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Imagine "Life of Brian" but Brian is a bankrupt company.
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cruft posted:Imagine "Life of Brian" but Brian is a bankrupt company. He's not the Messiah, he's just a very rich failson.
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Oct 5, 2023 15:41
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Covid just supercharged what was already a pretty strong pattern with the unchecked channels of disinformation, hate propaganda and hysteria narratives coming from both fringe and completely mainstream channels, turning innocuous and/or unimportant things into scapegoats with blatant lies to divert energy and attention from real problems, same patterns, methods and channels going at least all the way back to the Satanic Panic. canada wants to bring large digital platforms under the purview of the same regulating agency that has been regulating TV and radio broadcasters the entire time so of course all the joe rogan fans are melting down about trudeau's communist censorship regime forcing their favourite podcast magnate to get his admin staff to fill out a bit of extra paperwork once a year
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Oct 5, 2023 18:58
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I see Sams trial is going about as well as expectedquote:Next witness: Gary Wang.
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Oct 5, 2023 21:53
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Wasn't Gary Wang the one that went into hiding and avoided any sort of blame at first? And even Sam was trying to cover for him, in some capacity? Not that it's hard to guess he folded, but I'm wondering what the penalties are going to be for Nishad and Caroline.
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Oct 5, 2023 22:06
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Strong Sauce posted:I do feel a sense of pity for this guy. I mean he seems like a piece of poo poo but also wonder how much that had to do with the pandemic. I had issues with my parents during the pandemic and while it's subsided a little due to some money coming their way, I don't know if my relationship will ever be the same due to what happened. One of the things most people don't talk about is how the pandemic completely hosed with people's mental well being. Like beyond the physical illness that was COVID, being stuck inside and not being able to go out, all the financial uncertainty, and everyone with way too much time was just a huge catalyst for this crazy conspiratorial thinking where people think random stocks will make them rich. I'm not sure that aspect has really been covered well at all. So I could totally see conspiracies and investment bad decision making being exacerbated by everything that went down. The relief checks put cash into a lot of peoples' hands that never had a grand or whatever dropped into their hand like that on top of everything else. I don't know if that led to some poor financial decisions or not.
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Oct 5, 2023 22:10
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notwithoutmyanus posted:Wasn't Gary Wang the one that went into hiding and avoided any sort of blame at first? And even Sam was trying to cover for him, in some capacity? Not that it's hard to guess he folded, but I'm wondering what the penalties are going to be for Nishad and Caroline. Nishad and Caroline have already pled guilty and agreed to cooperate with the Feds (so has Gary obviously since he literally said "i did the crimes" today on the stand)
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Oct 5, 2023 22:13
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notwithoutmyanus posted:Wasn't Gary Wang the one that went into hiding and avoided any sort of blame at first? And even Sam was trying to cover for him, in some capacity? Not that it's hard to guess he folded, but I'm wondering what the penalties are going to be for Nishad and Caroline. yes, gary was the one speculated to be a true believer that wouldn't testify. https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1710021321613025588?s=20 he's also supposed to be the one that built the backdoor that allowed alameda to steal unlimited money. he'll presumably testify to that tomorrow, but they haven't gotten there yet. he was only on the stand for an hour before they broke for the day. Trillhouse fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Oct 5, 2023 |
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Oct 5, 2023 22:31
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Big rear end On Fire posted:Yeah I don't know how well it has been covered but my ex is in health and wellness and definitely was aware how much strain the pandemic was on peoples' wellbeing. We got divorced after going through it and while it wasn't the only reason it absolutely contributed to the relationship's demise being around each other all the drat time with the added stress from basically everything. I also stopped talking to a really good longtime friend because he went absolutely off the deep end on anti vaxx stuff. Yeah, navigating 3 years of built-up neuroses in isolation has done incalculable damage to my own mental health and personality, not to mention several relationships. I'm barely pulling out of a spiral weeks before it became a crater. I think it's natural for people in times of stress to either lose hope or contrive a messiah figure to believe in.
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Oct 5, 2023 22:47
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Lockdown was generally a really nice time for my family. We came closer together and gelled in a way we hadn't done before. A lot of people had very real and substantive problems, and I don't want to diminish that, but I feel like I need to chime in for folks who have nice memories to say you're also not broken. It was just different for everyone. I would, however, like to volunteer my family to move to Mars, when applications open. I think we're the perfect candidates for that trip.
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Oct 5, 2023 23:21
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Yeah I have a lot of friends for whom it was the best time of their lives, particularly my less extroverted buddies. Unfortunately it sent me slightly mad to the point I came about this close to just saying gently caress it and becoming addicted to crack
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Oct 5, 2023 23:23
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My wife is on the "why isn't every social interaction on zoom now, we figured it out and I can be in my pajamas" train and I'm on the "i'm very proud of myself that I survived long enough to get vaccinated" train
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Big rear end On Fire posted:The relief checks put cash into a lot of peoples' hands that never had a grand or whatever dropped into their hand like that on top of everything else. I don't know if that led to some poor financial decisions or not. Zoom out on a linear chart of the price of Bitcoin to at least 5 years and you can see the answer to that last bit.
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Oct 6, 2023 02:36
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drk posted:Nishad and Caroline have already pled guilty and agreed to cooperate with the Feds We know they pled guilty and have immunity on the stand, the question is how much of the pled guilty part they're paying for.
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Oct 6, 2023 03:14
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How are the tungsten cube guys doing. Does anyone remember this E: of course https://twitter.com/FTX_Official/status/1449024949801275397 Quotey fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Oct 6, 2023 |
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Oct 6, 2023 03:38
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Time_pants posted:Yeah, navigating 3 years of built-up neuroses in isolation has done incalculable damage to my own mental health and personality, not to mention several relationships. I'm barely pulling out of a spiral weeks before it became a crater. I think it's natural for people in times of stress to either lose hope or contrive a messiah figure to believe in. There’s a concept in psychology that says that trauma tends to exacerbate trends that were already in motion. For examples: if you use alcohol to cope with stress, individual trauma will likely make you drink more. So it’s fascinating to me that we saw (and are seeing) that on a national level. I think this tendency was made even worse by Americans tendency to be isolated and mentally unhealthy in general, but the individual differences have been interesting nonetheless. For me personally, it brought me and my partner closer together, and also made us better friends with some of our closer people. However, it also made me incredibly disillusioned with my career (mental health), and I have to wonder if I wasn’t already heading in that direction. All that being said, theoretically anyone could be susceptible to a grift like crypto, but like…I don’t get it. I guess I’ve just never been that desperate.
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Oct 6, 2023 04:30
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Quotey posted:How are the tungsten cube guys doing. Does anyone remember this aged like a fine milk
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Oct 6, 2023 05:13
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I didn’t have a problem with lockdown at all, honestly. There’s a crisis situation and the responsible thing to do is stay home, avoid face to face interactions, and play video games all day? Put me in coach, I’ve been training for this my whole life.
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Oct 6, 2023 05:15
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Khizan posted:I didn’t have a problem with lockdown at all, honestly. There’s a crisis situation and the responsible thing to do is stay home, avoid face to face interactions, and play video games all day? Put me in coach, I’ve been training for this my whole life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS1DDn2eklU
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Oct 6, 2023 05:40
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MEIN RAVEN posted:
I have been and I would have loved to be able to believe I could have gotten rich, but from day one looking at crypto I was "This obvious scam is an obvious scam."
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Pro-grammable
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Wtf is a “programmable NFT”?
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But is it Ligg-Botha compliant?
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Oct 6, 2023 13:21
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Scratch Monkey posted:Wtf is a “programmable NFT”? I'd have to assume its a reference to Smart Contracts, which is super dumb.
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MEIN RAVEN posted:There’s a concept in psychology that says that trauma tends to exacerbate trends that were already in motion. For examples: if you use alcohol to cope with stress, individual trauma will likely make you drink more. So it’s fascinating to me that we saw (and are seeing) that on a national level. Absolutely, my stress peaked from covid and my main IT skill's software being involved in one of the biggest hacks on US government. If not for that making me feel like my IT career was over due to everyone knowing the stuff in such a horrible way I wouldn't have (mistakenly) jumped into crypto before getting proverbially slapped and realizing I needed to get out of Crypto. While I am flexible in learning from mistakes I don't think that applies to most people who got into crypto. Globally stress from covid hasn't really settled down.
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Oct 6, 2023 14:01
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Okay but what do you do in the game?
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Khizan posted:I didn’t have a problem with lockdown at all, honestly. There’s a crisis situation and the responsible thing to do is stay home, avoid face to face interactions, and play video games all day? Put me in coach, I’ve been training for this my whole life. Everything about covid and the lockdowns loving sucked. When I finally ended up getting covid, it wasn't any worse than a strong cold. I just remembered staring at the positive covid test and thinking, "We shut the whole planet down for two years because of this?" also, buttcoin.
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haha so I pulled that image from here https://www.scfchain.io/ So I was at a big hotel for a job yesterday, and they were having a seminar for this there. Me and another guy wandered into the banquet/convention hall it was being presented in cause there was a water machine in there, and they were playing a straight up cult indoctrination video on the stage screens. It was a bizarre uncanny valley videogame graphic situation where this bald business guy was standing on some elevated platform over a woman. He stretches his hands out and is like (paraphrasing, I hope to find this video but couldnt on the site) "With these methods I provide you great wealth" Then the woman falls on her knees and starts praising him "You have saved my life and made me rich! I give you my life!" This is in Korea and the hall was packed with older people sitting at circular dinner tables, there was also an overflow hall that was full up to. So apparently elder asian stock/gambling addicts are a prime target for final bagholding.
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Oct 6, 2023 14:30
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There Bias Two posted:Okay but what do you do in the game?
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Rad-daddio posted:Everything about covid and the lockdowns loving sucked. Wasn't any worse than a strong cold for you.
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Elias_Maluco posted:Pro-grammable Better than Amatuer-grammable.
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Tony Hawk Pro-Grammable
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Deptfordx posted:Wasn't any worse than a strong cold for you. I was going to say that was the perfect example of dunning-krueger : anecdotal evidence vs facts.
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Rad-daddio posted:Everything about covid and the lockdowns loving sucked. few points here 1) millions died of covid, including my s/o's brother 2) the lockdowns really only lasted until spring 2021, hell I was going to bars outside before end of 2020 3) i'm glad you didn't get sicker but that doesn't mean it's not serious. if you could avoid having a stroke or other heart issues, would you?
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typhoid mary: 'i don't get the big deal, i'm not even a little sick!'
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Oct 6, 2023 15:12
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If something personally didn't affect me then I don't understand what the big deal is. My perceived reality is the only thing that matters
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Oct 6, 2023 15:13
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Rad-daddio posted:Everything about covid and the lockdowns loving sucked. Consider about how bad poo poo’s gotta get in our capitalistic hellcape world for that many corporations and governments to all pull the plug on economy and gently caress up their profits for even a minute let alone months. Do you really think megacorps that took million dollar a day hits, like Disney shutting down all their theme-parks, came out of their executive’s loving care for their employees to avoid a simple cold? Most of them would commit live ritual sacrifices in the board room to avoid one quarter of displeased shareholders, they didn’t take that hit for anything less than a lethal plague. Anyway, remember NFTS? https://youtu.be/mTBCzH1UyNY
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titty_baby_ posted:If something personally didn't affect me then I don't understand what the big deal is. My perceived reality is the only thing that matters this
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Maybe one goon posting their own personal experience with/emotions around covid isn't actually a case of them arguing that no lockdowns should have happened and the virus is fake and there's 5g in the vaccines or whatever y'all are trying to dogpile onto now. EDIT: Anyways, back on topic, @TikTokInvestors brought up this blast from the last (aka: 2 years ago)... 
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