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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852953
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852992
https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1bpytbc/holy_mother_of_god/?sort=controversial
https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1773377440582455501
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1773376555328160085
https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1773377957660066271
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1773380776114917712
And more https://twitter.com/search?q=sam+bankman-fried
Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison for his role in defrauding users of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
In a Lower Manhattan federal courtroom, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan called the defense's argument misleading, logically flawed, and speculative.
He said Bankman-Fried had committed obstruction of justice and witness tampering while mounting his defense — something Kaplan said he weighed in his sentencing decision.
Bankman-Fried, wearing a beige jailhouse jumpsuit, made a statement striking an apologetic tone, saying he had made a series of "selfish" decisions while leading FTX and "threw it all away."
"It haunts me every day," he said.
Prosecutors had sought as much as 50 years, while Bankman-Fried's legal team argued for no more than 6½ years. He was convicted on seven criminal counts in November and had been held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn ever since.
Bankman-Fried's lawyers had pleaded for leniency, citing what they described as mental health struggles and his purported generosity in his personal life. They also argued that FTX users had not ultimately suffered substantial losses — something current FTX administrator John Ray said was false in a letter to Kaplan in advance of Thursday's sentencing.
But prosecutors argued the brazenness of the crime, the extent of the victims' losses and damages and Bankman-Fried's evident lack of remorse meant a harsher sentence was warranted.
Late Tuesday, prosecutors filed documents from victims testifying about how Bankman-Fried's actions had harmed them.
“My whole life has been destroyed,” wrote one, whose name was redacted, in a letter dated March 15. “I have 2 young children, one born right before the collapse. I still remember the weeks following where I would stare blankly into their eyes, completely empty inside knowing their futures have been stolen through no fault of our own. I did not gamble on crypto. I did not make any crypto gains. I had my [bitcoin] which I had collected over years deposited on FTX as a custodian. I did not agree to the risk that SBF took with my funds.”
The man added he was suffering from depression and that his wife had become suicidal.
“I know we can never make that kind of money back ever again,” he wrote.
Another person wrote about how the loss of funds had affected numerous life plans, including a wedding.
“Each passing day is a painful reminder of the opportunities stolen from me, compounding feelings of hopelessness and despair," the person wrote. "The burden of financial ruin weighs heavily on my shoulders, leading me to grapple with constant thoughts of suicide and significantly impairing my ability to perform at work.”
In the recent annals of white-collar crime, Bankman-Fried's sentence is many years more than what most others found guilty had received. Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes received about 11 years. Former WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers received 25 years. Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling received 24 years.
!dramatards !r-slurs !fellas get in here!
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What do yall say: Cute or Problematic? pic.twitter.com/fWVWGXC1Cr
— rosey🌹 (@thechosenberg) March 27, 2024
Cbf effortposting this.
Reddit:
Of course this also brings out the cuckposters too:
And gross Redditors that have s*x:
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Day 1 vs 884 pic.twitter.com/jltYyQmEnP
— Just Posting Ls (@MomsPostingLs) March 28, 2024
The absolute state of moids. Imagine not appreciating a beauty like her:
Ew look how gross britbrit looks in comparison.
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One way to improve the chances of a man's fidelity is a process I call "weirding"- changing a man to shrink his pool of available mates. You can get him into libertarianism, or knitting, or podcasts about optimal male performance that cause him to stay off his phone and go to bed…
— Diana S. Fleischman (@sentientist) March 27, 2024
This isn't drama but lets be real some of you foids need to hear it.
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People coming to use the roads and leave aren’t adding to growth.
— Ald. Andre Vasquez, Political Account (@Andrefor40th) March 28, 2024
Get better informed.
There is absolutely no fixing this.
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In a new TOS change in Section 12, they added this line: “You hereby grant to Vultr a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid-up, worldwide license (including the right to sublicense through multiple tiers) to use, reproduce, process, adapt, publicly perform, publicly display, modify, prepare derivative works, publish, transmit and distribute each of your User Content, or any portion thereof, in any form, medium or distribution method now known or hereafter existing, known or developed, and otherwise use and commercialize the User Content in any way that Vultr deems appropriate, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or to any third parties, for purposes of providing the Services to you.”
This line has sparked outrage among Hacker News & Reddit, who are not pleased and are cancelling their subscription over this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836495
!chuds my website (TBC - prob never) needs to be moved to a new host.
!nonchuds late stage capitalism
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Why is CERN being reactivated on April 8, the same day as the infamous eclipse? Supposedly, the particle collider can accelerate protons to a rate that’s only 7 mph slower than the speed of light, resulting in 11,000 trips around its ring per second. After CERN started its Awake… pic.twitter.com/fzqPCUJ50M
— Nick Hinton (@NickHintonn) March 27, 2024
THIS GUY STOLE MY JOKE. I didnt even read the comments before thinking this would make a good post for /h/spooky:
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Robert Moses famously built the bridges on Long Island with low underpasses so that buses from Black and Puerto Rican neighborhoods couldn't get to Jones Beach. I don't have the crayons, nor the patience, to explain why this is indeed very racist. https://t.co/vAcOcUKBIc pic.twitter.com/Djx0Nhqqyh
— Hayden Clarkin (@the_transit_guy) March 28, 2024
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!leafs it's clearly not the teachers fault kids ain't learning, it's gotta be that darned social media
Four Ontario school boards have launched $4.5-billion in lawsuits against social media giants Snapchat, TikTok and Meta — which owns Facebook and Instagram — accusing them of deliberately hurting students, interfering with their learning and harming their mental health, leaving educators to “manage the fallout.”
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I'm a 6'4' bloke. Met with a much shorter bloke in Hyde Park at night for a bit gay fun. I have a large wart to the right of my chest he sucked on this whilst I wanked him off believing it was my nipple. Felt nice but noticed the wart had vanished when I showered later same night
— Fesshole 🧻 (@fesshole) March 28, 2024
- cyberdick : yes
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So as many of you may know Metro Boomin and Future released an album. One particular song stood out because it featured Kendrick Lamar and also called out Drake and J Cole.
Kendrick uses his frenzied verse to stake his claim to the top spot. “Frick sneak dissin', first person shooter/I hope they came with three switches,” he growls, referencing Cole and Drake's recent single “First Person Shooter” before swiping at Drake's status as a Michael Jackson–level star with a clever and nasty nod to Jackson's beef with another music icon: “Neighbor, Prince outlived Mike Jack.”
Etc.
It appears there was tension between Metro+Future and Drake before this diss song:
Especially seeing as Metro tweeted then deleted this and also left Drake off his album Heroes and Villains:
Since these are rap neighbors most of the beefing is foid like e-drama(gay coded).
Drake will literally frick your ex gussy to get close to stabbing you in the heart:
Even rap neighbors don't frick with this nonsense:
Fatty Rick Ross responds by doing what he does best; not doing cardio:
Even more gay is the moid "I'm not following you on IG move smh:
At this point I'm begging for one of you neighbors to shoot someone instead of words words words:
Looks like NAV is the weak link and might end up getting violated since he is actually from Canada:
Drake finally claps back in the most homosexual way possible:
And by having a struggle session on stage:
Of course folks are not impressed by this behavior:
There is prob more but cbf so memes time: