The cake is a lie

found on Acid Cow

I think we all know that something about this cake is not right. If you found this in the break room fridge, would you steal a slice anyway? I would not. At least, I wouldn't steal the first piece - I'd let someone else test it for me before I chowed down on delicious cake.

As predictable as the seasons

from here

I've seen enough bitcoin 'give-aways' to know where this is going. These days most bitcoin give-aways are scams. Even if this one is legit, there are going to be so many fraudulent variations that people won't know which is the real one.

It may be that life imitates art, but business should know better than to imitate fraud. Free money usually falls under the heading of too good to be true, but this is going to lend an air of credibility to the concept and people are going to get burned as a result.

What could possibly go wrong?

from here and here

I imagine Alexei Navalny would advise against accepting vaccines from these particular strangers.

Never mind the fact that "free" is often used to lure in unsuspecting victims for all sorts of scams and  the fact that a vaccine for something no one else has a vaccine for yet meets the criteria for too good to be true. This is a nation that has a reputation for poisoning people.

Free skepticism training

found on Piximus

There are all sorts of things that are too good to be true; from the free cuddle tunnel to the free candy van, to free Nigerian prince money, to free wooden horse statues. Have you noticed the commonality? They're all free. Anything of value being offered for free is usually too good to be true. It's enough to make you second guess anything that's free - and perhaps you should.