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  • Tbh if i came across a notebook with a bunch of ominous bullshit on the inside cover, I'd assume it was a prop for V:TM or some other goth-ish ttrpg. And then promptly ignore the instructions until I notice people dying.

    And that's assuming I don't just rip out the instructions or glue a picture over it

  • Personally, I think the big thing is that we need a tool to see who is defederated from who. We don't want some poor sod somehow thinking that since they are leftist that Hexbear or Lemmygrad would be a good place for them.

  • I probably would use it like a journal and kill a bunch of people by accident

  • I had to look up what that was. Very happy I did.

  • Isn't there a billionaire who was in the news during CoVid because he gave his employees a living wage during lockdown by not paying himself anything for that time? He's still a billionaire, BTW, he owns assets that he can liquidate whenever he wants

  • Op has a history of trolling. To me this reads like bellyaching about being repeatedly calling out on it.

  • You must not have been here for the beans

  • Did something happen on the alien site last week?

  • Incorrect. It's Raining Men is about fucking lots of people, whereas Let the Bodies Hit the Floor is about fucking people up

  • Speak for yourself.

  • Why did you do this to us? Why‽

  • I think your source is the best answer I'm going to get

  • The older I get, the less I miss it. My life with my significant other is far better than anything I had as a kid

  • Thank you. I love when people cite sources

  • So what your saying is your brother single-handedly altered the trajectory of the US economy

  • The first measurable thing that would happen is that we would stop orbiting the sun, since (counter to what my 12-year-old ufo-believing self thought) gravity also travels at the speed of light.

  • I do think the fact that bitcoin is basically a random number generator that contributes to global warming is important context, but this specific criticism also applies not just all modern currencies but also physical investments as well. If we all decided tomorrow that Funko Pops aren't worth anything, all the Funko Pop flippers would immediately chuck their "investments" into the nearest landfill. Same would happen to real estate investment if we decided that the best way to enshrined housing as a human right is to not treat land as something that can be bought, sold, owned, and repossessed by the bank if you default on a loan.

    I think the crypto cultists' blind faith in hodling until they go to the moon has caused the rest us to subconsciously internalize that crypto is a "real" thing in some way. It doesn't behave like an investment because it's not an investment:

    • its not a value-generating asset that we can use to do things, like a car or a horse
    • it does not hold artistic value like Funko Pops or real art
    • it doesn't have inherent use like gold or land
    • it isn't even a proxy for some other valuable thing thats harder to to trade, like stocks or futures
    • it has a similar claim to being currency as Rai stones

    Point is, it's not valueless because it loses value when we stop caring, it's valueless because it has no fucking value.