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> It still boggles my mind that you can build a fortune of several million, but then be naive enough to download a random crypto app off the app store You shou
by ethbr1 2y ago
> It still boggles my mind that you can build a fortune of several million, but then be naive enough to download a random crypto app off the app store
You should never be surprised what Florida Man/Woman will do.
As a former resident, there's an uncharacteristically high number of seemingly well-adjusted but actually batshit-crazy folks there.
Look up Florida school board meetings on YouTube.
- decremental 2y ago[dead]
- kernal 2y agoCalifornia is exponentially worse. Look up California school board meetings.
- immibis 2y agoAre those the ones where the Republicans are ranting about all teachers being pedophiles because they let their children know gay people exist or whatever?
- ethbr1 2y agoIt was honestly less Republicans (capital-R) and more just disgustingly entitled people drastically overestimating their own importance relative to the communities they live in. One consequence of Trump pulling a lot of newcomers into politics was their naivety at how political processes actually work. As in, if you don't get everything you want, you aren't immediately justified to escalate and go nuclear.
- Aeolun 2y agoI honestly wouldn’t know what to look for either way. Do you have any examples? I’m not all that enthused about watching a bunch of school board meetings that are probably 97% boring in the hope that I’ll find the exciting 3%.
- ethbr1 2y agoThis is at the tame end of the spectrum: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-kHH-_An-ow&t=47s https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-kHH-_An-ow&t=47s To be fair, the time I lived there was immediately after COVID (so masks and then directly into culture wars over the bête noire du jour).