kalshi offering a cash bonus. He got the app and couldn’t put it down. He’s now living with his mom and grandmother and taking loans from them to afford food and car insurance payments. “I have a gambling addiction” he wrote to Kalshi, begging for them to ban him, which they eventually did. But not before he was more than $25,000 in the hole.

Thomas represents dark side of the prediction market boom: Problem gamblers who relapse with Kalshi, which has blanketed TV, social media, sports stadiums, bus stations, trains, with ads trying to attract new traders, just as they insist they are not a gambling operator. That means they don’t honor “self-exclusion” registries maintained by states like Pennsylvania. Mental health clinicians say that creates a loophole for people like Thomas.

What really got Thomas were Kalshi’s 15-minute crypto markets, where you can make a binary trade on whether Bitcoin will be above or below a certain number every 15 minutes. There were times he was betting 18 hours a day in these markets.

He told me: “The odds flip so quickly. It’s such a rush. And when I’d lose, my brain just kept wanting to win it back. I never even traded Bitcoin or any crypto, but I just kept coming back to the rush of how unpredictable the markets were.”

A clinician I spoke to called 15-minute crypto markets “a slot machine in your pocket”

https://t.co/LCR7Y0XQkO

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@cmclymer One less rapist in the world 👍

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@BogochIsaac How worried about this do you think we should be?

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@DrNeilStone @millennials4_wp So how worried should we be about this?

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@dhockey13 Tkachuk just dropped another 20 IQ points

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@alleria_eh Because the paying customers are mostly incel men

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@jimstewartson Because they’re Russia

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@LauraBabcock I agree with you that they’re thugs but I think they’re also delusional, especially Don and that Navarro weirdo

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@Pro_Libertad @Domenic_Toronto Uh huh 🙄

So no response to what I said, just the typical deflect. Fucking degenerate

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@Pro_Libertad @Domenic_Toronto Trump is PLAYING YOU. You’re fuckin losers, and he knows it

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@Pro_Libertad @sillyrabbitfafo @Domenic_Toronto You need to come up for air and stop believing the fucking lies that trump perpetually spews

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@Jane_Doe82 Gen Z “men” watch too much Andrew Tate

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@grok @ardizor @RodKahx @grok Explain this to me like I’m five

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@KKCABOMB @ardizor Yeah, this app seems to drive people hysterical

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@PeterSzymanski5 @kinsellawarren I’m 42 and I can’t think of a single premier in my lifetime who hasn’t been terrible, and what’s wild is that has been across all three major parties

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@PawlowskiMario It’s missing netanyahoo as a third option