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#151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, not a single communique of theirs has led me to believe that English is their first language.

communiqué a good example of Muphry’s Law, that every online grammar correction/complaint will contain a grammatical error. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law

Also Wiio's Laws that specifically talk about human communication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiio%27s_laws

Re: Cryptoland [video]

#152
post #18

Why would you want to live in a theme-park on a remote jungle island in a volatile jurisdiction with a bunch of assholes?

So, there's actually a bit of a history of libertarian-ish types doing this sort of this thing. Examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Minerva https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/sep/07/disastrous-voya... It doesn't generally end well.

I like the story of Grafton NH and how things actually turned out when libertarians started to take over a town - https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21534416/free-state-...

Re: Cryptoland [video]

#153
Is pinball making a comeback?

Either way…I can see it being real. I can see it being a parody. I can see it being a parody funded by parodists but created by true believers. I can perhaps see it the other way.

All the possibilities are open, just like crypto or something

Re: Cryptoland [video]

#155
post #101

This is the best example of Poe's Law I've ever come across [1]. I honestly can't tell if this is brutal satire or someone's legit endgame. The more I watch the more inclined to think it's satire, but there's a lot of other things in this space I didn't think could be serious that are. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

I'd love to think it's post-irony or meta-irony[1], but really I suspect it's legit and they are trying their best. Bless. Feels like an order of magnitude more risky as an investor than Fyre festival

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsuSveDAlpI

Re: Cryptoland [video]

#156

I watched the whooooooooooooooooooole video I've not felt like this since 1999 when I did a party with co-workers at the T1 ISP I worked for at the time. The E-Trade monkey commercial came on and we laughed. We were already reviving large number of T1/T3/Sonet disconnect orders and it was obvious the end was coming soon. I don't know when crypto will pop. I don't think we've hit max stupid yet.

The stock-market valuations of the late 1990s were excessive, but the objectives of the actual companies were fairly reasonable. Trading... over the internet. Order your pet food... over the internet. Eventually many of these things actually happened, they just weren't done by the "first movers" who were represented in the stock market bubble.

What's happening now, in the cryptocurrency milieu, is more deranged. It's to the point that it's making technology itself seem like a joke.

Re: Cryptoland [video]

#157
Let's ignore everything else. They're buying a private island, that would generally mean that the island is already part of a country, in which case it isn't materially different from buying a few hundred acres in rural Montana or some such. You aren't creating your own country, you're still subject to the laws of the state the island is part of.

So I'm unsure if they're confused, or it's a scam.

Certainly no matter what they may think, they don't get to choose their own age of consent.

Re: Cryptoland [video]

#159
So like, where does the water come from? Where does the food come from? Who does the cooking, cleaning, and essential maintenance of infrastructure? Where would these essential workers live? What would they get paid? How do you resolve disputes of who owns what hardware keys? Where do you treat sewage and waste water?

Like those are just my questions on first glance. Let's not even get into the fact that the video straight up says nothing has been bought or paid for yet. It's clearly a scam, they're gonna be laughing all the way to some country that has no extradition treaty with Spain.

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