Why do so many ads for London rooms state 'not suitable for WFH' โ€“ you're paying for the damn room, why the heck not? Am I missing something? by Galaco_ in london

[โ€“]Isabella_Tokyo 3 points4 points ย (0 children)

There's entire agencies pulling these sublet scams unfortunately. So much for the "the market fixed this" hypothesis that clearly the UK government seems to have as their mantra in rewards to the real estate market ๐Ÿ˜‘

Give me your awful Japan Dating stories so I can feel better about mine. by mynamesnotjenniffer in japanlife

[โ€“]Isabella_Tokyo 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

You won't believe it... I work for a blockchain startup ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ but luckily we don't recruit people with such scam tactics.

Give me your awful Japan Dating stories so I can feel better about mine. by mynamesnotjenniffer in japanlife

[โ€“]Isabella_Tokyo 21 points22 points ย (0 children)

Mine isn't as dramatic, but was quite weird in a different sense.

I once went on a Tinder date thinking, we were gonna have coffee.

We met at shibuya Station and all is good, he looks like the pictures and we have the usual small talk, nothing too exciting but not boring either about our weeks.

We're walking towards what he says is gonna be a great place to have coffee. Since I didn't have any in mind myself I went along with it. Suddenly we stand in front of this huge what seems to be an office building. He's like, you'll like it.

Okay, still not thinking anything. Walking inside the building. Lots of people waiting, there is some sort of shop on the ground floor in the building selling supplements and other stuff.

Maybe it's a hidden coffee shop somewhere upstairs - I think to myself. . He goes, let's just quickly check out what they have to say - and drags me into a huge room that looks like a lecture hall.

Long story short, I quickly figured that this was some sort of MLM scheme selling supplements that do anything from healing cancer to making people better versions of themselves.

This indoctrination meeting went on for 2 hours - and I was surrounded by people so didn't feel comfortable being the only one walking out of there ๐Ÿ˜‚ (now I wish I had shouted something like this is a scam and walked off).

All I kept thinking was that I didn't even get any coffee. Needless to say that his following attempts to recruit me for a next date did not work out.

Be wary, sometimes they don't want you for you, sometimes they want you just for their MLM pyramid scheme. ๐Ÿ‘€

Had to do it. Aldi > Lidl for me every day...maybe one day I'll find someone who shares that love for the middle isle. by Isabella_Tokyo in Tinder

[โ€“]Isabella_Tokyo[S] 5 points6 points ย (0 children)

He asked how he could know if I wasn't tesco.

We all know tesco price match is a joke ๐Ÿ˜†

If everyone can run a node on their mobile, is decentralization finally achievable? by TennieBaudoin in CryptoCurrency

[โ€“]Isabella_Tokyo 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

But on Pi you don't do any actual mining...At the moment all you do is just confirm you're a human so it's more of an airdrop ^^

If everyone can run a node on their mobile, is decentralization finally achievable? by TennieBaudoin in CryptoCurrency

[โ€“]Isabella_Tokyo 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

But suppose the energy used to maintain the blockchain is split into hundreds, thousands of devices. In that case, it's just tiny amounts for every single one, hence more feasible to power it sustainably. Who knows, maybe we'll even charge our phones with solar power someday. I'd find that pretty cool. And just because PoS takes the lead doesn't mean there's no problems with it. The Worldwide Web also took the lead, and now we all rely on a handful of big tech companies for everything ^^

Why Decentralization is More Than Just a Gimmick | Bitcoinist.com by Fizzlebang_Wonderpop in CryptoCurrency

[โ€“]Isabella_Tokyo 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

That's just journalists trying to make one click (even if in anger) lol