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Thank you! Also possible candidates: A few watts short of a lightbulb. Their lights are on but nobody’s home.
In french, we have "they are not not the sharpest knives of the drawer" but my favorite one is "he is not the penguin who slides the furthest" :D On the light related ones, I only know "they are not lights" which is a bit to bare bones to my taste, but works well in french
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.
Unfortunately, I wouldn’t expect the average guy to know how to tell whether a UV bulb is safe (regular non-quartz glass helps a lot) or that dangerous ones are sold without warnings.
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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".
> It's also not obvious to me that cryptocurrencies have value beyond "buying things you're not allowed to buy".
The same could be said about cash but that's an important aspect of life. Whether we're talking about drugs (like cannabis or shrooms) or getting an abortion, there's quite a few things you may not like to be confronted about by your local police.
The Financial Times [1] has attendee numbers: “About 2,250 people attended the Saturday evening party at a cruise terminal, said organiser Yuga Labs, one of the pioneers in this market. Since then, more than a dozen have posted on social media complaining of a burning sensation in the eyes and sometimes also impaired vision.” Honestly that’s a lot more proud Bored Ape bagholders than I would have guessed. But what do…
The breakdown of locals vs people that flew in would be revealing. e.g. passionate owners vs cryto-casual hongkongers looking for a party.
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"?
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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…
The Financial Times [1] has attendee numbers: “About 2,250 people attended the Saturday evening party at a cruise terminal, said organiser Yuga Labs, one of the pioneers in this market. Since then, more than a dozen have posted on social media complaining of a burning sensation in the eyes and sometimes also impaired vision.” Honestly that’s a lot more proud Bored Ape bagholders than I would have guessed. But what do…
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.
After I learned that NFTs were essentially just signed git commits, I wrote them off as a hilarious grift. I feel bad for the people that were injured, so here's my advice: run away from NFTs and crypto. RUN AWAY!
But rather, a signed receipt that says you paid for the nft.