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Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss
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#242This is pathetic. The original promoters behind BAYC, two guys from Florida and the son of some official of a bank in Africa, were rave promoters. They botched their metaverse project, Otherside, but that was technically ambitious. The people running it now can't even run a medium-sized rave properly. Earlier ApeFest events were only for BAYC holders and had a celebrity lineup. This time they sold tickets to anyone.…
> two guys from Florida And that's all I need to know. I avoid buying from, selling to, or doing business with anyone from FL if I can, I've been burnt too many times. I'm not sure if the state attracts shady characters, or produces them, or both.
That's a pretty broad generalization. I could say the same for the Bahamas. Or Nigeria. Or New Jersey. Definitely Russia. So let's just address that there are bad actors everywhere, no matter from where, and that you must do you due diligence when dealing with people for business. What you probably meant to say is "There seems to be more lawlessness in FL than usual" which I would definitely agree with you.
There's good people working at Disney, Universal, L3/Harris, etc. It's not all crazy Florida man in shorts with pet alligators.
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#243Earlier 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…
To be fair, that was a very tiny baby in the tub. Maybe in theory crypto could have been a perfect system, but in practice humans are flawed. It was doomed.
It is horrible that these folks lost their vision. They didn't deserve that. Even in the context of crypto apes. It's easy (but boring) to make fun of them-- again humans are flawed.
Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss
#244"Richard, these are real people with real crotches, and they're burning."
Burning crotches?!
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#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
> two guys from Florida And that's all I need to know. I avoid buying from, selling to, or doing business with anyone from FL if I can, I've been burnt too many times. I'm not sure if the state attracts shady characters, or produces them, or both.
That's a pretty broad generalization. I could say the same for the Bahamas. Or Nigeria. Or New Jersey. Definitely Russia. So let's just address that there are bad actors everywhere, no matter from where, and that you must do you due diligence when dealing with people for business. What you probably meant to say is "There seems to be more lawlessness in FL than usual" which I would definitely agree with you. There's g…
You're probably right...I definitely don't think every single person and business is corrupt, I lived there for 2 years and enjoyed it even!
But as a swappa/eBay buyer and seller, it's hard to ignore trends I guess.
Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss
#247This is pathetic. The original promoters behind BAYC, two guys from Florida and the son of some official of a bank in Africa, were rave promoters. They botched their metaverse project, Otherside, but that was technically ambitious. The people running it now can't even run a medium-sized rave properly. Earlier ApeFest events were only for BAYC holders and had a celebrity lineup. This time they sold tickets to anyone.…
> two guys from Florida And that's all I need to know. I avoid buying from, selling to, or doing business with anyone from FL if I can, I've been burnt too many times. I'm not sure if the state attracts shady characters, or produces them, or both.
Shysters love it because it's the closest you can get to a "tropical paradise" in the CONUS with relatively cheap housing and low CoL, then you can run away to Cuba or Mexico if things get bad, or fly to Europe and NYC easily when things are good. Plenty of yacht babes, drugs, and yacht babes who will hang out with you in exchange for drugs, which is also a great draw for some of these types of folks too.
Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss
#248This is pathetic. The original promoters behind BAYC, two guys from Florida and the son of some official of a bank in Africa, were rave promoters. They botched their metaverse project, Otherside, but that was technically ambitious. The people running it now can't even run a medium-sized rave properly. Earlier ApeFest events were only for BAYC holders and had a celebrity lineup. This time they sold tickets to anyone.…
No, what is fucking pathetic is HN comments currently.
It's a really interesting story, if as reported these bulbs are the TUV30T8 they are used in Covid and Tuberculosis control.
They are used in your SteriPEN (smaller size) when you go camping.
They are a cool tech, with a dangerous side but all HN can talk about is NFTs. A total lack of curiosity. Just off topic trash talk by dumb people with nothing new to say.
They were reported to have been set up by contractors by the DJ, TBH I'm not sure but I don't feel checking light bulbs comes down to organizers. Do they also check food safety in the kitchen? Every electric cord has been checked off? This is also an interesting adult conversation not seen here.
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#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
> two guys from Florida And that's all I need to know. I avoid buying from, selling to, or doing business with anyone from FL if I can, I've been burnt too many times. I'm not sure if the state attracts shady characters, or produces them, or both.
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> 48 count felon Donald Drumpf
Trump has been indicted on 91 felony counts, and is from New York (though currently residing in Florida.)
Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss
#250This is pathetic. The original promoters behind BAYC, two guys from Florida and the son of some official of a bank in Africa, were rave promoters. They botched their metaverse project, Otherside, but that was technically ambitious. The people running it now can't even run a medium-sized rave properly. Earlier ApeFest events were only for BAYC holders and had a celebrity lineup. This time they sold tickets to anyone.…
> two guys from Florida And that's all I need to know. I avoid buying from, selling to, or doing business with anyone from FL if I can, I've been burnt too many times. I'm not sure if the state attracts shady characters, or produces them, or both.
I would hope that this is a forum where we can do better than broad generalizations about a place with over 20 million people.