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.
one step closer to 100%'ing life!!
Submitted 2 weeks ago by Buage_@piefed.social to [deleted]
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QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Peasley@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
that’s very true, I’m not the best at free mounting and often bail 3 or 4 times before I actually get going.
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, scraped 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 😅
MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
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
WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
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. ^-^
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You’re in second place
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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?
Kintarian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s funny, when NFT’s started I said it was the dumbest thing ever and everyone online jumped all over me and down voted me into oblivion.
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I think digitally verifiable ownership could be cool for, like, a digital TCG or something. But you’d need an actual use case for why this ‘ownership’ matters, which just isn’t true of the most noteworthy use of nfts.
KernelTale@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I’ve never understood TCGs. Why not just print out the cards. Why not to use a randomizer to from which one should make up a deck for one duel. If the fun gambling and consumerism?
ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Not sure what internet circles you were in, but I’ve hardly ever seen people be positive about NFTs in mine
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
The dangers of using reddit
AstroLightz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
See, you forgot the important rule of the Internet: Being first is the same as being wrong.
/s
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I thought the tech could maybe have a use case but PNGs was utterly useless.
cloudshouter@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I was thinking about NFTs yesterday and how AIs have probably scrapped them all and will happily copy all the monkeys and such.
Think I could sell AI generated NFTs?
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Eh. Use an AI to make smaller AI models that have different combinations of personalities (this one acts like Elvis singing opera, this one mimics Einstein with a cowboy accent) and the create NFTs for the ownership of those personalities. Each one comes with it’s own bot-created twitter account, and it posts. The holder of the NFT gets any revenue the account generates.
Anyway, if you build this, send me a cut, I’d like to get rich from stupid people who would actually go nuts over this.
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you were this stupid and had a billion dollars and funded this idea then you would surely become a millionaire.
SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
nobody buys nfts anymore. that shit crashed fast and hard
nickiwest@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Isn’t that exactly what Donald Trump did with his electronic trading cards or whatever they were supposed to be?
cloudshouter@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yes! I forgot about that. Too much interesting times to remember it all.
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Don’t give ai companies/nft bros ideas.
Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Deserved
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 2 weeks ago
“How’s the timeshare doing, dad?”
Nerdulous@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
At least Dad got to touch something for his money. NFTs don’t even deliver on their sole mission statement
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What was their mission statement? Here’s a picture that you own the copyright of? I don’t see how they could ever make sense unless they were legitimately fabulous images that people loved and wanted to buy prints of
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My uncle used to go to timeshare sales pitches 2-3 times a week. Never bought a timeshare, just went for the free dinners. He was so bored with life that he didn’t even mind sitting there listening to them babble. The only other thing he had to do was to call up my dad and discuss how gas prices were slightly different at different filling stations.
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
A free supper is a free supper.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“At least I can be inside something that I enjoy”
musicalphysics@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
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.
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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.
musicalphysics@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
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.
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Sabrinamycarpet@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It’s not a specific dollar amount like 10 dollars.
It should be pointed out that if you are young and you took an appropriate amount of risk “investing” in nfts, that’s not a bad thing. You should take some financial risks and failures while young.
If you went into debt or spent your family’s life savings on it, you have a gambling problem.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just waiting for that 2040s ironic nostalgia wave to drive up the price again lol
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
What’s very dumb about this is that the rings themselves are probably already non-fungible, so even then, it’s dumb to store an NFT inside of them 😬
tyo_ukko@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
As I understand it, they just exchanged the NFTs, nothing mentioned about having them inside the rings. Nevertheless, it’s just mind-bogglingly stupid.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I still hold an “NFT”. A tank i won on a challenge in War thunder. Grinding motherfuckers, but… it was a nice tank
Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Was it the monkey drinking it’s own pee? Because I don’t care what the critics say, that one is priceless.
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
its
Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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?
Captain_Buddha@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I agree, Trump Rapes Kids… that’s a valid opinion l.
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
The most ridiculous NFT was the fart jar girl shitcoin.
Tiral@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah…NFTs were stupid AF.
Lanske@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Must be your genes dad
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Actually, I wear shorts 😎 finger guns
4am@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I mean, deserved.
Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Hey, what was that stock you spent all your money on? Has that weird guy ceo that was promising to go to mars”
stringere@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Enron
MrChewy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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’.
mrmisses@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well, who raised that idiot?
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
At some point you have to take responsibility for yourself. You cant just blame every failing on your parents.
Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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
Malyca@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You can blame some though, like a failing in critical thinking is a failing of how a person was raised.
NKBTN@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I dunno… to me, it didn’t make sense that Bitcoin became valuable. I figured NFTs were just bitcoin tied to a picture, so why wouldn’t they have a chance of being worth something too? Makes just as much lack of sense.
Note: I have never bought any form of cryptocurrency, but honestly, mainly because it was too much of a faff to use.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
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.
im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 2 weeks ago
IDK how much parents “modelling” things really helps.
My parents fell for every scheme they encountered their entire lives.
Watching them taught me to be very critical of that kind of thing. I guess they did model what not to do.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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 I 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 perfectly 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.
Kirp123@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sometimes no matter how much parents try their kid will still end a dumbass.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
His stepdad, of course.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You can only do so much while the pre-frontal cortex is still developing.