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US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid

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Re: US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid

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Post by Tangurena2 »

davedx wrote: post #307
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> would be highly demoralizing Those people should quit. Sour grapes isn’t an excuse for putting others’ lives at risk.

I don't think active duty special forces can just "quit", can they?

They get transferred to a different unit - one that is not part of "special forces". A big part of the selection process is to find the soldiers who just won't quit.

One rather famous example is of a BUD/S (usually called SEAL) selectee who drowned himself. When pulled out of the pool and resuscitated, he apologized and thought he failed out of the selection process. The instructor replied something like "heck no, you passed. We can always teach you how to swim. No one can teach you to never give up".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_SEAL_select...

Re: US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid

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Post by TSiege »

ghtbircshotbe wrote: post #437

Many people here are talking about how more powerful people are also corrupt and are getting away with it. All corruption is bad. This soldier put the life of everyone on the mission in danger by doing this.

The sentiment is not that this man shouldn't be prosecuted it is that the blatant double standard and growing endemic societal cancer that is corruption is being allowed to blossom while leaders target scape goats for the same behavior. What this administration is trying to signal with going after this guy is that the problem is not with them, it's someone else, that they're on the up and up. It is why scapegoating is an effective tactic

Re: US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid

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Post by Tangurena2 »

pavlov wrote: post #224

What’s the point of prediction markets? They are just ordinary gambling unless you allow insider trading and manipulation, because that’s the only way the market can acquire and represent novel useful information. But if you allow those things, you run into a host of well-documented problems which are the reason why those things are forbidden in other markets. As it stands, prediction markets seem like a tech-aligned…

This is a legal battle currently going on. Arizona's Attorney General is suing the major platforms alleging that they are thinly disguised gambling.

Re: US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid

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Post by tencentshill »

cpncrunch wrote: post #430
mellosouls wrote: post #292

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People with a lot of money have certainly been making bets (plenty of recent news items on that), but I think the point being raised by others is that it's suspicious that only the lower orders have so far apparently been pursued.

We don't have evidence of that either.

Therefore we should stop talking about it anywhere, ever. There is nothing to see here, peasant.

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Post by [deleted] »

SlinkyOnStairs wrote: post #332
andrepd wrote: post #297

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I too wonder why "Nancy Pelosi" has become basically synonymous with Congress insider trading when she's not even close to the top of the list among congresspeople.

Sexism will play a role, but a big part of the reason why Pelosi gets so much flak is that she did nothing to stop it when the democrats were in charge, thus directly paving the way to the current shitshow.

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Post by triceratops »

Plasmoid wrote: post #459
triceratops wrote: post #432

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> Medical schools require a lot of volunteering But...why? Why not just let in the applicants that have the best grades?

Because there are so many applicants that have good grades. A more cynical view is that the governing boards want a way to pick and choose who they let in. So they create "holistic" application systems to get "360 degree view of the candidate".

> Because there are so many applicants that have good grades.

So train more doctors.

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Post by cpncrunch »

tencentshill wrote: post #464
cpncrunch wrote: post #430

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We don't have evidence of that either.

Therefore we should stop talking about it anywhere, ever. There is nothing to see here, peasant.

No, we just shouldnt be confusing speculation as fact.

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Post by codemog »

Arkhaine_kupo wrote: post #335
andrepd wrote: post #297

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I too wonder why "Nancy Pelosi" has become basically synonymous with Congress insider trading when she's not even close to the top of the list among congresspeople.

You really need to wonder? The 10 best performing historical congress people stocks are all republican,a ll men, all funded by lobbys like heritage foundation... But the face of insider trading becomes a democrat and a woman Its sooo diffcult to guess why it happened

You’re going to make this a gender and party issue huh? Surprised skin color wasn’t brought up too. Yep, we deserve what we get.

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Post by waterhouse »

Plasmoid wrote: post #459
triceratops wrote: post #432

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Medical schools require a lot of volunteering But...why? Why not just let in the applicants that have the best grades?

Because there are so many applicants that have good grades. A more cynical view is that the governing boards want a way to pick and choose who they let in. So they create "holistic" application systems to get "360 degree view of the candidate".

No matter how many have good grades, you can always pick the top n by grades—unless there's a ceiling that the top m > n have all hit. Which, if you're talking about "grades" as in GPA, is plausible.

MCAT seems more relevant, though. According to Claude: "Roughly 0.1% or fewer of test-takers score a perfect 528 in any given year — typically only a few dozen individuals out of the ~120,000 or so who sit for the exam annually." So it should work fairly well for them to sort by MCAT and take however many they have (or expect to have) room for.

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Post by sleepybrett »

samsari wrote: post #277
Frieren wrote: post #219

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Only aristocrats can play that game. The soldier is being punished for doing something not allowed for his class status. This is how a caste system works. People is not judged based on their actions but their relationship to power.

You're almost right, but "class" and "caste" are not synonyms and cannot be used interchangeably.

caste and class reinforce each other.
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