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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • “So far, almost all studies of gut neurotransmitters were conducted in adult animals or human subjects, where a specific gut cell type called enterochromaffin cells produce neurotransmitters,” said Dr. Zeng. “However, we discovered that this isn’t the case in the newborn gut where most of the serotonin is made by bacteria that are more abundant in the neonatal gut.”

    Had no idea serotonin has other uses. Watch, the gut be responsible for modern wide spread depression.




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    6 months ago

    Cake Pay is registered in St Kitts, for instance. But it doesn’t matter. Playing the ignorant middle man can get you legal for the most part.

    And I guarantee you that their source of cards is not directly from the retailer.

    But whatever. If you don’t want to believe me and just want to run with binders on for that sweet 30% off your Amazon purchase, that’s your business.


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    6 months ago

    Being a “registered business” doesn’t mean anything. Especially when they’re in loose jurisdictions with little to no laws or enforcement. And it sure doesn’t mean they aren’t sketchy and the origin of the cards isn’t ethically dubious or even illegal.

    You don’t ever wonder how they pay like 50% (or less) on the card’s face value and resell them at 70-80% for a profit?

    I worked a bit on a competitor service and the brokers are all not people I ever want to interact with again. We tried to pierce the veil a little bit and the least sketchy source examples we got were like mechanical turk workers getting paid in gift cards (wage theft basically), and immigrants trying to send money back home to their family from the US (something crypto was supposed to help with).



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    6 months ago

    The whole gift card secondary market is sketchy as fuck though. I’ve dipped my foot in a bit and it seems like most of the inventory is the result of scammers converting their gains into usable currency.

    Not all of it for sure. Sometimes people just want to unload gift cards they’ll never use. But that seems like the exception rather than the rule.

    Like, why is this dude from Nigeria selling tens of thousands of dollars worth of US-locked gift cards?

    Also, all these large companies and regulatory bodies are completely aware of this shit. I don’t know why it’s tolerated.