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big scary monsters
Sep 2, 2011

-~Skullwave~-
the kind of guy who'd hit the brakes if a child ran out in front of his car. that's just the sort of good person ross is

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theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS
Young Orc
ross never ever ever stole another kid's lunch money, but instead relied on the single twenty dollar bill we sent him to school with every day

theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

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Young Orc
ross never failed to pay his rent - even with the massive amount of time he dedicated to earning all the achievements in Halo 4, he always remembered to write the check, take our money out of his bank account, and have it arrive on the correct day. once, he even had to go to the post office to get stamps

theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

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Young Orc
ross loved the environment, which is why he chose a tesla as his graduation gift, rather than a fuel-inefficient corvette

theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

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Young Orc
ross had an active tumblr account, where he would not only upvote grayscaled pictures about how racism is bad, but he would sometimes reblog them, as well

theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS
Young Orc
once, ross gave the change remaining in his pocket to a presumably homeless man playing the guitar, had to be at least 73 cents, maybe as high as 90

gschmidl
Sep 3, 2011

watch with knife hands

Dren posted:

could someone please explain the anti-UN thing in like three sentences

The oh so powerful UN (if you didn't notice) is a placeholder for the Antichrist leading a One World Government to exterminate all Christians. This loving stupidest of all ideas, and I'm aware I'm saying that in a bitcoin thread, is literally influencing real-world US politics, especially the Israel position.

JamesieAB
Nov 5, 2005
Don't forget the black helicopters, chem trails and FEMA death camps (why do they need all those body bags anyway?).

theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS
Young Orc

gschmidl posted:

The oh so powerful UN (if you didn't notice) is a placeholder for the Antichrist leading a One World Government to exterminate all Christians. This loving stupidest of all ideas, and I'm aware I'm saying that in a bitcoin thread, is literally influencing real-world US politics, especially the Israel position.

This effect is really, really overstated. anti-UN sentiment is more about americans presuming we're in charge and not liking the idea of anything being at a higher level than USA USA USA

divabot
Jun 17, 2015

A polite little mouse!

jre posted:

:psyduck: Jesus were they trying to get him life, who the gently caress writes that thinking it will help.

I fear his mother runs that site.

gschmidl
Sep 3, 2011

watch with knife hands

theflyingorc posted:

This effect is really, really overstated. anti-UN sentiment is more about americans presuming we're in charge and not liking the idea of anything being at a higher level than USA USA USA

Well, the idiots believing this aren't (yet) in power, but... Ted Cruz is one of them.

Evrart Claire
Jan 11, 2008

theflyingorc posted:

This effect is really, really overstated. anti-UN sentiment is more about americans presuming we're in charge and not liking the idea of anything being at a higher level than USA USA USA

when the left behind books were at their peak popularity with the evangelist crowd it really ramped up the UN = Antichrist paranoia

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

gschmidl posted:

Well, the idiots believing this aren't (yet) in power, but... Ted Cruz is one of them.
ted cruz is a canadian

theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS
Young Orc

Zerilan posted:

when the left behind books were at their peak popularity with the evangelist crowd it really ramped up the UN = Antichrist paranoia

i traveled in those circles for a long time, and while the ENDTIMES!!! crowd are real people and there are way too many of them and they do vote, they represent a subsection of a subsection of evangelical christianity

Dex
May 26, 2006

Quintuple x!!!

Would not escrow again.

VERY MISLEADING!

theflyingorc posted:

ross never ever ever stole another kid's lunch money, but instead relied on the single twenty dollar bill we sent him to school with every day

lol

trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy
Stephen Hawking does an ama so of loving course

quote:

Hello Professor Hawking! It's an honor.

I wonder if you're familiar with Bitcoin, the decentralized ledger system that runs on a world-wide distributed computer network. And if you are, have you also heard of Ethereum? This is a newer blockchain system that boasts a turing-complete instruction set, making it potentially the most "Skynet-like" system in the future. Do you think a system like this could be the beginning of a sentient computer system? Possibly with or without the potential to run out of our control?

quote:

15hrs later and no answer :(

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



mc hawking gonna drive by a chump

univbee
Jun 3, 2004




trucutru posted:

15hrs later and no answer

he's still waiting for another 36 confirmations before answering :rolleyes:

theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

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Young Orc
hello, program is on a lot of computer, so could it be a skynet????

seriously dummies that's not how bitcoins work it's like asking if SETI@home might become skynet

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy

Dren posted:

could someone please explain the anti-UN thing in like three sentences

If you're crazy Christian, it's bc of the Antichrist
If you're neocon it's bc you don't want the French blocking your wars or charging you with war crimes
If you're a racist redneck advocate of state's rights the UN is like the federal government but even worse and they're going to ban all your guns and make it illegal to beat your kids

These are not mutually exclusive categories (actually they're barely distinct)

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum
also agenda 21 means they're going to take over the usa and institute socalesm

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Dren posted:

could someone please explain the anti-UN thing in like three sentences
Premillenial Dispensationalists believe that they are literally living in the last days of the world and that horrible poo poo is gonna go down when it ends.

Most of the really nasty poo poo they predict comes out of Revelation, which was written at a time when Rome was actively seeking to subdue and dominate Judea.

One school of interpretation holds that Revelation directly describes events occurring in 1st century Judea, so if you map the major players in Revelation onto real-world powers in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the only real choice you have for that foreign power is the UN.

There, that's it in 3 long sentences.

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

anthonypants posted:

also agenda 21 means they're going to take over the usa and institute socalesm

:toot:

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill
not far enough if you ask me

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
reminder that george w bush tried to sell the president of france on the iraq war using a reference to revelation and he had to ask an advisor what the gently caress bush was talking about

Sentient Data
Aug 31, 2011

My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!

theflyingorc posted:

seriously dummies that's not how bitcoins work it's like asking if SETI@home might become skynet

I may be giving them too much credit, but if I were a butter I'd be baiting as many famous people as possible with idiotic questions.

They want him to say "no, you dumbass" because they can say "even the world-renowned genius and futurist Stephen Dawkins Einstein IV spoke on bitcoin's potential to shape humanity's future"

Weatherman
Jul 30, 2003

WARBLEKLONK

Sentient Data posted:

Stephen Dawkins Einstein IV

:eyepop:

JamesieAB
Nov 5, 2005

anthonypants posted:

also agenda 21 means they're going to take over the usa and institute socalesm

Not just socalesm but gay black poor socalesm, which is the wurst socalesm!

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

haveblue posted:

reminder that george w bush tried to sell the president of france on the iraq war using a reference to revelation and he had to ask an advisor what the gently caress bush was talking about

gog and magog.

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

Sentient Data posted:

Stephen Dawkins Einstein
one of these things is not like the others, one of these things just isn't the same

trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

Sham bam bamina! posted:

one of these things is not like the others, one of these things just isn't the same

yes but it is not nice to remind people of their disabilities

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

Sham bam bamina! posted:

one of these things is not like the others, one of these things just isn't the same

did anyone say dick dorkcoin yet?

Heresiarch
Oct 6, 2005

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that no single book is. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

theflyingorc posted:

This effect is really, really overstated. anti-UN sentiment is more about americans presuming we're in charge and not liking the idea of anything being at a higher level than USA USA USA

which is extra hilarious considering the us is on the un security council and has veto power over drat near everything the un does that isn't purely symbolic

blugu64
Jul 17, 2006

Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?

theflyingorc posted:

SETI@home might become skynet

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

haveblue posted:

reminder that george w bush tried to sell the president of france on the iraq war using a reference to revelation and he had to ask an advisor what the gently caress bush was talking about

I would like more information about this

Suspicious
Apr 30, 2005
You know he's the villain, because he's got shifty eyes.
christian fundies think the end of the world is coming any day now just like bitcoiners think the dollar will collapse any day now

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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A Pinball Wizard posted:

I would like more information about this

In the winter of 2003, when George Bush and Tony Blair were frantically gathering support for their planned invasion, Professor Thomas Römer, an Old Testament expert at the university of Lausanne, was rung up by the Protestant Federation of France. They asked him to supply them with a summary of the legends surrounding Gog and Magog and as the conversation progressed, he realised that this had originally come, from the highest reaches of the French government.

President Jacques Chirac wanted to know what the hell President Bush had been on about in their last conversation. Bush had then said that when he looked at the Middle East, he saw "Gog and Magog at work" and the biblical prophecies unfolding. But who the hell were Gog and Magog? Neither Chirac nor his office had any idea. But they knew Bush was an evangelical Christian, so they asked the French Federation of Protestants, who in turn asked Professor Römer.


click for rest

p much distilled :psyduck:

Herman Merman
Jul 6, 2008

trucutru posted:

Stephen Hawking does an ama so of loving course

i wanna hear hawking say "buttcoin" in his emotionless robot voice

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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jony ive aces posted:

yeah no poo poo

look at this urotypical oppressing my special needs piss

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Dren
Jan 5, 2001

Pillbug

:lol:

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