Okay, hypothetically let’s imagine someone who is a Bitcoin trading god. Every peak he’s there unloading his bags, every dip and he’s buying hundreds of Bitcoins. This guy turns thousands into millions and millions into billions. Huge success story right?

But here’s the rub, where is all this money coming from? The money isn’t coming out of thin air, it’s not coming from the crypto exchanges, otherwise they’d go bankrupt, it’s not coming from the value of any goods or services produced. The answer is that all that money is coming from other people. Someone has to be buying at the peak thinking it’ll go “To the moon” and getting burned, or maybe the need to pay off some hackers cryptolocker. The same for the dip maybe someone needs real money right now and must sell despite the loss, or maybe someone is panic selling thinking the price will go lower. Our hypothetical trading god hasn’t really created any money or anything of value at all, they’ve just moved money from the losers in the Bitcoin to his own wallet.

This makes you the equivalent to one of the spokespeople from near the top of a pyramid scheme taking about how this is one of the legit pyramid schemes, because you’ve earned so much money! Ignoring of course that all of their money means that someone somewhere needed to lose that money first.

However, I suppose at the end of the day, you did take twenty four thousand dollars from crypto morons, so I suppose that’s kinda noble in a way.

Wow, that’s bad. I thought it would be more of a “confusing a sentence for a similar sounding one” type thing but from the above and the article it’s just generating semi-believable text and sticking them into the transcriptions.

Haven’t we known about this for years?

Sticking your economy in crazy seems like a bad idea China.

Well most of human management can’t be held accountable (unless they step on the toes of someone above them) so honestly, what would be the difference?

Yeah, I should have mentioned that.

Dang… and the free market was just about get around to replacing those pipes too.

I guess even the cheapest Brazilian beef they can find isn’t producing the profits they want now.

I was thinking about that a while back. There’s got to be some sort of upper limit to collecting data being useful. I mean at some point it becomes more economical to just buy the data from one other thousands of companies data mining phones rather then going to all the trouble of building and maintaining your own data mining app.

Ugh…

A “toxin” is a poisonous substance produced by a living organism. While all toxins are toxic to something, not all things that are toxic are toxins. As an example caffeine would meet the definition of a toxin (poisonous to insects and mammals in sufficient doses), arsenic would not (poisonous to almost all life, but not produced by a living organism).

Sorry for being so pedantic, but this is a pet peeve of mine.

Three charges related to a second woman were dismissed because she is now dead.

Yeah… I’d like to know more about that.

Yeah, when I was looking for information about Tears of the Kingdom around 90% of my search results was AI slop. I think was looking for info about how weapon durability and fusion worked and I kept getting a badly reworded version of the explanation of fusion from the gameplay teaser.

Actually… that reminded me of another TotK search I did, I was looking for where to farm some variety of lizalfos tails and kept getting AI articles that confused BotW locations with TotK. Amusingly, I eventually tried Google’s chatbot out of exasperation and it actually proved more accurate than my search results.

Hey now, don’t worry. I’m sure this will all be cleared up when the bodycam footage is released and it clearly shows the police being menaced with a knife… right?

Don’t forget the voter suppression before the election. They’ll have long list of blue voters that must be purged because maybe one of them is illegally voting.

Honestly, I was expecting Christian nationalist. Especially since over the past decade Taylor’s gone from the right-wings idealized “aryan goddess” to “Evil woke woman who must be degraded at every opportunity”.

Visiting the corpse of Twitter was your first mistake

I’m semi-expecting that before I die there will be a push for some sort of “Right to labor law”, which will allow companies to involuntarily force the unemployed into their employment at prison wages (after all, we wouldn’t want the unemployed to give up their dreams, right? So we need to incentivize them to go out and get a real job)

Yeah, Musk blamed GARM for advertisers “boycotting” X so he sued them then they disbanded. Of course, Mush and Yaccarino are strutting about like roosters apparently not realizing how obvious this suit makes it that you do business with X at your own peril.

Depends on how you define “working”.

He managed to kill a non-profit that advised not advertising on Xitter because it’s a racist shithole. I don’t think it’s gonna bring back any advertisers, but with the help of a pet Texas judge he’s SLAPP suing his detractors out of existence.