Comments on: The tide turns against Sam Bankman-Fried

By: TJ

TJ — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 02:18:27 +0000

THIS thread display’s Neo’s correction and contrarianism at her finest.

I’m siding with Art Deco. Chuckling through and through.

Then comes her last Bon Mot to wendybar: “I would say the better term is coup” — not something equivocal like “insurrection.”

LOL! Touché.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 19:12:31 +0000

The shooting at Oxford HS in Michigan about a year ago had a result I hadn’t seen before. The shooter’s parents–he was a student there–are being prosecuted for making a gun available (this seems more likely than just having one for Dad which wasn’t secured) to the kid and for not getting him professional help. The latter is likely to be a Pandora’s box and probably only applies to people too poor to afford good defense attorneys.
But…is there some reason, should this turn out to be a charge in a trial, not to apply the same thing to SBF’s parents?

By: neo

neo — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 18:44:09 +0000

wendybar:

I would say the better term is coup.

By: wendybar

wendybar — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 14:35:50 +0000

Wasn’t his helping to steal an election an INSURRECTION?? It was definitely more than what they claim was an insurrection on 1/6/21.

By: Philus

Philus — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 02:15:26 +0000

Sorry if you lost your child’s college fund to some dude and a girl who looks like she could play a caterpillar in an elementary school play.

By: fullmoon

fullmoon — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 02:03:45 +0000

I generally blame; climate change, Trump, and the parents.

By: neo

neo — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 00:45:47 +0000

John Tyler:

And even identical twins can sometimes turn out very different from each other.

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 00:43:48 +0000

Hes a clear flight risk why should he get any bail. You think he had any actual control of the funds no he was just a front man

By: JohnTyler

JohnTyler — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 00:30:38 +0000

How kids turn out is a crap shoot.

How many times have we all seen siblings, very near in age,raised in the same home by their parents, going to the same school, etc , and one is the “ideal” child and the other a total mess.

Aside from identical twins, siblings do not share identical DNA; they share about 50% of their DNA, but not the same exact half. Perhaps this is why siblings may turn out quite different.
Not everybody responds the same manner to a given set of circumstances.

Who knows why SBF turned out to be a lying, two faced, thieving SOB.
He is not stupid; he has a physics degree from MIT which probably means he scored near 800 on his math SAT.

Given his background, I would venture to guess he is one arrogant individual who believed he had it all figured out, given that most investors never had the smarts to get into MIT (or equal).
He probably did have it all figured out until he didn’t.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 23:34:27 +0000

Parents tend to know that although we may try our best, the whole thing is always, always, always at least somewhat of a crapshoot. Toughlove is no guarantee of anything, either.

I’ve discussed that above and I’ve seen it up close and personal. The relationship between rearing and outcome is very hit and miss. That having been said, we know something about how his mother and how his aunt understand personal responsibility. We also know something about how his mother and father respond to novel situations. (Importuning the prison authorities for vegan meals for their son, for example).