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Ups_rail posted:Is vaping allowed in texas? I figured they just smoke cigerrates Oh yeah, the state is not going to let big government get in the way of people inhaling lead. Every lovely small town has at least one vape/tattoo shop now. We even have a weird loophole where you can buy real delta 9 weed edibles but not flower. You can get "altcannibinoid" vape carts that are increasingly like spice
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Gubbinal Girl posted:Oh yeah, the state is not going to let big government get in the way of people inhaling lead. Every lovely small town has at least one vape/tattoo shop now. We even have a weird loophole where you can buy real delta 9 weed edibles but not flower. You can get "altcannibinoid" vape carts that are increasingly like spice IIRC Delta9 is in a weird grey area because it's like... the delta7 or something THC strain that's technically the scheduled one?
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deep dish peat moss posted:This is incredible I've got a 1867634846162 here, the bidding starts at 100,000
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Neito posted:IIRC Delta9 is in a weird grey area because it's like... the delta7 or something THC strain that's technically the scheduled one? As far as I know it's because each individual edible has such a small amount of D9 that it's below some limit in the 2018(?) US farm bill that legalized CBD. The same reason is why D8 became a thing in a lot of places
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ullerrm posted:This guy has spent the last two years repeatedly investing his entire life in zany get-rich schemes. on the one hand, this poo poo seems unbelievable, like how is he even getting the money to do any of this... on the other hand there's so much bullshit it has to be real. thinking he could offer to "sell" his huge rear end water bed mattress he bought on credit(?) by offering the person the mattress at the end of 2024 in exchange for paying 85% of his monthly payments _now_ so his mom could continue using it. completely ignoring that people who pay for used stuff generally get it now instead of paying now to get it later. like it is so insane it has to be real. and the dude is a huge rear end in a top hat and completely oblivious. it is pretty funny that he ignores any legitimate advice as people being prejudice to foreigners only to make a post asking about how to solve the issue he could have avoided had he taken _any body's_ advice. just constantly changing his mind about everything.
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I enjoyed the bit where he said he was planning to move to the Netherlands in a week and was only now starting to try to work out exactly where it was he wanted to live. Also the part where all the local towns he visited with his icecream cart would have a day to celebrate him coming, and that this endeavor would be so popular it would increase Turkish tourism so much they should pay him 40k in advance.
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Gubbinal Girl posted:As far as I know it's because each individual edible has such a small amount of D9 that it's below some limit in the 2018(?) US farm bill that legalized CBD. The same reason is why D8 became a thing in a lot of places Hemp. They legalized hemp with 0.3% natural THC. Fortunately, most of the fun cannabinoids can be synthesized from CBD. So they run CBD through a process to turn it into the Deltas, which is why you can buy Delta 9 even in Kansas. As long as the plant has less than 0.3% natural THC, you can basically do whatever you want with it after harvest.
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Boxturret posted:I've got a 1867634846162 here, the bidding starts at 100,000 Selling Used Encryption Keys: Like New Perfect if you can't afford your own ant farm
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notwithoutmyanus posted:I found the #1 technical analysis resource for everyone! Comet spotted, Bitcoin loses 1 stability
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incoherent light posted:Comet spotted, Bitcoin loses 1 stability If only we had comet sense.
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ullerrm posted:This guy has spent the last two years repeatedly investing his entire life in zany get-rich schemes. I'm a third the way through and I am so expecting him to try to walk across the US while dragging a bicycle cart.
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(thread necro) Ziv Zulander posted:The last time I saw $2 bills and dollar coins in person was years ago, when I was at a poutine stand. It was being ran by this hipster guy with a waxed mustache and his acne riddled, fedora wearing son and it was the only change they were giving out I own a private ATM business. I have machines in gas stations, hotel lobbies, small stores, etc. I also have machines in some of the local strip clubs. I used to stock those machines exclusively with $2 bills. Had to switch to stocking those with $1s and $20s about a decade ago as I couldn't reliably get $2s in sufficient quantities buttcrackmenace fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Jan 31, 2023 |
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Well not exactly because of one man’s greed given probably all the investors were looking to get rich quick.
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i have to regularly restrain myself from posting excerpts of matt levine's money stuff newsletter, but today's bit on celsius is too good not to sharequote:Elsewhere in bankruptcy: i think it's really damning on regulators and law enforcement that there was so much fraud and theft going on at "major exchanges" and it was allowed to just proceed until the schemes collapsed and now they're stepping in to sort through the pieces. it was obvious to any serious person since day one that this is how everything crypto essentially operates also if you're not subscribed to matt levine's free newsletter, i highly recommend it. it doesn't always have crypto related items, but it's generally always has a few chuckles in a "no one has any idea how things work" kind of way GhostofJohnMuir fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Feb 1, 2023 |
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Seconding this recommendation. It's been regular reading material since I discovered it before Xmas.
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Free newsletters, like water, lack intrinsic value and have no place in my life
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I'm about halfway through Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain and it's been pretty informative. When the Mt. Gox incident happened, I was wondering why a French guy was running an exchange in Japan. I must say the reason being he really liked Sailor Moon was a surprise.
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Lammasu posted:I'm about halfway through Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain and it's been pretty informative. When the Mt. Gox incident happened, I was wondering why a French guy was running an exchange in Japan. I must say the reason being he really liked Sailor Moon was a surprise. What's surprising about a crypto bro being a fan of a show about 14 year old girls in extremely short skirts
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Dabir posted:What's surprising about a crypto bro being a fan of a show about 14 year old girls in extremely short skirts That's not the surprising part. It's that he loved it so much he moved to Japan.
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Lammasu posted:That's not the surprising part. It's that he loved it so much he moved to Japan. That's actually super not surprising as well, frankly.
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Gubbinal Girl posted:This might be fake but I have met so many people exactly like this in AA. all my vapes, exploded.
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The guy figured since because the vapes are made in China and have Chinese on it then Chinese people in Texas would like it. In case you're wondering: no, he did not know that not all Asian people are Chinese. This was also early for vapes, like 2010. A few years later this same guy would be pushing those giant box ones with flashlight batteries and LEDs.
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Neito posted:That's actually super not surprising as well, frankly. Yeah....anime was a mistake. Also spoke to a dude the other day who love anime and the scrub didnt know about ranama 1/2 or lum.
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Ups_rail posted:Yeah....anime was a mistake. Lum is only weird to me because there's a new Urusei Yatsura series that did pretty well last year. Ranma 1/2 doesn't surprise me cus that's wicked overshadowed by Inu Yasha.
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Neito posted:IIRC Delta9 is in a weird grey area because it's like... the delta7 or something THC strain that's technically the scheduled one? it's delta8 that's in a weird status, the FDA says it's CBD under the farm bill, the DEA says nuh-uh the law appears to be on the side of the DEA, especially given that D8 being sold is being reacted from CBD, possibly in unsafe ways and almost certainly going through a series of schedule-1 intermediary chems to get there. It's not quite as dumb as spice, in that none of the current weird fake noids (d8, d10, THCV, oTHC, etc) appear to be full agonists or remotely as "gently caress you, neurotoxicity!" as some of the stuff that followed the JWH-018 ban. If I lived in an illegal state I'd still be risking cops vs "whatever the gently caress is in this d8 garbage", tho. Also I used to have two friends who were super heavy into d8. One of them isn't anymore, the other one killed himself. I don't blame the D8 but also eating grams of it in a month prolly didn't help mental stability.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:i have to regularly restrain myself from posting excerpts of matt levine's money stuff newsletter, but today's bit on celsius is too good not to share On the one hand there are entities (e.g. Binance) clamoring for regulation because it would encourage mass adoption. Regulation tends to suggest legitimisation. If the Government appears to back something then people won't necessarily look beyond that, they'll just assume it's "just like stocks and shares". On the other hand with no regulation people are just going to keep getting scammed. Crypto maxis I don't care about, but I can rustle up some sympathy for people who don't know any better, are desperate to climb out of the gutter, are outright scammed, etc. I kinda feel like the "best" solution for crypto is to constrict every mechanism of converting it to real money. If banks are prohibited from dealing with exchanges full stop, then it will simply be impossible for your average person to get involved, and therefore prices will crater because it will only be die hards moving money through all kinds of shady outlets to ultimately get it into Binance etc. It seems like it ought to be possible for banks to maintain a list of "banned" bank accounts, etc?
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Durzel posted:I'm not sure where I land on regulation. The regulation that needs to happen is on the end of advertising these scams. There is a whole chain of people in the chain that goes from "bitcoin is a thing" to "Matt Damon calling you a pussy at the Superbowl Halftime for not buying some" and pretty much all of them made a buck. That's how you get normal people thinking that it's a normal investment along the lines of their Meryl Lynch 401k or whatever, when in reality it's a ponzi run by the dorkiest polycule ever. The kicker is that the Matt Damon add in particular is probably legal under existing regulation, because he never said to buy a specific thing. Really the answer to all of this is to just get them classified as securities so that existing regulation applies to them, which will make them stop being attractive overnight. Like most other tech /e-business "innovation" in the last decade they didn't so much invent a new thing as dodge existing regulations by doing Old Thing but on your phone. See also: Uber.
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Durzel posted:I'm not sure where I land on regulation. my personal feeling is that a lot of this stuff was brazenly illegal, but it started bubbling too fast and regulators got afraid that if they cracked down hard they would get blamed for the losses so they let it slide and cracked down on the stuff that went bust. but like, when the SEC sued Gemini/Genesis like a week before the bankruptcy - come on! everyone knew for years they were doing it! it's not like you just noticed! deal with it at the beginning!
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evilweasel posted:my personal feeling is that a lot of this stuff was brazenly illegal, but it started bubbling too fast and regulators got afraid that if they cracked down hard they would get blamed for the losses I think it's far more likely that they were reticent to call them securities because it would have meant more regulatory load without the commensurate resources to take care of it.
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Durzel posted:I'm not sure where I land on regulation. Subjecting cryptoenterprise to a drop of the poo poo securities and banks are required by the government to do would strangle most of them in the crib. If they survive, congrats on the new blood in the industry same as the old blood. At least there'd be an ounce of prevention for the future. Anyway even if we woke up and decided to fix this today there's years of prosecution and disentangling poo poo just to stop the bleed.
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The govt let itself be gaslighted for years by crypto bros screaming that it's not a security but a digital currency/store of value/ape art etc. What the govt regulators should have done is just create a new category called "Crypto", let the crypto bros broadly define it for them, and then copy-paste ALL the regulations from the securities section under this new section. This way no one can complain that it's misidentified.
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Rad Russian posted:The govt let itself be gaslighted for years by crypto bros screaming that it's not a security but a digital currency/store of value/ape art etc. What the govt regulators should have done is just create a new category called "Crypto", let the crypto bros broadly define it for them, and then copy-paste ALL the regulations from the securities section under this new section. This way no one can complain that it's misidentified. the issue is that crypto, as a pretend financial system, does all of the things you need to regulate in financial systems at different times like celsius was, basically, a bank and should have been regulated like one exchanges (especially ones with derivatives) are a lot like commodity exchanges and should be regulated like them and/or like broker dealers basically every coin launch ever is creating an unregistered security and should be regulated like one crypto shouldn't just get its own regulation because it is fundamentally trying to do financial stuff, but just replacing the money and securities with things that...are not those...but it's the underlying financial stuff that needs to be regulated and isn't really different than doing it with real money Cyrano4747 posted:I think it's far more likely that they were reticent to call them securities because it would have meant more regulatory load without the commensurate resources to take care of it. this is not really how government regulators think. regulators that care, want to expand their reach to cover more things that should be done more correctly. regulators that don't care, want to expand their reach because by "regulating" something new, that's another industry you can get a cushy job in for doing a good job not regulating when you want to leave the government. also, nothing says "give me more resources" more effectively than being in charge of the Hot New Thing. the SEC has been very clearly trying to expand its reach over crypto, just doing it in a way they can't be blamed for anyone's losses because the SEC was the one that popped the bubble - but, of course, they're kinda responsible for the damage that happened after they could have stepped in. evilweasel fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Feb 1, 2023 |
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Gubbinal Girl posted:The guy figured since because the vapes are made in China and have Chinese on it then Chinese people in Texas would like it. In case you're wondering: no, he did not know that not all Asian people are Chinese. This absolutely and unequivocally could be a b plot on King of the Hill.
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It's very much how a lot of government offices I've worked with operate. I've seen some really loving heated arguments between people in separate divisions under the same org about who is responsible for overseeing some new widget inspection, because they're both over-tasked and it could be argued that the widget falls under either one of them. Like, it's easy enough if someone comes out with a new type of prayer beads, that's the Bureau of Beads and Necklaces, and those guys have to handle it regardless of how behind they are. And if someone comes out with a new buttpug obviously that's the Department of Flared Bases. But hey, we've got all these anal beads, who do we send them to? Queue a lot of arguing and emails and no one wanting to take the extra task. edit: it can not be understated just how under-resourced a lot of government offices are for dealing with the things that they are 100% responsible for. There's a lot less intentional empire building than you would think, if for no other reason than having a poo poo ton of areas under your purview and getting none of it done looks loving horrible and can wreck career prospects. Cyrano4747 fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Feb 1, 2023 |
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