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Trauma Dog 3000 posted:BLOOD FOR THE LIBERTY TREE Fairly certain the last time America said this, the trees bore strange fruit. Edit: That's a lovely snipe, have a thief being caught: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1-SfUvmU8E
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what's with the dumb kid just standing there across the street breathing through his mouth?
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:The dude trying to blow out the engine fire kills me every time, especially when we find out what was in the container he didn't think was worth moving. The karate scene at 8:00 may be my favorite from that video, though. What the hell is going on, there? My guess is the Karate genius is trying to break a piece of plywood, rather than the kind of wood you would normally break. Plywood is specifically made to not break that way, and performs admirably.
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Sagebrush posted:It's quite a lot like that, in fact, because bitcoin -- despite being advertised as a currency -- is not at the moment accepted directly in exchange for goods or services hardly anywhere, which makes it worthless unless converted to another currency, which makes it indistinguishable from a stock, or another investment vehicle like diamonds or beanie babies. And of course bitcoin doesn't have any central organization or produce any product that ties its value to the real world, just as if it's a paper company of the 1920s. Part of the Bitcoin debate I got into involved multiple people claiming that Bitcoin was going to become the currency of the future because it would allow people in poor countries to buy goods and services without unreliable and inflation-prone currency from the local government. Somehow they were always unable to describe how these poor countries were going to suddenly materialize the technology and infrastructure to let everyone purchase Bitcoins online and have every local vendor accept them. Bitcoin becoming an actual currency and not just a stock or gold trading analogue is reliant on a few really unlikely things happening: 1. The United States and European Union both collapsing, rendering the two biggest currencies useless worldwide. 2. Bitcoin's price stabilizing (in spite of its history of wild fluctuation, and in spite of gold and stock prices fluctuating despite cryptodummies' insistence that the price will stabilize once the mining is finished...in the year 2140). 3. Vendors worldwide agreeing to accept Bitcoin directly as payment and installing the necessary software to make transactions.
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doesnt the buttcoin take forever to process transactions at low volume?
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Yes, by design 
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Dec 5, 2017 15:25
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Bitcoins might as well be lotto tickets to me. I ain't gonna start buying them just because some lucky idiot won a car.
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Oh yeah, that thing I mentioned in my post wasn't an exaggeration. At the current rate of steadily slowing down mining, it'll take until 2140 for every one of the planned 21 million Bitcoins to be mined, which proponents say is when it'll finally stabilize in price. They're gleefully preparing for a future where their currency stabilizes in 123 years. Unless we really improve our medical science or brain uploading technology, every single person in existence today will be dead before the mythical Bitcoin stabilization.
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oh. well good that banks and credit card processors dont process millions of transactions a day or anything, they might look foolish or something.
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Blockchains are good for certain things, and it is a really interesting technology. Blockchains are terrible for currency.
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quote:“Trump’s appetite seems to know no bounds when it comes to McDonald’s, with a dinner order consisting of two Big Macs, two Filet-O-Fish, and a chocolate malted.” https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/12/trump-eats/547355/
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Dec 5, 2017 15:42
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Lol hes gonna be found dead, lodged between the toilet and the door, inaccessible to the paramedics.
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Somehow, I don't think what happens at 02:33 is quite in sync with the rest of the video...
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Hihohe posted:Bitcoins might as well be lotto tickets to me. I ain't gonna start buying them just because some lucky idiot won a car. Eh lotto tickets can be fun though. Occasionally I'll drop $10 on keno, or a few dollars on scratch tickets. I don't expect to win, but it's some minor entertainment for a few minutes. On the other hand I have seen people who are addicted to Keno, they get very pissed off when you're trying to buy a ticket at the same time they are. Also Lottery people really do believe in lucky numbers, or numbers being on a hot streak. I just autopick because I don't give a flying gently caress when I'm paying my stupid tax.
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fine but can we get separate "old people buying $200 bucks in lotto" counters? I just want a drat coffee lady.
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chitoryu12 posted:without unreliable and inflation-prone currency from the local government Inflation free  I'm no money man but how can anybody with half a brain look at that chart and think that's a sustainable and effective value for currency?
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sneakyfrog posted:fine but can we get separate "old people buying $200 bucks in lotto" counters? I just want a drat coffee lady. Especially at 6 in the morning when I'm trying to go to work.
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Iron Crowned posted:Especially at 6 in the morning when I'm trying to go to work. 
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make sure to never be left hanging again with this ONE WEIRD TRICK dudes cooler than you HATE THIS
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Renegret posted:Inflation free "it's stable like a good currency! But it's also a good investment because it's always going up up up! I have literally no critical thinking skills and am persuaded by the lottery-like winnings my gambling has brought."
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Renegret posted:Inflation free It’ll pave the way to a libertarian utopia before crashing and killing everyone.
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Hihohe posted:Lol hes gonna be found dead, lodged between the toilet and the door, inaccessible to the paramedics. If there really is a god, I pray for this to happen. Preferably sooner rather than later.  Edit - I realized last week that the thing about Trump is this: there have been other presidents whose policies I've disliked and who I've disagreed with, but I never wished ill of them, even at their worst. Trump is the only president who I've ever actively wished would just keel over dead from a massive brain hemorrhage on a daily basis. I hate that this is the person I've become. Zamboni Rodeo has a new favorite as of 16:21 on Dec 5, 2017 |
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Does everyone forget that if Trump dies or goes away we're gonna be left with Pence? A competent bigot with more clout and friends in DC so he can actually get waaaaay more horrible poo poo done in 3 years?
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sneakyfrog posted:oh. I haven't sat down and run the numbers in a few years but if the entirety of bitcoins transaction processing were dedicated solely to Walmart transactions it would take a more than a year to process each hour of their Black Friday sale.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Does everyone forget that if Trump dies or goes away we're gonna be left with Pence? A competent bigot with more clout and friends in DC so he can actually get waaaaay more horrible poo poo done in 3 years? Im hoping when they find the moreso bloated corpse of trump, itll let out a fart that will be ignited by a lit cigarette. The resulting massive explosion will destroy the whitehouse, killing everyone in there. Hihohe has a new favorite as of 16:27 on Dec 5, 2017 |
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Samovar posted:Somehow, I don't think what happens at 02:33 is quite in sync with the rest of the video... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/04/wisconsin-skydivers-two-planes-collide
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Rolo posted:killing everyone. A true libertarian utopia
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MausoleumExtremist posted:That intersection at 3:06 is amazing It'd be more impressive if whoever faked the video hadn't gotten lazy and reused the white van
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Solice Kirsk posted:Does everyone forget that if Trump dies or goes away we're gonna be left with Pence? A competent bigot with more clout and friends in DC so he can actually get waaaaay more horrible poo poo done in 3 years? Considering that Pence was leading the transition team that's currently getting its members implicated in Russian collusion, violations of the Logan Act, and lying to the FBI, I wouldn't be surprised if anything that gets rid of Trump also catches Pence in the crossfire. There's a lot of people who could get themselves caught up in this.
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lol at it actually happening in America but out of curiosity, what happened if the majority of an administration is removed? Does it keep going down the line or is there an impromptu election?
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Rolo posted:lol at it actually happening in America but out of curiosity, what happened if the majority of an administration is removed? Does it keep going down the line or is there an impromptu election? There's never an impromptu election. There's even a show on one of the broadcast networks about some lowly congressman becoming president because 300 something successors were all killed (I think? I never watched the thing)
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/\edit: basically thischitoryu12 posted:Considering that Pence was leading the transition team that's currently getting its members implicated in Russian collusion, violations of the Logan Act, and lying to the FBI, I wouldn't be surprised if anything that gets rid of Trump also catches Pence in the crossfire. There's a lot of people who could get themselves caught up in this. Aren't there still a bunch of unappointed officials too? If there's a huge shake-up can we expect to see someone like the head of the post office as the next POTUS?
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Rolo posted:lol at it actually happening in America but out of curiosity, what happened if the majority of an administration is removed? Does it keep going down the line or is there an impromptu election? There's an established line of succession. 
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Judge Schnoopy posted:There's never an impromptu election. There's even a show on one of the broadcast networks about some lowly congressman becoming president because 300 something successors were all killed (I think? I never watched the thing) Designated Survivor, starring Keifer "Jack Bauer" Sutherland as the de facto president in question.
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