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Why?
Right, why?
And someone realized that this was all based on this one sensor that was at the airport close to the Charles de Gaulle airport.
So they went up with a hairdryer and heated the air around the sensor.
They did this on two separate occasions to 22 degrees Celsius, which seemed like a real long shot because it wasn't going to happen without dude showing up with a hairdryer.
market resolved in their favor.
And then they were able to pocket this cash, some $34,000.
And they did it twice before ultimately they got caught.
So this is, you know, I mean, I really, my eyes were open soccer when I realized you could bet on the color of the dildo being thrown at the WNBA game.
That was a real, like a real aha moment for me because it's so obvious in some of these things, how they can just be completely, completely rigged.
And, um,
You know, the political insider trading one is obviously really scary and detrimental to that.
You have people who are in a position to impact who gets in and what date they get in and, you know, how much money they spend and in some ways, you know, how well or poorly they perform.
They can sort of point shave the same way that players can point shave in games.
And then what they're being able to bet on the Paris airport.
And so it ends up just being another way to suck more cash
out of ordinary people.
I have become much less libertarian with these things because the fact of the matter is there are vulnerabilities in human psychology that are easily exploited.
And one of them is, yeah, holding out the possibility of like, oh, this time you're gonna get rich.
And we, I mean, this is what...