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#2735112 26-Jun-2021 17:55

I read a thing a while back where a company renamed itself, adding "blockchain" into its name. It made no other changes, and its share price went up a decent amount.

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#2735118 26-Jun-2021 18:04

Case in point: Cryptocurrency buzz drives record investment scam losses | Federal Trade Commission (ftc.gov)

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#2735127 26-Jun-2021 18:20

People that dumb probably don't deserve to keep their money.

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#2735134 26-Jun-2021 18:37

Rikkitic:

People that dumb probably don't deserve to keep their money.

While the "investors" probably won't get their money back, what do you reckon of the chances for 21 and 17 year old boys finding themselves with a $5 billion loot box? Keep a low profile, don't buy a Bugatti, tropical islands filled with pretty girls, invite Kardashians to parties, buy a football team, try to charter one of Musk's rockets - the ones that look like they were designed by a Flash Gordon, buy every pokemon trading card on the planet.

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#2735141 26-Jun-2021 18:51

Just buy a couple countries and have wars with each other. What do you expect of teenagers?

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#2735152 26-Jun-2021 19:33

Rikkitic:

Just buy a couple countries and have wars with each other. What do you expect of teenagers?

The senior brother was 21. Closer to being neurally pruned than his teenaged sibling.
I have no idea what that actually means though, if becoming more "adult" means being more aware of consequences of actions, $5 billion is a lot of money.

As an old man, my immediate thought as to a way to extricate myself from the pickle may be to try to strike a deal to give the money back, then maintain a comfortable lifestyle from royalties from writing about the experience.

OTOH, because of my political bias, where I have a very dim view about (m/b)illionaires in Africa having vast sums invested in Bitcoin, I'd be very keen to expose absolutely everything I knew, and let the people they fleeced distribute justice, instead of singing endless freedom songs or fighting each other about which god those scumbags told them should rule.

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#2735586 28-Jun-2021 06:48

GB News (Fox news wanna be network in the UK) flag ship show being trounced in the ratings 5 to 1 by Patrol Pawwenau.

For the uninitiated that's the Welsh language version of Paw Patrol.

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#2736216 29-Jun-2021 10:16

The small thing that made me smile yesterday was finding an Aliexpress parcel had been delivered. Nothing too remarkable about that. Except...

30 minutes earlier, just as I was about to leave the office for the day, I checked my Aliexpress account to see where the parcel was. As expected, it was still showing as being in China (where it had been for the past 6 weeks), and the expected delivery date was 11 September. Oh well, it's not urgent, and I knew to expect delays.

So it was extraordinarily remarkable (and incredibly coincidental) that I found it waiting for me when I got home!

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#2736238 29-Jun-2021 11:08

Seeing the ultimate underdog story unfold today, with the Swiss football team, going from 1-0 up to 3-1 down, to finally claw their way back to 3-3 and then win on penalties in the Euro's this morning.

Marvellous.

Swiss beat France on penalties to reach Euro 2020 last eight

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#2736357 29-Jun-2021 15:55

Lizard1977: The small thing that made me smile yesterday was finding an Aliexpress parcel had been delivered. Nothing too remarkable about that. Except...

30 minutes earlier, just as I was about to leave the office for the day, I checked my Aliexpress account to see where the parcel was. As expected, it was still showing as being in China (where it had been for the past 6 weeks), and the expected delivery date was 11 September. Oh well, it's not urgent, and I knew to expect delays.

That's because tracking stops once it reaches NZ. In China it's meticulously tracked, "11:21 Arrived at Qiaocheng Mail Center / 11:27 Had lunch (steamed dumplings) with Wang Xiaoming, Xiaoming paid / 11:39 Finishing jasmine tea, Xiaoming had to leave early / 11:42 Bathroom break / 11:59 Left Qiaocheng Mail Center", etc. Once it gets to NZ there's no tracking because NZ Post is devoting all its resources to redesigning its logo into a more scatological form. So all you can tell is that it left China at some point and then some indeterminate time later, typically weeks, it appears in your letterbox.

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#2736473 29-Jun-2021 22:57

I purchased four items all ex china a couple of months ago. They were all cheap in the realm of $2-$3 each. All arrived over the course of a fortnight. All provided courier delivery notifications the instant they landed at my desk

Maybe the timing between landing in NZ and it getting to my desk matches how long it takes to trigger an email

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#2736491 30-Jun-2021 03:48

The apple store experience.

My airpods pro had stopped working on the left side. I was able to get an appointment in the store within 2 hours.

15 minutes later I walked out with a new left airpod, they ran diagnostics on the spot, no drama, no issues. They really do have a superior retail experience.