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Well, who raised that idiot?
At some point you have to take responsibility for yourself. You cant just blame every failing on your parents.
I dunno… to me, it didn’t make sense that Bitcoin became valuable. I figured NFTs were just bitcoin tied to a picture, so why wouldn’t they have a chance of being worth something too? Makes just as much lack of sense.
Note: I have never bought any form of cryptocurrency, but honestly, mainly because it was too much of a faff to use.
Its the first step in therapy.
Blame parents, forgive parents, realize you now control your future, realize youve controlled your actions and future the entire time, forgive yourself.
Most people are hovering step 1 and 2, or skip over step 2
I just wanted to add that it’s still incredibly painful after these steps, therapy ain’t over then. Still worth it though. Be kind to your inner child, especially if they’re still crying inside.
I think you can kind of fork this path:
- blame parents
- realise they did what they thought was best
- still be messed up
- wallow in misery continually making the same mistakes every day
- accept your mediocrity
I thought we all just don’t do the forgiving ourselves thing. And avoid the mirror so you don’t have to kick that guy’s ass for looking at you like id look at me
You can blame some though, like a failing in critical thinking is a failing of how a person was raised.
My parents did a lot to model being smart with money and only one of their kids (me) picked up on it. Kids often love being the opposite of what they’re taught, no matter how much it hurts them.
IDK how much parents “modelling” things really helps.
My parents fell for every scheme they encountered their entire lives.
Watching them taught me to be very critical of that kind of thing. I guess they did model what not to do.
Heh, I mean modeling can work in the intended way or by accident in the opposite way you’d expect. So yeah I’d say it worked for you :)
I was raised pretty middle-upper class. Only child. My dad made 6 figures. I had a lot of privilege growing up and I knew I did. I was well informed on family finances, investments, etc. We were also frugal(ish) in spending. We went camping every year which I loved, but very few things like vacations, new cars, etc. We had a modest house in a small town. My parents would always just have a shit ton of money saved in savings accounts or investments.
Fast forward to today, they helped my partner and I buy a small farm halfway across the country. We’re a single income house (my partner has disabilities that prevents them from working). We live paycheque to paycheque because we like spending money. Local farmers market, buying things for the farm, and I get a little money spendy because my parents never really did that. I learned all the tips and tricks growing up and once let loose I didn’t really care. Never did.
We’re financially okay. We have debt like everyone else, but it’s manageable. But we don’t save anything. We’re trying to now this past year but it’s slow because I work in town and my partner will want me to pick up this thing from Canadian Tire, or this from Home Hardware, and always needing new things, or upgrading things on the century old house and homestead.
Basically, I was raised with money and my parents didn’t spend a lot of it. They’re very well off now. I do the opposite. I don’t really care much about the future, as hopefully we can break even on the farm. But we are trying to live more in the now than my parents ever did. Financially, I am very different from my parents.
Sometimes no matter how much parents try their kid will still end a dumbass.
His stepdad, of course.
You can only do so much while the pre-frontal cortex is still developing.
It’s funny, when NFT’s started I said it was the dumbest thing ever and everyone online jumped all over me and down voted me into oblivion.
Not sure what internet circles you were in, but I’ve hardly ever seen people be positive about NFTs in mine
I think digitally verifiable ownership could be cool for, like, a digital TCG or something. But you’d need an actual use case for why this ‘ownership’ matters, which just isn’t true of the most noteworthy use of nfts.
I’ve never understood TCGs. Why not just print out the cards. Why not to use a randomizer from which one should make up a deck for one duel. Is the fun gambling and consumerism?
what you describe is called using “proxies” and different houses have different rules.
The store where I play allows for 10 proxies per deck. In the olden days they’d take a finger for every proxy but now they just take a finger nail.
I mean, yes, gambling is part of the fun XD
I don’t actually think gambling is the problem, capitalism is. A healthy amount of low-stakes risk taking is a perfectly good activity.
The dangers of using reddit
See, you forgot the important rule of the Internet: Being first is the same as being wrong.
/s
I thought the tech could maybe have a use case but PNGs was utterly useless.
this seems like something my dad would do, deservingly to be fair. I’ve gotten up to some pretty stupid shit
for example I currently have a sprained wrist from falling off my unicycle during my break at work.
I always tell people “you can’t fall off a unicycle”. I’ve actually fallen once and nobody was around to see.
99.9% of the time you can easily dismount and let the cycle drop, but once in a while you can actually fall
that’s very true, I’m not the best at free mounting and often bail 3 or 4 times before I actually get going. (also a 27" wheel so a bit more difficult than my old one)
what happened that made me actually fall and not just bail is that the road was at an angle and I had my psi a bit too high so it kinda popped out from under me.
I caught myself with my hands, small scrape on one of them and sprained the other. Also scraped my knee too. I used to have wrist braces but I lost them when I moved and haven’t used it regularly enough to get new ones. I probably will now 😅I saw someone yesterday with a big wheel who I was sure was about to bail. He was unicycling down a pretty steep street. He managed to make it down the street and turn the corner, but it looked like a real struggle.
I know from riding a fixie that for streets that aren’t too steep it’s not hard, you just have to effectively “pedal backwards”, allowing slowing the pedals down as they come up behind you. But, I don’t know what a unicyclist can do on a very steep street. What I would do on a fixie doesn’t work because it requires small skid-stops, which means you need a front wheel.
What would you do on a steep hill? I assume that by the time you realize it’s too steep you’re already going pretty fast, so just bailing would be difficult.
What would you do on a steep hill?
to be honest I would probably just fall 😭 i live in Florida which does not have a lot of elevation variety so I luckily don’t have to deal with that problem as much. I know on the REALLY big ones or ones for off road use (which look sick btw) they have a brake handle on the front
Hmm, ok. I thought there was some trick to learn. A brake almost feels like it’s cheating. You’re right though, it looks cool.
You’re in second place
Hahaha I had to scroll back and come back here because I couldn’t believe it.
Your photo on unicycle is 3 posts down below this one on my Hot-All feed xD
I wish you quick recovery :D
I once said I should do a thing and break a bone and then I did the thing a few times until I broke a bone.
I have looked back on some really stupid thing I did and wondered why no one in my family called me out. Not that I blame them. It’s just weird to me that I smoked cigarettes all those years and they never gave me shit for it. My brother even gave me a fancy lighter for my birthday once. Again: not their fault I was an idiot but telling someone they are being a dolt can be an act of love.
I never tried a unicycle but really want to because I think I’d be good at it. Do the skills from regular bike riding no handed transfer well?
I was thinking about NFTs yesterday and how AIs have probably scrapped them all and will happily copy all the monkeys and such.
Think I could sell AI generated NFTs?
Eh. Use an AI to make smaller AI models that have different combinations of personalities (this one acts like Elvis singing opera, this one mimics Einstein with a cowboy accent) and the create NFTs for the ownership of those personalities. Each one comes with it’s own bot-created twitter account, and it posts. The holder of the NFT gets any revenue the account generates.
Anyway, if you build this, send me a cut, I’d like to get rich from stupid people who would actually go nuts over this.
If you were this stupid and had a billion dollars and funded this idea then you would surely become a millionaire.
Not necessarily. If you donated a few millions to Diaper Don, it would soon be clear that this product is needed in the government, and those contracts would make you at least another billion. This is how you do business in our current era.
This is how you do business
in our current era👩🏽🚀🏹👩🏽🚀lord diapers is just making it all very public. Real money has been keeping quiet since Versailles, but doodoo prez is a gauche, nouveau riche hillbilly of a poorly inbred line, who’s father was never anything more than the fetch-boy for wealthy backers, and he is (thankfully) making visible the horrors that the wealthy have always been up to.
nobody buys nfts anymore. that shit crashed fast and hard
Isn’t that exactly what Donald Trump did with his electronic trading cards or whatever they were supposed to be?
Yes! I forgot about that. Too much interesting times to remember it all.
I am sure someone would buy it
Don’t give ai companies/nft bros ideas.
“How’s the timeshare doing, dad?”
At least Dad got to touch something for his money. NFTs don’t even deliver on their sole mission statement
What was their mission statement? Here’s a picture that you own the copyright of? I don’t see how they could ever make sense unless they were legitimately fabulous images that people loved and wanted to buy prints of
Oh they typically didn’t even include the copyright. That’s at least an asset and why would they include an asset
To own a digital asset that only had one original. Something that could have an identifiable, singular owner despite being a digital asset. Problem is no one gives a shit if you’re the original, provable “owner” of a jpg someone else made. Which makes these worthless to all but idiots who fell for it.
The dumbest thing in all this is that NFTs could have been legitimately useful for a bunch of tasks, but the whole thing got burned by cryptobros.
My uncle used to go to timeshare sales pitches 2-3 times a week. Never bought a timeshare, just went for the free dinners. He was so bored with life that he didn’t even mind sitting there listening to them babble. The only other thing he had to do was to call up my dad and discuss how gas prices were slightly different at different filling stations.
A free supper is a free supper.
“At least I can be inside something that I enjoy”
Provenance is the biggest issue in Art. NFTs aren’t stupid, thinking that computer generated ape artwork with no actual scarcity is a good investment is stupid.
NFTs are stupid. Provenance only matters when it comes to the ownership of art. For the real purpose of art, the viewing and appreciation of art, it doesn’t matter at all.
For digital art, provenance only matters if someone wants to create artificial scarcity by applying intellectual property laws to art. Trying to make digital things artificially scarce is stupid.
Of course provenance matters in appreciation of art. Do museums put up fake artwork or do they only try and show actual pieces from the artist.
People who buy art absolutely care if the artwork they paid for is genuine. Collectors absolutely care if they can prove they own something that others don’t.
Sure, if you don’t care about artists getting paid at all, or you don’t care about authenticity, then NFTs aren’t for you.
Of course provenance matters in appreciation of art.
Of course it doesn’t. Do you need to know who painted something, and who owned it, to know whether you like it or not?
People who buy art absolutely care if the artwork they paid for is genuine. Collectors absolutely care if they can prove they own something that others don’t.
Yes, and fuck those people.
If a museum advertises a Picasso but it is fraudulent most people would consider that a bad thing.
I care about artists getting paid. Sure, hate collectors all you want, but getting rid of them reduces the purchases artists do get.
If a museum advertises a Picasso but it is fraudulent most people would consider that a bad thing.
Who cares?
I care about artists getting paid. Sure, hate collectors all you want, but getting rid of them reduces the purchases artists do get.
You don’t need NFTs to ensure artists get paid. You don’t need intellectual property laws to ensure that artists get paid. Most of the best art in history was made before intellectual property was a thing, and the artists who made that art generally were paid.
You think most of the artists that made famous art got paid?? Plus you think people don’t care if artwork that is claimed to be authentic is actually fraudulent??
Thanks for demonstrating you don’t have serious or informed opinions.
You think most of the artists that made famous art got paid??
Yes, I do. Have you heard of Patreon? Do you know the word it’s based on, “patron”?
Plus you think people don’t care if artwork that is claimed to be authentic is actually fraudulent??
People care about all kinds of things. Maybe instead of worrying about whether or not something is authentic, they should just think about whether they like it.
Thank you for demonstrating that you don’t actually like art for art’s sake, you care more about knowing your art comes from a famous person.
Deserved
The most ridiculous NFT was the fart jar girl shitcoin.
https://www.birdsadvice.com/woman-who-earned-200000-selling-fart-jars-hospitalized-by-her-work/
The amount of money spent is the deciding factor. If it was like $10, people waste money all the time. If it was more? Gets stupider by the dollar.
It’s not a specific dollar amount like 10 dollars.
It should be pointed out that if you are young and you took an appropriate amount of risk “investing” in nfts, that’s not a bad thing. You should take some financial risks and failures while young.
If you went into debt or spent your family’s life savings on it, you have a gambling problem.
What’s very dumb about this is that the rings themselves are probably already non-fungible, so even then, it’s dumb to store an NFT inside of them 😬
As I understand it, they just exchanged the NFTs, nothing mentioned about having them inside the rings. Nevertheless, it’s just mind-bogglingly stupid.
Just waiting for that 2040s ironic nostalgia wave to drive up the price again lol
I still hold an “NFT”. A tank i won on a challenge in War thunder. Grinding motherfuckers, but… it was a nice tank
I mean, deserved.
“Hey, what was that stock you spent all your money on? Has that weird guy ceo that was promising to go to mars”
Enron
