Yes like the IDIOTS who spend $900k in an old run down home that is really worth $200k...........as to Crypto that's the name of the game - people dabbling into crypto as an investment are high rollers, it is a huge gamble because of the volatility of this shit - just like I predicted, the Bitcoin bubble exploded and it crashed - that's the name of the game, sell high buy low - that's how you make money with investments - people who invest and leave their money sitting until the croak don't get the full potential of their investment - As to Billy the Kid, he is no different than anyone else with a shit town of money - when these people losing millions of $ in one day, it's like us losing $10

In Bitcoin land, it is too volatile to just keep your money invested and sitting there, it generally takes much MUCH longer for a recovery when there is a crash compared to stock market - you would want to cash the f*** out when it is high, and buy low,re-invest only your profits and keep your capital or part of your profits back buying low, that's what smart investors do - GREEDY investors will go all in and risk it all - if you are in it to invest your money you have to be smart about it and know how to maximise your investments - watch the stock markets as they are falling, we are in a bear market if not for this g*****mned war courtesy of this SOB - markets would be in a better position - markets will deep even deeper into caca land - people who have sold off when the markets where high are smart, they lose nothing - then when the market bottoms out, people will buy back, and make profits - is it greed, no, it's smarts - you need all the money you can for your retirement, for inflation, to make ends meet, for the future and for difficult times - the greedy people are the ones who waste their money, live in mansions, have 40 cars, and still complain - they have billions of $ and they complain still or they engage in lavish and ridiculous lifestyles, that's GREED.

ahahaha talk about propaganda - as a hardware and software person and someone who has worked with code, I can tell you that Ai do not have awareness, they are not conscious by any means - computers work on the basis of 1's and 0's, logic, they cannot think on their own - only clever coding makes them emulate human patterns, but it always based on logic code. The day computers will be made of organic material and have the same characteristics of a human brain or better then it will be scary indeed - but for now computers work on logic, based on the code it is executing, which is based on logic - yes with AI it can develop new material, but this is based on data models - the core logic does not change. Yes computers can do impressive things - in Commodore 64 BASIC you could write code that allowed a program to self modify itself on the fly, with compiled languages this is not really possible, with clever wizardry maybe.

This is just an AI that is spitting back interaction based on existing data, so nothing scary about that. Once AI start having real human conversations without data models now that will be scary indeed

Why is this AI exhibiting human like responses, because it was designed this way - I can write code that does much the same, I can write code that will have the AI convinced it is a cow with 6 horns and that not only delivers milk but orange juice - it all comes down to humans, you need humans to make AI, that's why it's called ARTIFICIAL, it's not human by any means, and never will be until the day computers have DNA, neurons, cells, and brain like structure

Sine La Casa Del papel series is finished on Netflix (Money Heist), this is a reboot, Mexican edition
This could be a good series on Netflix. Maybe they are inspired by Money Heist (series). Do they have someone as clever as El Professor ? I dunno, it's hard to match

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I love this forum for it's positive vibes.

Positive vibes my arse Where you been ? We all survived stock market tumbles, this is not the first nor last, the ones who are truly gonna be f*cked are those who are withdrawing and living off their investments - those who are still working and plan to use that money in the long term needn't worry, it'll go back up again, it usually goes back up, in worst case scenarios it could take 1-3 years, best case scenario a few months

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Inflation, Bald Poootin, Stock crashes, Climate changes, Radio bombs (The active kind), Covid, MonkeyPox, Poor Danes who can not afford cars (According to Fox news) Way to funny And more Covid.


What's not to love

Monkeypox is not a pandemic, fortunately it is more difficult to catch, unlike COVID, people who are sexually active (rubber or no rubber) or touchy feely will get it, it's not transmissible like COVID, so no worries there. As far as variants, well now it is clear the variants are just variations of Omicron - Omicron is there to stay - and so is COVID, fortunately less severe, eventually endemic, but still cases, just like the flu kills a million people world wide every year, COVID will kill more - The bad news, world famine and hunger as bees disappear, food supply and shortages could continue well beyond 2025-2028 maybe 2030........ 1 small McDonalds fries will cost you $10. Dollar store franchise will disappear, instead they will be replaced by $10 stores (ten-o-rama)

Nikorj wrote: In about 22 billion years the universe will end.

Oh darn it - you ruined everything now, how am I gonna sleep at night knowing the universe ends in 22 billion years It doesn't matter, WE (earth) will end much sooner, much much sooner

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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-and-denmark-reach-settlement-over-disputed-arctic-island/

The once all neutral country, why are we so much into conflicts with other countries, China, US, etc, Canadians keep on voting for the same well I'd love to speak out loud what I have on my mind but yeah.......let's leave it at that, we need a true leader around here, one with a solid pair of balls, one preferably not ridden in scandals

Inflation is nothing compared to what's to come - the only way to solve inflation is to fix supply - greedy criminals in supplies don't want to up production - because it is more profitable to sell at inflated prices - and now Biden has gone haywire begging companies not to be greedy and profiting from this - yeah like they'll listen to him - hey companies please don't be greedy says the guy who slept for the last 40 years and earned hundreds of millions.

It's very easy to blame others, this whole problem with supply, inflation should never have happened, the federal reserve should have raised interest rates much sooner - what's he gonna do Powell now huh, raise interest rates by 3/4 of a point, too late caffo - maybe raise it by 3% in one go, that'll solve inflation what will happen with Federal Reserve move, is that they will create a financial crisis similar to 2008 - people will default on their mortgage, and it's 2008 all over again...........

kanjoormadam09 wrote: children are taught how to practice taking revenge on others through television serials and movies right from childhood. No one wants children to live according to moral values. So better keep quiet and face the atrocities if you are a parent. Earlier in India girls were more patient and lived with obedience than boys following moral principles set by the society buy now girls are more mischeivious than boys

On this side of the planet same, only worse Have you heard people mention before how girls fall for bad guys, more so than the good guys, well there is truth to that - statistically though we mostly hear about male criminals, male abusers, etc, so yeah guys are more mischievous in certain ways and girls in different ways, violence, ignorance and turds do not discriminate - all genders, and cultures are concerned a turd is a turd, turds do not have genders

kanjoormadam09 wrote: Gun is needed for safety in the coming decades as the world is ruled by violence and immoral deeds .

Right, it will be the far west, everyone will shoot at one another, settle their scores, etc. now you have 3 and 5 year olds holding guns and shooting parents, etc. what happens when you remove all guns - you still have the violent mentality, it won't change anything, we will just go back to ancient times, you will see people with their bows and arrows, molotov cocktails, and millions of other objects that can be used as weapons. Guns are hardly the issue inside a VIOLENT society. It's kind of ironic too with the abortion bill, which adds insult to injury - what happens when unwanted babies are put in the world - and they get raised by the crackhead parents who are likely violent criminals, you end up with more criminals - gun control my arse, non violent people do need protection from violent people, and it's certainly not cops or authorities that will protect them that's for sure.

kanjoormadam09 wrote: Yes how good nature flourished in 2020 when the entire world went on a lockdown . The after effects of that flourishing is moderately felt even in 2022 but the wars and other immoral activities will again make the nature violent. Humans are really fools who do not care for nature that had given them intelligence to protect it from destruction

Yes things were better off in 2020 and before 2020 too No war, little to no inflation, etc. Now a certain person has pledged that he will stop at nothing to destroy a certain country, even if it takes 10 more years. So anybody who believes inflation is just a short term thing, you are truly mistaken

tasman1 wrote: Not sure , it is very strange . Maybe some scam money laundering , maybe you get fake 180.00 and you did return her real 180.00 ? No idea but think that subject is not finished yet and you will have more problem in future

All you can do now is wait and see , weird stuff , hope you did not make mistake

How do you get fake paypal money ? this is not paper money, once you see added money in your PP balance, it's real,the question is if the money came from a legit source or not but that's not my problem, as long as I did not use that money, no problem, I refunded the money, contacted PP first, so all liability is gone. If funds are fraudulent they will be deducted from her account not mine, since they are no longer in my account. As far as my e-mail, I get tons of spam anyway, I am not too worried, my e-mail is probably in millions of spammers shoe boxes it's the same e-mail I used on ClixSense - I could care less really I changed PW anyway

Won't get any problems in the future, the only problem is people who get money by mistake and use the money.
I would have refunded the money without even being asked. Where I am disappointed is that the person did not reply to my PP chats or e-mail.

I would have even offered her a reading for half that price

valerie wrote: I would have contacted PayPal first before submitting a refund. Just so they would know in advance that you are going to submit the refund. However, it sounds like a legitimate mistake.

That's exactly what I did, I called PayPal first to report this, since this was obviously a buyer to seller transaction I did not want this to cause issues with my account, so I called, and the agent who answered me said she was surprised, that it was the first time she got a call regarding this, and told me not to worry about anything, my account is in excellent status. You won't get issues with just one bad transaction - So I let them know about the transaction, after all they have a record of it, even if the funds came from a fraudulent source, I am not liable, since the funds are no longer in my account and it was refunded. What I do not understand though is the person who sent the funds, she bothered to send me messages in PayPal chat kindly asking me for a refund, and an e-mail as well. But when I responded to her both in chat and e-mail asking her how she got my e-mail in the first place, no answer, nothing, I even asked her in her own language. You see, mistakes happen, but the mystery is that to send a payment through paypal you need to enter an e-mail OR use an API / Checkout / Payment system - Maybe someone has the same e-mail as i have with added digits, but what are the odds - There is nothing to worry about as far as I'm concerned, but for her, I feel bad for a person spending $180 on QUACKERY, she is the one being scammed - maybe that MISTAKE she made was a sign ......

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With gazillions of email addresses, many are very similar.

That's what I thought too, but what are the odds, basically odds of winning lotteries are higher than what happened here You would think that when you are sending $180 USD to someone you double check everything Mistakes happen I did the right thing, regardless of the source of the money - the bad thing would be to not refund, THAT would have created issues with PayPal, since it becomes fraud - and since this was not a gift type of payment but a sale type transaction, refunding was the ONLY option to do, otherwise if it were a personal payment it would have been more complicated, far more, there is no refund button on personal payments / gifts, I would have had to manually pay her back and that would have incurred me $8 fees since this was an international payment.

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BUT here is the thing about your case, IF someone is buying something from a seller, they click their link. I know not always the case but almost always the seller has a web page with the PayPal button. The buyer would not be entering the buyers email manually.

Exactly, this is the PayPal API or whatever it's called. If my e-mail was in some seller's link, I would be receiving a lot of payments It was obviously a direct payment for personal services, not all sellers have web pages or use links, some just say "Send me money to my e-mail and the transaction ID" type. This is very fishy, based on the description this was for astrology program / service, even scammers use the PayPal Payment API, this is very odd, it's obviously a person who sent a direct payment to a seller.

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I can't really see why it would not be legit since it was $180.00. If it had been $5 or $10, I'd be concerned because some might wanting to see if it is a legitimate PayPal address so they can try and bust into it.

If your addy is anything like your name, I can see how easily someone making a purchase for astrology, could make a mistake.

What you could do, is a google search for astro sellers with your email addy. See if any come up similar.

The first 3 letters of my e-mail are the initials of my name, and the rest have nothing to do with my name. It is 6 letters before the @. I'm thinking other e-mails with those same 6 letters exist, but followed by numbers, example apple, apple12, apple43, etc.

I already did a search there is no quack with my name or e-mail

So I'll consider it an honest mistake, at least it's only $180 and not $10k or $1 million now that would be bad

valerie wrote: Yesterday was the Gay Pride Parade in LA. I think a lot more turned out for it.

It's LA, they don't need a parade in the first place

I thought I would post this because it is very unusual - usually people get scammed of money. A few days ago as I came back home at the end of the day, I got one of those e-mails from PayPal that says I received money. Wait......money you say ? I was not expecting money from anywhere I did not withdraw money - but even more frightening, the e-mail body said I received $180 USD - so my first reaction is - SCAM, this is classic phishing - I receive countless e-mails telling me I won unclaimed money, etc. so for sure I thought this was one of those paypal phishing scams. It came from intl.paypal.com - hmmmmm seems legit, so I decided to log on to my paypal (not through the e-mail of course - I know better ) and lo and behold, I truly see $180 USD deposited in my account. It came from an individual I never heard of, I do not know, so I thought to myself some random strange decided to gift me $180, but then I read the details of the transaction - it was in spanish and this is where it gets interesting - it was a buyer transaction paying for services, now wait get your g******** mind out of the gutter the service was some sort of astrology thing. I was not too happy because I have a PayPal Personal, not a BUSINESS, I am not a seller and do not sell anything, and even worse, how the bloody hell did the person get my e-mail, it is not shared with anybody. Now here is the twist, I get another e-mail this time from the person herself who sent me that money, again all in Spanish, saying that she sent the money by "error" and would greatly appreciate if I refunded her, thank you so much Of course I would have refund the money either way. Mistakes happen right ? But how the HELL did she get my e-mail to send the payment to - in the transaction history it said that this was a payment for astrology program ? and her address is in Uruguay - So I am very confused here, of course I refunded her the money, I also called PayPal and let them know about this, and I sent her an e-mail telling her about the refund but asking her how she got my e-mail ? Several e-mails and she did not reply. This is strange to say the least, PayPal of course told me not to worry this will not affect my account - however since this transaction was meant for a seller, I immediately got an e-mail from PayPal that my tax information was received and sent to the IRS. For what ? I am not a seller, I am not a business.......What a bloody mess.

I wish I could write her name and mailing address here so people can be careful, BUT I won't to respect her privacy just in good faith in case it is a genuine mistake - although it does not explain how she got my e-mail though, could be someone with similar e-mail and typo it's ok, the least etiquette she should have replied to me and told me where she got my e-mail, didn't even bother. I did the right thing and refund the bloody money - I feel bad for her though because who in their right mind would spend all that money for QUACKERY, wish I could warn her that she is being scammed $180 by some charlatan but it's probably too late, and besides she did not even bother replying ot me.

OR I could have kept the money and gave her a fortune reading

When sh** like that happens there is only one thing you can do and should do - REFUND and contact PayPal. Some people would be tempted to keep money, but you don't know where the money comes from, if it's from a compromised PayPal or funds obtained illegally, your PayPal account can become restricted. I would have refund the money even had she not contacted me - even money coming from random sources with "This is a gift keep it" you don't know where that money comes from.

So what do you think this was ? Was this a genuine mistake or some new clever money laundering scam ?
Did it ever happen to you to receive random money in PayPal ? When I spoke to PayPal on the phone the agent said she had never received a call of that nature, and she said I did the right thing as most people would not refund - that in itself is weird, because since this was clearly a payment for a service and not a GIFT, it was subject to a dispute.........

On that note I am still waiting for my Publisher's Clearing House winnings - I am always so close to winning that $10 million, and every year is the right one

Wow impressive, setting good examples there - To some people it matters how and where, those who think earning money by any means also indirectly suggest "stuff", they would be good candidates for being politicians or criminals That's the reasoning behind politics, when you like to rob money legally by any means, so just become a politician, pretend to care, say things you know people want to hear and watch your pension plan grow - even BAD politicians get away easy, because when they quit politics or retire, they get residual income and pension that is in the 6 figures - it's grand robbery at its best, probably the best way to earn without going to jail - that and a banker - so to all the prospect bank robbers out there, if you love money and can sharpen a few pencils, good with lip service, then you are a good candidate for politics, or you can be a banker and pocket 7-8 figures regardless of economy, good bad, ugly, very ugly, no problem - there is a very large bonus paycheck waiting for you

Those who want to earn honestly and with integrity, well, we will earn slowly, and maybe the 0.0005% that comes up with a brilliant million $ idea that turns into an empire.

tasman1 wrote: Why worry about planet? Planet is smart creature , once planet get rid of humans it will repair itself very fast

Just look at Chernobyl ... destroyed but just 30 years latter it looks perfect , vegetation is back , grows better than before , animals are back , life is back , only no humans..... situation perfect for planet
All we have to do is use 100 000 nuclear bomb , detonate all and planet will look again like 18 years old sexy blonde

We are past the point of repair - humans are destroying the planet faster than it can repair itself. But you are correct essentially, and the pandemic is proof of that - during the lock downs pollution went down considerably - it would be interesting if remote working and remote learning would be a reality, this way people can feel safe at home, and we can leave the streets for the criminals to shoot one another all day and all night, so people can feel safe at home at all times

There is a limit to the capacity of the world to repair itself, you still need humans to rebuild, repair, plant new trees, plant seeds - if humans are wiped out, the world will decay and be in ruins - you need human intervention ...... some things are self sufficient, but again it depends on the destruction ......

tasman1 wrote: News and fact how to read and understand news................ Let see one Fact to understand reality

Tens of thousands of people have turned out in cities across the United States to march against gun violence in the wake of a string of highly publicised mass shootings.

Reality and fact.......Tens of thousands of people have turned out but ....over 331 millions did not turn out
In short .... nobody care about gun control

You failed on this one - Actually the hard reality is that 331 millions are SMART, they know better than to go march and protest and waste their bloody time for nothing when in the end it changes absolutely nothing. There is nothing much that CAN be done about gun violence, because the problem is not the guns, it's people holding those guns. All gun control will do is remove guns from people who want to protect themselves and their family, it will become essentially like Canada, where we do not have a 2nd amendment. The criminals will ALWAYS be able to get those guns smuggled in, that's what the dark web is for, the underground market is too huge - and politicians look the other way because they know they cannot do much about it - they CAN however do something about allowing people to decide not to have babies, you know when crack head parents forget to wear the rubber and make crack head and violent babies - this is where the long debate about whether you are killing starts - the question is TIMING and when life starts to become life - after all, if you think about it only one sperm cell hits the egg, the rest dies, but yeah that won't solve the problem now will it, just part of it.......... gun control is just a politicians way of making you believe he/she gives a shit, when they know very well that they cannot "CONTROL" guns, because the problem are not guns. Those hard criminals are not buying those guns at Walmart or Costco they are breaking the law 24/7. It's like saying, let's add more laws, will it deter criminals ? What about death penalty, does it deter crime ? Never has, it only makes matters worse because in a hard criminal's mind, they have nothing to lose, they might as well go for the jackpot, they'll die anyway.

Reality is, 331 millions of Americans know better than to go march and protest about gun violence, it's too f****** little too late for that, because the issue is society in general. Now can you reform all hundreds of millions of people one by one, impossible - you see politicians would rather spend trillions of $ every YEAR for space exploration and finding holes in space, rather than spending that on prevention.

Also a lot of the gun violence in cities stems from gangs and rivalry, generally around territory, drugs, etc. so can you eliminate all drugs and cartel, no you can't. it's all connected. And if you remove guns, people will use other weapons, as that lady stated so clearly in the protest - so 10,000 Americans wasted their time that day and could have done something more productive with their time and life - because this DELUSION that fighting for gun control will result in anything is basically like chasing the water fountain in the middle of the desert..............

This is like the pope travelling around the world and fighting for world peace, another one that is wasting his time and energy - we are way past the hope for world peace. You have Russia that wants to DESTROY Ukraine, you have North Korea that wants South Korea, you have the middle east that want to bomb the whole world, you have China that is getting closer and closer to starting its own war and taking over Taiwan. What f***ing world peace - gun control starts between the ears - if you want fact vs. reality, there is your reality

tasman1 wrote: Month $26.42..... did rise my expectation for earning in Jun to 27.00

What is the pending credits and why is it used here if it does not even work ?

So you are unable to take ANY Peanut Lab surveys now not even the stand alone router ?!?!?!?

kanjoormadam09 wrote: The world is at the tip of deterioration

at the tip ? I think we crossed that line a long time ago, everything is deteriorated here, humanity, peace, climate, all down the bloody toilet, I mean OK humanity is deteriorated beyond repair, climate, well yeah at least we can still breath normal air without requiring full on hazmat suits YET.

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as the enviornment conditions are drastically changing day after day. According to metereological department the monsoon showers have entered Indian peninsula and would spread to all places within a month . But there are no signs of southwest monsoon in any parts of India .We experience only summer showers with huge rain in the evenings . It should be heavy rains in the Kerala state which receives the first monsoon showers but in that state reports say that monsoon showers are 40% less so far. humans are the main culprit for these mishaps. No one is aware about the fury of climate change which they will have to face shortly. Let everyone live for today and enjoy with full spirit to destroy Earth

Right, now meanwhile yours truly NASA and Co are spending trillions of $ to look for other planets (as if we do not have enough), look for E.T.s (as if they'd give two shits about us or our planet anyway), or look past the edge of the universe (as if it bloody matters to us when we'll never make it past the moon). SO yeah whilst people are starving, dying of disease and climate deteriorating, governments (legal criminals) are funding big sham of an industry instead of focusing on OUR planet OUR earth. It's OK to want to know about our space, but not spending countless money when there are more priorities - and who funds all this rubbish ? Yours truly, the HARD WORKING tax payers that ends up sending the government 40%-50% of your earnings so they can hunt for planets that are just like earth, that are trillions of light years away, possibly in different universes, and that we will never get there, not even in our dreams. SO yeah, climate change, nah, not a priority, crime, violence, wars, inflation, nope not a priority, it's more important to try to communiate with dead space, and hope one day an alien will answer us back, by the time the aliens will get our transmission, it will be millions of years too late.

Do we get new cures for cancer, diabetes and other from going in space, nope, will it change anything in our lives knowing they found a door stopper on Neptune or a crack on Uranus, nope won't change anything

valerie wrote: I decided to be like ape man. Laugh in the face of danger.

I don't see anything funny about that though considering we are heading for another 2008 and that people who worked hard for their whole life to save money will soon lose 60%-75% of their savings just like that, and unlike 2008, this one will be bigger and last longer, so nothing to laugh about for majority of people though - imagine people buying homes that increased 90% in value sine 2020, imagine paying 50% higher mortgage rates, it's basically the greedy real estate industry and their crummy agents + price gauging home sellers that will bring back 2008.

Were you lot worried about WW3, fear not, we are in 2022, atomic bombs are old school, now there is an even bigger and more effective weapon - it's called inflation. So yeah should we laugh really, nope, should we worry, yes definitely.

tasman1 wrote:

kanjoormadam09 wrote:

tasman1 wrote:

kanjoormadam09 wrote: Bringing Monkey fever days

Yes but not for Apes, we are different , advanced creature

Yes would be advanced after a trillion years

No no no no , this planet is ruled by monkeys since for last 5 million years , time for Apes to take control

This is where the comedy side with dark humour would say a politically incorrect joke but can't say it because we are in 2022

On that note, if apes were to take control they would do a mighty better job than humans all around, heck, if SNAILS took control we would all be better off