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Fern_Blossom
6y ago
You mean exactly what VW did and everyone has seemingly forgotten already? Yea... I remember when April Fools was actually funny. Like the wifi setup that ran through your toilets. That gave me a giggle back in the day. The PR stunt was to
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Fern_Blossom
6y ago
Must be their first rodeo for a lot of other folks from what I can tell. Ain't my first. You can't trust shit coming up. The more, "controversial" the more, "it was just a prank bro". Happens every year.
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Fern_Blossom
6y ago
Am I the only one that smells April Fools because the whole VW thing seemed so legit just the other day? No... just me? K...
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Fern_Blossom
6y ago
Okay, but you're overly exaggerating "the elites" to some mythic pedestal. They're human. And here's the fun part, you would do the exact same thing they're doing if it was you sitting in their throne. I mean,
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Fern_Blossom
6y ago
First, I'd like to really understand why people say crypto "escapes inflation". The only argument has been the artificial scarcity mechanisms built in the currency. Scarcity is a seasoning to the concept of value, not the mai
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Fern_Blossom
6y ago
Humans have been lying for personal gain for only a short amount of time. I guess yea, we should all just decide that lying is bad. That's a novel idea.
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Fern_Blossom
6y ago
>What they did was absolutely reprehensible, Okay, this is a bit much. I know you came to realize all the car companies were doing it, so relatively speaking, it evens out when it comes to image. But this concept of hating a company over
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Fern_Blossom
6y ago
Once the article got into the fact it's not a political or ideological issue, I got the entire angle. It probably should have gotten to that point sooner, but I get the idea of the article. The boat is simply stuck. That's it. Not
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Fern_Blossom
6y ago
You can't refuse legal tender as a business in the US. If you suspect counterfeit bills, you need proof (the marker or it lacks some security feature like watermark or strip) and then you're supposed to call the police immediately
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Fern_Blossom
6y ago
No, it's policy in every single chain store to do bill checks on 50s and 100s, regardless of what you look like. Those are the most common counterfeit denominations. Quite a few places do 20s as well. When I worked at an office supply