Posts by Jedit 1860 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Jul 2010
There is actually a difference. When a crypto bro sells magic beans, the buyer at least receives them and can potentially dodge being a victim by selling them to someone else. Only the final bag holder is truly scammed. Fake crypto scammers promise you magic beans, but the buyer is always the one being scammed.
Ironically, this means fake sellers generate fewer scams than real ones.
I can't recall if it was here or elsewhere, but someone recently pointed out to me that when your lack of good governance throws the country into a permanent state of crisis, you can do whatever you like without oversight as "an emergency response" and there's no need to ever make good on your promise to surrender your new powers when the emergency is past because it never is.
The fastest way to get caught in a fraud is inconsistency. A written record of what you're doing is risky if you are caught, but if you know exactly what lies you're meant to be telling it becomes less likely that you will be caught. The real stupidity here was not having a means of destroying that record should an exit be required.
Already done on your last point. In response to a suggestion - because he's not smart enough to come up with it himself, apparently - Musk has said that henceforth voting on Twitter policy polls will be restricted to blue ticks. As someone else noted:he's established an apartheid government on Twitter.
I have heard this theory elsewhere, and I don't really think a tinfoil hat is required for it. They backed him expecting to see a return on their investment, and every shitpost Musk makes costs them money.
Worse than that, in fact. Musk actually said the other day that Twitter has been going bankrupt since May. This is more than a considerable self-own - he essentially said "this company has been going down the tube since the day I agreed to take it over" - it's also a ruinous blow to the confidence of any potential bidder. I think Twitter is done for at this point, and Musk has indelibly marked himself as the prime if not sole reason for the collapse.
I have heard, although take this with a Lot's Wife of salt as it comes at several removes, that Bankman-Fried actually had a folder called "Wirefraud" on the FTX servers.
If it is a parody, I can only say that it's a measure of how incredibly dumb SBF has been that it wasn't immediately obvious as a parody. He's certainly been telling people in detail about all the crimes he committed while thinking he'd get away with it.
(FAIL icon because he's a complete failure - not a comment on your post.)
I once advertised a sponsored walk to help raise money to train support animals for CVDS sufferers, with a description of the hardships and difficulties they face, and expressed my hope that a number of them would be able to participate in the event. What I did not spell out in detail was that CVDS stands for Chronic Vitae Deficiency Syndrome and the "sponsored walk" was to take place at a cemetery at midnight on Halloween.
In this way, I got several people to pledge their support to a fundraiser for Guide Dogs for the Dead.
I don't blame them. There's going to be a lot of legal wrangling in the next few months and inaccurate reporting now would not be good.
Regarding the bouncing of funds around to whitewash audits: there are strong reasons to believe that this has been going on, and it's not restricted to one or two exchanges either.
Nope. The permanent staff were fired first as their annual bonuses were due. By firing them then attempting to rehire them straight back a couple of weeks later while sacking contractors in their place, Musk has demonstrated to any court's satisfaction that he did so purely so he wouldn't have to pay out on contractual obligations.
Good grief. How bad do you have to be at social media engagement that you throw open the doors for the Nazis and even companies founded by fervent Nazis [1] say "Nah, we're not going to that cesspit"?
[1] Hugo Boss designed and manufactured the Wehrmacht uniforms in World War 2 while Adi Daschler and his brother Rudolf, who founded Puma, joined the NSDAP in 1924, long before it became compulsory or even advisable.
It's not contrary at all, really. Thursday was chosen to minimise the influence of both spiritual and secular authorities. It's as far away as possible from the church service on Sunday so you'd have a chance to think for yourself before voting how the preacher told you to, while also not allowing employers to buy the votes of their workers with beer because they had to work the next day.
Ethereum's switch to proof of stake only removed the cost of creating their Dunning-Krugerands. They still use the blockchain and that still wastes energy.
How much credit would you give someone if they told you they used to have to drown six kittens to get an erection and now they only need to drown one?
Wagner Group raping and robbing in the CAR (BBC):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-59699350
Wagner Group subsidiary Rusich openly ordering the torture and murder of Ukrainian POWs and civilians (Guardian):
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/02/pro-kremlin-neo-nazi-militia-inciting-torture-murder-ukrainian-prisoners
Wagner Group mercenaries using neo-Nazi graffiti and wearing SS emblems on their uniforms (Time):
https://time.com/6180611/white-power-mercenaries-fighting-the-lost-cause/
Meanwhile, you've got a "special report" from a Gitmo torturer. Don't talk to me about "unreliable sources".
Yeah, that is the important part. Let us not forget that Paxton wants access to private data from period tracking apps in the name of prosecuting people who help women seek an abortion out of state, and last month tried to flee a subpoena to testify in a case regarding the prosecution of pro-choice funds. He is entirely happy to have private data harvested for his own agenda.
So the company claiming to develop electric vehicles that was using Tesla's other name to associate themselves with Musk's company turns out to be a fraud? The shock would surely kill me, if I didn't have an IQ above 50. It's literally Asylum movies as a business.
(Not so much an IT angle as an SH angle.)
You're not the first person to notice this.
https://images.app.goo.gl/BGyxT587qT22Y9B48
Meanwhile, back on the subject of YouTube recommends: they're constantly putting Jordan Peterson videos in my recs despite me not watching any kind of political content on the platform. They evidently have a reason to push Benzo Boy on the user base, although I can't tell you whether it's internal political bias or just plain old fashioned money.
It's more bad publicity in this case. Musk was trying to get in on the war subsidies by threatening to cut Ukraine's service if he wasn't recompensed. Someone then pointed out to him in private that it maybe wasn't a good idea to hamper Ukraine's ability to defend itself from an ongoing invasion - particularly when he'd already suggested that the country cede territory to the invaders in exchange for peace.
Now he's painting his U-turn as a grand act of altruism, when actually it's just that if he keeps siding with Putin he's going to be destroyed.
There may be sane Republicans, but there are no good Republicans and none of them want to stop this. The so-called "moderates" have been keeping their heads low not because they disagree with what Trump was saying and doing, but because he was so close to achieving permanent Republican hegemony and jeopardising the project by saying the quiet parts out loud.
Well, I don't drive, so my commute is actually £4.50 a day on the bus unless I get a lift in and walk home. (Just walking home would not be a saving - I need two buses to get to work, so I'd have to buy a day ticket anyway - and I can't really walk both ways as it's two miles and all uphill to get there.) I've also at no point said that I wasn't saving money through WFH so we're not actually arguing here.
You're also overlooking some of the negative effects of WFH, although you do touch on them. It's nice to have a six foot commute from my bed to my desk, but it means I'm spending 16 hours a day in the same room - even more, if I want to use my own PC in the evening, as it and my work PC are hooked up to the same displays and peripherals. I don't have a wife or kids so I'm spending much less time around other people, and I know it's affecting me negatively.
How did I manage before? Carefully. I don't have a car to operate or maintain, I don't drink or smoke, I don't go to restaurants, I spend minimally on clothes, and barring my annual trip to a trade fair in Germany I don't go on holiday. Before WFH I was able to set aside a little each month; with it I'm able to save more, but I expect the cost of living crisis is going to put me back to where I was before long. If I had to start paying to commute as well I don't think I'd be underwater straight away, but I'd have to make cutbacks to what is already a fairly spartan lifestyle.
You also had none of the additional expenses that your desk-based colleagues incurred when they started having to run their work PCs from home and heat their houses during the day. I'm not going to say that I've not found WFH cheaper, but it's mostly from making my own lunch rather than buying from the canteen. And if I had the time, I could do that when I was in the office as well. Time is money, of course, but it's time I'm saving.
That's exactly what it is. It's not a complaint that employees aren't doing their contracted jobs, which would be fair enough. Everyone I've seen talking about "quiet quitting" is complaining that their employees aren't going above and beyond, happily working overtime - often unpaid - and taking on additional duties. They can all fuck off, continue fucking off until they reach the coast, then keep fucking off forever.
The Anarchist Cookbook, Kill or Get Killed, and Put 'Em Down, Take 'Em Out: Knife Fighting Techniques From Folsom Prison are all banned in the UK. I shouldn't have to explain why. Nor does their banning support the OP's railing against the evil bookburning lefties - particularly as they've remained banned under multiple right wing governments.
So once again we return to the right wing saying "I want to hurt people, and the left are wicked and intolerant because they won't let me."
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