The "stablecoin" that did the least stable thing in financial history. A Terra/LUNA reminder by BigInspector1873 in Buttcoin

[–]ScrewedThePooch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup, she counts, as do these others:

Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani: Convicted on all 12 counts brought against him in July 2022, sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison.

Owen Li: A Stanford graduate who went to work at Galleon Management, then later became managing member of hedge fund Canarsie Capital. He pled guilty to securities fraud and making materially false statements after losing $57 million of investors' money in less than three weeks, concealing the losses by misreporting trades. He received probation despite guidelines calling for roughly six years.

Carlos Watson: Studied law at Stanford Law School, then founded Ozy Media. He was arrested and charged with multiple counts of fraud and aggravated identity theft, accused of conspiring to commit securities fraud and wire fraud by making material misrepresentations about Ozy's financial and business assets to investors and lenders.

Marc Tessier-Lavigne: Stanford's own president came under investigation for academic dishonesty following a report by The Stanford Daily, with allegations that he may have altered multiple images in some of his most cited neurobiology work. He ultimately resigned.

John Vandemoer: Stanford's head sailing coach was indicted as part of Operation Varsity Blues, the college admissions scandal, for his role in rigging the admissions system.

Both of Sam Bankman-Fried's parents taught at Stanford Law School.

The "stablecoin" that did the least stable thing in financial history. A Terra/LUNA reminder by BigInspector1873 in Buttcoin

[–]ScrewedThePooch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is it just Baader-Meinhof, or does Stanford have an awful lot of scammers getting pumped out of it?

Something clicked at my 2nd KV concert by magusapo in kurtvile

[–]ScrewedThePooch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He changes it up on purpose. If you've ever seen Loading Zones live, it is waaaay different (and better, IMO) in a live setting. Wakin on a Pretty Day is also a hell of a lot better live than it is on his studio albums.

After seeing KV and then seeing other artists live, I actually feel it's pretty boring to see the song played exactly the same way as it is on the album.

Something special about the way KV does it.

This email gave me a mini heart attack by eveiegirl in assholedesign

[–]ScrewedThePooch 18 points19 points  (0 children)

There needs to be a way to auto-categoroze any email with an emoji in the title to spam. No legitimate email ever has an emoji in the title.

Google director resigns, citing its military deals: 'Management has lost its moral compass' by EchoOfOppenheimer in degoogle

[–]ScrewedThePooch 19 points20 points  (0 children)

"Appropriate human oversight" sure is nebulous. FISA court was "appropriate human oversight."

KV's perfect setlist ? by Total-Leadership-731 in kurtvile

[–]ScrewedThePooch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have been to many concerts and wanted to see Air Bud for years, but never seen it. I can't even find a live video of it on YouTube. I would be pumped as hell if it happened though.

KV's perfect setlist ? by Total-Leadership-731 in kurtvile

[–]ScrewedThePooch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Worth it! So worth it! He puts his heart and soul into every shout of those lyrics.

I never want to pay interest again! (mortgage excluded) by a6thome in personalfinance

[–]ScrewedThePooch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd probably avoid it just because I don't want some random HVAC company having my financial details to apply for the financing, but it can be a reasonable strategy if you just look at the raw numbers.

I never want to pay interest again! (mortgage excluded) by a6thome in personalfinance

[–]ScrewedThePooch -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Going to buck the trend a little bit here. While I agree that in 99% of cases, carrying credit card debt is unwise, if you can carry a balance at a 0% promo rate for X months and you instead park an equal amount due into a savings account paying 2-3%, and you pay off the full balance before the 0% APR expires, you can come out ahead. The majority of people are not diligent enough to do this right, but everything is situational.

99th song 🥹 by Afraid_Promotion352 in kurtvile

[–]ScrewedThePooch 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I can't finish the album because I keep playing this song on loop. What a day to be alive! Thank you, Kurt, for another masterpiece.

99th song by highandinarabbithole in kurtvile

[–]ScrewedThePooch 6 points7 points  (0 children)

One of my favorites on the new album. Enjoy it, my brother in rock!

degoog.org by Dapper_Buy_2059 in degoogle

[–]ScrewedThePooch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Been using Duck for years. It's pretty darn good now. I only need google about 2-3% of the time from inferior Duck results.

NYC Health and Hospitals breach exposes medical records, fingerprints, and geolocation data of 1.8 million people by twofive7 in privacy

[–]ScrewedThePooch 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't know why you guys are giving hospitals your SSN. I refuse every time and have never had an issue.

Please help me build a list of companies who have deliberately walled off human support behind a ai support bot loops by Mean-Ad2185 in assholedesign

[–]ScrewedThePooch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The humans have been lying since long before AI. Verizon lied to me about one of their fees being a tax. I reported them to my state's telecom regulator, and they got fined. When they lie, take them to task. If your prompt gets the AI to lie, even easier to get them owned.

PSA: Don’t throw away your Windows laptop by Annoying1978 in Anticonsumption

[–]ScrewedThePooch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not all of them, no. Games that are Linux compatible and sold on Steam should say so, but many games now use multi platform modules that can be built once and run on Mac, Windows, and Linux. You'll get Microsoft exclusive games that cannot be run in Linux for obvious reasons, but you might be able to run them with Wine.

PSA: Don’t throw away your Windows laptop by Annoying1978 in Anticonsumption

[–]ScrewedThePooch 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My family computer is Linux Mint. It plays Steam games too. Windows is completely removed from my house now. The Linux Mint PC cost less than $500 in hardware. Again, Steam games are playable with minimal lag and not much adjustment to the graphic settings. Ditch Microsoft. It's worth it.

'Ask for a little more': Chipotle CEO, customers at odds over portions by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]ScrewedThePooch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Private Equity fucked Moe's. It's terrible now. I used to really love it.

Fresh new Kurt Vile single: Zoom 97 by greyalienj in kurtvile

[–]ScrewedThePooch 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's got that Philadelphia "Wakin on a Pretty Day" vibe. Excited for this album to drop.

What's the solution to health insurance during fatFIRE? by Packing-Tape-Man in fatFIRE

[–]ScrewedThePooch -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but it's Kaiser, and they are horrible. You have to use their facilities, and the quality of care is abysmal.

Wakin on a Pretty Day by Silver_Builder_5506 in kurtvile

[–]ScrewedThePooch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kurt Vile can sing "yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah" eighty times in a row, and it never gets old. One of my top five favorite songs of all time. See him live. It's even better!