[-] carlitoscohones@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago

I think that people have a really hard time conceptualizing compound interest rates. $10,010 invested with bit connect at their claimed rates would be $3.1 million after 12 months. But you get your "capital back" after 4 months?

[-] carlitoscohones@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago

Hard to know if "Contovicsy" is an AI in-joke or a Grauniad in-joke. Or neither.

[-] carlitoscohones@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago

The interviewer somberly nods in response. Meanwhile I want to ask AI to edit this video and have the guy on the right make stabby gestures while he says this bullshit.

[-] carlitoscohones@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago

"cozy/spaciousness"

The Danes do not have a term for this, but if they did, it might be* hyggelig dimensioner*. A good name for an oversized couch at Ikea. Also, the Danes would not include "whiteboards everywhere" as part of cozy, warm, intellectual conversation, but hey.

[-] carlitoscohones@awful.systems 9 points 6 months ago

Decoding the Gurus did an episode on this stuff. Imagine anti-vax hipsters with extreme vocal fry and self-diagnosis of autism.

Red Scare: Bohemian Hipsterism x Reactionary Tradcaths

[-] carlitoscohones@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago

It's a lousy bit, because if you're going to do a goddamn "crocus" joke about hundreds of people being shot at a concert, you should obviously make the pun about Swiss heavy metal legends "Krokus."

[-] carlitoscohones@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago

I know someone that met their long-term partner in the chat of words with friends.

[-] carlitoscohones@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago

The have a firstly and a lastly, but no inbtweensly in their description.

Also - "setting industry benchmarks for innovation, utility, and transparency." hahahahahahahahahaha

[-] carlitoscohones@awful.systems 9 points 9 months ago

im secretly NRx

Sometimes building my vocabulary here is fun. I know nothing about his company but I empathize with their PR people who no doubt comb the internet for media hits.

[-] carlitoscohones@awful.systems 8 points 10 months ago

I made it to the second sentence and had to google "hedonium," which I figured was a portmanteau-type thing and indeed it was. In my search results for the word, I see LessWrong and Nick Bostrum at the top, so yeah.

[-] carlitoscohones@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

Excellent, well-informed take here from the replies:

In the case of drugs, no one really goes to jail fo doing drugs, only selling them.

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