- ※taxes
- ※minecraft relapse
- ※while stopped for a while at a station on the train, the conductor came on and made an announcement that due to mechanical issues the train could not continue any further and that they would get ubers for all the passengers to their final destinations. thus i ended up riding in the dark for sixty miles in the passenger seat of a stuffed suv with christian rock radio playing softly in the background.
- ※my brother comes to my door and asks if i can buy him some bitcoin. what for, i immediately ask (of course). he said that for the past six months he has been sponsoring a nigerian guy by sending him fifty bucks in bitcoin every month. he tried to paint it as a charitable thing like when you donate to african orphans or something but also made sure to let me know that fifty bucks is a lot over there and so it's enabling this guy to really live it up, from what my brother has been told by him. i asked if the nigerian guy has a job, and with a completely straight face my brother tells me he is an online scammer. so you've met a nigerian prince, i retort. my brother informs me that the nigerian guy actually does romance scams now, because apparently those are a lot more effective. several minutes of argument ensue over this complicated moral gray area of knowingly sponsoring legitimate scammers and whether sending money to a scammer while knowing they are a scammer constitutes a scam or being scammed. it ends with my brother talking about how he's still chatting with this nigerian guy because the guy seems weirdly obsessed with him, and is also trying to acquire extra money to "travel to the us to study".
- ※pyramid
- ※i met this korean guy who told me he learned english by using discord. sometimes he would verbalize reaction emojis after things people said, including things he said himself. another one of the many fascinating effects of socializing primarily through social media, by now i could probably write a book-length anthropological study because for some mysterious reason i've managed to meet a lot of real specimens. it's almost as if they're drawn to me, like flies to feces.