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.
“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
Just waiting for that 2040s ironic nostalgia wave to drive up the price again lol
“Hey, what was that stock you spent all your money on? Has that weird guy ceo that was promising to go to mars”
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.
Of course provenance matters in appreciation of art. Do museums put up fake artwork or do they only try and show actual pieces from the artist.
People who buy art absolutely care if the artwork they paid for is genuine. Collectors absolutely care if they can prove they own something that others don’t.
Sure, if you don’t care about artists getting paid at all, or you don’t care about authenticity, then NFTs aren’t for you.
Of course provenance matters in appreciation of art.
Of course it doesn’t. Do you need to know who painted something, and who owned it, to know whether you like it or not?
People who buy art absolutely care if the artwork they paid for is genuine. Collectors absolutely care if they can prove they own something that others don’t.
Yes, and fuck those people.
If a museum advertises a Picasso but it is fraudulent most people would consider that a bad thing.
I care about artists getting paid. Sure, hate collectors all you want, but getting rid of them reduces the purchases artists do get.
If a museum advertises a Picasso but it is fraudulent most people would consider that a bad thing.
Who cares?
I care about artists getting paid. Sure, hate collectors all you want, but getting rid of them reduces the purchases artists do get.
You don’t need NFTs to ensure artists get paid. You don’t need intellectual property laws to ensure that artists get paid. Most of the best art in history was made before intellectual property was a thing, and the artists who made that art generally were paid.
Well, who raised that idiot?
At some point you have to take responsibility for yourself. You cant just blame every failing on your parents.
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.
I just wanted to add that it’s still incredibly painful after these steps, therapy ain’t over then. Still worth it though. Be kind to your inner child, especially if they’re still crying inside.
You can blame some though, like a failing in critical thinking is a failing of how a person was raised.
Continuing to fail is on you, though.
Well yes of course
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.
Sure, that’s true. I think in mine and many cases, wrapped up in the “being smart with money” lesson is saving, mitigating risk, and decreasing spending where possible. I at least hope most parents (who bother at all) are defining what being smart actually looks like.
I was raised pretty middle-upper class. Only child. My dad made 6 figures. I had a lot of privilege growing up and I knew I did. I was well informed on family finances, investments, etc. We were also frugal(ish) in spending. We went camping every year which I loved, but very few things like vacations, new cars, etc. We had a modest house in a small town. My parents would always just have a shit ton of money saved in savings accounts or investments.
Fast forward to today, they helped my partner and I buy a small farm halfway across the country. We’re a single income house (my partner has disabilities that prevents them from working). We live paycheque to paycheque because we like spending money. Local farmers market, buying things for the farm, and I get a little money spendy because my parents never really did that. I learned all the tips and tricks growing up and once let loose I didn’t really care. Never did.
We’re financially okay. We have debt like everyone else, but it’s manageable. But we don’t save anything. We’re trying to now this past year but it’s slow because I work in town and my partner will want me to pick up this thing from Canadian Tire, or this from Home Hardware, and always needing new things, or upgrading things on the century old house and homestead.
Basically, I was raised with money and my parents didn’t spend a lot of it. They’re very well off now. I do the opposite. I don’t really care much about the future, as hopefully we can break even on the farm. But we are trying to live more in the now than my parents ever did. Financially, I am very different from my parents.
Sometimes no matter how much parents try their kid will still end a dumbass.
You can only do so much while the pre-frontal cortex is still developing.
His stepdad, of course.
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 never tried a unicycle but really want to because I think I’d be good at it. Do the skills from regular bike riding no handed transfer well?
I have looked back on some really stupid thing I did and wondered why no one in my family called me out. Not that I blame them. It’s just weird to me that I smoked cigarettes all those years and they never gave me shit for it. My brother even gave me a fancy lighter for my birthday once. Again: not their fault I was an idiot but telling someone they are being a dolt can be an act of love.
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, 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 😅I saw someone yesterday with a big wheel who I was sure was about to bail. He was unicycling down a pretty steep street. He managed to make it down the street and turn the corner, but it looked like a real struggle.
I know from riding a fixie that for streets that aren’t too steep it’s not hard, you just have to effectively “pedal backwards”, allowing slowing the pedals down as they come up behind you. But, I don’t know what a unicyclist can do on a very steep street. What I would do on a fixie doesn’t work because it requires small skid-stops, which means you need a front wheel.
What would you do on a steep hill? I assume that by the time you realize it’s too steep you’re already going pretty fast, so just bailing would be difficult.
Hahaha I had to scroll back and come back here because I couldn’t believe it.
Your photo on unicycle is 3 posts down below this one on my Hot-All feed xD
I wish you quick recovery :D
I once said I should do a thing and break a bone and then I did the thing a few times until I broke a bone.
Was it the monkey drinking it’s own pee? Because I don’t care what the critics say, that one is priceless.
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Oh no, I’m sorry that my dyslexia caused you so much trouble for you, random person on the internet.
Have you considered just growing the fuck up?
I agree, Trump Rapes Kids… that’s a valid opinion l.
Deserved
Must be your genes dad
Tbf, we don’t know when the NFT was bought. I firmly believe that people have the right to be dumb, especially as kids. His dad making fun of the NFT, depending on when it was, is also a show of “you were dumb as shit”, a sentence which emphassises “were” - which is past tense. “Comparatively to your present self, you were dumb” which ‘inverted’ is also “Comparatively to your past self, you are smart(er)” and they should be proud of themselves for their personal development and growth.
For clarity, no matter when one buys an NFT, it’s just a dumb thing to do, not saying otherwise; I’m approaching this exclusively from an emotional standpoint to ‘when’ someone does something stupid and ‘whether’ they ‘grew out of it’.
