Wugmeister @ ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling @lemmy.dbzer0.com

This is a man who knows how to gling. He is glinging. Yesterday, he _____.

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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.

Also, I hate how wallets keep sending you emails like "Suspicious activity on your account" and "Your account may be compromised". It's very annoying to ignore them, amirite? Like, you know nothing is gonna happen because I can't see your password

Okay, that's not fair, bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency that actually gains "value" over time. Not because it's actually useful for anything, it's just so old that it can't be mined faster than bits of it being lost in the wallets of ex-hodlers who realized they'd been scammed, jumped ship, and then forgot their passwords.

160 years ago in 1865, slavery was outlawed except as punishment for a crime. This posed a severe shortage of cheap labor, which was solved by creating a plethora of fiddly little crimes targeting the poor and marginalized. The next 75 years, the role slavery filled was instead covered by convict leasing and prison peonage, ending only when FDR issued a circular ordering prisons to stop the practice because we were about to enter WW2 and it made us look like the bad guys. To replace the cheap labor of convict leasing, prisons instead became factories. Prisoners are technically paid now: they dont have access to the money, and it only goes towards paying bail as well as other expenses, but they are technically being paid for their work. Therefore, it's not slavery! 🤔

This is the pragmatic reason why prisons exist: because slavery is illegal. We made up the moral reasoning because deep down we know it's wrong. Back in the pre-civil-war era, we also had justifications for why slavery was good: the slaves were incapable of making moral decisions, we were civilizing a barbarous people, etc etc. It was bullshit then, and it's still bullshit now.

I'm not sure what Cathode Ray Tubes have to do with any of this.

I'm gonna post it again

My point is, there are adults older than me who have never lived in a time where the internet wasn't a thing

I was born six months before Google was founded. I am now 25.

The way i see it, I went from 2018 to 2021 with no real friends. Sure, I had an irl ttrpg group, but I felt more lonely around them than when I was actually alone.

Wow, haven't heard about Orang Man since 2020

Used to play Pathfinder with a girl who self-medicated with weed, which would have been a problem if she didn't deal with her anxiety behind the wheel by smoking weed. Whenever she drove herself, she showed up so blasted she couldn't do dice math. She gave me a ride a few times. Kinda miss her; she was nice.

It really is a shame that blackplayer is not being updated anymore afaik

Lemmygrad

Thank you very much for pointing out that app exists

My username is a reference to the Wug test, specifically this question: "This is a man who knows how to gling. Yesterday he glanged. Tomorrow he will _____."

My irl nickname is Lizard. This is the story:

I was at what was supposed to be FNM, but none of us were feeling Magic that day so we decided to play Secret Hitler, mostly because it was my fiancée's best friend's sister's birthday so she ended up picking the game.

If you haven't played Secret Hitler, at the start of the game you get a little envelope secretly telling you whether you are a Liberal, Fascist, or Hitler. Liberals want to pass liberal policies to win the game, the fascists want to pass fascist policies that give players ability to shoot dissidents and eventually get Hitler to win. The relevant thing is that Hitler and the Fascists are lizards; apparently the Liberals are normal people, but I don't know for sure since I've never played as a liberal.

Just to be clear, it's almost statistically impossible for me to have never played as a liberal. In each game I've played in, there was a total of 3 Fascists (including Hitler) and usually about a dozen Liberals. I should have been a liberal at least once by now, considering I got my nickname 2 years ago.

On this particular night, we played about a half dozen games, in which I was Hitler twice. I kept suprising them by doing well! They all know I am autistic and can't lie to save my own skin, so as the games went on they got progressively more tilted each time I was revealed to be a lizard. I was also getting frustrated because I really do not like lying!

At the start of the last game, I opened my envelope, saw a lizard, and I was just so fucking done. I snapped at the shuffler, "Are you even shuffling these cards?" and threw my envelope at him. He responded "Well, now I need to reshuffle. And for that you shall die!" and started chasing me around with the Nerf gun we had been using to shoot dissidents. Eventually he cornered me with me cowering and covering my face with my hands, and with a shout of "Die, Lizard!" he shot the gun.

I somehow caught the bullet in between my hands with my eyes closed! And that's why my name is Lizard.

Why does he type like a phishing email

The germans were told than it originated in the Roman Empire, and since they were the modern successors to the Roman Empire they would adopt the Roman salute

There is no evidence of it being used in Rome.

To be fair, Chinese is only slightly harder to learn than English

Speaking as a hetero, 5 minutes is on the high end of normal for continuous penis insertion. However, the actual sex with my fiancée tends to take longer than that due to the foreplay, switching to mstarubtraing her until I am ready for a second round, a couple minutes of cuddling when she needs to rest, etc. No idea how this translates to gay sex.

My understanding is that typical gay sex goes until you cum and then you are done. Back when I was dating a gay guy, sex was mostly unsuccessful due to his erectile dysfunction, so my personal experience is limited.

I've been here since the beans.