True Story of the Day

[attofishpi]

Time to hear from a whinging pom..

10hrs in Singapore airport - apparentley a wonderful airport. My 1st visit was to the 'butterfly garden' - near pitch black, not a butterfly to be seen.

I was told to go to Terminal 3 for my flight. Waited ages before the message on one of the very few screens displaying flights showed I should be in Terminal 1. Go to the shuttle - under maintenance until 5am (this is at 3am). I realise I can use the 'travelator' to get to Terminal 1 (loads of them kms worth imo). I had downloaded the Changi Airport app to double check things - I finally get to Terminal 1 - no signs indicating that was where I was at, asked some dude with a gun, figured he worked for the airport - he said yes I am at Terminal 1.
I check the app to see which gate - the app tells me my flight is all the way back at Terminal 3!!

Finally, find another TV screen with flight details and turns out the app was wrong. Terminal 1 is correct. Walked past loads and loads of people sleeping on the floor around the place. The shitty chair I am in doesn't even have a head rest, not that I feel like I can sleep. I sit there for a while and some Asian people are jabbering on loudly. The dude beside me had already clearly had enough of their noise and moved off somewhere.
I do the same, but then some woman decides to listen to some crap on here phone NO HEADPHONES...

Ya, all airports are shite. Oh yes, on the airplane to Singapore I had prebooked an aisle seat right at the back of the plane - where there are two seats (for this leg of the flight) - the next leg I picked the same seat but the window one because it will be daylight for pretty much the entire trip. Anyway, I get to the back of the plane and a chap is sat in what I believed to be my seat for this leg - the aisle seat. My seat was "K" his was "H" - he stood up briefly as the steward insists mine is the window seat, fine - but I explain none of the lettering is alphabetic. He disagreed. On landing the same steward attempted to tell me that the seat lettering was in alphabetic order from one side on the plane to mine. Normally that is the case. I had taken a photo of the seats to our left - GED!!! I then said if matey is in H, where is I & J - his answer was that likely these letters looked to much like the number 1 so they must have changed it - seriously - my reality is bollocks. I of course pointed out to him that it's NOT alphabetic then is it!!!

...please get me home, or let the plane crash, I could not give a flying duck.

[attofishpi]

"Mind your step, mind your step" <-- said every few seconds as people reach the end of the travelator - weird it doesn't warn the same when you get on it, only when you get off it (if you heard me curse at that bloody thing on the 100 or so I had to catch because of the broken shuttle - you'd think I was a crazy man )

Personally, I think getting on it is more dodgy..

[Phil8659]

A long time ago, I decided to take my Nikon to the Detroit Auto Show to spoil some frames.
I took pictures for awhile, and then I got this idea to shoot the city that surrounded it. So I went up and fund the roof door was unlocked. Lucky me!
I wanted to shoot from the highest possible point, So I stepped up on the ledge starting to take shots.
Next thing I know, people start running out of the door screaming "Don't Jump" and I am thinking to myself, how stupid can you be to think I am going to damage this camera. I mean the cars look good, the girls even better, who in the fuck goes to an auto show and jumps because they don't like the color of a car?
Hey! I just wanted a picture proving people can fly, fuck Pan Am, I had a couple seconds to take a selfie.

[promethean75]

Robbed by Robinhood!

https://voca.ro/1fzryoH8ruhR

[promethean75]

Yeah, it was at 102,700ish the moment i bought it but my receipt says i bought it at 103,501.

They do this on purpose, hoping to catch those who don't read the fine print or know how trading works. There is an 'asking range' on a bid that can be lower than the advertised price. Yeah, so? Listen: I WANT THE COIN AT THE PRICE LISTED AT THE MOMENT I BUY IT.

I don't give a fuck about a 'bid-ask spread'. If there's a chance i will get the coin at a price higher than listed on the app, I don't fuckin want it. Simple as that. Now you can say 'hey, bitcoin is at x right now, but if you buy it at this moment, you may get y, less than you paid for' and then i decide whether i want it.

What we have is a technically complicated circumstance that Robinhood is exploiting to trick people who don't know how trading works. Imagine how many idiots like me are scratching their heads after looking at their purchase receipts... who wouldn't have bought any coin if they knew this would happen.

Robinhood COULD design the app to make this fact explicit rather than keeping it hidden in the fine print. That they do not is no coincidence.

[accelafine]

Robbed by Robinhood!

https://voca.ro/1fzryoH8ruhR

That poor woman. You sound like a giant jerk. And isn't bitcoin the same as gambling? Sell it and put it in the bank then instead of complaining about losing money on it.

And there needs to be a worldwide ban on Americans EVER being allowed to teach English to foreigners. Her accent made my ears bleed.

[Phil8659]

A long time ago. There was this girl which was trying to get close to me. However, I did not like her one little bit.

So, I said to her one day, as she was bragging about having trapped this guy into paying child support by telling him she was on contraceptives.

So, I interrupted her and said. "You know, I use to be Just like you."
She got really interested and leaned forward.

I said "Yep, just like you until I got my sex change operation."

Freaked her out. That got her away from pestering me.

[promethean75]

It's my fault because I'm an amateur who doesn't know what's going on. But that's not the point. I'm under the impression that I'm getting my fraction of a coin at the listed price. In fact, this has happened in every purchase i just hadn't ever thought to look at my receipts.

I don't see why the app can't tell me exactly what the coin is at at the moment of my purchase. The fuckin price didn't drop eight hundred dollars in 1.74 seconds, the time of the transaction. And I'm literally sitting here looking at a 102,200 price or whatever when i got her on the phone complaining about my receipt showing my purchase at like 103something. Bullshit. I didn't buy that shit at 103.

But my losses are less than a grand and that's not because of something I did but because of natural and normal volatility. It'll all be back by mid summer.

[promethean75]

At the bimonthly anarchist meetings i attend, i was asked why i have not yet attacked the State and instead continue to live as its slave. These young anarchists are full of ambition, but they are inexperienced in these matters and perhaps a bit too anxious.

On building a case against the State in preparation for war, one must first give the State some time to accumulate its transgressions against you. You want to let happen all those things that come with the wrongful convictions, the imprisonment, the SO lifetime registry, the movement restrictions and loss of freedom, the social stigmatization and alienation you suffer in your private life - housing opportunities lost, personal relationships made impossible, property vandalized by vigilantes, being constantly doxxed on the internet, etc. - and your career (losing work opportunities). You want to let these things happen so that you have a case. Allowing the situation 'cook', as it were. Let all those little effects that follow this betrayal of the civil contract by the State accumulate. This is why you wait.

[accelafine]

It's my fault because I'm an amateur who doesn't know what's going on. But that's not the point. I'm under the impression that I'm getting my fraction of a coin at the listed price. In fact, this has happened in every purchase i just hadn't ever thought to look at my receipts.

I don't see why the app can't tell me exactly what the coin is at at the moment of my purchase. The fuckin price didn't drop eight hundred dollars in 1.74 seconds, the time of the transaction. And I'm literally sitting here looking at a 102,200 price or whatever when i got her on the phone complaining about my receipt showing my purchase at like 103something. Bullshit. I didn't buy that shit at 103.

But my losses are less than a grand and that's not because of something I did but because of natural and normal volatility. It'll all be back by mid summer.

Maybe you should have done a bit of research before bullying a low paid call centre worker.

[promethean75]

Robinhood is supposed to be user-friendly for amateurs like me, and it's not very friendly when it sells me crypto at prices higher than advertised.

If there's this thing called a bid-ask spread, and it means i may not be buying the crypto at the price i see, but actually a higher price that can range from x to z, I WANT TO SEE THAT RANGE. And i can; they can design the app so that it's right there on my screen, and i don't have to go writing graphs and shit and earn a fuckin degree in economics to understand what's going on.

I'm a goddamn amateur and i want to be treated like one.

You got some nerve calling ME the bully here.

[promethean75]

If PN has now essentially become a quarantined zone of a handful of regulars running in the same philosophical circles everyday and no new promising young minds are being ruined by any of it because they aren't there to witness it, may we say that western philosophy has scored a victory?

I say yes. A minor victory, though, because these promising young minds are almost certainly still being ruined, only somewhere else.

[accelafine]

Robinhood is supposed to be user-friendly for amateurs like me, and it's not very friendly when it sells me crypto at prices higher than advertised.

If there's this thing called a bid-ask spread, and it means i may not be buying the crypto at the price i see, but actually a higher price that can range from x to z, I WANT TO SEE THAT RANGE. And i can; they can design the app so that it's right there on my screen, and i don't have to go writing graphs and shit and earn a fuckin degree in economics to understand what's going on.

I'm a goddamn amateur and i want to be treated like one.

You got some nerve calling ME the bully here.

I thought your giant arseholeness was an act but I see that it isn't. Talk about karma biting you in the arse. But of course it's everyone ELSE'S fault.

[promethean75]

When a sociopathic anarchistic polymath sees Don on a stage at some event pacing back and forth waving at an audience as some guy sings that country song God Bless The USA or whatever it's called, how can he not have just a little admiration for this if only because of how pathetic it is on so many levels? Isn't he able to still recognize what's 'cute', or is the sociopath so far gone he's unable to even think this anymore? Woe to the sociopathic anarchistic polymath who loses his sense of humor!

[promethean75]

https://youtu.be/HKDqWu6XnVA

You don't see it, but it's happening right before your eyes. Your natural inclination to be disgusted by the clichés of the character portrayed by the moron in the suit is neutralized by the intentional caricaturing of the caricature. They double the parody and make you feel like you're not the dipshit being manipulated by the commercial, but the guy laughing at how stupid it is with the producers who made it. You feel 'in on it' (when in fact you ARE that dipshit).

Unfortunately, this can only be done once (you can't caricature a caricature of a caricature). This means that a point is coming when commercials will have exhausted this particular subliminal trick and won't be able to use it anymore. Eventually, the ol' "sell me a product from some clown designed like a clown on purpose to disarm me through the caricature of a caricature trick" will no longer be effective.

I've said this a hundred times. These commercials are so horrible in so many ways (that are hidden from view) that one could almost prove there is no god by the fact that they exist.

And you wouldn't say, "This proves nothing because it could be the work of the devil". You couldn't say that. Evil doesn't hide. It is pure and announces itself proudly... not like a capitalist hiding and pretending to be moral (Don as an exemplar).

These things i speak of are below evil, even.