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Twelve times I did the bet updates, flaaaawlessly and on time. Through traveling and conferencing, travels for friend's wedding (#993891), through family events and work overload... but alas, eventually something gets you.
End of June-beginning of July I somehow forgot. There's just no action in the Predyx bets, nor on SN itself... the commitment dwindling, the passion with which I made the updates mje.

Also, my financial exposure isn't crazy anymore: some 10k sats in the main bet and 4.5k in the extra (higher) bet.

By now, plenty of Stackers have aped in, and I've sold off some contracts, figuring that ek would eventually come up with some invidious plan to fuck me. I'm only the fourth-largest shareholder on the No side.
Also... guys, it's just the same story. It's pretty dead around here, no new blood coming in (#993891). This beautiful less-than-straight line is gonna keep going sideways and down. SN, as wonderful and generous as it is, isn't going anywhere.
So, for this update the numbers will be a bit off: I picked #1019584 because I actually published something that day. So, in the ~16 days between that and the previous update (#1007249) there were some 12,000 items for a daily average of 771 -- a new all-time low.

The masses are not coming

So, pretty much halfway through the year (49.6%), we're 33.05% to the target. MY GOD, THE YES MEN ARE GONNA LOSE SO HARD OMG WHAT A CHRISTMAS PAYDAY IMMA HAVE
Game. Over.
For the next 176 days, we need 2,108 items a day to hit the mark. MY GOD, not even during peak ek fuckery back in ~April or whatever could we hit that level. So GAAAME.
@mega_dreamer can just go ahead and cash the bet early. LOL

Also, absolutely no promises on my regular updating going forward. It is what it is; posting happens when it happens.
Over and out.
I can see many item numbers are missing or just getting skipped!
1030086 is there, 1030087 is missing, 1030088 there.
Similar occurences happening since yesterday.
Can you please check @ek?
Please check item numbers here.. https://stacker.news/recent/all
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Are they deleted items?
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How are so many items being deleted? Please look at https://stacker.news/recent/all in depth - just look at the details for 4 or 5 recent items and you can find some numbers are missing in serial. This has been happening since yesterday. Almost after every item and after two or three there's a gap in between.
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Maybe you aren’t seeing outlawed items. Do you have all those filters turned off?
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I'm seeing everything.
Why don't you just take a closer look at the details of last ten recent items as I said, will be all clear to you?
Can you see all recent items created in a series?
Right before this #1030371, we have #1030368 instead of #1030370
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I did look but I didn’t change my filters. It is strange.
if they're deleted, bots, recurring items etc, then it just makes the bet point that much stronger
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Ok. I guess we can't see deleted and bot items on SN recent/all, still how come this many item numbers start missing all of a sudden? Why it wasn't happening before yesterday?
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This would be a clever way for ek to win the bet.
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56 sats \ 6 replies \ @grayruby 18h
Uh oh. Going to need to unleash the bots.
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@ek, disable the sybil fees and drop posting back to 1 sat.
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82 sats \ 4 replies \ @ek 16h
how about -1 sat
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Whatever it takes
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92 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 16h
I want to enjoy a few more confident @denlillaapan bet updates before the inevitable downfall
every time I read his bet updates I'm laughing so hard haha
how this bet ends is going to be biblical
There we go. Spam spam spam spaaaaaam spam
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33 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 18h
Is "mje" like Icelandic or Nordic for "meh"?
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pretty much, yeah
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I'm gonna find some way to hack the item count
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 16h
thinking about when I should share the cheat code 👀
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Next time
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I just tried up up down down left right left right b a enter and it didn't work
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DOOOO IT!
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