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Silicon Valley Bank has gone under. The bank was known for providing startup capital for new business ventures, and many companies that got their start through them still had a lot of money invested in them. FDIC insurance only covers up to $250,000 per account. All of 2.7% of the accounts in SVB had less than $250,000 in them.
Expect a tech bubble pop next week as numerous tech companies suddenly can't pay their employees.
Between that and another bank, crypto also lost 70 billion in the last 24 hours.
He fell victim to the biggest addiction in the world today: attention. He wanted a bigger hit, and now he's paying the price.Tl;dr: dude leaked a shitton of sensitive, classified, top secret documents on his discord group to gain cred, it's not going well for him.
Not really anything important, but might as well ride on the coattails of that other air national guard dude earlier...
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...r-national-guardsman-who-was-excited-to-kill/
Yep, another air national guard dude got arrested... this one for trying to be a hitman.
And here I thought air related stuff usually hire smart people...
Garcia allegedly told an undercover agent that he would be comfortable torturing victims and taking trophies such as fingers or ears, that he owned an AR-15 rifle, and that he accepted an envelope with $2,500 in cash as a down payment for killing the fictional client's abusive husband.
Multidrug-resistant E. coli were found in 40% of supermarket meat samples tested in a Spanish study. E. coli strains capable of causing severe infections in people were also highly prevalent, this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2023, Copenhagen, 15-18 April) will hear.
See, I'd sign up to kill a fictional character (or her husband) for $2,500.
That's an excellent fanfic commission advance.
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EDIT: thread topic tax
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-multidrug-resistant-bacteria-supermarket-meat-samples.html
https://markets.businessinsider.com...estors-messari-mainnet-currency-tokens-2023-9
NFTs are dead, press F and screenshot to pay respects.
So, here's the thing I don't get: Why did anyone expect a different outcome? From what I understand, NFTs are, on a fundamental level, a way to digitally establish ownership of unique assets. But, like, we already have that in the real world. It's called property. And most of it isn't worth almost anything. I can go out and pick up a unique stick, one that has never been seen before in billions of years of life on earth and will never be seen again. And if I tried to sell it to someone for a penny, they'd roll their eyes and keep walking.https://markets.businessinsider.com...estors-messari-mainnet-currency-tokens-2023-9
NFTs are dead, press F and screenshot to pay respects.
So, here's the thing I don't get: Why did anyone expect a different outcome? From what I understand, NFTs are, on a fundamental level, a way to digitally establish ownership of unique assets. But, like, we already have that in the real world. It's called property. And most of it isn't worth almost anything. I can go out and pick up a unique stick, one that has never been seen before in billions of years of life on earth and will never be seen again. And if I tried to sell it to someone for a penny, they'd roll their eyes and keep walking.
Why did anyone think NFTs were going to be any different?
Probably by the same brain worm of how product/company/"visionary" X will disrupt the industry despite having no clue what said item is. Much less ignoring the warnings of it being little more than a pump and dump scam. Even the closest thing to an established NFT group, Yuga Labs, has had no success in showing a purpose for NFTs outside of a ponzi scheme between various digital games/metaverse projects fizzling out or being hacked and their celebrity members of BAYC becoming the butt of every joke.So, here's the thing I don't get: Why did anyone expect a different outcome? From what I understand, NFTs are, on a fundamental level, a way to digitally establish ownership of unique assets. But, like, we already have that in the real world. It's called property. And most of it isn't worth almost anything. I can go out and pick up a unique stick, one that has never been seen before in billions of years of life on earth and will never be seen again. And if I tried to sell it to someone for a penny, they'd roll their eyes and keep walking.
Why did anyone think NFTs were going to be any different?
Because some tik tok influencer told them it's the best thing ever and surely they're not lying or talking out of their ass...Why did anyone think NFTs were going to be any different? Why did people throw down the price of houses on mass-produced shitty furry art you'd have to pay me to hold on to?
Because it's blockchain sticks and the people are either stupid or using it to launder money.
Probably by the same brain worm of how product/company/"visionary" X will disrupt the industry despite having no clue what said item is. Much less ignoring the warnings of it being little more than a pump and dump scam. Even the closest thing to an established NFT group, Yuga Labs, has had no success in showing a purpose for NFTs outside of a ponzi scheme between various digital games/metaverse projects fizzling out or being hacked and their celebrity members of BAYC becoming the butt of every joke.
The only one of these things that makes sense to me is the money laundering. Like, I can't imagine the level of charisma needed to stand out on the street corner with an industrial-sized printer that was spewing out reams of randomly-colored hideous monkey art and somehow convince someone a given one was worth $5. It's the kind of thing you'd use to establish someone as a supernatural critter. But put it on the internet, and people are willing to put down a mortgage on them?Because some tik tok influencer told them it's the best thing ever and surely they're not lying or talking out of their ass...
Yep, the internet. Before the internet you have to find the fools. Now the fools will find you and throw their life savings at your harebrain scams.Like, I can't imagine the level of charisma needed to stand out on the street corner with an industrial-sized printer that was spewing out reams of randomly-colored hideous monkey art and somehow convince someone a given one was worth $5. It's the kind of thing you'd use to establish someone as a supernatural critter. But put it on the internet, and people are willing to put down a mortgage on them?
The only one of these things that makes sense to me is the money laundering. Like, I can't imagine the level of charisma needed to stand out on the street corner with an industrial-sized printer that was spewing out reams of randomly-colored hideous monkey art and somehow convince someone a given one was worth $5. It's the kind of thing you'd use to establish someone as a supernatural critter. But put it on the internet, and people are willing to put down a mortgage on them?
Money laundering is probably a chunk of it, but people running pump and dump scams is probably another chunk.
Marketing for NFTs tends to rely on at least implicitly comparing themselves to crptocurrency. When Bitcoin went gangbusters, other cryptocurrency's saw an influx of people thinking that they'd do the same, and people who want to get rich quick and don't think everything through are the perfect target demographic for the people running pump and dumps.
Like all sorts of collectibles you mean? Baseball cards, comics, stamps, you name it. A mass produced product that's selling the idea that at some point age & attrition will take out most other owners and your own shitty copy will be worth thousands more than what you put in.Like, I can't imagine the level of charisma needed to stand out on the street corner with an industrial-sized printer that was spewing out reams of randomly-colored hideous monkey art and somehow convince someone a given one was worth $5.
They say Canada (north of US), but then they go on to mention the states of Texas, Florida, and Georgia... which is lolz.https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...invading-us-from-canada-concerns/71681456007/
All the "best" traits of domestic pigs and wild boars, coming soon to a United States near you!