I got scammed this November by an objectively evil company that offered to send me a Mario Tennis Aces Nintendo Switch bundle on Black Friday for $310 with shipping, and about three weeks later, PayPal issued me an instant refund. Thanks, PayPal.

 This is the website:

Apparently you can't get a PS5 anymore so clearly a Nintendo fan is the only one that might still be tricked by this. Or maybe they made a new website for that and I just wasn't searching for it. Not that a PS5 wouldn't be cool, but obviously Nintendo is better. After being issued a refund, I sucked it up and bought the Animal Crossing bundle from GameStop. You know, I'm just thankful that it was still available, and that I didn't have to pay $600, nor did I pay $400 to a $&#%ing scalper.

Edit: Wow it's more than $400 now. It feels like a scam when the Animal Crossing Switch doesn't come with Animal Crossing, but maybe that means you just missed out on a deal. I won't miss out on the Nintendo eShop deals. Dude they have Final Fantasies 7-9 at half price 🤩

In passive income news, I discovered that, despite being more profitable than Bitrad.io, Current often suspends accounts that use their service. They received another e-mail:

Just to be fair, it has paid out in the past and likely has to do with the $100 Amazon gift card that I should receive by e-mail shortly. If you want to use my referral link to Current, you can find it in Bitcoin and Physics.

Edit: This still hasn't been resolved, but it was Christmas so maybe they deserve a break. Besides, I can get BEST Radio at any streaming quality I want on Bitrad.io, which you would love if you're into Electronic music at all. I was streaming it at 128 kbps before, but 192 is definitely a little bit better. Not sure if it's German or on what frequencies, but there are no commercials on top of it usually playing good music.

This sort of payment is why smart contracts are ideal, but lest us forget that the use of the word 'contract' does not necessarily imply 'fair' or 'just'.

If I were a developer I would probably include something stupid in the Terms of Use like "Your soul is mine" just so I could bring that up in court.

Computers are the future, but also really annoying and completely entwined with modern society.

It's weird. Remember when video game consoles didn't have to be connected to the internet? Remember when they didn't connect to the internet at all? Lol maybe you don't... There is still a lot of charm in the simplicity, and I don't think that's just nostalgia. I bought a wired Switch controller on purpose, not just because it was cheaper, but because it won't be radiating microwaves or infrared while it is in use.

Memory is kind of a complex thing, too. Bitcoin is written in c++, and memory locations might be the second hardest concept to conceptualize after bitswapping. Or the easiest, maybe. It is kind of how the brain works.

Maybe consciousness can be programmed...

A dandelion overwinters in its roots and plenty of microscopic organisms do something like that, too. Consciousness appears to be linked to a self-organizing spatial arrangement of information, which a computer should be able to make. Is that consciousness though, or is it just a response to stimuli?

Sometimes two humans can't agree on the outcome a single event recorded in both of their memory banks, which does beg the question as to whether either of them were ever 'conscious' of it at all.

Then some people have the nerve to call themselves 'woke' at you while the real woke people are somewhere else in the universe.

Maybe we're just lots of billions of copies of responses to stimuli plus trillions more responses to stimuli that live on and inside of us. That's a lot of trillions of responses to stimuli. Those responses can be explained by chemistry if you know enough of it, and the forces that dictate them can be explained by physics if you know enough of it. 

You have to know enough of it though.

You probably don't know enough of it, but you do know enough of it to be you.

Is that enough?

I think it depends.

That's the cop-out answer though. 

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