Well, who raised that idiot?
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2026
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At some point you have to take responsibility for yourself. You cant just blame every failing on your parents.
I dunno... to me, it didn't make sense that Bitcoin became valuable. I figured NFTs were just bitcoin tied to a picture, so why wouldn't they have a chance of being worth something too? Makes just as much lack of sense.
Note: I have never bought any form of cryptocurrency, but honestly, mainly because it was too much of a faff to use.
Its the first step in therapy.
Blame parents, forgive parents, realize you now control your future, realize youve controlled your actions and future the entire time, forgive yourself.
Most people are hovering step 1 and 2, or skip over step 2
Without going through steps 1 and 2 it's impossible to get to steps 3, 4, and 5 without feeling gaslit and invalidated just like you always were growing up, which can rehash and reinforce the trauma, perpetuating the cycle.
That's what society in general, and people who had healthy parents, don't understand. They want us all to skip to the end of the process, ignoring the fact that not everyone was so fortunate to be raised by emotionally intelligent people.
A very basic understanding of developmental psychology is all it takes to see how significantly the influences of one's formative years can impact their social and emotional development long into adulthood.
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You can blame some though, like a failing in critical thinking is a failing of how a person was raised.
My parents did a lot to model being smart with money and only one of their kids (me) picked up on it. Kids often love being the opposite of what they're taught, no matter how much it hurts them.
The thing about people who buy NFTs is that they think they are being smart with their money.
They look at what happened with Apple, Microsoft, Google stocks way back in the day and think "huhuhu, I'm not going to be one of those idiots who misses out on an opportunity like that!"
It's FOMO and "high risk - high reward" gambler mentality, wrapped up in the illusion of being a savvy investor.
In part because they understand that investment works, but not why. I could be much poorer if I didn't understand that the purpose of investment is to provide money to create value to get more money later. NFTs failed the "where does the money come from" test as well as the "why am I not too late to make a bunch of money" test.
Nobody's out there offering guaranteed massive returns to everyone who invests. Legitimate safe investments don't try to be exciting or induce fomo. They're boring and reasonable because they can afford to be.
Yeah I guess you're right. The volatility makes them attractive for day-traders, especially on the penny market, but that same volatility makes them awful long-term investments
Legitimate safe investments don't try to be exciting or induce fomo. They're boring and reasonable because they can afford to be.
That's why I love mutual funds. Stable, low-risk, low-maintenance, and managed by someone who knows what they're doing (unlike me). I've gotten a pretty consistent 5% APY on those.
That's why that's the metric I use for "if I invest X amount, I can get Y yearly dividends" calculations. For example, if I had a million dollars invested I could reliably get $50k+ in annual dividends. A modest retirement income, with room for growth.
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Sometimes no matter how much parents try their kid will still end a dumbass.
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It's funny, when NFT's started I said it was the dumbest thing ever and everyone online jumped all over me and down voted me into oblivion.
Not sure what internet circles you were in, but I've hardly ever seen people be positive about NFTs in mine
I think digitally verifiable ownership could be cool for, like, a digital TCG or something. But you'd need an actual use case for why this 'ownership' matters, which just isn't true of the most noteworthy use of nfts.
I've never understood TCGs. Why not just print out the cards. Why not to use a randomizer from which one should make up a deck for one duel. Is the fun gambling and consumerism?
what you describe is called using "proxies" and different houses have different rules.
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The dangers of using reddit
See, you forgot the important rule of the Internet: Being first is the same as being wrong.
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I was thinking about NFTs yesterday and how AIs have probably scrapped them all and will happily copy all the monkeys and such.
Think I could sell AI generated NFTs?
Eh. Use an AI to make smaller AI models that have different combinations of personalities (this one acts like Elvis singing opera, this one mimics Einstein with a cowboy accent) and the create NFTs for the ownership of those personalities. Each one comes with it's own bot-created twitter account, and it posts. The holder of the NFT gets any revenue the account generates.
Anyway, if you build this, send me a cut, I'd like to get rich from stupid people who would actually go nuts over this.
If you were this stupid and had a billion dollars and funded this idea then you would surely become a millionaire.
Not necessarily. If you donated a few millions to Diaper Don, it would soon be clear that this product is needed in the government, and those contracts would make you at least another billion. This is how you do business in our current era.
This is how you do business ~~in our current era~~ 👩🏽🚀🏹👩🏽🚀
lord diapers is just making it all very public. Real money has been keeping quiet since Versailles, but doodoo prez is a gauche, nouveau riche hillbilly of a poorly inbred line, who's father was never anything more than the fetch-boy for wealthy backers, and he is (thankfully) making visible the horrors that the wealthy have always been up to.
nobody buys nfts anymore. that shit crashed fast and hard
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this seems like something my dad would do, deservingly to be fair. I've gotten up to some pretty stupid shit
for example I currently have a sprained wrist from falling off my unicycle during my break at work.
I always tell people "you can't fall off a unicycle". I've actually fallen once and nobody was around to see.
99.9% of the time you can easily dismount and let the cycle drop, but once in a while you can actually fall
that's very true, I'm not the best at free mounting and often bail 3 or 4 times before I actually get going. (also a 27" wheel so a bit more difficult than my old one)
what happened that made me actually fall and not just bail is that the road was at an angle and I had my psi a bit too high so it kinda popped out from under me.
I caught myself with my hands, small scrape on one of them and sprained the other. Also scraped my knee too. I used to have wrist braces but I lost them when I moved and haven't used it regularly enough to get new ones. I probably will now 😅
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"How's the timeshare doing, dad?"
At least Dad got to touch something for his money. NFTs don't even deliver on their sole mission statement
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My uncle used to go to timeshare sales pitches 2-3 times a week. Never bought a timeshare, just went for the free dinners. He was so bored with life that he didn't even mind sitting there listening to them babble. The only other thing he had to do was to call up my dad and discuss how gas prices were slightly different at different filling stations.
A free supper is a free supper.
I love people who have time shares, because I have a thing that let's me pay $300 for a week at the resorts when the owners don't utilize their time slot.
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Deserved
What's very dumb about this is that the rings themselves are probably already non-fungible, so even then, it's dumb to store an NFT inside of them 😬
As I understand it, they just exchanged the NFTs, nothing mentioned about having them inside the rings. Nevertheless, it's just mind-bogglingly stupid.
The most ridiculous NFT was the fart jar girl shitcoin.
https://www.birdsadvice.com/woman-who-earned-200000-selling-fart-jars-hospitalized-by-her-work/
The amount of money spent is the deciding factor. If it was like $10, people waste money all the time. If it was more? Gets stupider by the dollar.
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Just waiting for that 2040s ironic nostalgia wave to drive up the price again lol
Provenance is the biggest issue in Art. NFTs aren’t stupid, thinking that computer generated ape artwork with no actual scarcity is a good investment is stupid.
NFTs are stupid. Provenance only matters when it comes to the ownership of art. For the real purpose of art, the viewing and appreciation of art, it doesn't matter at all.
For digital art, provenance only matters if someone wants to create artificial scarcity by applying intellectual property laws to art. Trying to make digital things artificially scarce is stupid.
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I still hold an "NFT". A tank i won on a challenge in War thunder. Grinding motherfuckers, but... it was a nice tank
Yeah...NFTs were stupid AF.
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