bitcoin: a sisyphean nightmare, forever trapped in an endless wall of sperg

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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

OldAlias posted:

What bothers me is the SA culture in general. I've thought about it at length yesterday, and realized that SA are essentially a bunch of jealous ludites. Here are some examples why that is true:

1) Furry fandom is a community of incredibly artistic people, full of painters, writers, musicians, and entertainers, who organize, put together huge international conventions, and raise hundreds of thousands for charity while contributing tens of millions of dollars to local economies of the cities hosting those conventions. The only thing SA contributed is to make fun of them.

2) SecondLife allowed for unprecedented communication, collaboration, and creativity. Players there got a chance to explore design, fashion, and architecture skills they never even knew they had. They used their creative skills to make new games, experiment with fashion in virtual space, and practice things like investment and business/real estate management before building real life businesses using those skills. People there earned from thousands to millions of dollars using nothing other than their brains and creativity. The only thing SA contributed is to make fun of them by making random penises fly around, and when told that they are causing serious damage and costing actual money, their only reply was, "don't take it so seriously."

3) Bitcoin is a new financial concept entirely without precedent. We are only scratching the surface of what is possible with it. The only reason it has any value (and the thing SA seems to focus most on) is that it is impossible to duplicate, and has a guaranteed limit on quantity, which is extremely unusual in the copy/paste digital world. But besides inflation resistance, it can do awesome things like, for the first time ever, allow software to own valuable property. This was never possible before, w/ closest thing being that a program could control bank accounts or own contracts in someone else's name. Now, for the first time, it's possible for a program or a "virus" to own money, decide on its own how to spend it, and actually take it with it as it travels around the web. The possibilities for AI, concept of property, and ownership/copyright law are mind boggling. This is just one example of many that Bitcoin allows for, and those that realize such possibilities are working hard to make them come true, earning real money in the process (as much as $6,000 a day, or $2.3mil a year). The only thing SA has contributed was to willfully stay ignorant of basic finance and economics and make fun of those involved with bitcoinOther than that, all they are able to do is stare at the system without understanding it, or being able to figure out how to make anything out of it. As they have with SecondLife, or any other fandom or technology.

All this makes me think that SA goons have absolutely no imagination or drive. On the contrary, the group seems to be based around making fun of anyone who shows any sort of imagination, or attempts something out of the ordinary. They are like a pot of crabs, grabbing and dragging anyone who dares try to escape and achieve something back down with them. The group has no accomplishments to its name, other than being a nuisance to everyone else, and providing a circle-jerk of entertainment to its members in the style of bullying people they don't even want to understand. Any discovery of scammers or bad people in other communities is at most a purely accidental result of them being so eager to try to attack anything and anyone. This of course suggests that the SA group consists primarily of losers, who lack any initiative, imagination, or drive, and who's actions only suggest that they are jealous of those who do (which is perfectly exemplified by their whining about how Bitcoin is unfair, benefits early adopters, and their insistence on the belief that everyone involved with it is a selfish idiot who's only philosophy is "F*** you, got mine."). And judging by the few people I know in that group, including even my ex, that seems to be completely true.

My biggest pet peeve is ignorance; especially willful ignorance. Racists, religious extremists, jingoists, and ludites who believe they are right, and everyone else is an idiot, who are afraid of anything they don't understand, and actively try to avoid understanding or learning new ideas. SA is in that group, and that's why I hate them.

secondlife still exists?

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# ¿ Oct 24, 2014 19:57

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 04:31

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

# ¿ Oct 29, 2014 12:29

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

AlsoD posted:

I'm the soldiers reaching to help their fellow who fell in rather than saying "free market, bitch" and ignoring him

i'm the greeks inexplicably using a viking boat

# ¿ Nov 4, 2014 13:03

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

and enough stupidity to think asking "are you a cop?" will protect him from undercover agents

# ¿ Nov 6, 2014 20:06

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

Lowtax, 2001 posted:

eCash and Micro Commerce - Ordinary cash and credit cards are too mundane for the Internet. What people really want is the ability to pay .0000003 cents to view a page and pay for it via virtual eCash which is easily stolen, manipulated, and conveniently "lost" by unscrupulous eBankers.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2014 12:10

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

indigi posted:

I think the real problem with self driving cars is that either everyone will have to use them or nobody will use them, cause a computer isn't gonna be able to anticipate and improvise around the behavior of a bunch of idiot humans

which will never happen. there are still idiots who won't drive cars with fuel injection because of "that drat computer!"

# ¿ Nov 15, 2014 12:10

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

well, this was a good bitcoin thread while it lasted

# ¿ Nov 15, 2014 21:53

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

thermos is going to spend 5 million dollars on that forum, and then it's going to a) choke as soon as more than 25 people try to use it and b) get cosby'd on release day

# ¿ Nov 16, 2014 13:07

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

Chris Knight posted:

I did but it was taken over by fiat

# ¿ Nov 17, 2014 18:18

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

vOv posted:

for some reason legal documents tend to be kinda repetitive: 'cease and desist', 'terms and conditions', 'true and correct', 'breaking and entering', etc.

A legal doublet is a standardized phrase used frequently in English legal language which consists of two or more words which are near synonyms. The origin of the doubling � and sometimes even tripling � often lies in the transition of legal language from Latin to French. Certain words were simply given in their Latin, French and/or English forms, often pairing an English word (or a more archaic Anglo-Saxon word) with a Latin or French synonym, so as to ensure understanding. Such phrases can often be pleonasms.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_doublet

# ¿ Nov 22, 2014 20:19

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

websites having content is soooooo 2008. write three sentences max and then put loads of social media links

# ¿ Nov 23, 2014 22:46

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

uranus posted:

how many bitcoiners does it take to screw in a lightbulb

none. a true libertarian just holds the bulb up and expects the world to revolve around them

# ¿ Nov 24, 2014 01:02

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

uranus posted:

why did the bitcoiner cross the road

because a girl was walking towards him

# ¿ Nov 24, 2014 01:04

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

only clip i ever remember is the time-lapse of the loaf of bread decomposing

# ¿ Nov 24, 2014 14:04

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

theflyingorc posted:

the biggest thing we lost from the 90s was calling everything "cyber"

the second biggest was magazines about the internet, every single one of which had cover art featuring someone surfing on a keyboard

# ¿ Nov 24, 2014 17:24

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

surebet posted:

welp, i had the awesome idea of looking up cock vore, mlp fan art featuring hermaphroditic ponies jamming each other up their dongs, with the obligatory layer of baby fur and scat on top

that's enough internet for today...

no inflation or foot fetishism?

# ¿ Nov 28, 2014 17:06

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

this is bitcoiners we're talking about. they're probably selling broken/fake stuff and thinking it's the buyers fault because caveat emptor

# ¿ Dec 1, 2014 18:07

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

~~no fees~~
~~fast~~
~~simple~~
~~scalable~~
~~anonymous~~

# ¿ Dec 1, 2014 18:26

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

i'll just make sure all my transactions are for $29,999. that way it won't raise any red flags to begin with

# ¿ Dec 2, 2014 15:18

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

Krinkle posted:

More like Your father has died taking his private keys with him, collect no inheritance. Needs a sister card saying Your father trusted your inheritance to an intermediary to mail you his keys after his death, got goxed in advance, collect no inheritance.

I know yours was about obscene internet tips so that can be a third card.

poo poo now it needs a fourth card Your father shared his private keys with you in advance. Collect inheritance now and kick him into an illegal nursing home that utilizes olds for slave labor.

and a fifth:

Your father died. As his only heir you are now responsible for paying his crippling debts. Forfeit all money and leave the game.

(this was an actual argument bitcoiners made)

# ¿ Dec 7, 2014 18:53

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

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

what's the goat for?!?!?!?!

the god probably wants you to sacrifice it or something

# ¿ Dec 9, 2014 18:56

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

hobbesmaster posted:

was it roger ver that was convicted for sending explosives through the us mail and literally does not understand why that is a crime?

these people literally think the law is a genie who can be tricked into defeating himself if you describe things using the right magic words.

# ¿ Dec 12, 2014 22:09

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

AlbieQuirky posted:

It was supposed to encourage lateral thinking or something. It was a communications consulting thingy.

I already took seven years of Latin, so I didn't see how it would encourage anything but boredom in me. The Second Life business was the real dealbreaker.

Quod culus tibi purior salillo est, nec toto decies cacas in anno; atque id durius est faba et lapillis. Quod tu si manibus teras fricesque, non umquam digitum inquinare posses.

# ¿ Dec 17, 2014 19:13

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

Tiny Bug Child posted:

i think my favorite bitcoiner delusion is bitcoins

# ¿ Dec 18, 2014 18:19

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

Dren posted:

what is star citizen

zybourne clock 2

# ¿ Dec 19, 2014 16:43

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

hobbesmaster posted:

I really just don't "get" doobie or whatever the hotdog stand guy is named. someone wrote a post that got people in gbs to fund the guy's kickstarter. pretty sure this was peak classic gbs. I don't see anything else involved with it being anywhere near as funny as star citizen

someone made an image with :frog:

on it and GBS being GBS thought that was the most amazing thing ever here doobie have my kids xmas money!

# ¿ Dec 19, 2014 18:18

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

a guy who lives in Shithole, AL - pop: 314 turns out to be a retarded hick you say! :monocle:

# ¿ Dec 19, 2014 18:21

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

only 1 now

# ¿ Dec 20, 2014 13:35

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

0 now.

they literally sold $45,000 worth of pretend spaceships in the last 25 minutes :psyduck:

# ¿ Dec 20, 2014 13:48

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

permanently destroying the ships someone spent $15,000 on is going to take griefing to a whole new level

# ¿ Dec 20, 2014 19:57

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

of course he's not going to do the full two years. he's white

# ¿ Dec 21, 2014 13:50

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

still going for that "people had to be talked into using the internet" thing i see

# ¿ Dec 24, 2014 12:02

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

so have they tried throwing bitcoins out of helicopters yet?

# ¿ Dec 25, 2014 00:40

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

it's like a $15 giftcard for a shop you've never heard of, and when you look them up they have nothing you'd ever want to buy

# ¿ Dec 25, 2014 22:11

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 04:31

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

Arschm�nze?

# ¿ Dec 26, 2014 20:18

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