**Official** Physicists are freaks and very weird dudes LC Thread

[jmakin]

Disney is REALLY aggressive with their IP. Moreso than perhaps any other company out there. Have had firsthand experience with this

[All-InFlynn]

Yeah, maybe so.

[ViridianDreams]

Usually the county property appraiser will have an app on their website that lets you look up specific properties (in Florida, at least), or you can search the county records to find the deed, which is a much bigger pita, usually.

[Nozetradamus]

This website has had quite a few god awful derails lately, so I’m just going to LOL at awful Peloton takes here to keep other threads cleaner. Peloton the GOAT.

[clovis8]

Has anyone gotten into microlending? I have been reading about it and it sounds like a great idea. I thought I might put a few thousand dollars into it but not sure which site is best.

[anon10396289]

this was posted in the stonks thread, looks like a tremendous opportunity:

Investing (aka GameStonk and other gambling events)

i remember someone itt had their savings in BlockFi paying 8% interest, here is the cliffs on that “We’re the largest lender of cryptocurrencies to institutional borrowers, who today are primarily market makers and proprietary trading firms that are active in this asset class and have been for a while, but they can’t finance that activity with their traditional prime broker relationships because banks aren’t active in the space yet,” he said. “That’s the reason why the yields are still high,…

[clovis8]

I was thinking more along the lines of lending money to a Honduran weaver or Senegalese goat farmer.

[suzzer99]

Make a loan, change a life | Kiva

I’ve done a few loans with them and given them as a gift.

[SensiblePerson]

I’m guessing you and most folks on this forum know about this but just in case…

Triple parentheses

I’m not saying what the Russian said is false but just be aware that using triple parenthesis gets one into potentially troublesome territory.

[clovis8]

Thanks. I knew they were the big guys so wanted to make sure they were legit.

[microbet]

I was gonna post kiva too. Their website is down supposedly for routine maintenance.

Here’s another:

Zidisha: Help remarkable people achieve their goals

[jmakin]

It is definitely russian slang for lol. I am assuming this is a coincidence. That’s crazy though, I didnt know that.

[anon24898493]

This has been done before. 30 second mark

- YouTube

[miliboo]

Would a Uruguayan peasent farmer count? Asking for a friend.

[microbet]

Clovis should lend you money to get solar.

[suzzer99]

Twitter knows me so well.

NFL and Football? Amazing AI guys.

[Bigoldnit]

Maybe they just want to make sure you don’t miss out on any scorching Premier League takes.

[sumey]

I used to see ))) all the time on Stars when the Russians started playing in big numbers, which I thought was just a type of smile emoji.

I don’t remember ever seeing ((( )))

[MrWookie]

I also use Kiva. It’s probably not going to end world poverty, but it’s an easy and engaging way to do a little good. My wife and I tend to take turns doling out our funds as they come back in.

[Spinetta]

@jmakin

Today’s pointless factoid brought to you by jmakin: the meaning of “)))”

I have a russian teammate who puts ))) after a lot of his comments. I learned today that that is russian for “lol.” I’m re-reading some of his chat messages in that light, and my god, they read a lot differently. This guy’s actually kind of a prick! Not sure if the language barrier is making some of the stuff he says sound more assholish than it was intended, but man, the extra ))) at the end of some of his messages really changes the tone to something condescending a lot of the time.

I also learned that ) is meant to be friendly, )) is meant to be REALLY funny, and )))))) is like an over the top expression.

Just to add to the pointless factoids, in Portuguese “lol” is “kkkkkkkk”. Probably the more "k"s the more intense the laughing.