• xep@fedia.io
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    10 months ago

    There is financial incentive to make claims like this disregarding the facts during a bubble, because it indirectly makes the line go up. This phenomenon is most clearly visible in cryptocurrency communities.

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      10 months ago

      Why did you have to post this follow-up? Now I’m all angried up.

      I don’t agree with hitting children as a means of discouraging bad behaviour, but I’m convinced some adults would benefit from being hit a bit more.

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        10 months ago

        I have said before if we invent time machines their sole legal purpose should be to only travel back in time to when some ass’s mom was pregnant with him and to point at her and say “see this bump? in 25 years he’s going to be an insufferable asshole.”

        then we offer mom a pill.

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      10 months ago

      If he had said, “I don’t believe you. I think you’re denying it publicly, but in secret you have probably already directed your engineers to lay out the groundwork,” that would be fine.

      He would be accusing her of lying, rather than assuming she was an ignorant female nobody whose knowledge could not compare with his insight of, “but other companies did it.”

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        9 months ago

        Realistically what happened is that he got a notification that someone sent “no ♥️” as a response to his rant.

        He clicked “would you like to reply?” without thinking about or checking who sent it. Why would you? Chances are higher that it’s from a bot.

        The fact that he doubled down afterwards is funny though.