Just your typical internet guy with questionable humor

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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • 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


  • 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.



  • 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”.






  • 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”