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Ah it's the Nobel Prize week! If anyone curious about this week's schedule: Tuesday: physics. Wednesday: chemistry. Thursday: literature. Friday: peace. Monday
by haunter 1y ago
Ah it's the Nobel Prize week! If anyone curious about this week's schedule:
Tuesday: physics. Wednesday: chemistry. Thursday: literature. Friday: peace. Monday: economics.
- mongol 1y ago[flagged]
- haunter 1y agoHere are the current favorites accross the betting sites, I mean Trump has a decent chance https://files.catbox.moe/xc1ik1.png https://files.catbox.moe/xc1ik1.png (NATO is a funny one too lol)
- phrotoma 1y agoholy fuck people will bet on pretty much anything I guess huh?
- andrewinardeer 1y agoI bet you they won't.
- triceratops 1y agoI will take that bet. It's very easy for me to win.
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- koakuma-chan 1y agofiles.catbox.moe has a security policy called HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), which means that Firefox can only connect to it securely. You can’t add an exception to visit this site. Why is Firefix blocking it? Is HSTS somehow bad? Oh there's something with their certificate
- ace32229 1y agoBetting sites set their odds to maximise their revenue, not reality ;) Polymarkets currently has him at 3% https://polymarket.com/event/nobel-peace-prize-winner-2025?tid=1759764025856 https://polymarket.com/event/nobel-peace-prize-winner-2025?t...
- echelon 1y agoOn the one hand, betting markets are fantastic predictors. I do really admire the "skin in the game" aspect tracking future outcomes better than polling or "expert" opinion. But that comes at a steep cost. It's a huge negative externality. Placing bets on future outcomes like this isn't the same as placing bets on future outcomes by starting companies, investing in companies, doing fundamental research, or even putting your money in the public markets. It's like sports betting. We're making the marketplace rich and separating gambling addicts from their livelihoods. Without enriching society. We should tax this to pay for education or have some kind of societal upside. It's all bad, otherwise.
- GuB-42 1y agoWe may get some surprises but I don't think so: - Trump doesn't project a peaceful image, that's not his style, unlike Obama. No matter the result of his actions, he is at a disadvantage. - The September peace proposal for the Gaza war that could make a good argument is likely to be too recent to influence the decision. - Trump wants to annex Greenland, I don't think the Norwegian Nobel Committee appreciates.
- willvarfar 1y agoYes it is sad that the whole Nobel prize coverage will be just a background to a week talking about Trump, whether he wins or not :(
- slightwinder 1y agoI don't think anyone seriously believes he will win. Despite making up all kind of wars and conflicts he claims to have solved, there hasn't been any real peace coming from him, yet. Maybe Gaza turns out to something real, but it's not done yet, and I kinda doubt they decide on these prices on a short whim. And if development in the USA continues like at the moment, I doubt he will be considered next year. It will be just one conflict cancelling out one peace.
- garbthetill 1y agobut what if he turns into the ultimate humanitarian after he wins one? Has the nobel committee considered that?/s Yeah its weird how he explicitly states he wants a peace prize and then turns around and does very hellish things, rips up Aid programs, impose one sided tariffs without caring about your allies, belittle a president desperately trying to fight for his countries sovereignty, mafia style negotiations for said country minerals without a security guarantee in order to send weapons, trash nato allies repeatedly, taunt allies that you wont honor security guarantees if they dont do x , remove historical names for no good reason from various government objects , alienate out entire class of people with your rhetoric while using a platform thats supposed to be bipartisan, deport & arrest people while bypassing judges as much as you can
- Forgeties79 1y ago>but what if he turns into the ultimate humanitarian after he wins one? Has the nobel committee considered that?/s Ugh giving me flashbacks to the “the office will change him” arguments. Can’t believe people actually said that out loud. If he somehow got the peace prize as he balloons a department sneaking around in plain clothes with their faces covered rounding people up at work and terrifying/ripping families apart then the prize is truly a joke. Luckily there’s no way he’s getting it.
- alkonaut 1y agoIs it seven or eight wars he ended this term? I imagine if he could just remember at least two then he’d be a favorite for the prize.
- breadwinner 1y agoHe's starting wars in Portland, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Trump told the military last week, "This is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room. That's a war too. It's a war from within."
- falcor84 1y agoWas there ever a clear exception stating that you're ineligible for a Nobel in regards to stopping a war that you yourself started?
- stevenwoo 1y agoThe Peace Prize has had quite a few weird choices, like Kissinger when that simply meant the USA would stop participating in the Vietnamese civil war (and to be generous putting a stop to USA bombing campaigns that Kissinger advocated in Vietnam and surrounding countries) or Barack Obama for giving a few speeches after less than a year in office. So it's not out of the question but it's hard to see the logic behind Trump getting one now.
- tombert 1y agoHas he actually ended any wars? I know he says he ended wars but he is incapable of saying anything without endlessly embellishing his achievements (or just making shit up entirely). It’s hard to know what achievements have been made by this administration, if any. If he (or his team) actually ended the Gaza conflicts, then that’s cool, and credit where credit’s due, though I currently have no reason to think that Israel will honor any terms that they agree to.
- zenitsukz 1y agoThe best take I saw was giving it to USAID
- david927 1y agoNo. Francesca Albanese and Greta Thunberg.
- Keyframe 1y agoobligatory comment about how economics one isn't a Nobel prize.
- alkonaut 1y agoNext Monday also isn’t in this week so it all works out.
- echelon 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economic_Sciences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Econom... > Although the Prize in Economic Sciences was not one of the original five Nobel Prizes established by Alfred Nobel's will, it is considered a member of the Nobel Prize system, and is administered and referred to along with the Nobel Prizes by the Nobel Foundation. Winners of the Prize in Economic Sciences are chosen in a similar manner to and announced alongside the Nobel Prize recipients, and receive the Prize in Economic Sciences at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony.
- l5870uoo9y 1y agoI think it's more the Nobel Peace Prize that stands out.
- mlyle 1y agoThe peace prize stands out for being different. The economics one stands out for not being endowed by Nobel but instead Sveriges Riksbank well after his death (thus it's the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences). But it's administered by the Nobel Foundation, etc.
- marbro 1y agoThe Peace Prize stands out because sometimes it is given to someone who wages war such as Henry Kissinger or Barack Obama.
- vjvjvjvjghv 1y ago
- tombert 1y agoIt still kind of baffles me that there’s no Nobel prize for mathematics. I know there are plenty of other math awards out there, so it’s not really “worse” or anything, I have always just thought it was a weird omission.
- ants_everywhere 1y agoThey can always do what economics did and create a new prize and name it in honor of Alfred Nobel
- D-Coder 1y agoBlame Alfred Nobel, he set up the original categories. According to Wikipedia his goals were prizes "which annually recognize those who 'conferred the greatest benefit to humankind'". Perhaps he didn't consider math as directly benefiting mankind.
- tombert 1y agoI know, I just find it odd that apparently literature directly benefits mankind but not math.