sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoSenators demand crackdown on wildfire “prediction market” bets | Fire experts warn such markets could incentivize arson.arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1604arrow-down14
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minus-squareMaster_Suck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 day agoProbably people who live in deserts or otherwise have never seen a tree in their life.
minus-squarehalferect@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoPeople who live in deserts know three things, drought, fires and flash floods. Fires in the desert happen a lot. Probably way more than anywhere else.
minus-squareMaster_Suck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoLemme rephrase a bit: people who bet on this sort of thing are probably ones who have only lived in a desert, never having seen a tree in the first place. I’m sure there’s plenty of fires in a hot place.
minus-squareJcbAzPx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoCactus and sagebrush burns just as well.
Probably people who live in deserts or otherwise have never seen a tree in their life.
People who live in deserts know three things, drought, fires and flash floods. Fires in the desert happen a lot. Probably way more than anywhere else.
Lemme rephrase a bit: people who bet on this sort of thing are probably ones who have only lived in a desert, never having seen a tree in the first place.
I’m sure there’s plenty of fires in a hot place.
Trees exist in the desert
Cactus and sagebrush burns just as well.