Zalgiris won drama aganst Maccabi 68-67. There was such huge tension in this game and low final result describes it. Maccabi had chance to win game in last attack, Baldwin made got shot, but missed it. But on attack before Maccabi failed to score with multiple attempts that they had. Efes now offcially eliminated after loss to Fenerbahche. Efes season in a nutshell - they conceded over 100 points in crucial game. Ataman left game before it ended and no - he didn't got ejected https://twitter.com/BasketNews_com/status/1644062318676922392Baskonia is leading against ASVEL at halftime, but it's close game. |
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For now, it's enough that the Finnish government lost the election and resigned.
Don'y worry, with new government Finland's views towards Russia and support to Ukraine won't change. I think you are wishful thinking. Nuclear weapons will not enter Finnish territory even after membership is implemented. Where did he mentioned nuclear weapons? |
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There is a Turkish derby in the Euro League on Thursday. Fenerbahce will host Anadolu Efes, the champion of the last 2 years, at home. Fenerbahçe is the favorite of the match, but it is still not clear. Ephesus has been out of shape lately. He also suffered interesting defeats in the Turkish League. If Efes loses the match, this year's Euroleague adventure will come to an end. Because the top 8 will have lost their chances.
And it's must win game for both teams. Fenerbahche still can't be confident about their place in Top 8. And seems that bookmakers aren't giving signficant advantage to any of teams. But if I would have to pick, I'd go with Fenerbahche win. Also, another crucial game is Zalgiris - Maccabi, must win for Zalgiris. Big factor that Zalgiris play at home where they lost just 4 games out of 16. Baskonia facing ASVEL at home, shouldn't be difficult. |
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And keep NATO unified and NATO membership attractive to other countries, especially those that share a border with Russia.
No other person is more responsible for NATO expansion than Vlad.
Isn't it crazy to think that since invading Ukraine, Russias border with NATO countries has doubled?
From 1213 km to 2553 km. All thanks to Putin, without him it wouldn't had happened. I'm wondering, why Russians still aren't screaming about denazification of Finland and taking Helsinki in 3 days. |
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Sorry Barca but no clean sweep. Vini and Benzema show as usual, the latter on a hattrick now. As Teofo said, evening out things as expected.
Still half an hour to salvage a draw but two goals a bit too much to ask for now, huh.
I would call this result a return to normality. This year, Barcelona are phenomenal in beating outsiders with amazing efficiency (and elements of luck as the score is very often minimal) but at the same time losing to serious opponents devastatingly. As soon as Benzema slightly returned to good form, the defense of Barcelona could not oppose him (and of course Vinnie's great merit). By the way, did anyone notice Lewandowski on the field? I'm too lazy to count now but it looks like Benzema has played fewer games than he has already scored more goals. As Barca fan I have to agree. Beating opponents 1:0 all season long is mix of overperforming and luck. When of concede just 9 goals in 2/3 of La Liga season and then in one game you let opponents to score 4 is really back to reality. Even about first leg - we didn't deserved to win it. Today 1st half was still somewhat OK, but after conceding goals in 2nd half Barca looked completely devastated and let Real to dominate. Not looking for excuses, but absence of injured players like de Jong, Pedri and Dembele affects Barca a lot. Barca won few big games, like last El Clasico in La Liga or Supercopa final, but today and against MU we had no chances. It's good that at least we already have La Liga in our hands. |
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@LTU_btc, have you perhaps checked the BTC address that was sent to you to pay the ransom for your alleged sins? It's already an old trick, but I'm really interested to see if scammers get away with it these days, even though I know that sometimes they send payments to themselves in order to convince potential victims that others are also paying.
In addition to the fact that such messages should be reported as spam, it would be good to report BTC addresses to some of the sites that collect exactly such addresses associated with various BTC scams - maybe someone will check the address and see that the whole story is fake.
Initially I haven't checked his address because I thought that he would make new address for each potential victim. Now I looked into it - now it's empty, but it received in total over 0.024 BTC in 2 transactions. Where exactly I can report this address? I saw similar kind of websites, but now I don't remember their names. https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Spam-and-Scams/Question1669132.htmlThese letters have been sent out since 2019. Just check the link and take a look at the date. Therefore, you should not associate yourself with this unfortunate hacker at all. Your mail was indeed included in the spam mailing list, and it is from this that such letters will be sent to you. To protect yourself and your nerves, try not to subscribe with your email address to any garbage. Thanks. It's new stuff for me. Indeed, that email address got into spam mailing list few years ago. Probably it would be best to abandon this email, but as I said, I only use it for low importance registrations, so, all that junk that I get there doesn't really bothers me. |
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Today I was checking spam folder in one of my emails. Not the main one. I use this email address on low importance sign ups where I don't trust that website that much to use my main email. And I found maybe 40 messages send by same person between 12th and 21th of March. Here is full message that I got (removed password and BTC address from it: Hi, today there are sadly some bad news for you. Your device was infected with my private malware, your browser wasn't updated / patched, in such case it's enough to just visit some website where my iframe is placed to get automatically infected, if you want to find out more, Google: Drive-by exploit. My malware gave me full access to all your accounts, full control over your device and it also was possible to spy on you over your cam. If you think this is some bad joke, no, I know your password: ******* I collected all your private data and I RECORDED YOU (through your cam) SATISFYING YOURSELF! After that I removed my malware to not leave any traces and this email was sent from some hacked server. I can publish the video of you and all your private data on the whole web, social networks, over email and send everything to all your contacts. But you can stop me and only I can help you out in this situation. The only way to stop me, is to pay exactly 900$ in Bitcoin (BTC). It's a very good offer, compared to all that horrible shit that will happen if I publish everything. You can easily buy Bitcoin (BTC) here: www.paxful.com , www.coingate.com , www.coinbase.com , or check for Bitcoin (BTC) ATM near you, or Google for other exchanger. You can send the Bitcoin (BTC) directly to my wallet, or install the free software: Atomicwallet, or: Exodus wallet, then receive and send to mine. My Bitcoin (BTC) wallet is: *************** Yes, that's how the wallet / address looks like, copy and paste it, it's (cAsE-sEnSEtiVE). I give you 3 days time to pay. After receiving the payment, I will remove everything and you can life your live in peace like before, don't worry, I keep my promise. Next time make sure that your device got the newsest security updates. ClientMailID: 6993041 Usually I don't pay attention to such messages, but there is one interesting moment - in few of his message he wrote one password that I really used in some not important websites. In other his messages he wrote password which looks similar to that one, but I haven't used such one. And in few other messages he just wrote some random passwords made from my email address. There is one thing that made me sceptical about him - he wrote that he recorded me satisfying myself with my camera. But there is one thing - there is no camera in front of my PC, so, even if would did what he wrote, there is no chance for him to record it  . Also, he said that my browser wasn't updated, but I always use newest version of browsers. Finally, he gave me 3 days, but few weeks already passed since I got these messages and nothing didn't happened. I also didn't noticed any strange attempts to login to any of my accounts recently. It looks like a bit more sophisticated scam attempt. maybe it's really possible that he got my password from one of websites where I used. For example it can be some IPTV providers or Bitcoin faucets which I used many years ago and who sold their database. I'm not concerned that much because on all websites that really matters I use different and strong websites and 2FA enabled. But I advise for everyone to take safety seriously. Use 2FA, make strong and different website for every website. Don't use your main email address for low importance sign-ups. And don't fall into such scams. |
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Thanks for making this topic. I remember almost all pranks like it was yesterday and I only missed first theymos prank in 2015, as I only signed up here later that year. It's very difficult for me to pick which one was best. I must admit that few times theymos really caught me. That moment when you visit forum in early morning, still didn't wake up fully -a bit WTF is going on, until you realise what date is today . That one with merit requirements was great one. Merit was very hot topic then, it was still fresh thing and there was lot of hate about it. Many people accepted this prank seriously. And KYC requirements - I just burst out laughing when some users seriously started posting their selfies with passports in their hands . theymos is very creative guy to prepare such pranks each year and turned it in tradition, which is awaited by many users here. |
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Why my trust list is empty? There is people here that I trust and don't trust, but it's personal thing and I keep it for myself. I just don't want to get involved into trust system and all drama around it That's too bad: the Trust system needs more users who don't want the drama. My advice: leave feedback to users who deserve it, and include users who's judgement you trust in your Trust list. The more people do that, the less centralized the Trust system becomes. I'm OK with leaving feedbacks and I should do it when it's needed, even my feedback as non DT member don't have that much weight. But I have no intentions to become DT2 or DT1 member. I really don't want that someone would analyze my trust list, my judgement and etc. Less centralised trust system is good thing, but no, I'll stay away from these things as I used to do during all my time here. everyone has the right to keep his trust list as he thinks is best for him, I assume that you understood that no one here blames you for that. The discussion in which you were mentioned refers to the fact that cygan added you to his trust list, although you yourself want to stay out of it. when you add to that the fact that your list is empty, as well as your sent feedback page, adding you is completely pointless and has no effect.
this example only confirms that cygan did not have any important criteria when adding members to his trust list. since this is not the only case, it now casts a shadow over all his choices and other lines in his list.
As I said, I understand that he didn't had important enough reasons to include me to his Trust list. But I think that he already learned that he made mistake. |
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Given how many high-profile individuals Putin's regime killed in elaborate ways (falling out of windows, poison, explosives, beating, disappearing, or just old plain shooting on the street) I'd say chances of "vladlen" falling victim of some MOD/FSB/PMC conflict are higher than Ukrainian conspiracy. Despite being an utter pro-war nutjob he was quite critical of the MOD in particular.
Which would be even better... I mean Ukrainians could do a few attacks like that, but Russian power structures fighting each other could inflict much more damage on themselves. Fingers crossed.
I also think more likely that it was done by Russian power structures, rather than by Ukrainians. As you said, he was nutjob, but he wasn't even first tier propagandist like Solovyov, Skabeeva or Simonyan. Somehow I doubt that Ukrainians would make such operation which wouldn't have much effect, other than satisfaction. It's a bit similar story like killing Darya Dugina, but then it was obvious that target was her father, not she. IMO, it's more likely that someone in Russia decided to remove him. And it brings message to other propagandists that they should think about what they're talking. Anyway, nobody can feel safe now in Russia, even if they're so far way from frontline. |
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Good game LTU_btc! Entered my no research picks already for cup, BTW you are forced to answer Round 1 questions otherwise you cannot submit  Wouldn't call it good game. Both of us collected just 2 points from all questions, when there is some with 5-6 and even 7. And I'm a bit afraid that something similar can happen for me in Cup. I naswered question in way that it can simply great or completely terrible . Yes, I fully agree. Sorry it happened to you, you deserved a point here but once announced, we can't change the rules.
It's especially hard to put tennis questions into BSFL - we have to put them days in advance and tennis is too important to be left out.
We also have to calculate so many things - with Alcaraz a big favorite h2h in this question would have lead to many draws - but what happened this time was even worse.
Things like these will help us do it better in the future though - but it's hard when you're the one that suffers because of it.
Tennis questions is must have thing, but I imagine how difficult to make it basically week in advance. I'm not sure what can be done to improve these things. Maybe tennis question can be given separately from all questions before late phases of tournaments before semifinals or final for example. I'm not sure that's good idea, I gave it more like example, maybe others have something to offer. |
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Anyway 1 last game to play and I think my opponent in BSFL is going to win this week yellow cap, damn you LTU_btc!
I didn't responded to your post until end of round to not jinx . But yeah, it seems that this week I will share yellow cap with @hahay and @icopress. Not bad round for me, but Valencia had to ruin it for me. I made a bet on them, so Free Bet for yellow cap will cover my loses. Referee awarded cheap penalty which saved Valencia from loss, but draw at home with Rayo doesn't helps them to run away from relegation zone. We have Copa Del Rey semifinals this week - Athletic - Osasuna tomorrow and El Clasico at Camp Nou on Wednesday. I just remind that in first leg Barca achieved a bit strange 0:1 win, which was a bit against game logic. |
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Not goingto repeat what was said, but ending of race was ridiculous. That last red flag and finish behind safety car... In such situations I like what NASCAR is doing - they add extra laps to the race. But probably such thing isn't possible in F1, cars would run out of fuel. But I think it's not good decision to give standing restart. Maybe rolling restart isn't such exciting, but it's much safer option. That crash between Ocon and Gasly immediately gave me flashbacks to Perez and Ocon fights at Force India. I would be surprised if we will see similar accidents again this season. Easy win for Verstappen,but obviously he wasn't happy about all these red flags and restarts - risk that something will go wrong was big. While P5 for Perez is best what he could achieve, overtaking in this track is so difficult. The good news is that now we have 1 month of pause since the Chinese GP has been removed and not replaced, so cars can improve.
Good news? C'mon, season just started and now we have such long 1 month break. I will miss F1 too much. |
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i understand the trust system already so slowly and your hints/posts/links have contributed to it now quite a bit 🙏 please give me some time now so that i can revise my trust list calmly and carefully I see you've included LTU_btc on your Trust list. That doesn't make sense either: he never left any feedback and hasn't included anyone in his Trust list. There's literally no way of knowing whether or not he'll use the Trust system correctly, so he shouldn't be on DT2. Note that I'm not saying he'll abuse it, it just doesn't make sense to include him at this point. I see my name mentioned here, so, I'll add my input. I interacted with cygan multiple times and I trust him. For example, I participate in his organised Bundesliga prediction pool where he also acts as escrow. Also, he organised contest where I won Ledger wallet and he delivered it to me: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5406852.msg61660355#msg61660355Fact that I haven't left trust feedbacks to anyone, main reason is my laziness, not because that I don't know how I use it correctly. Cygan and few other guys deserved it for what they have done. But yeah, I agree that probably he didn't had to add me to his trust list - I haven't done anything significant for it. Why my trust list is empty? There is people here that I trust and don't trust, but it's personal thing and I keep it for myself. I just don't want to get involved into trust system and all drama around it |
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Ajax lost 2 more points this week with a draw away to Go Ahead Eagles and with Feyenoord's win the points difference between them is now 8. Of course Ajax was the better team in the match but they didn't make the most of their chances.
Feyenoord, on the other hand, are slowly marching towards the championship.I must say that they had a very comfortable win against Sparta rotterdam.Although the opponent was not an easy opponent, the fact that they had so many shots and positions on the road shows this.
Seems that G. A. Eagles is very difficult opponent for Ajax - it's already 4th game in a row ehen they failed to win against them. And now when they let Feyenoord 8 points away, their situation looks very complicated now. Feyenoord won Rotterdam derby against Sparta 3:1 and it's one of key games in last phase of season - derby is never easy to win. And when you look at remaining Feyenoord matches - it's difficult to imagine them wasting 8 points lead. Now Ajax have only chance remaining to win something this season - they have Cup semifinal against Ajax on Wednesday. |
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Looks like I got the yellow cap for this weekend. First time when this happens and even if my picks were on point , it was still a very controversial race that will continue to spark discussion until next race.
Congratulations with yellow cap and extra prize from Sportsbet. I really wanted to win that hoodie and hat from Sportsbet and I were so close :/ Im going to do a unpopular opinion, for me was a good race but totally thrown away by race direction.
Man you cant pull a red flag for every minimal thing in the track. Im getting tired about the security concerns excuse, they are killing the sport. In the first Safety car, and then Red flag , it was no chance to that was a red flag, the car was really well placed and the crane was near to took off really fast, for cleaning the track?, yes no problem, for what you have ton of personel and 97356363 cameras plus GPS and the safety car on track, it was only sweep some gravel.
And the red flag from the final.... absolute shameless. WHY? and we come back to the so called "SAFETY" and you put the drivers in a new standidng start and you know hey are gonna go ALL IN in the first turn, and the chance of chaos are HUGE.
This is pure TV order to get drama not matter a what cost, they destroyed strategies, and in some case the whole race (like Alpine).
About the pool..... with that end destroy all the predictions we can make.
I agree and disagree with some your thoughts. I think that today we hat situations when no matter what decision stewards will make, there will be someone who is unhappy about it. First red flag is somewhat understandable, there was lot of gravel on track. Though, maybe it was possible to clean traack without red flag. Second red flag - it's not about safety, they just didn't wanted to finish races behind safety car like season in Monza. And third red flag was joke, but decision to return positions was right according to the rules because they didn't completed full lap after restart. That last lap behind safety car was ridiculous. I like what NASCAR is doing in similar situations, they just add some extra lap. Maybe all these security concerns killing sport, but thanks to it now we avoid fatal accidents. Remember when most of us were complaining about Halo when F1 introduced it, but now there is no questions about it. |
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The most I managed to get was 7 and its no easy game to play I must say. Having to concentrate on the speed at which the bird is flying and at what point its projectile motion is bound to go up and down while passing through the pipes. I didn't get it at first but, its challenging and couldnlead to some addiction for a day if we pick up the challenge. There isn't anyone that could make required quota. I'll like to have someone try! []quote] I don't know, maybe I'm just getting old, but in my childhood these kind of games looked much more easier. I'm trying to play it now and it reacts to every mouse click so sensitive, it's just impossible. Just something I noted!
The game didn't pop up using browsers that permits you to view posts up ahead while typing right beneath. Don't know if you guys get the point but, that's some free pass.
There always shoudl be back door for cheaters . |
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Damn, you're really asking to collect 99 coins to make post? It' simply cruel. I rather would join spammers club. My best attempt so far was 5 coins. And there is so much pain when you manage to go through pipes, but fail to take coins . theymos, what a great April Fool's Day prank! And now I'm trying to imagine what if it's not prank? |
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