<p>Sad to learn that octodon.social is shutting down now too: <a href="https://octodon.social/@CobaltVelvet/112897672123037837" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">octodon.social/@CobaltVelvet/1</span><span class="invisible">12897672123037837</span></a></p><p>So many instances from the early Mastodon days, gone like tears in the rain. cybre.space, mastodon.technology, witches.town, probably more I forgot about.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Ah, and using a faster fpga begins with building the tools to make it useful: prjunnamed. Your secret plan is out!</p>

<p>OH: &quot;i think i will continue to ration the self&quot;</p><p>(the full quote is worse)</p>

<p>labor theory of hugs</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> yea! Also just life in general.</p><p>Also, sometimes remembering that other people can be temporary idiots too can explain a lot of weird behaviour without getting you down about the species (obviously this is not to excuse systematically bad behaviour)</p>

<p>9/ I think this is difficult to understand if you&#39;re in the middle-class or higher. That&#39;s because you *can* afford that vacation and probably don&#39;t want the Lambo. But that doesn&#39;t make the betters irrational. Just optimizing differently. •</p>

<p>8/ So sports betting FEELS like the only place where you might have an edge that you can parlay into large multiplicative factor payouts. It&#39;s … almost rational. ↵</p>

<p>7/ But speculators want some knowledge edge. And what *do* you know? Probably a lot about your favorite sports teams. Probably a lot more about them than about companies or currencies or anything else. ↵</p>

<p>6/ That may not prevent you! You could grab a Robinhood account and start betting, sorry, trading. You can even get leverage through margin, if you qualify. At high rates. And many have. ↵</p>