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BIG HORNY COW posted:Been watching a youtube channel of some Silicon Valley tech dumbass who bought an abandoned mining town on the mountain above where they filmed Tremors. He's obsessed with finding old Levis and will eventually die in a cave-in because he keeps going into the mine and disturbing boxes full of blasting caps. Lmao at that video
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Nov 10, 2020 14:42
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comedyblissoption posted:bitcoin has value and is a commodity just like gold [citation needed] I will grant that sentence is true for certain very specific definitions of nearly all the words in it, but it's also intentionally misleading/dumb
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Nov 10, 2020 14:55
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when you realize bitcoin and gold is the same is when you crack ping further
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Nov 10, 2020 15:19
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TT was extremely correct in his portrayal of goldbuggery.
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Nov 10, 2020 15:21
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comedyblissoption posted:when you realize bitcoin and gold is the same is when you crack ping further oh ok you are just on drugs
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Nov 10, 2020 15:26
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The Bloop posted:oh ok you are just on drugs i think it is more of a joke about how they are both hoarded by libertarians for the same reasons that only they care about
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Nov 10, 2020 15:44
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there is a huge difference between gold and bitcoins. when you want more gold you dig a hole into the earth and get some gold out. when you want some more bitcoins you dig a hole into the Eternal Realm of Forms and get some NUMBER out. completely different
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Nov 10, 2020 15:47
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Many people do treat them the same stupid ways. Bitcoin certainly WANTS to be gold. Gold being tangible and intrinsically useful for various things kind of sets it apart though Bitcoin is a scam, some people can be on the winning side of the scam. Selling gold on Fox news is the same kind of scam, but that doesn't make gold, in and of itself, a scam, where bitcoin will never be anything else
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Nov 10, 2020 15:47
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If nothing else, at the end of the day, you can hit someone with a hunk of gold. How does bitcoin fare as a melee weapon?
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Nov 10, 2020 15:49
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what you idiots don't realize is that someday bitcoins will be food for roko's basilisk so get 'em while you can
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Nov 10, 2020 15:49
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Serf posted:what you idiots don't realize is that someday bitcoins will be food for roko's basilisk so get 'em while you can An autophagistic prophecy
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Nov 10, 2020 15:51
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Skippy McPants posted:If nothing else, at the end of the day, you can hit someone with a hunk of gold. How does bitcoin fare as a melee weapon? very poorly but given its impact on global warming you probably kill more people with the bitcoin regardless
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Nov 10, 2020 16:15
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Kitfox88 posted:It's great out there for a leftist furry. yo, what's your take on this article that's partly about alt-right furries? https://medium.com/@DeoTasDevil/how-white-nationalism-courts-internet-nerd-culture-b4ebad07863d
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Nov 10, 2020 16:33
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If push comes to shove you could always fashion your bitcoins into decorative jewelry to make you high status clear to everyone.
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Nov 10, 2020 16:39
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withak posted:If push comes to shove you could always fashion your bitcoins into decorative jewelry to make you high status clear to everyone. My second life character is just festooned with dogecoin it's great
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Nov 10, 2020 16:42
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Gold is actually useful as material. It doesn't rust, so good for jewelry and stuff, but also useful in electronics manufacturing.
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Nov 10, 2020 18:26
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Skippy McPants posted:If nothing else, at the end of the day, you can hit someone with a hunk of gold. How does bitcoin fare as a melee weapon? store your wallet on one of those old rear end hard drives that weighs like 15 pounds
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Nov 10, 2020 18:45
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Giga Gaia posted:store your wallet on one of those old rear end hard drives that weighs like 15 pounds maybe core rope memory could be used as a whip?
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Nov 10, 2020 18:48
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Nov 10, 2020 18:55
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MonsieurChoc posted:Gold is actually useful as material. It doesn't rust, so good for jewelry and stuff, but also useful in electronics manufacturing. Gold is valuable because it is relatively inert, dense and rare enough to be ideal as a storage material for wealth. Cultures old and new have had different solutions for physical representations of wealth, gold did a pretty good job of it, so it stuck around and spread.
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Nov 10, 2020 19:03
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a gig economy app for taking advantage of vital organ arbitrage. extremely lovely cyberpunk dystopia
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Nov 10, 2020 20:43
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Nov 10, 2020 20:49
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shovelbum posted:Overland campers like that have always been a thing, many built on larger commercial trucks or military or industrial vehicles. It didn't seem that bad until I saw the base price for a no frills model $650,000 BIG HORNY COW posted:Been watching a youtube channel of some Silicon Valley tech dumbass who bought an abandoned mining town on the mountain above where they filmed Tremors. He's obsessed with finding old Levis and will eventually die in a cave-in because he keeps going into the mine and disturbing boxes full of blasting caps. bike tory posted:Isn't there gold in like every microprocessor in the world? Seems pretty useful imo.
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Nov 10, 2020 21:48
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Nothus posted:The best part was when he accidentally burned down the hotel he was restoring, thus ending his plans to make it a tourist destination. I think he started rooting around the mine for trash shortly afterwards. Dude doesn't seem like he's bad, just sort of clueless about how much work that place is gonna be. Can't wait to find out what he does in the dead of winter when theres like 3 feet of snow up there and no heat.
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Nov 10, 2020 22:23
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'buying a ghost town' is one of those ideas I would totally be dumb enough to think I could pull off if I had enough money to burn. Then I would die in a mine and haunt the place, increasing the value for the next idiot.
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Nov 10, 2020 22:32
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Twitter just threw a tweet from Seth Rogan in my timeline and under the category "Famous comedians", like they're just going to throw random categories in my timeline to try to spice it up unless I find some obscure setting, and then I x'd out of it "Interests: These are some of the interests matched to you based on your profile, activity, and the Topics you follow. These are used to personalize your experience across Twitter, including the ads you see. You can adjust your interests if something doesn’t look right. Any changes you make may take a little while to go into effect." and then there are 1000 checkboxes with no "uncheck all" button. I only want to see accounts that I've followed. How do I do that?  I'm already using AdBlock Plus. I don't trust accounts suggestions from "the algorithm" not to be subtly brainwashing me like an adloving tech companies always mess even their interfaces up. galenanorth has issued a correction as of 22:38 on Nov 10, 2020 |
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Nov 10, 2020 22:34
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Twitter's much more usable if you just have bookmarks to the accounts you like and don't have an account at all.MonsieurChoc posted:Gold is actually useful as material. It doesn't rust, so good for jewelry and stuff, but also useful in electronics manufacturing. lol at the idea of people 1000+ years ago being like "this will be useful to future hypothetical lightning-wizards, we must value it accordingly" Tulip has issued a correction as of 22:38 on Nov 10, 2020 |
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Nov 10, 2020 22:35
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galenanorth posted:Twitter just threw a tweet from Seth Rogan in my timeline and under the category "Famous comedians", like they're just going to throw random categories in my timeline to try to spice it up unless I find some obscure setting, and then I x'd out of it Using Twitters website is a chumps game. If you're on a computer use the Tweetdeck fork Tweeten. If on a phone use something like Plume / Fenix. gently caress letting the algorithm decide what you want to see.
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Nov 10, 2020 22:39
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Tulip posted:Twitter's much more usable if you just don't.
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Nov 10, 2020 22:40
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bike tory posted:Trump's team wanted to book the Four Seasons Hotel for a presser but the hotel refused to take the booking, so they booked Four Seasons Landscaping, a random landscape gardening shop in the middle of nowhere instead. OK that's loving funny, thank you.
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Nov 10, 2020 22:41
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Facebook Aunt posted:You just have to trust that your government isn't going to go insane. That''s the rub of it though isn't it?
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Nov 10, 2020 22:51
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Inceltown posted:Using Twitters website is a chumps game. If you're on a computer use the Tweetdeck fork Tweeten. If on a phone use something like Plume / Fenix. gently caress letting the algorithm decide what you want to see. Twitterrific gets my vote for iOS / macOS.
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Nov 10, 2020 22:56
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There is gold in pawnshops today that was mined by ancient Egyptians. It can be melted down and reforged indefinitely. The value of a Bitcoin is basically the total amount of money invested by idiots into Bitcoin, divided by the number of Bitcoins actively floating around the cybereconomy.
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Nov 10, 2020 23:03
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Bitcoin is endlessly dumb for lots of reasons, but perhaps my favorite is the contradiction between people wanting it to act as a commodity/stock verses its ostensible use as a currency. Its proponents get really excited when the price is increasing, the faster the better, and this is a large part of its popularity. People see it as something they can buy, hold, and then later sell at a higher price. But when taken as a currency, this is deflationary behavior which in mainstream economics is considered highly undesirable for a currency since it decreases people's incentive to spend it. Now that I think about it though, this perhaps would be useful in a degrowth-focused economic system. If we can just fix the CO2 output from mining the stuff we may have our
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Nov 10, 2020 23:06
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Gods_Butthole posted:this is deflationary behavior which in mainstream economics is considered highly undesirable for a currency since it decreases people's incentive to spend it That's part of it but the much bigger problem with deflation is that it effectively makes lending and borrowing money impossible. It limits purchasing to things which can be paid in full at time of purchase.
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Nov 10, 2020 23:14
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PuErhTeabag posted:yo, what's your take on this article that's partly about alt-right furries? The early part is entirely correct that a lonely dude who feels like an outcast is ripe for recruitment in most cases. If it hadn't been for SA and a close group of friends I got from here in my very early 20s there's a pretty solid chance I'd have fallen into the 4chan hate pool and not been able to climb out, even though I'm a gay furry with gender issues.  Nothing is your fault, everything is THEIR fault, and the fact you're white means you're better by default. Even though you're a gay furry freak you're still better than a black guy and whatnot. The memes thing is also 100% correct and all you need to do to prove that is spend an hour or two on /pol/ right now, where you'll see at least one or two threads about how the left can't meme and all they do is steal /pol/'s superior memes and put a red maga hat on them and discussing how their sense of humor makes them superior to normie NPCs. Honestly, hang out on /pol/ for a day or two and you can see examples of virtually everything discussed in the article to one level or another, even right now while they're screaming about the election. The Deus Vult holy war poo poo, the dumb white genocide crap, nonthreatening clownworld memes, threads talking about how we just need to ship all the blacks back to africa and let them have it to ruin while we soar ever higher without their influence, etc.Luckily the furry community, at least, is fairly good about policing openly fash people out of it with regularity, at least to a degree higher than a lot of other 'nerdy outsider' groups tend to. Granted, that leads to stuff like the furry equivalent of Kiwifarms where it's just nazifurs hanging out throwing memes at each other and talking about how good they are, but they're isolated and shunned from the community at large (as they should be). I can't tell you why the furry community is more active with policing out fash myself but I do appreciate it. Even if we can be ~cringe as gently caress~ sometimes. Kitfox88 has issued a correction as of 23:39 on Nov 10, 2020 |
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Nov 10, 2020 23:35
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Kitfox88 posted:I can't tell you why the furry community is more active with policing out fash myself but I do appreciate it. Even if we can be ~cringe as gently caress~ sometimes. Because some of the more historically educated in your community realized that in an actual fascist regime, you would be third in line for the gas chamber.
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Nov 11, 2020 01:27
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Kitfox88 posted:I can't tell you why the furry community is more active with policing out fash myself but I do appreciate it. Even if we can be ~cringe as gently caress~ sometimes. I'd suspect the reason is similar to the question of "if [is furry] and [is nazi] are independent variables then why are [nazi furries] so much more visible, or even a noteworthy thing at all?" as came up in another thread ages ago. tldr: it's because they're cringe as gently caress. What's the difference between "a group of people" and "a community"? My (baseless) conjecture is that communities of furries, not unlike those of disaster/trauma survivors or foxhole buddies or other similar associations among people who have been forced to share their most embarrassing/vulnerable/bloody/whatever ~feels~, unconsciously develop a a higher baseline trust/empathy/camaraderie among themselves. Fraternity and gang initiations (and military indoctrination) are often intended to invoke this effect by putting recruits into stressful/awkward situations. Among other consequences this would lead to reduced fear of judgment/rejection (since others have already accepted them as
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Nov 11, 2020 02:00
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silentsnack posted:Among other consequences this would lead to reduced fear of judgment/rejection (since others have already accepted them as
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