Not being the top dog can hurt.

We constantly hear things about successful people and their successful success, how persistence and hard work let them achieved their place, how they simply loved what they've been doing and this is how they made their fortunes, how they were excelling at everything they've been doing...

Of course, nobody would tell you anything about anyone who worked as hard as them yet failed for reasons not related to their hard work. What if they are just not smart enough? What if they are naturally too humble or anxious to take even minor risks? What if they are just not made for success - or, maybe it is success not made for them?

Some people never achieve more than being a dishwasher in McDonalds regardless of how hard they try - and they won't achieve anything more. Finding yourself in a similar position and realizing the limits of your potential may be frustrating.

A woman who once was a love interest of me has declined my romantic proposal because she thought that our Zodiac signs were incompatible (luckily for me), but what I've read in this thread is a completely another level of this kind of thing.

When I've been in a hospital, I actually saw some people whose condition was so bad that only death could save them from their pain. Some of these conditions are unfortunately genetic, so the fate of these people was basically decided even before they were born. The experience of communicating with them for quite some time has convinced me that assisted suicide should be completely legal, as a measure to free them from their pain.

I also believe that there should be some utilitarian measures to ensure the welfare of most people, such as subsidizing genetic screening of embryos and so on. Genetic research is a new big topic in medical sciences, and some of the next Nobel prizes will definitely be awarded for achievements in this field.

I am the real Satoshi Nakamoto. This is my secret account about which nobody knows. Bitcoin was a mistake. Invest into antipsychotic drugs instead.

/sarcasm

Ask them to pay for your meal at a restaurant. Watch their pathetic attempts to justify not doing so. Enjoy.

As a citizen of a country with a corrupt regime, your input is just spot on.

I ain't buying a phone I can't install Gentoo on for free!

To my surprise, even despite I stopped using social media for anything but communications and media streaming, I still spend most of my time online. It is very difficult to not waste your time online when your job or hobby is computer-related.

Or maybe cryptocurrency trading is just not for him, which is true for most people who think about crypto as of the way to "get rich fast".

Me too would want to know what kind of OP has.

Do you really feel free? When I was a freelance white hat hacker, I hated it because I couldn't make it a source of stable income and the stress I experienced from the process eventually made me quit. Maybe if you love it then you feel truly free, but apparently it was not my case.

I think that the best strategy to deal with spammers is to ignore them. There's a block button for a reason. We don't even need mods for this, just block any user you don't like and move on. Heck, you don't even need to block anyone when you can just ignore their existence.

Fun fact, there is a certain group of people on this forum who must be spammers in disguise. These people discuss nothing but gambling. They keep engaging in counter-productive discussions that serve no purpose other than apparently advertising the crypto gambling platforms they're affiliated with. I've stamped across a disproportionately high amount of old Legendary and Hero members of this forum who advertised these websites on their profile pictures and in their signatures. I even wonder if these accounts were sold at some point, and if these are real people or some AI bots. Yet for some reason their posts are not considered low quality...

Yes!
I remember some thread on 4chan from late 2017 the OP of which claimed that his brother sold his house to buy bitcoin and when the price plummeted, he committed suicide. Never invest the money you owe.

Hello there!

1. I first heard of cryptocurrencies in 2013, the year dogecoin was created. In 2014 or 2015, a friend of my friends had around 0.1 BTC in crypto - yet he sold it even before the 2017 hype IIRC.
2. I did not know anything about crypto back in the day, except that they were virtual money that had actual value, and that they could've been generated on a computer.
3. The same way this term is used on regular stock markets.
4. Well, crypto is money, and in this field, there are just the same kinds of people as in any financial field. There are honest entrepreneurs and scammers, angel investors and loan sharks, short-term investors and actual Whales of Silicon Valley (a reference to the Wolf of Wall Street if you haven't seen this movie for some reason). And just like in any financial field, a ton of people who don't understand what crypto is, and what it isn't.
5. Generally positive. The positive sides of this community and cryptocurrencies in general outweigh the negatives. I'm too lazy to elaborate about this point.
6. Long confirmation time and high transaction fees for some currencies. That's all.
7. 1 bitcoin = 1.000.000$
8. I haven't noticed any hierarchy in the crypto community. I think that in the end, it all boils down to who produces the most value. Curiously, most value in the crypto community came from people who never originally pursued large profits, like the owners of the first mining pools and Satoshi Nakamoto himself. Their contributions have changed the world and now they reap huge rewards for being the pioneers of this new technology.
9. I'm here for monetary reasons, but I will definitely make some friends along my way.
10. I've made 3x on crypto during the 2021 hype and ate them all away.

As a generally anxious person, this post was just spot on. Managing stress may be difficult, and if you have a habit to literally eat your feelings, it may also threaten your financial well-being because you're literally eating away your own money.

Hey, guys, a brilliant idea has just crossed my mind!

You remember how Apple decided with iPhone 7 that they no longer need headphone jacks, right? With iPhone 12 IIRC, they decided that shipping chargers is no longer required, too.

I guess I can see where it is going. First they removed the jack, then the chargers. The next thing they'll remove will probably be the frontal camera, then the fingerprint sensor and so on...

...and then, to own an iPhone, you will have to build it from scratch. And install Gentoo onboard.

That's great! Though I doubt that an average iPhone owner could install Gentoo, at least they would be able to construct their phone from scratch. Such a strategy may also let Apple cut costs on the manual factory labor they buy in China, which will be good for the US from the geopolitical standpoint since less money will go to China, and for the planet since less manual factory labor means less global warming. Everyone wins! Can't wait until they remove the GSM module from the iPhone 30!

When I decided that AI arts were boring, I simply blocked their demonstration on the art website that I use. I guess this is the most sensible approach to the AI-generated content: don't want to consume it - don't look it up!

While the OP is an obvious troll, he has some very solid points. Students get worthless degrees that don't pay off, can't clear their debts and then complain that the system is wrecked up. Can't wait until Masters courses will be the new high school instead of Bachelors... oh wait, it already is: shout out to all Masters of business administration out there!

I have no words...


So according to the OP, China and Taiwan have the same understanding of freedom and civil rights, and potential capture of Taiwan by China would not lead Taiwan into a real world Psycho-Pass surveillance state. Brilliant!

Now I want to take all your crypto away from you OP. Don't worry, I will only use it to fund fine arts. I will even be happy to share some profits with you. You can think about it as about a high-risk, high-reward investment, but unlike regular voluntary investment, I will force you to give some of your money away. According to you, if someone wants to steal your property, you should simply refuse to fight back to avoid conflict, so either run away from this board faster than me (which may not be easy, especially if you're a smoker or an obese person), or eat your words and come up with some less obvious bait.

You forgot the third thing: intelligence. Some people are just not smart enough. Just like there are people who are too naturally lazy, irresponsible and neurotic, there are people who are just too naturally dumb to hold high-paying jobs. It is uncomfortable to read, but it is a sad truth of our life, and a pain in the ass for both progressives and conservatives: for progressives because it refutes their environmentalist dogma, and for conservatives because it refutes their belief in hard work and dedication as a source of success.


Character (and intelligence) makes it more easy to obtain resources but not the other way around. People who suddenly won an astonishing amount of money in lotteries go broke way more often than people who earn the same amount of money in their business. How so? The people who own successful businesses do have character and intelligence to manage their money, and the people who win lotteries generally don't.