That’s the catch, he wasn’t asking for money, he was offering his service. If I make an account on xitter and claim to be a Cambodian artist, is it fraud if people commission me because I’m not actually Cambodian, despite getting the art they asked for?

It’s obviously misleading, but claiming fraud, legally speaking, needs more than just an unimportant detail being false

Actually work for the money earned

As a Brazilian, I like that it exists and it actually works. I do worry about the concentration of power in the hands of the Central Bank, because, as an institution, it often vies for “independence” from the govt.

The biggest drawback, however, is that it makes criminals’ lives very easy: they arrive, threaten you to unlock your phone, make a pix transfer and leave with your phone. The Central Bank and police always have a hard time tracing the money to the actual thieves, as the bank accounts used are “oranges”, fake accounts opened in other people’s names, often without their knowledge.

There’s also a recent fraud that involved cancelling pix transfers: someone would “accidentally” send you money and, once you returned it, they’d cancel the original transfer, which made it impossible for you to cancel yours.

It’s such a critical part of the experience that you can literally go on without it and never fucking notice

Why would this even classify as fraud? Lying about where you currently are on an internet profile isn’t a crime.

The only possible case for fraud would be if the artist promised to use part of the money to help with Ukrainian efforts or whatever. Instead, he just played everyone by being vague, assuming all he did was change his location and open “emergency commissions”.

Zero, cuz they cost money and I don’t earn my salary in USD

Kids, please, don’t do drugs and post on the internet

Apple will get fucked real hard, since pretty much all their iphones are manufactured in China

Hopefully people can still burn down mar a lago

Back then, I did personally experiment and simply started swiping left to every profile. After 300 “nopes” (I counted), I didn’t miss a single match, despite the little ticker showing “49+” profiles that have liked me

I know Tinder has lots of ways to detect if you’re a returning user, which could’ve been one of the reasons for me being so “unlucky”

What was that they said during the stupid reddit thingy with stock markets? “It’s not a casino”?

My last experience (late 2022) is that if you’re a free user, they will never show your profile to someone you’ve swiped right for, nor show you any profile that has liked you, in order to force you to buy the premium and get to see who liked you

Just think about all the things you “don’t care about” or that you assume to “know what matters”, chances are that you’re blind to several details about them. Could be just about anything, from beekeeping to law to heavy industry logistics

Damn, she’s about to enter the matrix!

I got that spamessage today as well

Does the person make the proper inflection? Because a simple “Hello there” wouldn’t trigger my synapses, unlike the more dramatic “Hello~ there~”

Computer tech UX (user experience) was dumbed down to reach “everyone” (aiming at kids and giving the middle finger to anyone over 40 since the 2000s), dismissing any need for “computer literacy”. Why should doctors, or the general public, learn about adblockers when they assume everything they see on screen is “just the way it is”? Computers and phones work for what they want to do and, for the most part, that’s enough.

Perhaps a good analogy is cars: most people who own one have no fucking clue how it works and wouldn’t be able to change the headlights alone. Is it worth learning enough about the car to understand what’s going on? Depends on the person.

I feel like I only have the old lady who’s fed up with all this shit

For Super Hogwarts against the muggle menace?

I believe one game lasted months

Ah, so a typical match of tennis