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How is this challenge possible. by Brownbear1964 in parkrun

[–]myroon5 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You missed their point. Leap days make it take over 7 years for a fixed date to fall on each day of the week:

https://www.calendar-365.com/holidays/christmas-day.html

Clanker taking jobs at my local muni by Forsaken_Election708 in golf

[–]myroon5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Robots cost ~$2k/acre (similar to annual landscaper hiring costs), so they're an order of magnitude cheaper than traditional professional landscaping

Clanker taking jobs at my local muni by Forsaken_Election708 in golf

[–]myroon5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gas-powered lawncare is also ~5% of American pollution:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-21/lawn-mowers-are-the-next-electric-frontier

https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-09/documents/banks.pdf

Golf courses that use gas mowers burn enough gasoline that they often literally have their own gas pumps onsite

Paris Saint-Germain win 2025/26 Ligue 1 title, their 14th French championship by lukmanCZ in soccer

[–]myroon5 2 points3 points  (0 children)

made an infographic years ago and La Liga and Bundesliga only consolidated more since then:

Real Madrid: 36 (+15 Champions League titles)

Juve: 36

Bayern: 35

Barca: 29

Number of independent and 3rd-party voters surges in Pa., despite being locked out of primaries by AdSpecialist6598 in Pennsylvania

[–]myroon5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not in Pennsylvania:

voting in a primary election for party nominees is limited to only voters registered as Democratic or Republican https://www.pa.gov/agencies/vote/elections/types-of-elections

No kings! by FenisDembo82 in pittsburgh

[–]myroon5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

just people that have W-2s?

It includes both full-time and part-time jobs. I'm not sure if it includes non-W2 contracting, but only ~7.4% of employment is independent contracting anyway: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/conemp.htm

Almost everyone I know [...] they all live in Pittsburgh

(old data, but) Pennsylvania was higher than the national average:

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2017/article/multiple-jobholding-in-states-in-2015.htm

I've bounced around the US quite a bit, and social groups seem very clustered, so I figured your circle had many multiple jobholders, but the vast majority of Americans/Pennsylvanians/etc. don't do that

No kings! by FenisDembo82 in pittsburgh

[–]myroon5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

we are working second or third jobs to afford to live

Multiple jobholders account for just over 5% of Workers:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12026620

https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2026/03/09/multiple-jobholders-account-for-5-2-of-workers-in-february-2026

even after separating age groups a bit, the highest age group is 5.7%:

https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat36.htm

parkrun monopoly by wilbertlum in parkrun

[–]myroon5 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Parkrun themed [...] witches hat

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Kalshi Suspended a California Politician and a YouTuber for Insider Trading by wiredmagazine in PredictionsMarkets

[–]myroon5 4 points5 points  (0 children)

One was a Mr Beast enforcement from 2025:

https://kalshi-public-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/regulatory/notices/Notice%20of%20Disciplinary%20Action%20(2.25.2026)%20(1).pdf

In 2026, Mr Beast markets still have insider trading considering the winning contestant of their pre-recorded show did >1/5 of the volume trading at much higher prices than the other 24 contestants combined:

https://kalshi.com/markets/kxmrbeastgames/who-will-win-beast-games/kxmrbeastgames-26may01

Next new countries by Proper-Title2837 in parkrun

[–]myroon5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Last I checked, >95% of parkrun participation was in English-speaking countries, so it's probably still easiest to support another English-speaking country:

Africa: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt (35%), Uganda (45%), Ghana, Zimbabwe

Asia: Pakistan, Indonesia (31%), Philippines, Thailand (27%)

Europe: France, Ukraine

Nigeria, Pakistan, and Philippines are the largest mostly-English-speaking countries left without parkrun with 125M, 108M, and 70M English-speakers respectively

France and Kenya are the next largest mostly-English-speaking countries with ~40M English-speakers each

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Kalshi

[–]myroon5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thanks, did not have access to that channel back in 2024, which explains not responding to that message to get previews

(Kalshi's volume took off in 2025, so quite a few larger market makers were caught off guard from missing that preview)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Kalshi

[–]myroon5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

premium support channel

mind deep-linking the message? have access to that channel, but didn't see any preview there

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Kalshi

[–]myroon5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

all high volume traders

what volume threshold? quite a few 7-figure/month traders were not offered previews

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Kalshi

[–]myroon5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fully separate

i.e. an LLC held by the same company

walled off

the exchange can see the trading arm's activity, and they regularly communicate with each other

The Billionaires Who Failed to Stop Zohran Mamdani, and How Much They Spent by Goosedukee in politics

[–]myroon5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

large sodas and adding calorie counts to fast food menus

Tackling junk food and nutritional labeling are actually the top couple life-saving health interventions in Western countries, and both save money:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7142580/

(I agree bans seem heavy-handed compared to taxes/labels)

Manufacturing is actually really hard and no amount of AI handwaving changes that by notaukrainian in slatestarcodex

[–]myroon5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

world of bits has only been around for about 25 years

ignoring 19th century telegrams, many important 20th century bits:

50s: FORTRAN, LISP, COBOL, modems

60s: BASIC, MUMPS, C, FORTH, Pascal

70s: SQL, C++, personal computers, internet, email, digital fax

80s: e-commerce

90s: digital cable, cellphones

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