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Mark Zuckerberg Is Selflessly Building Yet Another Horrible Product Nobody Asked For
(tech.yahoo.com)
To save you a click: A betting app.
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2026
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I have watched more than one friend flush his family/savings down the shitter on these apps.
I don't get gambling, worst I ever did was a few trips to Vegas and betting on the ponies that bot count on one hand.
I put two dollars into a poker machine once. I won $7.
Now I'm up by $5 so long as I never gamble again. Don't want to break my streak.
Some people are very susceptible to variable reward schemes and it causes addictive behavior, especially people high in impulsivity, sensation-seeking, or reward sensitivity.
Hey, its me. Some people. I spend so much time looking for games that let me get that gambling psychology fix without allowing me to actually bet anything of value on them. Ranked ladders in games are peak, because the rank is meaningless but my stupid brain thinks its worth something so it feels like real gambling to win or lose it
That dude's really never had an original idea in his life, has he?
nope. even back in his Harvard days his original claim to fame was a hot or not clone. Facebook was built off the ideas of other people and myspace. even the original exclusivity of FB wasn't his idea. He's never produced a single original idea ever. So how did he become successful? He got lucky that a couple dudes went to him first as opposed to another developer to build their idea.
His complete lack of imagination and vision are what gives me hope that he's totally going to shit the bed one terrible idea at a time.
A betting app where you gamble video game points instead of money. So missing the entire reason betting apps exist.
Initially, but the article mentioned they aren’t ruling out real money in future. I think they likely want to get a broad user base first, then start offering the really exciting bets for small amounts of money, eventually leading to larger sums.
well there will be points <-> usd exchange just like japanese casinos which are totally not gambling and just let you win toys - don't mind the "we buy toys" shop right next door. This strategy is as old as time itself. Once you have this layer you can do so much manipulation and obfuscation.
The year was 2015, and I predicted that facebook would include a betting feature into their stupid app, and my friends called me mad!
11 years later, who is mad now!? 😂😂😂
Meta Polymarket?
Damn, that might actually turn a profit. 😢
Doing the Lord's work!
Thank you
This guy raises cows and has fun figuring out ways to feed the cow to make the meat more richer.
I’d bet $20 that’s how he sees us. Just feeding us addictive apps to make us yummier for advertisers. No concern for our wellbeing.
I wouldn't bet a dime that the sun would rise tomorrow on a gambling app run by a guy like him.
It’s hard to mess up. In fact, Trump had to run off at least a few gambling addicts to tank his casino. Modern software engineers would find it difficult to create such friction in a digital environment.
Two important facts. One, there is no such thing as idiot-proof. Two, anyone in charge did not get there by not being an idiot.
I dunno... have you heard Trump speak?
Sorry for the confusing double negative, Trump sounding that way is exactly my point
I would argue that some people in charge are very shrewd and get into positions of power. And some people are decent and become leaders (Zelenskyy and Obama as examples)
did not get there by not being an idiot
This applies to both of them too. They weren't elected for being smart, they both are smart but they leaned on charisma, speaking skills, and a sense of 'genuineness' to win their supporters' favour. I really meant it. People simply do not get elected for seeming smart, and if they are smart they won't try to sound smart while running for office in America.
I was fond of Obama when I was younger, but I look back with disdain on a lot of his track record. He sold people hope, and people look back on the time before Trump with understandably rosy glasses though, so I don't begrudge anyone liking him.
I’d bet $20
Soon, you'd be able to!
Oof! Also this joke is so...meta
Next he'll implement the 18+ image generation that Grok was doing and you're getting closer to metaverse blackjack and hookers.
I‘m with Ed Zitron - the AI hype and especially stuff like this just makes it so obvious that the tech bros are flat out of ideas.
Yes but turns out they don't need ideas to siphon all the money into their pockets anymore. The entire system is designed for it now.
He's got entirely too much money, if he can blow it on this kind of bullshit. Same with all of them.
We need to take at least 50% from these Parasites, as a start, reserving the right to come back for more, at any time. Out of that, we give a bonus to all their workers, then put the rest in a fund to cover things like Medicare 4 All, UBI, free college, college loan and medical bill forgiveness, free day care, etc.
And when we need more, we'll be back. And if you continue to squander your ill-gotten profits, so you don't have to pay your societal obligations/reparations, well just take it away, and imprison the corporate leadership who insist on pursuing their Parasitic business practices.
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Nice clickbait. Too bad I got my info from the comments instead.
The world has no idea how much it wants the Torment Nexus and it's up to visionaries like Zuck to show us the light.
That's okay. He's got mountains of cash to waste because he's selling billions of user data worth trillions.
And he can't be voted out. Zuck literally made himself king of his own little virtual empire.
I self exiled myself from his empire 12+ years ago. His crown means nothing to me.
He can't keep that sinking ship afloat w/ bots alone. So if people keeping walking way it all ends.
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He'd be an emperor then, surely.
selflessly
Having seen him operate and read about his past, he does not know how to act selflessly, just as a cat does not know how to fly.
last refuge of the desperate, building a gambling app, or gambling themselves.
I feel like he doesn’t get away with calling it “arena”.
Androids don't have a sense of self yet. That's what the title means. Right?
Yeah, not clicking on that headline, sorry
Yes, the industry as a whole I'd say was stagnating before AI came along, Windows 11 was full of garbage and cramming ads and games into the start menu and that was released a year before ChatGPT3.5
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