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๐Ÿ–• Fuck PayPal

And fuck Linus Tech Tips for intentionally keeping quiet about this after they found out.

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[โ€“] tdawg@lemmy.world 117 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Or, just don't trust ads period

Do your own research

[โ€“] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 38 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Okay, all of these customer reviews loved this product!

Weird how formulaic they sounded though.

[โ€“] tdawg@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Didn't say anything about site reviews either :p

But ya finding good sources can be hard

[โ€“] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Do your own research is the famous last coherent phrase of the QAnon crowd. Idk what the answer is but that phrase will forever make me uneasy.

[โ€“] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How long are we going to let the far right keep stealing our words? It's a proud respectable cryptocurrency term.

[โ€“] AlphaAutist@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Grifters all the way down then

[โ€“] tdawg@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

It's also something leftists famously tell each other ยฏ_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

[โ€“] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Or just don't buy shit you don't need.

[โ€“] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Technically you don't need housing or personal transportation so

[โ€“] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Even nomadic culture have housing they carry with them.

[โ€“] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago

(You don't buy Honey.)