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I hired a guy from Yap and so we spent a lot of time at work learning about Yap. My favorite Yap story is that they’re the island with the big stone money. The British showed up and learned that and sailed their boats to a British colony where they had their slave labor make a bunch of big stone money. Then they sailed back to Yap to buy things with the stone money. The Yap islanders decided that the British stones were no good and that they didn’t want them because it seemed that they were too easy for the British to get and thus they must be worthless.
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peanut posted:Merry Yapmas and a Yappy New Year.
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Chemmy posted:I hired a guy from Yap and so we spent a lot of time at work learning about Yap. Wait...did Yap have the first bitcoin?
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Beachcomber posted:Wait...did Yap have the first bitcoin? Literally mined currency.
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That looks so råd  I hope they have a great christmas
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What a nice little feelgood story this was. Given the Doobie experience I was half expecting the guy to just buy a speedboat and cocaine and sail away.
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Thoughtless posted:What a nice little feelgood story this was. Given the Doobie experience I was half expecting the guy to just buy a speedboat and cocaine and sail away. He’s not close to being done yet, either - apparently the hold up is that a lot of the power outlets he needs to use are scheduled to be used on 12/18 for some market/festival, and after that he can go ham on it. So I should have another update around the 23rd.
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Abugadu posted:He’s not close to being done yet, either - apparently the hold up is that a lot of the power outlets he needs to use are scheduled to be used on 12/18 for some market/festival, and after that he can go ham on it. So I should have another update around the 23rd. Thread will be stuck with a more descriptive title for that!
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Chemmy posted:I hired a guy from Yap and so we spent a lot of time at work learning about Yap. The other one I like is that there's one Rai stone at the bottom of the ocean that's still "in circulation". The stones aren't even from Yap, they had to go to this different island to make them. Then get them back on a polynesian double hulled canoe made from tree trunks and bamboo. And the bigger and more impressive the stone is, the more value it has. So one time they made the biggest and most impressive stone ever, but it was so big the canoe sank on the way back. I guess everyone decided it was good enough for partial credit.
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Beachcomber posted:Wait...did Yap have the first bitcoin? no joke, yes. the rai stones are literally how i explain bitcoin to people. Nice to see the lights, goon. Please remind your friend that we wanted to remain anonymous.
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https://fb.watch/2uBFhawwlR/ The lights are almost all up now, and it looks awesome. I'll get some more pics and vids here soon, but just want to say gently caress yeah goons.
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That poo poo is lit Yapy Xmas!
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Revins posted:nice noice
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Expected someone going ham. Was not disappointed.
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Once again, thank you goons for coming together to make Christmas special for kids around the world. Leo and some of the island kids worked hard to get the lights up in time:  And the payoff was spectacular. For most of these kids, it was their first Christmas light display, and you guys made it huge.       Merry Christmas from the Western Pacific, and my deepest thanks for helping out a guy with a dream. 
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Awesomeness!
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Haha those kids look bewildered.
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More pics:     
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impressed with what the dude was able to do. thanks for posting the pics. very cool
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thanks for the final update the pics are awesome im glad everyone had fun!
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that is AWESOME. Marry Christmas Yappers
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Extremely impressed. Good job goons! I would leave them up year round. That looks like a TON of work!!!
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i thought they'd decorate here and there, not create a winter wonderland visible from space i dig it
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OP if you could put in a good word with the Yapese, I would appreciate stone currently roughly equivalent to the amount I donated. Please mail me rocks. Big ones.
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You can always buy your own replica for 1.2k shipped. https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/decorative-objects/sculptures/abstract-sculptures/table-top-replica-yap-stone/id-f_14083581/
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Gone Fashing posted:impressed with what the dude was able to do. thanks for posting the pics. very cool  This is rad, glad it all came together and hope that the Yap kids enjoyed it.
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