IAmNick

I remember reading WSB for a year or two before the whole GME mania which was pretty good fun, it's unbearable now though I find. 1m members to 10m in about a month, it was a pretty crazy time! I'm no crypto expert, but I work in software so have a decent understanding of the tech and follow it (as an interested observer) but my own knowledge is pretty surface level! My personal view is that I just don't see the value they add, and I do see a lot of downsides. People seem to invest solely to make crazy amounts of money rather than because they believe in the company (like with a traditional stock) or because they believe in the tech behind it itself. It's not a stable investment, people just want to randomly dump £1k into it and hope it explodes and they walk away a millionaire. If you're interested I'd highly recommend this "documentary" - it's 2 hours which seems overwhelming but the guy who does it is brilliant. I didn't think I'd care but have watched it through twice now. It covers both Bitcoin and Ethereum early on, then goes onto NFTs and more. edit: Embed is broken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

Was fine? I mean it's a stock which went up and then cratered so sort of if you got in early enough and sold at the right point, as with anything. There are now bizarre conspiracy cults around both still going strong, with many thousands of people with cost averages of multiples of the current share price. A load of their posts end with the "not financial advice" phrase that guy above used, which is what made me think of it!

The fact you end with "Not financial advice" tells me everything about where you get your info from. How much GME / AMC are you bagholding? What's your LUNA worth? I'd be interested why you think those "ISO20022 coins" are important. It's just a messaging standard so financial institutions can talk to each other that will be adopted - it's not like that's the only thing you need to be adopted by the global financial system. There are many, many other standards they'd have to meet. You've simply listed some crypto coins who can meet the standard - so what? There's no relevance here. I'm not sure you entirely understand how ISO standards work? Which to be fair you're very lucky if you haven't had to deal with them before! The fact those coins meet that standard current has no bearing on their relation to or use by central banks, institutions, or payment platforms. Hell, even if they met them all - so what? Sorry. I do love the idea however of your lovely "decentrilised" crypto coins being developed to meet centralised international and regulated standards. That gave me a chuckle! "No realised loss" - oh please. I hear that trotted out so often. Have you ever heard of opportunity cost? "All my investments are bleeding but I'm planning on holding them forever so I haven't lost anything really".

Accepting there's a problem is the first step on the road to recovery. Well done. How many animals have you run over this week @RUSSEL85? We're all friends here, you're in a safe space.

Still clearly remember Adebola with a great chance about 5 minutes in, and wondering if that was our one big one gone already at that point. Then disappointment followed by confusion as Orr went off injured, Lee came on in his place, and Marvin went to right back. Also a friend of a friend swore he had Basso's mobile number, so pre game at the pub we gave it a call and all sang "Oh Basso" into his voicemail!

Mathematically over time for the bookies maybe, as they have millions of bets placed, but not necessarily for the punter. It'll take the woman above a LOT of her £100 bets to make up that £93k cash out she turned down. In exceptional circumstances like that she'd be up, even if she "lost value" on the bet. People aren't betting out to infinity here!

If your solution just ends up with more people giving and being on the receiving end of physical violence that doesn't sound like much of a solution to me though! You've "out bullied" the bully in your case, so they go off to bully someone else instead. More people who think being violent is an answer, more people who are subject to it. The bullies just end up learning to punch down onto the most vulnerable instead, or at least the more vulnerable. I guess it's a fix if you're not one of them. That's not the kind of society I want to live in though (and I'm not saying you do or think that's a good thing by the way, just to be clear).

Uh huh... smacking in a loving affectionate way. You're right we get conflicting studies, but that's also why we look at meta analysis of multiple studies. All the ones I find say there are negative outcomes. There's a good summary here covering the last twenty years of research: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3447048/ Key points Numerous studies have found that physical punishment increases the risk of broad and enduring negative developmental outcomes. No study has found that physical punishment enhances developmental health. Maybe I'm not searching correctly but I'm struggling to find any which say what you're suggesting. Could you link one or two? By smacking them and then subsequently needing to justify your behaviour to yourself, so you tell yourself that so you feel better.

You may not change your mind, but you are wrong even so. Evidence strongly points to physical deterrents/punishment not reducing defiant or aggressive behaviour, and nor does it reinforce good behaviour. There is in fact substantial evidence it causes worse behaviour long term, including into adulthood as well as mental health issues.

And another pitch invasion

It's such a shame as seeing all the fans surrounding the pitch, then run on after a huge win is such a great feeling / spectacle. Really disappointing that some idiots continue to ruin things for everyone else. Personally I'd be disappointed if it was just cut out completely - I think the club even use a vid of everyone on the pitch after our last promotion in the pre match reel. If it can't be done sensibly and safely though I don't know what the answer is. It's not acceptable for anyone to get attacked or assaulted whoever they are.

Kids (and adults) do all kind of things at a young age to try and discover who they are. I expect if you think back to yourself in senior school and some of the things you did (or didn't do) you'd find the same. Young people have always experimented with this stuff. I don't know of any evidence of doing what you're mentioning causing mental health issues.

Neat finish!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

Being sexually attracted to children is pretty much universally accepted as morally repugnant, and acting upon it is illegal. Why would anybody celebrate that in any way, shape, or form? It's not even in the same ballpark as being gay and is bizarre you'd even bring one up in a thread about the other. In fact I'd go so far as to say it's harmful (whether deliberate on your part or not) as it's pervading the trope that people who are gay are also pedophiles, and continuing that ridiculous connection in some people's minds.

I am also an adult who gets irrationally worked up when people like things I don't want them to like and repeat it ad nauseum at every opportunity

I guess with these things the current values they have might be off, but an accurate market value table probably isn't a fair picture either. Just because we want £20m for Scott (for example) doesn't mean he represented £20m of value on the pitch for us this year. Likewise a squad with older players, who may well be better than a raw youngster, will have a lower market value - but that's not a measure of their quality on the pitch. There are too many other things factored in. It'd be interesting to see one weighted somehow taking into account the player values at the start of the season as well. That might help reduce the ones like Scott who 10x their value, and the older ones who might halve (or more) theirs.

Very clever. I think you're confusing bias and opinion - and we all have plenty of both. Ironically statistics are an excellent way of challenging any bias we may have.

Figures that someone who doesn't know what a spreadsheet is is also pretty much clueless about statistics and their use in general!

I didn't think his stock was particularly high, so wasn't surprised he ended up lower. I think other clubs would see he had a pretty healthy budget, and in 5 years achieved a single top 10 finish. Who's going to afford him more money/time than that? He needs an achievement on his CV so I thought Sunderland was the right sort of place for him to go, and he was doing pretty well there. Not sure Hibs is a great move for him personally.

I don't agree with you. In your first case, she's chosen to put stories out into the public domain. In the second, someone else is taking something she has shared privately and putting it out into the public domain, almost certainly for money. That's in no way the same in my opinion. Just because she's a celeb (hah!) and has shared stories in the past voluntarily doesn't mean that's then open season on everything for her friends to share with the world - especially if they don't know if it's true.

It's important to celebrate in their time honoured way with a good horse punching, so I reckon the pitch invasion was to get them on the pitch

Huddersfield second: https://streamja.com/3zoK6

Huddersfield goal: https://streamja.com/oeKQQ