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EorayMel posted:What about an hour long video on Germany's Worst Handgun which was immediately obsolete when it was introduced in 1879 I would like to buy this NFT. I have $100 and half a bag of UTZ Ripples
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In my lifetime I've seen evangelicals claim a lot of things were The Mark of the Beast. Credit cards and bar codes are the ones that really stand out in my memory, but there have been a bunch of things that were The Mark of the Beast. I'm kind of surprised I don't recall seeing that about crypto and NFTs, because they seem perfect for being The Mark of the Beast, but the purestrain scammery of them probably hits too close to home for the evangelicals. It is kind of nice Twitter is letting people opt-in to having their very own Mark of the Beast, though.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:In my lifetime I've seen evangelicals claim a lot of things were The Mark of the Beast. Credit cards and bar codes are the ones that really stand out in my memory, but there have been a bunch of things that were The Mark of the Beast. The Mark Karpeles of the Beast
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CaptainSarcastic posted:In my lifetime I've seen evangelicals claim a lot of things were The Mark of the Beast. Credit cards and bar codes are the ones that really stand out in my memory, but there have been a bunch of things that were The Mark of the Beast. more surprised we haven't seen them get in on the grift and the vatican issuing nft indulgences
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CaptainSarcastic posted:In my lifetime I've seen evangelicals claim a lot of things were The Mark of the Beast. Credit cards and bar codes are the ones that really stand out in my memory, but there have been a bunch of things that were The Mark of the Beast. My favorite Evangelical end times bullshit thing was how trump perfectly matched every prophesied trait of the anti-Christ, including - especially - the bit about how they would make a pretense of being Christian, but every real Christian would immediately be able to tell it was bullshit. Of course every single evangelical immediately went all in for trump.
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Log082 posted:My favorite Evangelical end times bullshit thing was how trump perfectly matched every prophesied trait of the anti-Christ, including - especially - the bit about how they would make a pretense of being Christian, but every real Christian would immediately be able to tell it was bullshit. Of course every single evangelical immediately went all in for trump. They did a lot of fapping about King Cyrus or someone to justify their bald-faced hypocrisy.
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lol, dictators https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1485031106982428677
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Log082 posted:My favorite Evangelical end times bullshit thing was how trump perfectly matched every prophesied trait of the anti-Christ, including - especially - the bit about how they would make a pretense of being Christian, but every real Christian would immediately be able to tell it was bullshit. Of course every single evangelical immediately went all in for trump. Right down the the red MAGA hat being the mark of the beast. Of course Revelations among Christian scholars is considered to be a questionable addition to biblical canon and really not considered to be in any way prophetic to current times at best outside of fringe evangelical groups (Although, unfortunately as religiosity has steeply declined in the US, the fringe evangelical groups have taken a bit of a stranglehold on "mainstream" Christianity), it is kind of interesting how the most paranoid end-times Christians completely ignore the connections between Trump and how they envision that anti-Christ's rise to power while the freak out about everything else remotely resembling their belief of the end times. It's one of those weird quirks of how the mainstream public perceives to beliefs of evangelicals, like how it's just thought of as pretty mainstream Christian theology to support Israel and just leave it at that, when the actual belief is they support Israel existing because it is core to their belief of the end times which involves Jesus returning to physically destroy Israel, smite almost every Jewish person on earth and drat them to hell.
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maybe they did realize trump fit as the antichrist, but they didn't care because they want the end times to happen so they can be whisked off to heaven in the rapture
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Three Olives posted:Right down the the red MAGA hat being the mark of the beast. Of course Revelations among Christian scholars is considered to be a questionable addition to biblical canon and really not considered to be in any way prophetic to current times at best outside of fringe evangelical groups (Although, unfortunately as religiosity has steeply declined in the US, the fringe evangelical groups have taken a bit of a stranglehold on "mainstream" Christianity), it is kind of interesting how the most paranoid end-times Christians completely ignore the connections between Trump and how they envision that anti-Christ's rise to power while the freak out about everything else remotely resembling their belief of the end times. Lots of words and nothing to say. Welcome Three Olives
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hbag posted:lol & lmao if you genuinely didnt know tether was backed by "trust me bro" As I understand it tether is backed 1:1 by 'commercial paper', in the form of 'stablecoins', which are known to be worth a stable US$1 each because they are backed by Tether. Which is to say, each and every Tether token is backed by and worth a Tether token!
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CaptainSarcastic posted:but the purestrain scammery of them probably hits too close to home for the evangelicals. I think this here is the bingo. Additionally, I'm not sure most fundies know enough about Technolergy to even be aware of crypto as a concept
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mkvltra posted:I think this here is the bingo. can you tell me about technolergy?
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PhazonLink posted:but what if he saves himself as an nft ? I would right click save
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PhazonLink posted:but what if he saves himself as an nft ? then he will become immortal as the blockchain
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I saw the Dan Olson video and it's pretty impressive. What's his background? Finance? Tech? Philosophy?
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small butter posted:I saw the Dan Olson video and it's pretty impressive. What's his background? Finance? Tech? Philosophy? He works in the Canadian film industry. And apperently he had a lot of free time on his hands. Most of his stuff is really good, on a bunch of subjects. His last BIG video on this scale is on flat earthers, and a followup on a geocentric documentary he found that somehow got Captain Janeway to narrate it. EDIT: In Search of a Flat Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44 That Time Geocentrists Tricked A Bunch of Physicists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icwDF8wRgF4 If I had one complaint about his NFT video, it's that it's mainly him talking into the camera. Previous videos he got very creative with what he did, especially since it looks like he went to New York. BigRed0427 fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Jan 23, 2022 |
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I just finished up that Dan Olson video and it is impressive, and even goes into stuff I did not know about NFTs, in that it can actually contain executable code, which turns out to be exactly as terrible as it sounds. Of course, said executable code payload is also how NFTs were supposed to generate royalties which was a selling point but LOL if most people thought to implement that, apparently.
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Fun fact Olson was also a goon, but please don’t hold that against him  I dunno if he has posted in some time. I originally started following his stuff from movie and film critiques that were quite well reasoned out and his stuff has grown considerably over the years in scope and ambition. Definitely one of the video essayist type people I will watch on whatever topic he does something on, much like hbomberguy.
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All of his long form videos after "The Art of Editing and Suicide Squad" are great and you should watch them all even if you don't have much interest in the subject. I thought him subjecting himself to watching Gemini Man 3 times was pretty funny and the Nostalgia Critic and The Wall was a pretty good one too even though I don't know who The Nostalgia Critic is.
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https://twitter.com/RobKapito/status/1485043859344310273?s=20 The President of Blackrock, amazingly hopes his customers can also partake in the massive grift. I didn't realize Blackrock catered to stupid customers, but guess it's nice that Blackrock is not judgemental.
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DrPossum posted:more surprised we haven't seen them get in on the grift and the vatican issuing nft indulgences What happens if you resell one? Do you get your sins back and the new guy gets his sins forgiven? Or do you sins stay forgiven, but you inherit the new buyers sins?
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The place I used to have my retirement savings announced a crypto trading exchange and it was the catalyst to get me to move away from their platform. It really seems like any serious financial people getting into crypto is a huge red flag.
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priznat posted:The place I used to have my retirement savings announced a crypto trading exchange and it was the catalyst to get me to move away from their platform. It really seems like any serious financial people getting into crypto is a huge red flag. get ready to work til you die like the rest of us plebs
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nnnotime posted:https://twitter.com/RobKapito/status/1485043859344310273?s=20 In the replies "verified" hexagon apes are accusing this of being a fake account, created today, new wallet also created today? Everything is so dumb I don't know how many layers I'm peering through
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Salt Fish posted:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TWJlv8hy0jQ&list=PLucsO-7vMQ00twBJvRZKs1KNUKUVClo6C&index=1 Great, thanks!
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Salt Fish posted:In the replies "verified" hexagon apes are accusing this of being a fake account, created today, new wallet also created today? Everything is so dumb I don't know how many layers I'm peering through
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Salt Fish posted:In the replies "verified" hexagon apes are accusing this of being a fake account, created today, new wallet also created today? Everything is so dumb I don't know how many layers I'm peering through Wait, so the NFTers are mad that some fake NFTer is hyping NFTs?
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I watched a bit more of the Dan Olsen video up to the Bitcoin chapter, and I do appreciate his thoroughness. His explanation of 2008 was a bit simplified, though, and either he could've expanded it a little or cut it way down. What he said wasn't untrue, but he neglected to mention the complicity of the Federal system in deliberately encouraging the modern mortgage industry to emerge via Fannie Mae and similar programs. The government looked at studies showing that homeowners spent more than renters, which increased the velocity of money in the economy. Banks were hesitant to issue mortgages due to the large capital outlay involved, so the government set up programs that would let banks issue mortgages, then transfer the mortgage to the government and get their initial money back so they could turn around and lend it out again. When the banks started on the road to the subprime lending collapse the Feds were providing the firehose of money to flood it, and still are, as far as I know. Source: Working for a mortgage servicing company around 2010.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I watched a bit more of the Dan Olsen video up to the Bitcoin chapter, and I do appreciate his thoroughness. His explanation of 2008 was a bit simplified, though, and either he could've expanded it a little or cut it way down. What he said wasn't untrue, but he neglected to mention the complicity of the Federal system in deliberately encouraging the modern mortgage industry to emerge via Fannie Mae and similar programs. The government looked at studies showing that homeowners spent more than renters, which increased the velocity of money in the economy. Banks were hesitant to issue mortgages due to the large capital outlay involved, so the government set up programs that would let banks issue mortgages, then transfer the mortgage to the government and get their initial money back so they could turn around and lend it out again. When the banks started on the road to the subprime lending collapse the Feds were providing the firehose of money to flood it, and still are, as far as I know. He at least touches on the idea in the followup to the explainer, about how anarcho-capitalists and hyper-capitalists formed, where he mentions that the regulations themselves set up in-groups for the whole scam. It's not great, but it's there and on-par with the depth of entire explainer.
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priznat posted:Fun fact Olson was also a goon, but please don’t hold that against him He quoted somebody who posts here pretty regularly - the author of Attack of the Fifty Foot Blockchain
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Scam Likely posted:He at least touches on the idea in the followup to the explainer, about how anarcho-capitalists and hyper-capitalists formed, where he mentions that the regulations themselves set up in-groups for the whole scam. It's not great, but it's there and on-par with the depth of entire explainer. It's a minor criticism, mostly based on the fact I know far more about the mortgage industry than I ever wanted to. And having watched neoliberal economics metastasize over the course of my lifetime, with crypto and NFTs erupting like fruiting bodies off the cancerous growths.
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ymgve posted:because they want the end times to happen so they can be whisked off to heaven in the rapture cant speak for american politics but this is what ISIS unironically believes and thats not a very good brand to imitate
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