Interesting idea, impossible to implement without creating problems ten times worse.

I guess that makes sense. If Oman can get a cut of the money while Iran takes the heat for tolling the strait then I would see that being an attractive deal for Oman.

I think few people would object to it if they were told it was an option, but the default is “no” in most countries and many people just don’t think to opt in.

Would this include the signage found at filling stations?

Dumb law if yes.

It’s more a question about why Omani officials haven’t thrown a fit on the international stage about this blatant violation of their sovereignty. I’m not stupid enough to think that Iranian missiles stop at the international border.

Side question: Why, in this whole debacle, can’t ships just sail within the territorial waters of Oman, on the southern side of the strait? Why does Iran get to dictate what happens in Oman’s territorial waters? 've heard surprisingly little said by or towards Omani officials about this.

If you’re a hacker and use Windows, you deserve to get caught tbh

I feel like his novelty would wear off if he actually appeared in Parliament. He’d probably be told that the costume won’t be allowed and then become an abstentionist in protest.

The Nintendo Switch was just taken offline in Mainland China, not that it was terribly popular anyway, because it only had around 10 games available for it.

The video game market in China has essentially been dominated by a company called Tencent for years, who are known for poor customer experiences and frustrating software. The Chinese were enshittifying online services years before the word “enshittify” was coined.

The Hong Kong Police Force has a habit of posting their naughty list at the airport and near immigration checkpoints. They’re usually a bit out of sight, but it’s usually a bunch of wanted posters plastered on a column or on a notice board. It’s chilling to see the names and pictures of the city’s previously most-prominent pro-democracy activists on wanted posters with huge bounties on their head. I think I remember $1,000,000 was offered for Nathan Law. It reminded me a bit of the wanted posters in One Piece.

You can use the Metamask browser extension. Polymarket runs on a token called USDC, which you can buy from Coinbase for US$1 a pop with no fee (and also sell it back for $1 for no fee).

I used to use Polymarket a lot because it was previously filled with crypto bros and MAGA idiots who would vastly overvalue stupid bets (like “Will Canada join the USA”) and provide easy money. But I haven’t used it for a while, so I don’t know if that’s the case any more.

“Count” is not a valid title in the British peerage. The equivalent rank in the UK is “earl”. Though if he wins, I think it’d be a moment of immense cultural significance so he should immediately be elevated to the Lords as a life peer, just to make the title official. He can be Britain’s only living count.

Lord Buckethead and Count Binface are one and the same person, the actor had to stop using “Lord Buckethead” for IP reasons.

You can bet with crypto on there so you don’t have to actually give them your information because you can just use an anonymous crypto wallet. It used to be a lot better before it was commercialised. In the past, all the markets were fee-free, and it was just your typical degenerate crypto gambling site. Now they’ve started charging fees on most of the markets, and they advertise everywhere so it sucks. Now they’re a for-profit enterprise or something and act exactly like any other scummy casino operator.

But the payouts are done algorithmically on the blockchain so you can be sure that winning bets are indeed actually paid.

Prediction markets and American bookmarkers are all offering over 10:1 on Count Binface right now. 9:2 is terrible IMO

Ironically, you’ve confused a conversation about odds with one about polls.

It’s not about polls. We’re talking about betting odds here. This is a gambling conversation. They said that Count Binface winning is paid 4:1, meaning an implied probability of 20%. I asked who is paying that, because it seems like that’s far too low of a payout, giving Count Binface too high of an implied chance of winning.

If a candidate is being beat 4:1 in the polls, their betting odds would probably be 100:1 or higher.

Then he’s guaranteed to win and will be declared elected.

Who is offering 4:1 odds on Count Binface? The major betting markets have him at around 8% last I checked earlier today.

Edit: This is about gambling odds not polls

He’ll shirk back into his hole for two years and then pop back out as the leader of the new right-wing insurgent political party “Rejuvenate Britain” or something.

The old owners could’ve been fined into bankruptcy and then the franchise was sold to someone else.