there’s a crazy story my mom told me about how people would go missing in her pueblo in nicaragua while simultaneously finding more cattle on their farms. my grandmother went missing for a week as a child and they couldn’t find her. one day she just appeared +
Prison economy in the USA, old-fashioned: you are a slave (industrial sense) and you will be worked to the bone regardless of efficiency.
Prison economy in Russian Federation, progressive: Human Rights As A Service
holy fuck, a hair dryer at a Paris airport broke Polymarket weather markets & made someone $34,000 richer
- polymarket was settling Paris temperature bets on a single Météo France sensor sitting near the Charles de Gaulle runway perimeter - basically unguarded
- the guy bought the long-shot outcome (like "22°C" when everyone expected 18°C) for pennies, since nobody thought it'd hit
- then he walked up to the probe and briefly heated the air around it with a portable heat source, spiking the reading just long enough to register as the daily max
- temperature snapped back to normal in minutes, the market resolved in his favor, and he cashed out - twice, on April 6 and April 15, before Météo France caught on and filed charges
hyperstitions.