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Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

Elysiume posted:

the majority decides, because the majority has never been wrong and/or marginalized/abused minority groups

Dwolla releases new Isiscoin

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Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill
a great thing about bitcoins is there's no way for authority figures to seize them

wait, someone stole my coins? why the gently caress does nobody have the power to seize them?!

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

Spinyahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Doctor Rope
:justpost:

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

avatar
specialist


Soricidus posted:

a great thing about bitcoins is there's no way for authority figures to seize them

wait, someone stole my coins? why the gently caress does nobody have the power to seize them?!

the only moral chargeback is my chargeback

fy;gm

oh, wait

mooooooooooooooom

Not Al-Qaeda
Mar 20, 2012

Boxturret posted:

this is still the best one

holy fkn poo poo lol

Crust First
May 1, 2013

Wrong lads.

Elysiume posted:

the majority decides, because the majority has never been wrong and/or marginalized/abused minority groups

if the minorities didn't want to be oppressed, maybe they should just bootstrap themselves to be a majority, like i did

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



Posting on page 219

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.

this is funny but i've always thought that palingenetic ultranationalism was a better fundamental description of fascism than eco's attempt (and i fuckin' love eco as an author)

and unfortunately the whole core of palingenetic ultranationalism is the return to a mythical golden age and bitcoiners (like other varieties of technoutopians) are literally the opposite of that

jre
Sep 2, 2011

To the cloud ?



triple sulk posted:

Posting on page 219

poo poo just got real, D&D lunatic Eripsa is posting on bitcointalk trying to recruit people for his new "Blockchain based social network"

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3673225&perpage=40&pagenumber=14#post436530995

quote:

The Bitcoin revolution has brought us control over our money. In this position of control, we are its owners and we decide what to do with it, uninhibited by the interests of those in positions of great influence. Synereo is attempting to do the same, only with the fundamental social tool of the Information Age - the social network.

With current social networks, you are not the client. You are the product being sold - and for huge sums of money that you will never see. These massive corporations maintain extensive databases characterizing your behavior in an attempt to exploit the content that you create and the networks that you build with your friends and family. They’ve tapped into your deeply human need to socialize, with no respect for your privacy or psychological well-being, to turn your life into an endless marketing opportunity.

Weatherman
Jul 30, 2003

WARBLEKLONK

triple sulk posted:

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Dex
May 26, 2006

Quintuple x!!!

Would not escrow again.

VERY MISLEADING!

triple sulk posted:

Posting on page 219

sharknado slashfic
Jun 24, 2011

triple sulk posted:

Posting on page 219

Pocket
Aug 27, 2006

jre posted:

poo poo just got real, D&D lunatic Eripsa is posting on bitcointalk trying to recruit people for his new "Blockchain based social network"

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3673225&perpage=40&pagenumber=14#post436530995

im the product that is being sold for huge sums of money

jre
Sep 2, 2011

To the cloud ?



Pocket posted:

im the product that is being sold for huge sums of money

Yes you are :tinfoil: :nsa:

LongDarkNight
Oct 25, 2010

It's like watching the collapse of Western civilization in fast forward.
Oven Wrangler

triple sulk posted:

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fool of sound
Oct 10, 2012

triple sulk posted:

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woah

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem

triple sulk posted:

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has anyone said buttcoin yet?

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



triple sulk posted:

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Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


is Johnny Ive aces going to make to to the 219???

AnoHito
May 8, 2014

triple sulk posted:

Posting on page 219

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

Posting on tonal page latonhu

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

got an invitation to the launch party for some friends' blockchain-based startup, sort of conflicted. would be great to see them and they're smart and nice and so forth, but I don't know if I can handle the Bitcoin community at interpersonal distance. I'm curious about the startup too, since one of them invented the hash cash stuff that Bitcoin is based on.

are there supplements I could take that would increase my tolerance for fiat-decrying self-delusion?

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Subjunctive posted:

got an invitation to the launch party for some friends' blockchain-based startup, sort of conflicted. would be great to see them and they're smart and nice and so forth, but I don't know if I can handle the Bitcoin community at interpersonal distance. I'm curious about the startup too, since one of them invented the hash cash stuff that Bitcoin is based on.

are there supplements I could take that would increase my tolerance for fiat-decrying self-delusion?

compromise and just send an iPad on a stick

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

Subjunctive posted:

are there supplements I could take that would increase my tolerance for fiat-decrying self-delusion?

drink all their free booze?

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

triple sulk posted:

are there supplements I could take that would increase my tolerance for fiat-decrying self-delusion?

mdma

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

triple sulk posted:

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computer toucher
Jan 8, 2012

Subjunctive posted:

got an invitation to the launch party for some friends' blockchain-based startup, sort of conflicted. would be great to see them and they're smart and nice and so forth, but I don't know if I can handle the Bitcoin community at interpersonal distance. I'm curious about the startup too, since one of them invented the hash cash stuff that Bitcoin is based on.

are there supplements I could take that would increase my tolerance for fiat-decrying self-delusion?

My nigga, have you tried alcohol?

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


Subjunctive posted:

got an invitation to the launch party for some friends' blockchain-based startup, sort of conflicted. would be great to see them and they're smart and nice and so forth, but I don't know if I can handle the Bitcoin community at interpersonal distance. I'm curious about the startup too, since one of them invented the hash cash stuff that Bitcoin is based on.

are there supplements I could take that would increase my tolerance for fiat-decrying self-delusion?

soylent and rum

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

Subjunctive posted:

got an invitation to the launch party for some friends' blockchain-based startup, sort of conflicted. would be great to see them and they're smart and nice and so forth, but I don't know if I can handle the Bitcoin community at interpersonal distance. I'm curious about the startup too, since one of them invented the hash cash stuff that Bitcoin is based on.

are there supplements I could take that would increase my tolerance for fiat-decrying self-delusion?

alcohol, and a lot of it

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

Sweevo posted:

Posting on tonal page latonhu

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
moonrocks

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

indigi posted:

moonrocks

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

Heresiarch posted:

this is funny but i've always thought that palingenetic ultranationalism was a better fundamental description of fascism than eco's attempt (and i fuckin' love eco as an author)

and unfortunately the whole core of palingenetic ultranationalism is the return to a mythical golden age and bitcoiners (like other varieties of technoutopians) are literally the opposite of that

yeah it doesn't fit the Italian model as well, which is unsurprisingly the one with which eco is most familiar. I'd say it's ultranationalist at this point though, there's hostility towards new buyers and evangelists are becoming more marginalized. the comment I quoted about enemies being too weak and too strong at the same time struck me as v similar to ur-fascism.

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord

Sweevo posted:

Posting on tonal page latonhu

jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord

triple sulk posted:

Posting on page 219
quoting triple sulk

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

is Johnny Ive aces going to make to to the 219???
wait what

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.

theflyingexecutive posted:

the comment I quoted about enemies being too weak and too strong at the same time struck me as v similar to ur-fascism.

eco described that particular phenomena really well (because he's a really good writer) but it's not exactly unique to fascism by any means

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
3rd to last post

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

Sweevo posted:

Posting on tonal page latonhu

:eyepop:

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

these guys know how to party (they routinely wrecked me when we worked together), so the alcohol route is promising. as long as they haven't converted to some healthy-living bullshit, I guess.

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FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

theflyingexecutive posted:

yeah it doesn't fit the Italian model as well, which is unsurprisingly the one with which eco is most familiar. I'd say it's ultranationalist at this point though, there's hostility towards new buyers and evangelists are becoming more marginalized. the comment I quoted about enemies being too weak and too strong at the same time struck me as v similar to ur-fascism.
the weak/strong stuff is seen in all kinds of places, not just urfascism. the cold war images of the russians (a backwards, ignorant, improverished wasteland of bureaucratic dysfunction that couldnt produce enough toilet paper and toothpaste for its people while also being this cunning, sophisticated, enormous globe-spanning threat that never slept and was constantly working in all kinds of subtle ways to undermine freedom around the world and even inside the usa) and the war on terror (al-qaeda was both a medieval collection of camel-loving cave dwellers and a ruthless, disciplined, sophisticated global terror operation with access to cutting edge biological and chemical wmds and infiltrators in every western city) come to mind, as does the way that saddam hussein was presented in the run-up to the 1991 iraq war. what ive seen of british propaganda in early wwii also follows this pattern - the nazis were an enormous threat, but hitler himself was a farcical, ridiculous character.

it seems to be a natural component of "othering" a threat: theyre a danger, but theyre also beatable, so long as we stand strong and resolved.

e: or, what heresiarch said

FMguru fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Oct 20, 2014

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