Senators demand crackdown on wildfire “prediction market” bets | Fire experts warn such markets could incentivize arson.

Yeah no shit! What the fuck?!

Fuck every person that takes part in a bet like this. I’ll put them in the same category as Trump voters. Scorched earth.

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.