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commercial said words more cursed than I've heard from a tv in months

"put your retirement dollars in crypto"

D:

I get that one pretty often while listening to podcasts, and it's generally terrifying. Pseudocurrencies built on speculation and expensive math strikes me as pretty insane- at least your Roth IRA or whatever the ad is trying to replace is built on pretty consistent speculation, right? I wonder if there's some clause that forbids (or scalps a little off the top) you from selling your 'retirement crypto' early if it spikes by like 3000% value like weird meme dog currencies did.

Equally terrifying is how other 'banks'/brokers/middlemen have historically been hacked, lost bitcoin to servers without backups, or just generally misplaced millions of dollars' worth of the stuff with no recourse and how you could trust any retirement fund to manage your coins safely.

Egh. Not that we have a fair shake at a proper retirement anyways, but whatever scrounge we've got can't be worth gambling for crypto-tendies, or however they call it.

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Hosted some friends again today, a last chance to see a pair of them before they fly off overseas again. At the end of escorting a few drunk friends back home, I can't help but feel a little hollow despite this sort of thing generally being deeply gratifying to me. Might be it's just late and I'm sleepy/grumpy, or maybe I'm just feeling a little lonely/empty from carrying the brunt of the emotional work of making sure plans are made/kept/executed, mouths are fed, cups are full, and people are home safely. It's weird how you get worn out doing this, huh.

[delphonso]

Most of those are likely just MLM advertisements. NFTs and cryptocoins have picked up that model a lot lately. Not surprising that they're targeting the elderly, because that is who most MLMs target already (such as Amway).

[EuchreJack]

commercial said words more cursed than I've heard from a tv in months

"put your retirement dollars in crypto"

D:

I've seen those ads.

[King Zultan]

I still don't get the appeal of Crypto.


Also at what point can you no longer call an electronic store a electronic store, I'm assuming it's the point where pretty much everything in the store is a bong, because that's what I saw today when I went into a "electronic store" where there were a cellphones and well over one hundred bongs.

[delphonso]

Cryptocurrency's appeal - half-wrought Libertarian dreams and hopes of getting rich quick. I expect (ignoring the externalized cost to the environment) more people have gotten rich off crypto than have lost all their money to it - but that is certainly about to change if it hasn't already. It's the new wave of scams. (And holy shit did those scams take off here. I don't think I know anyone who didn't have a family member lose about 1 or 2 grand on an "investment")

I have to assume that electronic store was family owned - and that family is probably pretty chill.

[Uthimienure]

Crypto?  By the time the majority get hip to it, it's already too late and the fad has faded.

[pisskop]

All news based income sources are time sensitive.  You can ride the wave, but by then the big money is waiting to exit.

[Uthimienure]

All that sh#* is carefully engineered so the common man becomes the victim and his/her money becomes redistributed to the ultra-rich who engineered that sh#* in the first place.  Governments do it, the rich do it, and we get it done to us from all sides.

[pisskop]

And taxation is redistribution of wealth, increasingly towards social programs used by the government to grant the illusion of progress, which, while often overshadowed by the personal loss of money involved, is a legitimate argument against it.

It's no longer the king taking your money for ye olde cooks and hookbills, but now its financing all sorts of social funzies.

[Rolan7]

Cryptocurrency's appeal - half-wrought Libertarian dreams and hopes of getting rich quick. I expect (ignoring the externalized cost to the environment) more people have gotten rich off crypto than have lost all their money to it -

Maybe technically since you say "all their money", but it's a zero sum game (extremely negative in fact). Literally the only value comes from people investing real currency and that being transferred to the handful of winners. It's nothing more than a particularly wasteful pyramid scheme.

"Oh but the government can't track the transactions"
Right true it's useful for exchanging or ransoming things illegally. And it's not even untraceable truly, the entire point is that every transaction is encoded. It's just that the accounts are less tied to people than actual bank accounts are. Brilliant stuff.

[Kagus]

Started playing Sailwind yesterday, and decided to go brushing up on some old nautical terms. Came across what seemed to be the holy grail of such sites; this expansive compendium of "All pirate knowledge" including knots and how to tie them, rum history, firearems/weaponry, famous pirate biographies etc...

...but then I looked through the list of historical sailing terms (kept in a distinct list from modern sailing terms), and...


He lists "forecastle" as the raised forward deck of the ship, and "fo'c'sle" as the area underneath the forecastle. Wut.

I can't find anything indicating that those were ever distinct, separate terms.

[Akura]

They aren't. Fo'c's'le is a contraction of forecastle.

Wikipedia has a good glossary of nautical terms, in case that helps.

[Lord Shonus]

This site may be of use as well. It's primarily intended as a reference to readers of the Jack Aubrey novels. Though "Forecastle" is not one of the listed terms!

[pisskop]

So I just stopped by to check what DF looks like on paper these days, and it looks like Toady is clearing well over 10k a month just in donations.

I know things can get expensive, so good on him

[Akura]

I had a new radiator installed in my room, yay. This has resulted in the entire house's heating becoming significantly better, yay.

However, my stepdad and the person he helped install it used a blowtorch to remove the old one, so now my room smells like burnt. My stepdad also threw all my blankets and other stuff I had on my bed into a corner of the room... right on top of a power outlet, the one where pretty much everything I have is plugged into. Also knocked down one of my Vive's base stations in the process - those are goddamn sensitive, and I still haven't turned it on to see if it still works. It's still got a blue standby light, though.