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The_Franz posted:just buying a supercar to drive on the 2km of narrow residential roads ah, but they're heavily invested in crypto, so naturally there will be a vibrant human trafficking scene
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The_Franz posted:if those bored ape meetups are any indication i can't imagine club vladimir being anything but a nonstop sausage fest of fat goateed dudes  "hey bebbe, wanna see my proof of work?"
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Shame Boy posted:did i miss this getting posted somehow because i feel like i'd remember it if it was posted Oh come the gently caress on. I give up, there is no truth. Only the simulacrum is real.
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infernal machines posted:i mean places where the closest thing to a functional government is the local warlord, since, really, you just have to defeat them and then it's yours buying enough mercenaries to defeat a local warlord, and keeping them around to ward off bandits and neighboring warlords, tends to cut deep into the budget
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infernal machines posted:ah, but they're heavily invested in crypto, so naturally there will be a vibrant human trafficking scene remember when laurie penny went on a crypto cruise and spent her time talking to the women paid to be there https://web.archive.org/web/20181205154520/https://breakermag.com/trapped-at-sea-with-cryptos-nouveau-riche/ quote:Of the 400-plus passengers, many—I’d guess at least 150—are “hostesses” from Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, and many are offering services unspecified. Most blockchain events have a gender balance problem. The cruise organizers have allowed the decentralized free-market to solve that problem the best way it knows how. Not enough women? Just hire some. Not as actual employees of your company, god no. To stand around looking delicious and fascinated. What else are women for? [Ed: CoinsBank, which also offered rooms for “18+ only” ladies, did not reply to multiple requests for comment.] The sea-swell swaying hallways are full of moody Eastern European teenagers in impractical heels. “We’re here as…as help,” one of them tells me in the elevator. She doesn’t look up from her phone. That evening, one guest tells me that male attendees are having room numbers discreetly sent to them on Telegram—the social network of choice, I learn, for pump-and-dump crypto schemers.
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Main Paineframe posted:buying enough mercenaries to defeat a local warlord, and keeping them around to ward off bandits and neighboring warlords, tends to cut deep into the budget oh, for sure, but if you figure the only thing these folks can even claim to have is "money" well, it seems like the one way they can achieve their goals. also, it's the free market at work, it's the most libertarian thing imaginable
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infernal machines posted:arguably no worse of an idea than the weird libertarian cult compound was to begin with. The obvious choice is Bir Tawil. Can't wait until they realize that.
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Shame Boy posted:does anyone have that news article about liberland where they tried to take a US diplomat with them in their little rubber dinghy or something because they thought it would prevent them from being arrested, and the serbians were like "ok everyone but her is under arrest, she just needs to leave" lmao it was a czech diplomat but yeah it's great https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/magazine/the-making-of-a-president.html quote:Before any of these questions could be addressed, however, he had to advance Part 1 of his plan for establishing Liberland as a sovereign state: namely, to gain physical control over the territory. This had already proved more perplexing than anticipated. The Croatians regarded Liberland as Serbian territory; if you crossed overland, from the Croatian side, you were thus performing an illegal international crossing outside an official border checkpoint. If you crossed by water from the Serbian side, the Croatian police were technically arresting someone for crossing from Serbia to Serbia. The L.S.A. decided that mass arrests would inevitably bring international attention to the Croatian infringement on Liberlandian sovereignty, but the President knew firsthand the discomfort of the Croatian prison, and he did not want any more of his future citizens to suffer there. His tactic would be diplomatic, and he had to that end sought an alliance with a Czech member of the European Parliament. If the Croatian police arrested the holder of a diplomatic passport upon debarkation, they would provoke an incident with global repercussions; Liberland was a voluntary signatory to various international treaties and charters, and the Croatian provocation would not go unnoticed. The diplomat, Tomas Zdechovsky, a Czech member of the European Parliament, had agreed to the mission, which was to be held on a weekend in early June. The diplomat would attempt a landing at Liberland — which for a month no Liberlandian citizen or supporter had done without immediate arrest — and see if the Croatian police were willing to subject themselves to the scrutiny of the international community.
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Shame Boy posted:all i know about croatia is when my friend (UK native) visits slovenia they fly into croatia's airport because its cheaper, and the croatian officials question her a ton about her motives and who's picking her up and give her a ton of poo poo for it like "you need to leave the country within 8 hours" was this pre-brexit or just post? if she had a uk passport when they were both in the eu there should have been no problem at all, what with free movement and all i can absolutely see this happening in a post-brexit world though
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theres already a residence on that island so presumably some of the waste issues have already been figured out. but the whole thing is only 600 acres
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ryde posted:theres already a residence on that island so presumably some of the waste issues have already been figured out. but the whole thing is only 600 acres it's trivial to have a septic system for a single house
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priorities, yo https://twitter.com/Satakarnak/status/1478777962015166464
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The_Franz posted:if those bored ape meetups link please
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Asymmetric POSTer posted:link please https://twitter.com/mattlieb/status/1461415576924921859?s=20 (From this article)
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LanceHunter posted:https://twitter.com/mattlieb/status/1461415576924921859?s=20 hahahaha lmao at the tweet caption
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73.25741% of all statistics are made up
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Shame Boy posted:did i miss this getting posted somehow because i feel like i'd remember it if it was posted I like how you can jump in the vault of rubber coins like Scrooge McDuck and flop around like a kid in a ball pit. It’s a nice touch. Also it just brings up other scams in the same video. and makes fun of them. Like you’d have to be an absolute dullard to think any of this would be good. Fortunately it’s just a rug pull for absolute dullards.
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The Atomic Man-Boy posted:I like how you can jump in the vault of rubber coins like Scrooge McDuck and flop around like a kid in a ball pit. It’s a nice touch. i don't even think it's a rug pull, they built physical models and a statue of weird bitcoin man, these people seem like true believers and really want to build meme island. i mean it's still a scam because they're completely incapable of actually making meme island, but i fully believe they want to
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The_Franz posted:was this pre-brexit or just post? if she had a uk passport when they were both in the eu there should have been no problem at all, what with free movement and all it's every time she's traveled, both pre and post brexit e: afaik it's been a lot worse post-brexit but they definitely gave her a lot of poo poo pre-brexit too e2: though thinking about it she's never traveled there before the brexit vote (though she has before brexit took effect) so idk maybe they were mad about that?? idk all i know is it terrifies her and she has panic attacks about it and that's my impression of croatia now Shame Boy fucked around with this message at 10:10 on Jan 6, 2022 |
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Shame Boy posted:i don't even think it's a rug pull, they built physical models and a statue of weird bitcoin man, these people seem like true believers and really want to build meme island. i mean it's still a scam because they're completely incapable of actually making meme island, but i fully believe they want to this was my thinking too if it was designed to be a scam they'd have put more thought into it instead they blew a bunch of money on a terrible animation 
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Shame Boy posted:i don't even think it's a rug pull, they built physical models and a statue of weird bitcoin man, these people seem like true believers and really want to build meme island. i mean it's still a scam because they're completely incapable of actually making meme island, but i fully believe they want to it's like a modern version of logansryc worrying about all the sodas he's going to sell at his movie theatre before even securing the building for our terrible bitcoin theme part the most important thing is the mascot so we've got to get a life sized statue made that people can take photos with before we've even started building anything
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Reminder one time a goon got land in Hawaii and convinced several other goons to come on the basis of creating an environmentally friendly vegan yoga resort and ended up cutting down random trees and torturing small animals until they got made fun of so hard they all abandoned the land and went their separate ways
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infernal machines posted:they also drank from pools the pigs had poo poo in, with predictable results iirc they became half pig half man super heroes?
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infernal machines posted:they also drank from pools the pigs had poo poo in, with predictable results iirc
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EorayMel posted:Reminder one time a goon got land in Hawaii and convinced several other goons to come on the basis of creating an environmentally friendly vegan yoga resort and ended up cutting down random trees and torturing small animals until they got made fun of so hard they all abandoned the land and went their separate ways fyad ~2007-2010 was probably the funniest the internet ever was or will be. rip
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post hole digger posted:fyad ~2007-2010 was probably the funniest the internet ever was or will be. rip Greatest ever. Thank you lawd jesus for giving us this story with accompanying pictures. Roo - were you ever planning on skinning a pig in Hawaii, because if not - that's a major life changing thing! 6 shots though SM? Really? 
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Boxturret posted:they became half pig half man super heroes? in a sense, yes.
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