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duTrieux. posted:Florida Man is a superposition of all possible florida men laffin
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Hi Bitcoiners, I just wanted to let you know that you have more support than you realize. We at r/KotakuInAction know exactly how you feel because we're going through the exact same thing. I'm a member of both subs and keep an eye on everything, and I can't help but notice how much we have in common. Just in case you don't know what i'm talking about, let me backtrack. KiA is a subreddit that was made to discuss the recent Gamergate controversy that's been lighting up the internet. I know what you're thinking: What the heck is that? Allow me to share some info with you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwsPai-0Ov8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipcWm4B3EU4 http://gamergate.me/ http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/355300/The-Dirty-History-of-Games-Journalism/ There's been rumblings of a civil war in the left between the moderates and the more extreme identity politiks known as “SJWs”- Social Justice Warriors.. Gamergate seems to be a part of that, and it has recently pushed a large amount of young democrats in a more libertarian direction. What really set the entire controversy on fire was the "Gamers are dead" scandal: 12 Gaming magazines released articles claiming that gamers were dead, on the exact same day. We discovered a secret group of journalists were colluding to manipulate the content of the newspapers, akin to JournoList. As you can imagine, things exploded after this. That was three months ago. This is now. We’re still going strong, but we need backup. Just like Bitcoin is a decentralized currency, Gamergate is a leaderless consumer revolt that's aiming for a free-market in games media, one that's free of corruption. I personally believe that Bitcoin can be a huge help with this thanks to the incredible blockchain technology. http://redd.it/2ggkgp We’ve repeatedly asked for the media organizations involved to talk to us, but instead they have continued to slander and insult their own readership, claiming that they’ve done no wrong. It’s been a horrible past few weeks. http://www.ijreview.com/2014/11/199477-gamergate-biggest-scandal-might-heard-many-want-just-go-away/ The reason i'm posting this here is because we're looking for allies in our fight. Like you, we've been getting a lot of heat in the media lately. They've told incredible lies about us, and engaged in character-assassination. Like you, we have to deal with paid shills and trolls running rampant, trying to stir up trouble and destroy us from the inside. Most people in KiA are left-libertarian or anarcho-capitalists/anarchists just like here. We even have our own version of r/buttcoin- it's called r/gamerghazi, and just like buttcoin everything there solely exists to mock and debase us. People in support of our campaign decided that enough was enough, and that Gawker Media- the largest of the 12 websites responsible for the vicious “Gamers are dead” attacks- Needed to come down. In desperation, we launched a consumer boycott of the website that consisted of emailing advertisers. It’s called operation Disrespectful Nod: http://wiki.gamergate.me/index.php/Operation_Disrespectful_Nod http://wiki.gamergate.me/index.php/Boycott_List It’s a complicated story, but if you want to know more feel free to ask away in the subreddit. I understand if you don’t care, but we really are interested in partnering with Bitcoin in a mutually-beneficial way. If you help us take down Gawker by sending emails, we can help make sure that Bitcoin plays a part in the next generation of online games journalism. I want to find people interested in helping create a new Journalism website that would use Bitcoin + other cryptocurrencies to crowdfund writers via microdonations. In this way, the corrupting influence of advertisers and special political interests would be removed. The Bitcoin community has a large amount of technical expertise that would be really helpful to get something like this done. If successful, it could drive major adoption of bitcoin for use as a digital game currency of some sort. If anyone is interested or knows someone who could help, please reply or send me a PM. Thanks for reading, and we await your replies. Linguica fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Nov 9, 2014 |
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lol ing makes strange bedfellows.
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how in the everliving gently caress could you claim to be both an ancap and a tireless crusader against paid influence in journalism the free market has spoken bitch
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# ? Nov 9, 2014 23:24 |
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Linguica posted:fart what the gently caress
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# ? Nov 9, 2014 23:30 |
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theflyingexecutive posted:how in the everliving gently caress could you claim to be both an ancap and a tireless crusader against paid influence in journalism by not having the first loving clue what either of those entails. if you just cobble your identity out of things that sound cool on facebook and wikipedia this is what happens
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Dr. Honked posted:what the gently caress its about ethic in bitcoins
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# ? Nov 9, 2014 23:32 |
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theflyingexecutive posted:how in the everliving gently caress could you claim to be both an ancap and a tireless crusader against paid influence in journalism the whole thing is a facade, it doesn't have to be internally consistent because there's no internals in the first place
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# ? Nov 9, 2014 23:46 |
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Welp, galtse has some competition now.
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What many of us don't get about Bitcoin (its biggest strength) Are you worried about the trolls, the Professor Bitcorn and BitCon types the media books on their shows, while ignoring people like Andreas, Roger, TwoBitIdiot, Circle execs, the Xapo CEO - all of whom would be better representatives of the technology and the currency. Look, these people are playing their game: they don't want Bitcoin to succeed. Allow me to repeat that: they do not want Bitcoin to succeed. For people in the media, especially television, who already have money - they don't want to hear the Bitcoin narrative. They really don't. They're busy and being told their millions are worthless fiat poo poo bothers them. People don't like change - we couldn't even switch to the metric system in the States. This turns money around, a full 180. Some aren't ready for that. And the credit card companies, the banks, some governments... Bitcoin is not a thorn in their side. It's an existential threat and, as with Occupy, they're doing their thing to make it go away. How much of the regulatory and legislative shitstorm do you think has been generated by card company lobbyists whispering into the right people's ears? Think about it. This stuff is not conspiracy thinking. It is economic war. They're threatened, and they are attempting to crush that threat. I was never in Occupy, I found it pedantic, but a friend was. Recently we were talking and I told her "something like that was doomed from the get go - no clear demands, no clear leaders, no vision". This led to a very scary conversation about her experiences in Occupy. She's one of the smarter people I know, definitely not a UFO/conspiracy/NWO conspiratard. And she said, point blank, it was her experience that at least 1 out of every 4 "Occupiers" by the end of it was a fed, undercover cop, or provocateur. None of it made sense toward the end - crazies showing up to meetings, advocating violence and property damage. People with no history in activist communities whatsoever popping up with recording equipment, not journalists mind you, and asking questions and taking face shots without permission. All that scary Cointelpro poo poo they used against Martin Luther King, Jr and others whose views were a little too ahead of the curve? Those programs have not ended, they have just been compartmentalized and in many cases privatized. Internet trolling is big business. Social engineering and opinion "shepherding" is also big business. Why do banks advertise on TV so much? Why do they sponsor so many stadiums? The Buttcoiners frequently say Bitcoin is a cult. Money IS a cult: flip around a dollar bill, you'll find more occult creepiness than in the last twenty minutes of Eyes Wide Shut. Money is a psychological phenomena, and Satoshi got the economics right for duplicating that phenomena, without needing a government to kickstart it with all of their imagery, force, and bullshit. One of the recent favorite lines of Bitcoin detractors is "the blockchain technology is great, but the currency side of it will never work". This is intentional, one last attempt to undermine Bitcoin in the courts of public opinion. "The engines on this plane are great, but it will never fly." Wrong. Currency, value transfer, is the whole loving point of Bitcoin. Notice how the trolling increased as Changetipping took off? That's because if tipping goes viral, the threat to them increases - it cannot be stopped at that point. Also, sorry it took me so long to get to the point of this post: Bitcoin's biggest strength IS its currency aspect. All the rest is nice bells and whistles, but currency is what Bitcoin was designed to replace. As Gates said, "Bitcoin is better than currency." He's not a dumb guy. That's one of those five word quotations that doesn't seem like much today, but in three years will appear positively prophetic in its accuracy. Bitcoin isn't just another currency. It's not just some card network for transferring ledger credit/debit balances around. It's a technology inherently better than govt-issued currency itself, just as email is inherently better than the post. The logical conclusion, therefore, is that price does matter. Sellers - each of us - decide the price of Bitcoin. Given how much bullshit they are throwing at the wall lately trying to slow us down, I no longer recognize Bitcoin as a $350, $500, or $1,000 per coin technology. It's become personal. I'll HODL until the bastards are out of business. Because if more of us thought like that, Bitcoin fairy tale time would be here a lot sooner. These banks and institutions are begging to be put out of business. And they know it, or the trolls and media shills wouldn't be out in force. Time to finish the job. HODL til the bleed. For every shill who says price doesn't matter and Bitcoin will never work as money, I say it is money - more money than your derogatory surveillance and war funding Chuck E Cheese notes, more money than the heavy metal our predecessors used to have to lug around. And price does matter. The detractors will see that this holiday season. Satoshi built a brilliant Chinese finger trap for money: it won't take much fresh seasonal demand to send all these numbers astronomical. And I think enough of us are pissed off that we won't sell when things heat up. That's when it gets fun. To quote my favorite Bond villain, "Hello, James. Welcome. Do you like the island? My grandmother had an island. Nothing to boast of. You could walk around it in an hour, but still it was, it was a paradise for us. One summer, we went for a visit and discovered the place had been infested with rats. They'd come on a fishing boat and gorged themselves on coconut. So how do you get rats off an island? Hmm? My grandmother showed me. We buried an oil drum and hinged the lid. Then we wired coconut to the lid as bait and the rats would come for the coconut and... they would fall into the drum. And after a month, you have trapped all the rats, but what do you do then? Throw the drum into the ocean? Burn it? No. You just leave it and they begin to get hungry. And one by one... they start eating each other until there are only two left. The two survivors. And then what? Do you kill them? No. You take them and release them into the trees, but now they don't eat coconut anymore. Now, they only eat rat. You have changed their nature. The two survivors. This is what she made us." We're going to change their nature. We want it badder than they do, and the future is ours.
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Linguica posted:
fyi y'all, this is a good thing to point to if you want prima facie evidence that gamergate is not about ethics.
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bitcoiners: holding up literal cannibal rats as role models
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# ? Nov 10, 2014 00:06 |
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yes let's quote a bond villain, that will make us look less cartoonish
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Heresiarch posted:yes let's quote a bond villain, that will make us look less cartoonish the bond villain that had the bitcoin mining operation in his chinese island fortress too. it makes perfect sense.
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# ? Nov 10, 2014 00:18 |
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lol skyfall sucks
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Greed is eternal posted:lol skyfall sucks
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# ? Nov 10, 2014 00:34 |
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lmao if your favourite bond villain isn't from a connery or moore film
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Feels good to be an investor
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before: after:
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My PIN is 4826 posted:lmao if your favourite bond villain isn't from a connery or moore film Goldfinger was, and remains, the best villain. He would look at Bitcoin and go "God this is stupid", then gas everyone in the room with neurotoxins.
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# ? Nov 10, 2014 00:39 |
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I like the new buttcoin article that doesn't mention buttcoins
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InShaneee posted:I like the new buttcoin article that doesn't mention buttcoins it does have a shitton of vaguely relevant links though. it's like reading wired
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PleasureKevin posted:I just went to my grandmas funeral and she's Mormon so they put her coffin within a giant gold coffin. was it his mom or your mom's mom
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duTrieux. posted:fyi y'all, this is a good thing to point to if you want prima facie evidence that gamergate is not about ethics. r/kotakuinaction is debatably worse/funnier than r/bitcoin they got kicked out of a reddit that was dedicated to pointing out hilariously extremist stuff on tumblr because none of them seemed to understand that the point was to point and laugh at the complete absurdity of it all rather than pooptouch and sjw brigade about ~~INTERNET FEMINISM AND HOW IT RUINS GAMING~~ so it's totally unsurprising to see them somehow conflated with bitcoin
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PleasureKevin posted:I just went to my grandmas funeral and she's Mormon so they put her coffin within a giant gold coffin. lol gold coffins lol lol your dad was showing respect and getting closure hth also thats the sign of the cross did he do left shoulder and right, or vice versa? literal wars have been fought over this
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# ? Nov 10, 2014 01:20 |
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sometimes i miss being Catholic As gently caress. Atrocities aside, the culture and history is really enveloping and it makes you feel like you're part of a bigger thing. i'm no believer though
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catholic boys know all about being around bigger things, etc
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# ? Nov 10, 2014 01:24 |
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we're just like bond villains: guaranteed to succeed
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i meant bitcoiners, but i guess catholics as well
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# ? Nov 10, 2014 01:26 |
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to clarify the dirt went in the gold coffJonny 290 posted:lol gold coffins yes but my dad is a huge contrarian and I just know he neurotically has to stick it to his mum and family at every turn
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PleasureKevin posted:my dad is a huge contrarian and I just know he neurotically has to stick it to his mum a bit oedipal too by the sounds of it
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PleasureKevin posted:to clarify the dirt went in the gold coff Jonny 290 posted:sometimes i miss being Catholic As gently caress. Atrocities aside, the culture and history is really enveloping and it makes you feel like you're part of a bigger thing. have you ever read The Sparrow, it is good and related to that feeling
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# ? Nov 10, 2014 01:39 |
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InShaneee posted:I like the new buttcoin article that doesn't mention buttcoins no see the guy himself is starting to sound like a bitcoiner so there's the connection
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# ? Nov 10, 2014 01:46 |
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Greyhawk posted:no see the guy himself is starting to sound like a bitcoiner so there's the connection the guy himself is a bitcoiner.
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# ? Nov 10, 2014 01:47 |
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buttcoin is bitcoins all the way down
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# ? Nov 10, 2014 01:49 |
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infernal machines posted:it does have a shitton of vaguely relevant links though. it's like reading wired
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# ? Nov 10, 2014 01:50 |
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i always liked when the buttcoin articles were just "a bitcoiner did a dumb thing" and didn't try to be wacky zany because as famed movie reviewer mike stoklasa said "Brevity is the soul of wit"
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Hi Bitcoiners, I just wanted to let you know that you have more support than you realize. We at r/KotakuInAction know exactly how you feel because we're going through the exact same thing. I'm a member of both subs and keep an eye on everything, and I can't help but notice how much we have in common. Just in case you don't know what i'm talking about, let me backtrack. KiA is a subreddit that was made to discuss the recent Gamergate controversy that's been lighting up the internet. I know what you're thinking: What the heck is that? Allow me to share some info with you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwsPai-0Ov8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipcWm4B3EU4 http://gamergate.me/ http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/e...mes-Journalism/ There's been rumblings of a civil war in the left between the moderates and the more extreme identity politiks known as “SJWs”- Social Justice Warriors.. Gamergate seems to be a part of that, and it has recently pushed a large amount of young democrats in a more libertarian direction. What really set the entire controversy on fire was the "Gamers are dead" scandal: 12 Gaming magazines released articles claiming that gamers were dead, on the exact same day. We discovered a secret group of journalists were colluding to manipulate the content of the newspapers, akin to JournoList. As you can imagine, things exploded after this. That was three months ago. This is now. We’re still going strong, but we need backup. Just like Bitcoin is a decentralized currency, Gamergate is a leaderless consumer revolt that's aiming for a free-market in games media, one that's free of corruption. I personally believe that Bitcoin can be a huge help with this thanks to the incredible blockchain technology. http://redd.it/2ggkgp We’ve repeatedly asked for the media organizations involved to talk to us, but instead they have continued to slander and insult their own readership, claiming that they’ve done no wrong. It’s been a horrible past few weeks. http://www.ijreview.com/2014/11/199...t-just-go-away/ The reason i'm posting this here is because we're looking for allies in our fight. Like you, we've been getting a lot of heat in the media lately. They've told incredible lies about us, and engaged in character-assassination. Like you, we have to deal with paid shills and trolls running rampant, trying to stir up trouble and destroy us from the inside. Most people in KiA are left-libertarian or anarcho-capitalists/anarchists just like here. We even have our own version of r/buttcoin- it's called r/gamerghazi, and just like buttcoin everything there solely exists to mock and debase us. People in support of our campaign decided that enough was enough, and that Gawker Media- the largest of the 12 websites responsible for the vicious “Gamers are dead” attacks- Needed to come down. In desperation, we launched a consumer boycott of the website that consisted of emailing advertisers. It’s called operation Disrespectful Nod: http://wiki.gamergate.me/index.php/...srespectful_Nod http://wiki.gamergate.me/index.php/Boycott_List It’s a complicated story, but if you want to know more feel free to ask away in the subreddit. I understand if you don’t care, but we really are interested in partnering with Bitcoin in a mutually-beneficial way. If you help us take down Gawker by sending emails, we can help make sure that Bitcoin plays a part in the next generation of online games journalism. I want to find people interested in helping create a new Journalism website that would use Bitcoin + other cryptocurrencies to crowdfund writers via microdonations. In this way, the corrupting influence of advertisers and special political interests would be removed. The Bitcoin community has a large amount of technical expertise that would be really helpful to get something like this done. If successful, it could drive major adoption of bitcoin for use as a digital game currency of some sort. If anyone is interested or knows someone who could help, please reply or send me a PM. Thanks for reading, and we await your replies.
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