Powerful Two-Hander posted:

I read an article about crazy people that eat nothing but steak because of..idk why actually but it gives them "energy" and "boners" and one woman went from being able to do zero pull ups to 5!!!

anyway there was an almost inevitable intersection with bitcoin courtesy of a "cryptocurrency economist" who was raving about how vegetables are a lie and that plants were "fiat food" and how he now has so much focus he "wrote an entire 300 page book" which as we all know is otherwise impossible


anyway these people are deranged and will all die of bowel cancer and it will be at least partly due to bitcoin.

Ron Paul End The Veg posted:

“Bitcoin is a revolt against fiat [government-backed] money, and an all-meat diet is a revolt against fiat food,” said Michael Goldstein, a “bitcoin and meat maximalist” based in Austin, Texas. “Once someone has grown capable of seeing beyond the lies and myths that experts peddle in one domain, it becomes easier to see beyond them in other domains as well.”

Goldstein, who runs a website dedicated to carnivory called Justmeat.co, eats 2-2.5lb of “very rare” rib-eye steak each day, at a cost of about $400 a month. He says he never has cravings for pizza, chocolate or vegetables. “They don’t even register in my brain as food.”

He argues that eating only meat has freed up his time to get more work done. “Grocery shopping takes all of 10 minutes, most of which is standing in the checkout line. I spend little time thinking about food. I only need to eat once or twice a day (no snacking or cravings). Basically, it’s the greatest productivity hack, and Silicon Valley should have listened to me about it while I was there.”

Saifedean Ammous, a bitcoin economist, agrees, citing a “huge improvement” in productivity.

“The ability to focus for long periods has been life transforming, and was the reason that I managed to write a 300-page book, on bitcoin, fittingly enough!” he said.


Lily Chien-Davis, a social media specialist at San Francisco-based startup Heads Up Health, says that the enhanced productivity and mental clarity explains why this diet, like intermittent fasting, is popular in Silicon Valley.

She started eating a very low carb diet when her husband was diagnosed with cancer – some studies indicate that a ketogenic diet can help the body fight tumours. However, Chien-Davis found that changing her eating habits alleviated her pre-diabetes.

Wheat Is Murder posted:

Travis Statham, a New York-based software engineer and admin for several online communities dedicated to carnivory, will sometimes eat four to six quarter-pounder burger patties from McDonald’s for lunch.

In Statham’s view, vegans who are concerned about the slaughtering of cows are not thinking about the “monoculture of giant machines killing mice and other animals” in the fields used to grow crops, the displacement of wild animals that used to occupy farm land, or the spraying of herbicides and pesticides.

gschmidl posted:

I'm Saifedean Ammous, the third-rate Wheel of Time villain and bitcoin mastermind, AMA.

Boxturret posted:

what is bitcoin anyway?

Hammerite posted:

Its me. I'm bitcoin. hello

Lutha Mahtin posted:

imo vegans and the keto/paleo people are two sides to the same coin, it just depends on which way your politics lean. they do share the similarity that they go on endlessly about "well actually my diet is clearly what nature intended and is far more healthy and better for the environment and and and"

Boxturret posted:

what is bitcoin anyway?

Boxturret posted:

what is bitcoin anyway?

mrmcd posted:

Oh wait I thought that article was like 6 months old. I swear I heard about these Bitcoin meat only weirdos like a million years ago.

gschmidl posted:

The Wheel of Time turns, and ICOs come and pass, leaving exit scams that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again a month later.

mrmcd posted:

Oh wait I thought that article was like 6 months old. I swear I heard about these Bitcoin meat only weirdos like a million years ago.

divabot posted:

yeah, Ammous's lovely book is the one that espouses a variant of Austrian economics that even Austrians don't take seriously https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2018/04/07/saifedean-ammous-the-bitcoin-standard-the-austrian-case-for-bitcoin/

mrmcd posted:

Which one of you is extremely online Twitter famous?

https://twitter.com/KrangTNelson/status/994976217668444165

Magrov posted:

Zamujasa posted:

im the slice of toast

mrmcd posted:

Facebook has brain disease: https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/11/17344318/facebook-cryptocurrency-token-blockchain-report-david-marcus

mrmcd posted:

Which one of you is extremely online Twitter famous?

https://twitter.com/KrangTNelson/status/994976217668444165

Plank Walker posted:

you violate my nap you better have a gun cause i'm gonna be mega cranky

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

edit: forgot this top tier false equivalency

quote:

I’m stunned by how much energy, strength and stamina I have now. And god drat, do I need it 😄 (today is Move Day and @blissordie and I are about to move from a 3K sq ft house into a 100 sq ft adventure RV with our 13-year-old).

ate all the Oreos posted:

i don't think this guy has ever actually met a vegan because boy do they ever think about all that poo poo and have lots to say about it

Gobbeldygook posted:

he has clearly never seen two vegans knife fight over the morality of honey

Sham bam bamina! posted:

it;s me, im the twitter person. ama

Sham bam bamina! posted:

it;s me, im the twitter person. ama

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

has anyone tweeted "buttcoin" yet