This isn’t happening left and right. It’s an attack against specific industries, like crypto and finance. It’s one part of a broader pattern of attacks.
"As a [role,gender,national ] posting from [country, city]..
[I agree with parent] *2 sentences .
[Actual opinion\story to push]
[Reminder on connting nationality/location ] "Thats my two Eurocents on that, take it or leave it ."
Its hyper fake, formulaic responses topic tugboats, but people go and engage in good faith all the time .
It's just like the bar scene in Inglorious Bastards, with the fingers. There are so many obvious tells you can have people divulge if they aren't actually telling the truth.
A counterstory: When my former boss started at the company, for the first years [!] he only "knew" very specific places (office, appartment, and one or two places associated with intensely practiced hobbies of him) in the city where the company is located, and basically lived inside the bubbles associated with these places and their surroundings.
Thus, to me it is very plausible that even if you lived in a city for many years, it is very easy to live in very isolated bubbles, and have barely any contact to people and their habits outside these bubbles.
Later I looked more closely at the resume and saw some more red flags, like, he had a degree from "CA State University" -- like, which of the 23 CSUs bro?
We did have a couple fake people make it to the final round, the last one was cheating and still bombing -- I sent a picture to the guy who did the second-round interview like "is this the Jason Smith you interviewed?" and he said "Lol, no"
I lived in NYC for a year and I have no clue. My answer would be probably something along the line of "Haha! Yeah. Traffic is terrible in the city... or so do my friends with cars say. I for one take the subway everywhere, so no clue what you are talking about. But sounds like a pain! Hope you were not delayed too long."
> It's just like the bar scene in Inglorious Bastards, with the fingers.
The problem is that's a work of fiction. These shibboleth tests work great in fiction where the author has full control over the whole universe. Work less well in reality where "universal" signals turn out to be a lot less universal. You will have a ton of false positives and a ton of false negatives.
But my point is that the “everyone in X calls Y Z” kind of trivia is not reliable way to say if someone is in X. For example because not everyone in X is native to X. Also because many would use the proper and official name of the landmark in an interview setting.
If you assist NK, then you’re hurting crypto but you’re funding NK operations (e.g. NK soldiers assisting Russia against Ukraine).
Regulation is just repression, rebranded.
I simply don't care anymore. Cryptocurrency's value is as a cultural shibboleth to identify individuals who deserve social interaction.