What are the most bulls*** payments we make regularly? (Besides TAXES)
3842 sats \ 35 comments \ @birdeye21 25 Sep 2023 meta
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675 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 25 Sep 2023
How about Amazon Prime? " Free delivery " is an illusion, and the streaming service has gradually become pay as you go. Soon it will have commercials unless you pay extra.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @BBitcoinUSA 25 Sep 2023
This rug pull hit me right around the same time I renewed my car lease and realized there was no longer a cd player in the dashboard. Streaming has really made my daily consumption entertainment more cumbersome and glitchy, prefer the days of hard wired cable tv when I could simply memorize a few numbers and channel surf at the speed of light
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242 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 25 Sep 2023
the pendulum is swinging back
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333 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin 25 Sep 2023
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How do you feel now US shitizen?
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 25 Sep 2023
I feel like shit
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 25 Sep 2023
What you gonna do about this?
  • continue paying?
  • buy bitcoin and use it as much you can as money
  • move to El Salvador
  • all of the above?
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 25 Sep 2023
shitizen
lol
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 25 Sep 2023
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257 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 25 Sep 2023
Just a comment on service fees. I bought tickets recently. Ticketmaster calls it "all in pricing." Now they give you one number that is jacked up to include the old service fees. Another Biden success story.
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234 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 25 Sep 2023
Now they give you one number that is jacked up to include the old service fees.
I would say this is indeed better than if you already invested some time into booking something and only at the end you discover that it actually costs more.
These are dark patterns: They know very well that you are more willing to pay the extra money after you invested some time than if they displayed it at the beginning.
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162 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 25 Sep 2023
Good point. I go to a lot of concerts with friends. I subconsciously have been adding in 25 to 35% to the total for years. It must really be a shock for the occasional buyer.
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319 sats \ 0 replies \ @IanMalcolmPhd 25 Sep 2023
Not me but alimony. Don't get married.
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151 sats \ 0 replies \ @BBitcoinUSA 25 Sep 2023
Health insurance, the entire idea is truly backwards and upside down
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 25 Sep 2023
I was thinking about this. I think I am not doing "regular" payments anymore, apart from strictly necessary to live and have a meaning. Years ago I decided to stop wasting my money on crap things. I simply stop buying them.
Anyways...
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23 sats \ 1 reply \ @brianh 25 Sep 2023
Banks prey on a lot of less financial savvy folks with late fees, overdraft fees, a minimum balance fee, etc
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 26 Sep 2023
someone’s gotta develop a peer to peer electronic currency that solves the double spend problem ASAP!!!
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23 sats \ 0 replies \ @pow 26 Sep 2023
Life insurance
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21 sats \ 7 replies \ @nuII 25 Sep 2023
I'll say that posts only costing 1 sat on SN is a bullshit payment... (too low)
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0 sats \ 6 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 25 Sep 2023
could do something like 10x the cost of each additional post every 24 hours
1st post is 1 sat, 10 for 2nd, 3rd 100, 4th 1000, etc.
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @nuII 25 Sep 2023
yeah you would suggest that.
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 25 Sep 2023
yes
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @nuII 25 Sep 2023
yes, because you spam the board every day three or four times, so you would think 111 sats is an appropriate cost, and that 24 hours is an appropriate amount of time to allow a spammer to return to low fee spamming.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 26 Sep 2023
if my spam doesnt resonate with you you can simply redirect this energy elsewhere
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @nuII 26 Sep 2023
Yikes, what an immature response.
Well, hopefully "the system" of how SN works eventually prices out of sat farming / shitposting three-four plus times a day. Maybe if you could only "afford" one post a day, you would put a bit more effort into the content of the post instead of just throwing a bunch of shit at the wall and seeing what sticks?
There is no reason the first post of the day for any user should be any lower than 5000 sats, unless perhaps their account has accrued a high degree of reputation/seniority etc
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 26 Sep 2023
5k sats? And then those with more sats get to post for cheaper? Am i reading this right?
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @dieselbaby 25 Sep 2023
Definitely all of the bullshit streaming services and all of the various media things people pay increasing amounts of money per month for. That, and the exorbitantly overpriced internet costs my ISP charges...I am getting totally ripped off, paying $100 a month for 500 megabit down and only 25-30 megabit upload. When it was still "Time Warner Cable" and not "Spectrum" I had the same plan with the same speeds but it was only about $45 a month, it went up to $100 within a year and a half of them being bought out, ludicrous. You can get faster internet with less downtime/issues in Europe for like the equivalent of $20 a month.
I got rid of all of the different streaming services subscriptions and replaced it with IPTV. Now I pay $6 a month and I get over 5,000 channels streaming live in HD from all around the world, literally everything I could ever want to watch including all of the sports channels, NFL, NHL, soccer, UFC, whatever...plus on demand movies and tv shows, thousands of em. Even has XXX channels too lmao like those "black box" cable boxes from back in the day if anyone remembers those. Between IPTV, private torrent trackers w/my seedbox, IRC & usenet I'll never go back to paying for shit like Netflix again.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury 25 Sep 2023
Which IPTV service do you use?
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @fm 25 Sep 2023
is this real?
  • Bread and Circuses
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 25 Sep 2023
it is real.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 25 Sep 2023
Is that a real tweet? I mean I agree that concert fees suck, but what… lol
It’s really a monopoly issue with Ticketmaster/LiveNation
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 25 Sep 2023
it is real.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @PRA3S3NT1A 26 Sep 2023
Insurances.. They are basically selling you fear what you are willing to pay.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @netstatic 27 Sep 2023
Homeowners insurance. In some cases it's actually crazy how little they do for you in times of need. In Jaron Lanier's book 'Dawn of the new everything', I remember he recounts a story about how his childhood house burned down. Because the insurance company was so shitty, they didn't pay anything out and his dad had to out-of-pocket to clear the lot with their then burned-down house
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheBTCManual 26 Sep 2023
Lol top of mine recently is renewing my drivers license, why do I need to do this? I didn't forget to drive, and the card is in a decent condition that I don't need to replace it, wtf bro?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 26 Sep 2023
Another non consensual subscription plan provided by the state
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