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541  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: who Want To Bet On 2024 USA elections? on: January 26, 2024, 04:10:52 PM
Politics in the US these days is really divided.

There is rarely a debate with nuance, it is all about "the other side is bad".

So in the end many people are simply voting for anything that is "Not X, and not Y", etc, instead of actually voting for a person that represents their goals and ideas.

It is an incredibly divided country.

And it is getting more divided every year.

TV, Twitter, and other social media, simply puts a single phrase to enrage people and it works.

Attention span of people is way down to what it used to be.

If you watch an old interview (say from the 70s, 80s, etc) you realize how different people were in those times. They spoke better, they had independent ideas, they could phrase their ideas and have a conversation for half an hour, no problem. Even if people disagreed, they talked about it.

Now it's just two seconds saying something, and then posting it on the internet. No nuance, just hatred.

And it's cable news' fault.

I read somewhere that Rupert Murdoch said that they could've gotten away with Watergate if the media did not tell people why it was wrong.

He's the founder of the FOX empire in case you don't know.

So it doesn't get any more blatant than that. It's all about "Do not think for yourself, you are wrong, just listen to me!" and unfortunately it extends well beyond America.
The biggest problem with the media is that, X can be done by both candidates, and if one of them does X then they are terrible human beings that does nothing but a horrible thing, but then the candidate they like does the same X and suddenly it is a good thing. That will always be the thing that pisses me off the most, it is the same thing, they did the same thing, how come when one of them did it, they are national hero, and when the other does it, it is terrible?

You can see videos on youtube, when people talk about how X candidate did something, and people say it is horrible, and when they say "sorry it was Y candidate" and suddenly same person starts to defend the same thing. That is what is wrong with the world these days. Protecting your candidate when they do something wrong, and attacking the other side when they do the same exact thing.
542  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: January 26, 2024, 01:25:02 PM
According to reports from the media,Arsenal are on the verge of agreeing terms with Real Sociedad starlet,Zubimendi.It is reported that he likes the project at Arsenal,and may want to try life at England, although the deal is a pre-summer agreement, between the two parties.If the gunners should secure his signature in the summer,then it would be very likely that they would let Jorginho leave the club,or Partey because they are the two oldest players at the team at the moment,and Injury is really affecting the Latter.Partey is supposed to be one of the best players in England,but because he is always out due to injury,and his inconsistency on the field,it has made Arsenal think of selling him.
They are trying to save face with getting new players, but I think a new transfer is not what they need. The whole "they may actually get benzema" situation is more than enough, not because he would be insanely well, but he is a good veteran presence that can help with the teams youngsters.

I believe that what they need is not a manager change, not new players, not new tactic or anything like that at all. I believe what they need is experience, and with given enough time, without losing much of the squad, they could actually get quite good. Take Liverpool as an example, from the team that won the UCL, to the team now, they changed a lot of players, but many of them gained experience there as well, so they became good again. Arsenal is good, they just need to stay good for a while to gain experience being good.
543  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Motosport General discussion tread --- Formula1, MotoGP, WTCC, ETCC, DTM..... on: January 25, 2024, 07:14:41 PM
Adding Madrid is not really a problem, they are trying to make it go a lot harder and bigger, so that is an important thing. However, adding more and more tracks, which is their goal, to reach that 30 race season thing, is all about money and I am not sure if teams will be capable of doing that. Remember, adding more tracks means more income in the future, but it also means more expense, and while there are some teams like Mercedes and red bull which can sustain themselves and do this, there are teams like haas and williams which can't.

There needs to be some financial assistance to the teams that does poorly, I mean something bigger, punishing teams for being bad, makes them only worse and they eventually bankrupt and sell the team to someone else, who will later bankrupt as well.
544  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) on: January 25, 2024, 06:55:22 PM
The problem is whether Benzema wants to play for Lyon or not. Benzema already has a very high salary for playing for Ittihad. And Lyon is a club that is currently slumping in the League. Bringing in a player like Benzema is a very profitable scenario for Lyon. But we know there are several factors that make it difficult for that to happen. So I think what Lyon should do is recruit another striker who can improve their quality a little on the front line. At least a little better than now.
Players of Benzema's age are actually very suitable to play in the Saudi Arabian League by enjoying a higher salary than moving to another team which generally may not be able to provide salaries like those given by Saudi Arabian clubs. Lyon currently needs younger players to increase their strength, instead of looking for old star players because I don't think that will help Lyon much to increase their strength to become better in Ligue1. Moreover, a star player like Benzema will definitely not immediately agree to move if his salary level is still quite low.
I think that's not a bad idea and he knew it was a good decision and that is why he went there. But sometimes, you can't just expect to hit 100% correct move, and what you think was a good idea, could turn out to be not a great idea. He just disliked the situation there, it could happen, it is not really that much of a shocker, it can happen.

Lyon getting Benzema wouldn't really be a bad idea, not that I think it would be possible, the amount of money it would take to get him there would be too high and Lyon doesn't have that kind of money, not only the team should be letting him go, but at the same time we are talking about Benzema asking for very little. I think the team will not let him go, so Lyon can't really afford him at the moment.
545  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024 on: January 25, 2024, 06:34:23 PM
Liverpool is the club with the busiest schedule in the Premier League they took part in 4 competitions at once and so far they have continued to advance to the next round, in general it is a good achievement for a club but of course there are risks there I mean there is a risk of injury. We can compare it with Manchester City which only takes part in 3 competitions and maybe Manchester City will miss one more competition so they can focus on the Champions League and Premier League, Manchester City certainly don't want injury problems to hamper them like last year.

In the EFL Cup Final Liverpool opponent was Chelsea maybe this will be Liverpool's first trophy of the season or they will give it to Chelsea, on the other hand for Chelsea this is their only chance to get a trophy so it will be difficult to predict who will win. This match will be played on February 25 at Wembley Stadium there's no way to see who is closer to the championship and we don't know if there will be injury problems in the next few weeks.
I feel like that is of course not an easy thing to do, but that is also why they have a deep squad as well, they have so many players that can play at the same positions. I am not saying they are all same quality, but you can rotate players, like have 7 main players, 4 bench, and then put the 4 that rested, and take out another different 4, and keep doing that until everyone rests time to time. When you do that, you are never putting 100% of your squad to work, but at least you are resting some players.

Some players do get tired, but eventually they get better and relax. I think it is not about the fact that some players play a lot during short span of time, like playing 5 games in 2 weeks may sound a lot, even six games at times, but that doesn't really matter. It is about playing 50+ games a year, that is what makes it hard.
546  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Do not use more than 2x leverage on: January 25, 2024, 03:04:32 PM
People have personalities and those personalities decides on all this, it doesn't really matter what you do. I think it's clear that we are going to see people do whatever they want to do and they will not be hearing it from anyone to do otherwise.

If you are the type of person who does spot trading then you will keep being a spot trader, if you are the type of person who does 100x leverage then whatever I tell you, or whoever tells you not to, you are going to not stop, maybe take it down another, like 50x or something or 20x but not going to be a spot trader or do 2x at all, that won't work. That is why it is quite important to make it work one way or another, it is not really something that I would suggest doing otherwise and don't expect any different.
547  Economy / Gambling / Re: Roobet.com | Crypto’s Fastest Growing Casino 🦘 on: January 25, 2024, 01:59:26 PM
I do regularly participate in twitter contests and giveaways from casinos I trust like roobet, but winning those contests is very rare. Yeah, I guess it's a waste of time. But I have won some contests in other casinos like in Stake, I've never experienced winning in Roobet's Twitter contests and giveaways hopefully soon since this day they regularly posting contest. However since I started joining their art contests here in BitcoinTalk, I think I've only not won twice from the day I started participating in Roobet art contest here in BitcoinTalk.
nothing is a waste of time. but if you feel you are wasting your time on social media giveaways from casinos. you can skip it. The same social media giveaway only you bet on. it depends on your luck. and if you are not lucky, you don't need to be too sad and hopeful.
If you have art skills, Roobet consistently continues to launch art contests. but before that, you might see some of the characteristics and criteria for works of art that won in previous contests. not as an assessment measure, but you can assess the quality of skills of several participants in the arts field.
That does feel like a weird stance. I can understand being bored of it for not winning anything because there are many people who join and that is why it makes people question it and they do not end up being all that great and all, but that doesn't mean that we should be approaching it any differently, we need to realize that it is not going to be all that great.

We should consider this as normal and we should just let him be in that case. But, wasting time? I am not sure if that is the right word to use, you do not spend so much time that it could be considered wasted, just because you will most likely lose, doesn't mean that spending 2 minutes per day could be considered wasting it unless you are a huge CEO of some big company, always busy or something. It is 2 minutes a day, you can waste it, it is not a big deal. If you don't want to, that makes sense, I just wanted to fix the word choice.
548  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: who Want To Bet On 2024 USA elections? on: January 25, 2024, 07:01:11 AM
many factors will determine the next president of the US, and if it has to be fair and sanely foresaw, I would see it for Biden in power too. But many criteria are to be considered here, and some of them are his age, whether he is fitting or not, and judging by the lapses of this current administration on some issues, people might be reconsidering. Talking about the economy, the inflation and the high Federal Funds Rate could be discouragements, many are just ignorant of the situation, and they will rather want to think negatively of another Biden administration than support it even as he is not guilty of that.

But Biden is not a tough guy when it comes to international relationships too, not until they were firing him with words before he started improving on that. People would take hold of that as well even as that is just a little among many factors to consider. But Trump might not be the best candidate if anyone is wise. Aside from the bad antecedent of the guy, what Trump is using has always been divisiveness, white supremacy, campaign emigration into the US and other things. But Trump is just greedy and unworthy, he shouldn't be the one mounting that mantle of power in the US again. I wonder what he would do with the theRussia-Ukraine war where Russia has destroyed key cities in Ukraine, his decision could be so ugly, and that would be painful. Above all, I think that I will remain neutral for now, maybe when we are closer to the time of the election properly, I will be able to ascertain a pick by then.

Regardless, I wish that Biden remains in power. I am a Democrat in proxy, and their rules have always treated and considered everyone reasonably.
Honestly I can't say that I am in support of any specific party, but it looks like democrats and republicans are going way too radical these days to get votes, and that is the problem that USA has right now.

Back in the day, not too long ago, even during like Obama vs Romney periods, you couldn't really put that much difference between the two, sure they would say things that may looked different, just a bit, but what they would do looked quite similar and it was just deciding who the "spoke person" for the "establishment" was.

Maybe all this "get rid of the establishment" part ended up not that great for USA, because apparently that was good for them. Now? It looks like you are either voting for a racist homophobic bigot, or old senile person puppeted by lgbt radical feminist movements. Like, there is no middle ground anymore, you are either a person who hates minorities, or you are forced to say the right pronoun, those are the only options.
549  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 on: January 24, 2024, 08:18:43 PM
The game between Miami and Nasr will be a very highly viewed game without a doubt. It is most probably the very last game that we will see these two players play against each other. I would say, about half a season ago or so, or whenever it happened, when Miami had nobody proper aside from Messi, every other player looked terrible, they were bare bottom terrible team even in their league, then it looked not fair.

However, looking at the team now, even though it is mostly old players, we are seeing more and more players joining Messi right now and it feels like it is actually quite good, at least at a decent level team. This means that the game will be closer now, I would still say that Nasr paid a lot more to get a much better team.
550  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Africa Football Discussion || Current Topic: AFCON 2023 on: January 24, 2024, 07:49:49 PM
This has been going for way too long, I get the understanding that summer would be way too hot and all that, but this winter situation really pulls a lot of teams back. It is going to be something that goes until 11th of February, surely only a few teams will remain by then, but players are getting higher risk of injury and playing a lot of games and it is not really nice for the clubs to have this in the middle of the season. It doesn't happen every single year thankfully, but it is not really adjustable for teams.

At this point, Africa needs to realize, teams will start to pay less for players from Africa if this keeps up, which is not smart on their behalf, players may start rejecting to play, because why would a team would pay same money to someone who goes out and plays for their nation 2 months during the season?
551  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024 on: January 24, 2024, 06:44:03 PM
Manchester City has been talked about regarding financial fair play rules for many many years now and nothing has happened and they kept on winning. It has been a discussion for multiple years now and they still haven't gotten punished for it. If they finally get a punishment, then it is just a punishment and it will have to just wait it out, there isn't really anything that can be done about it.

However, if we are talking about something that is bigger, like a retrospective punishment, which we all know won't happen, then it would be fair. What is the point of City having one bad season and then becoming great again, in exchange of dominating the whole league for a decade. In the end, they are not getting anything so far, lets see.
552  Economy / Gambling / Re: FreeBitco.in-$200 FreeBTC⭐Win Lambo🔥0.2BTC DailyJackpot🏆$32,500 Wager Contest on: January 24, 2024, 05:39:43 PM
There are costs associated with trying to prevent cheaters from abusing your casino. Confiscating their balance isn't done out of self interest, it is a deterrent to prevent further abuse and also necessary to cover the costs imposed by dishonest users.
I agree with you because there is a lot of abuse that may not be detected by the system which of course creates losses for the site as well and I think that by confiscating the funds of users who cheat and commit abuse it can be used to cover the losses that have been experienced by the site so this is not done for the purpose of personal interests, this will be a lesson for other users to be honest and not violate the terms and conditions on this site.

Freebitcoin has so far paid out a lot of people from their free spins faucet even lottery prizes and so on so why abuse it just to make a profit by creating accounts of more than 1 IP, I also don't know if this is a mistake or not sometimes someone has Another view is also that this error does not actually have to confiscate the user's funds from their deposit amount and only confiscates the funds that they have earned from this site. but the decision remains on this site, everyone must comply with the rules that have been set. Everyone has their own views but the decision has been made.
I do believe that they have the right to do that as well. Abusers deserve to get their money taken away, and it's like a fund if I understand correctly from what you said. I mean it's a smart idea to have a fund like that, where you end up with all the money that you confiscate from those people and you end up with a return that would be a lot smarter and could be quite well. I know that it is not going to be a big deal, and I know that it is going to be something that matters in the end, I just hope that we could do something that would be a bit different in the end.

I just wish that people would be considering this as something as a bit more difficult in the end because what freebitco.in has achieved is not an easy thing to handle, it is a big success to stop or at least slow down abuse.
553  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ Premier League 2023/2024 Discussion Thread ⚽ on: January 24, 2024, 04:14:23 PM
This should be important to note that we are talking about a team that has reached semi finals of FA cup while being a championship level team. And when we are talking about a "championship level team", do not consider them as some amazing team leading the league, nearly there at premier league already or something like that.

Middlesbrough is 11th right now in championship, so they are not even good at their league, it is 90% guaranteed that they are not going to be at premier league next season, that's the level they are in right now and still somehow managed to get to semi finals of the fa cup. This means that they did all the best they could do, and even though they ended up losing, we should still consider them as doing fine.
554  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: January 24, 2024, 06:30:51 AM
Barcelona getting both Cancelo and Felix would be very good for them, it would improve their squad to have them fully committed to the team, but at the same time we keep considering they already have them and they are not great, so maybe that is not the way they should go? Obviously we do not know what the yare thinking, but it is going to be a tough situation without a doubt, they just need to get better.

I believe that they are moving towards making the team a bit younger, so these would not be the ideal situation, and yet they are still doing fine, so maybe they do not want to change anything and just keep players that already know their system well enough. This should be the most important part of them in the end.
555  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Motosport General discussion tread --- Formula1, MotoGP, WTCC, ETCC, DTM..... on: January 23, 2024, 08:31:52 PM
Alpha Tauri will change theri name, their social are already gone.

the new name could be Visa CashApp RB team

Source: https://www.formulapassion.it/motorsport/formula-1/alphatauri-addio-ecco-il-visa-cashapp-rb-team
Alpha Tauri was a much cooler name than that. Visa CashApp feels like a sponsored football team name.  Grin  But the most important point is how much money they will get from this sponsorship of course. Alpha Tauri made good progress in the last races of last season you know. They kept their big updates for the end of the season interestingly or maybe they just didn't have the money to do it earlier.

If a good amount of money comes from this sponsorship deal maybe they wouldn't lose very much from their power in those times.

As far as I know they won't change their engine manufacturer in the new season also. I hope they can be competitive.
This is what the sport is all about these days, there is a cap for how much teams can spend, and yes there are few teams that can spend way more than that cap for sure, but rest of the teams do not even have that much, so when the cap is 150 million and you have only 70 million, you can't even spend the cap.

This is why teams are looking for any way possible to make money, it could be celebrity visits, it could be name changes, it could be even more ads on the car, it could be anything really, at this point the only thing left would be selling the whole team. We know have Stake F1 team as well, great thing for crypto and gambling, but that is how it is going at the moment. They are selling the name rights as well, to keep the lights on.
556  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Germany League - Bundesliga Prediction Thread on: January 23, 2024, 08:06:42 PM
Last season, Bayern miraculously managed to become the Bundesliga champions with the same number of points as Dortmund. This season, they are again at risk of falling into a similar situation or even losing the title. Probably the next game against Union will bring them three points and they will get closer to Leverkusen. But the competition is still high.
Bayern Munich last season seem more impressive than this season that's why they were able to win the league last season but however Bayern Leverkusen has stand in between there possibility of wining the league again this season, actually Bayern Leverkusen performance this season is even very surprising to Bayern Munich because there last season Bayern Leverkusen was not this strong but how they were able to pull this performance they have this season is still what surprises Bayern Munich.

And however with how things are going Bayern Leverkusen will become the champion of Bundesliga this season because with there current point now I don't think Bayern Munich will be able to bring them down from the league table because the difference is too much and secondly with all the matches Bayern Leverkusen will be having they stand a chance to win all the matches so perhaps this season has really favoured them.
Honestly Bayern looked better than this season when you look at the last 10 years, so this year could be the worst year they have. But on top of that, we should consider how great Leverkusen has been, Bayern could have been very well the leaders even while not being great, if only Leverkusen lost some games, but they didn't and the yare doing fine and they are winning as much as possible.

I know that it is not going to be all there is, and we are going to end up with some more title fight, so there is no reason to think that Bayern already lost the league, they may still do fine and wait for Leverkusen to lose, which could happen and Bayern could still win the league. However, it doesn't look good right now to be fair.
557  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2024 NBA Season on: January 23, 2024, 06:58:42 PM
Embiid is really out there trying to prove to people that it wasn't just dumb luck that he won the MVP but he is really the MVP of the league as well. Last year, when he won, a lot of people said that Jokic deserved the MVP but because he already won it twice, it didn't felt like it would make sense to give him a third one in a row, so that is why Embiid won and not because he deserved it.

But dude just scored 70 points, that is a lot of points, not many people has broken 70 point barrier, only a few has achieved it, even though there are many people who did 60+ games, the amount stops very quickly when it reaches to 70 points and above (and only two people did 80 and more). So, it is really a great game to watch, amazing highlights.
558  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: How to manage gambling winnings on: January 23, 2024, 06:01:51 PM
Depending on the amount, you could withdraw it, or just keep on gambling for "free" the way you always do.
Let's say you only deposit 100 dollars per month, and do not deposit any more at all, when that 100 dollars is done, you are done, even if it's just 3rd of the month, you wait until the next month. In that situation, if you end up with 1000 dollars due to some win, put the 900 aside, gamble with 100 dollars for 10 months, and when you do that, you are going to realize that it's cool because you haven't spent another dime after that.

But, if the winning is much larger, then taking it out and just holding it at bitcoin feels like the best thing to do, it allows you to actually be better at what you do and should be quite important.
559  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Increased Gambling Risk for the Younger Generation on: January 23, 2024, 06:41:54 AM
I am pretty sure that younger generation having the social media and technology right under their hands is the biggest problem. They keep seeing gambling and how easy it is for them to gamble. When I was growing up, gambling online was a possibility when I was a kid, but it wasn2t this easy, it was still possible but required so many things, which ended up with me not having easy time gambling, I tried a bit when I was younger, but it took me a while.

On the other hand, when we are talking about my fathers time, they weren't even capable of gambling even if they wanted to, maybe illegal friendly local tavern games, which they did hiding from the cops, but it wasn't allowed and was totally illegal, so not many did. Hence, younger generation is doing it more, because it is a lot more easier for them.
560  Economy / Speculation / Re: Will the bitcoin ETF have any impact on the bitcoin price? on: January 22, 2024, 05:40:23 PM
For those who dont have knowledge or having that experience then for sure they would really be having this kind of impression on which that ETF approval turns out to be shit, but for those people who are really that
having some experience on how market works and how it behaves and other fundamentals then they would really be normally be trying out to assume that positive effects of this ETH approval might take up some time.
Now that the price is really that having some correction or retracement but i wont be shocked if this one would be easily breaking 50k-60k on this year or few months later.
We do really just need up some another positive catalyst which would really be pushing up the price goes higher but well we do know on how this market behaves or works.

Lets just see on how it would really be able to make that huge effect into this market now that intitutional funds are really that flowing into but i wont really be shocked
if there would really be some obvious manipulative kind of acts.  Cheesy
Those big corporations with big deep pockets going into bitcoin will definitely have something benefiting us. I know that its not going to be all that simple, and I know that it will take a while to make that work, yes it is not that simple, but at the end of the day we are talking about people who are having some sort of situation that doesn't really feel like a big deal to me. I know its not that simple, and I know that it will have some problems when all that much money comes in all at once, and if there are any corrections afterwards, it will be brutal for many investors as well.

But, I do see the long term results of this to be great and should be something that we could all enjoy and feel happy about, because the price will go up.
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