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Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by pictureofabear »

ceejayoz wrote: post #3

Cited in the article: https://twitter.com/crypto_birb/status/1721222853394121193 "Thanks for great apefest logistiscs guys @yugalabs & @BoredApeYC. Incredible event and met plenty of amazing people. Still, as dozens of others, I’ve almost lost sight this night." I mean, c'mon. "Thanks, incredible event, it almost blinded me"?

In the cult of BoredApe, you are not allowed to disparage BoredApe.

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by isk517 »

bobsmooth wrote: post #52
jeffhuys wrote: post #39

I really am surprised by all the “lol you buy NFT so already blind” folks. Actually pretty disgusting. Disclaimer: I don’t own NFTs.

People love laughing at people they think are below them. In the current political climate, pretty much all of the groups that were laughed at are protected now and deriding them is uncouth. Thankfully, it will always be okay to laugh at stupid people but only in specific contexts.

It isn't ok to make fun of people just because they are stupid, no, these people can be made fun of because they are stupid AND greedy.

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by bjornsing »

ceejayoz wrote: post #3

Cited in the article: https://twitter.com/crypto_birb/status/1721222853394121193 "Thanks for great apefest logistiscs guys @yugalabs & @BoredApeYC. Incredible event and met plenty of amazing people. Still, as dozens of others, I’ve almost lost sight this night." I mean, c'mon. "Thanks, incredible event, it almost blinded me"?

That’s a sign of a bloody good event, when you go blind but you don’t mind.

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by Kye »

mike_d wrote: post #113
snakeyjake wrote: post #19

Given the.. qualities.. of people involved in the NFT space the organizers probably bought a bunch of UV-C lamps off alibaba because they were cheap and looked cool-- doing absolutely no research and with no regard for others.

There have been reports of UV-C bulbs being repackaged as "party lights" and sold on eBay/Amazon/etc. So it is possible they had no idea.

It's the kind of thing a competent A/V staffer would think of because the event's insurance would have required more credible sourcing. Given the nature of the crowd, I wouldn't be surprised to learn they had no legal support or insurance.

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by ryandvm »

mandmandam wrote: post #124
pavlov wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Crypto on the whole is a scene where Sam Bankman-Fried was considered very smart while he was busy conducting the most inept financial crimes in modern history. The bar is low indeed.

We - humans - could have had digital money - fast and fee-less, micro-transactions, decentralization, secure, anti-spam. Everything Bitcoin claimed to want to be. Instead we - the tech community - got smug about scams. People here get smug even toward the victims of scams. The attitude has been 'Who gives a flying fuck about the details of any crypto tech, or the potential of digital money'. 'It's all a scam, so I do…

Mmm. Maybe. It's still not clear to me that you can have a decentralized, P2P verification network that can handle anywhere near worldwide transaction volume.

It's also not obvious to me that cryptocurrencies have value beyond "buying things you're not allowed to buy".

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by pixl97 »

404mm wrote: post #64
ceejayoz wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Not the brightest bulbs" was right there .

Thank you! Also possible candidates: A few watts short of a lightbulb. Their lights are on but nobody’s home.

5 watts short of a 10 watt bulb (halfwit)

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by southerntofu »

mandmandam wrote: post #124
pavlov wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Crypto on the whole is a scene where Sam Bankman-Fried was considered very smart while he was busy conducting the most inept financial crimes in modern history. The bar is low indeed.

We - humans - could have had digital money - fast and fee-less, micro-transactions, decentralization, secure, anti-spam. Everything Bitcoin claimed to want to be. Instead we - the tech community - got smug about scams. People here get smug even toward the victims of scams. The attitude has been 'Who gives a flying fuck about the details of any crypto tech, or the potential of digital money'. 'It's all a scam, so I do…

Wait till you realize that any form of money is a scam designed to extort riches from the poorest producers and make those riches climb the social pyramid. Tongue in cheek comment of course, but that's an argument that can be defended.

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by timeon »

samspenc wrote: post #6

I wonder how much they charged and made in ticket revenue. They couldn't even hire stage and lighting professionals to determine the right amount of UV and lighting at a conference hosting hundreds or thousands of folks?!?! > On social media, some suspect photokeratitis — damage to the eye caused by UV exposure. If that’s what caused the Apes’ agony, they likely won’t be blind forever: it’s a temporary condition. Peo…

They would probably call them `tradprofessionals` and would think they know better.
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