Crypto
How is crypto a scam? Can you be more specific?
MD5 betrayed us 😭
a video to help people understand the problem with crypto: https://youtu.be/YQ_xWvX1n9g
I know the video says it’s about NFTs, but it touches on Bitcoin and blockchain first as background.
Without even clicking the link, I assume that’s Line Goes Up by Folding Ideas lol. Killer video, and tbh I could listen to Dan Olson read the dictionary and I’d be entertained.
You got it! It’s really an excellent video essay.
I’m just now starting to work through his other works, but everything he does is magic. Honestly the topic of “I Don’t Know James Rolfe” was basically as dull as the dictionary to me, but I enjoyed it anyway.
Currently working my way through his “Mantracks” video, which is so far about fossils and creationism.
I haven’t watched either of those yet, but I need to! “The Future is a Dead Mall” and “This is Financial Advice” are my faves along with “Line Goes Up”
Macron
What about scams you’re born into, but stayed in waaaay to long? If so Mormonism and the Republican party.
Good for you for getting out of that!
Thanks
A couple years ago I spent a few hundred on various audio plugins for music production. I also spent a few hundred on a DAW with all plugins. I was hooked by the flashy marketing and celebrity shilling, especially when I was stuck producing on the Corporate OS.
There’s plenty of FOSS plugins (including ones built into your DAW) that are at least as good as what Izotope and Native Instruments are selling for 100’s of dollars. Furthermore, they don’t have invasive DRM and don’t try to sell you features you don’t need.
If you are a Linux music producer (or are interested in becoming one), I recommend this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaDoRa5n8nQ
This guy told me he’d give me great items. I’d just have to follow him into the woods so he could give them to me.
I didn’t make it out of there alive.
I understood that (RuneScape) reference.
I saw this clip on eBaumsworld when I was like 12 and was overjoyed that we had finally done it and all the climate change stuff I learned about wasn’t going to be a problem.
Haha I never knew there was a real person attached to that myth. I was hearing about that as a big conspiracy theory from teachers when I was kid all the way here in Australia.
That’s interesting he did produce an actual machine that could move though. I was reading the Wikipedia about him and they don’t go in to that exactly. They point out that his design and vehicle were just using conventional electrolysis and thus couldn’t work as claimed, but it still moved. What was the catch them? It uses a battery to do the electrolysis, does it just use up all your battery or something? Making it a really weird electric car?
Stanley Meyer’s invention was later termed fraudulent after two investors to whom he had sold dealerships offering the right to do business in Water Fuel Cell technology sued him in 1996. His car was due to be examined by the expert witness Michael Laughton, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Queen Mary University of London and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. However, Meyer made what Professor Laughton considered a “lame excuse” on the days of examination and did not allow the test to proceed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fuel_cell
Probably the dune buggy never ran on the system he claimed. He was a fraudster, so probably it was just running on gas like normal while he was claiming it was all water.
Ah I see my confusion now
His “water fuel cell” was later examined by three expert witnesses in court who found that there “was nothing revolutionary about the cell at all and that it was simply using conventional electrolysis.”
I initially took it to mean they’d examined the fuel cell in the vehicle but the way that’s written it’s not necessarily the case so it was probably a separate demo prototype to the buggy.
Gym membership.
Honestly? Hot Slavic lady convinced me to buy some overpriced salt scrub at the mall. To be fair, it’s pretty nice…
Capitalism.
Also, if I work hard I will be rewarded.
I get a reward every two weeks.
I tailor my work commitment based on it.
Joining the workforce
Rush my passport. Fell for it because it was being provided by fedex!!! I filled it out at one of their locations!!!
In the end it does absolutely nothing, and its stupid fucking expensive. Nearly lost $2000.
I was 16 and saved all my money for my own laptop.
Was looking at a MacBook Pro, which was sold on eBay as an outlet unit with minor defects (like scratches) for a third less.
Bought it and sent my money through Western Union just to never see it - or any laptop - again
16 year old me was more than heart broken…
Is Western Union used for anything other than scams? What’s it for legitimately? Can’t you just send money via your bank?
As said, I was young…
No shade on you man, you were young, just wondering if any who isn’t being scammed ever chooses to use that service or of it’s basically dedicated entirely to facilitating scams.
International money transfers, iirc
Yeh, I can send money from bank to bank internationally already. The banks use the SWIFT system.
It can be used to send money to people that don’t have a bank account. These people sadly exist, like some of my family. That said, being pressured to send them money by them lying could definitely be considered a scam :)
I was around 12 or 13 and saved all my money for a PS2. Found one on eBay (using my fathers account), won the bid, transfered the money and just never got it. No PS2, no money. But I learned very early not to trust people on the internet. Guess that was worth the price in hindsight.
Voting this century.
Pump and dump of penny stock. 🤷
Religion.
