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In any scam, any con, any hustle, the big winners are the people who supply the scammers - not the scammers themselves. The kids selling dope on the corner are making less than minimum wage, while the (media.kbin.run)
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In any scam, any con, any hustle, the big winners are the people who supply the scammers - not the scammers themselves. The kids selling dope on the corner are making less than minimum wage, while the respectable crime-bosses who own the labs clean up. Desperate "retail investors" who buy shitcoins from Superbowl ads get skinned, while the MBA bros who issue the coins make millions (in real dollars, not crypto).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] the worst I ever had to deal with was a well-meaning but misguided open source colleague who, er, mistook me for a Steve on another continent and suggested I travel to Slovenia for cutting edge medicine that could cure any cancer with CAR-T therapy (which is basically inapplicable to my solid tumor cancer)