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Snake Diggity

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  1. It’s tough to think about how Im going to keep my kids safe when they get older. I’m not too worried about them intentionally taking fentanyl (or coke or Xanax), I’m much more worried about them drinking then doing something stupid once they lose their inhibitions. Scary shit.
  2. Would legit easily be one of the 5 best days of my life.
  3. Yep. If politics come up with someone and they say the word “but” after saying something negative about Trump, they are voting for Trump. Or if someone says anything negative about Biden without immediately confirming they are still voting for him, they are voting for Trump. Any sane person knows the stakes, and knows Trump cannot be allowed to be president. If there’s any ambiguity in a person’s opinion about the 2024 election, then they have been reading/watching/listening to brain poison and they are going to vote for Trump.
  4. Ok, so: Georgia election interference case possibly on hold because the prosecutor fucked her coworker DC election interference case on hold waiting on the conservative-led Supreme Court Florida classified docs case to be delayed because Trumper judge wants to NY porn star hush money case on track Not ideal
  5. Thanks for the reply. Hard to have faith in a currency whose governance is consistently and proudly described as “messy”. The SegWit change seems like it was an instance of the system passing a test, but I don’t really see why you think that single instance where everything worked out means that the system will pass all future tests. I also don’t understand how saying the nodes/users act as gatekeepers prevents large scale owners from exerting influence; the owners are the users, right?
  6. Seems like “historically” and “pretty much” might be doing a lot of heavy lifting in that explanation. I can see how it might be hard for Bitcoin owners to dictate code changes (although that seems like it relies on the small number of editors not being for sale). But someone getting ownership over a large % of coin seems like they sure could control the price. “To control Bitcoin is to kill it” seems like a good thing, but it assumes no one with enough capital to control it would want to kill it, and I’m not sure I buy that.
  7. Can you elaborate on that last point? I’m very interested to understand why someone owning a large percentage of a finite asset doesn’t give them control over how it is used.
  8. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/02/28/coinbase-users-see-0-balance-after-crypto-trading-app-suffers-glitch.html
  9. Their salaries aren’t their primary sources of income…
  10. I could see Huckabee hopping on Ozempic real quick and having a shot.
  11. Before a BIP can make it to UASF, it has to be approved by an editor. But also, even if you’re right, how well would UASF have worked if CVE-2018–17144 hadn’t been responsibly disclosed? There’s no indication that future bugs in the software could be guaranteed to be fixed via UASF quickly enough to avoid catastrophe, and that’s assuming they're found by good actors. I’m not going to put myself forth as an expert on Bitcoin. Maybe you know it all. That doesn’t change the fact that the VAST majority of people “investing” in Bitcoin have no fucking clue how it works. The value of Bitcoin is overwhelmingly fueled by speculation. It’s GME.
  12. Trump is not choosing a person of color for his VP. 0% chance. He will either choose an attractive white woman or a milquetoast white man.
  13. I have yet to meet a crypto enthusiast who actually understands how it works. Shitloads of speculators, very few investors. There are a handful of people (<10) who make decisions regarding code changes to Bitcoin. No one seems to be able to fully explain who manages them. At its best, it’s similar to gold. At worst, it’s tulips. Blockchain is valuable technology. But I have seen zero solid argument for why Bitcoin will replace the dollar as the primary means of exchange in the world. Countries who embrace Bitcoin lose the ability to sanction. I’m sure the US will let that happen. Not.
  14. https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/complete.html
  15. If you have an iPhone you can touch “show reader” in the upper left menu of safari and it’ll bypass the paywall.
  16. The enshittification of Twitter and Facebook has forced me onto surly a lot more. I went from 4-5 hours per week on those 2 sites, checking surly maybe an hour a week, to never logging into Twitter, checking Facebook 15 min/week, and spending 2-3 hrs/day on surly.
  17. White male outrage was a niche market until Obama “validated” it by being black and getting elected president. Trump seized on that moment and was uniquely fit to do so, having the celebrity and willingness to debase himself. Help from anti-American influences got him over the finish line. The border crisis and discussion of gender issues are ammo to try and expand the market, but the heart of Trump’s political success is racism.
  18. Word. Initially I assumed Trump’s campaign was essentially a publicity stunt. One he was clearly seriously in the running for the GOP nomination, I assumed he was just trying to become president to inflate his ego. That may actually be true. But once he won, I assumed that he (or those close to him) would ensure he was surrounded by competent people he could delegate all the real responsibility to; that his role would be mainly to get on camera and brag, but that he wouldn’t really want to do the work of being president. I figured he might involve himself superficially in some trade deal negotiations to have something to brag about, but that he’d quickly tire of that when he realized it was actual hard work. I also assumed he would hate being president and ensure he only served one term. Wrong across the board. The piece of shit is intent on fucking up EVERYTHING, ALL THE WAY.
  19. It’s crazy to me that someone with multiple bankruptcies on their resume was ever a viable candidate for president, much less actually elected. That may be at the top of the list of things that should have been a disqualifying factor for voters. Forget that his primary role in society was as a reality game show host, forget all the shit he had said and done that made it clear he was sexist and racist, forget all the aspects of his personal life that made it clear he was not a person of decent moral character and certainly not someone to hold up as an example of family values, forget that he had zero prior experience in government or military or even really leading a business in a role that might somehow approximate a qualification to be president. Just knowing “this motherfucker owned several business that ended up Chapter 11” should have been, on its own, MORE THAN ENOUGH for people to wholly reject his candidacy. I will never get over what a horrible reflection his election was on our society.
  20. Streets of Where I’m From not getting enough love on this thread. Fantastic song. If I made a set list: Melt Show Doreen Niteclub Nineteen Rollerskate Skinny Indefinitely The Other Shoe Color of a lonely heart is blue Jagged W-I-F-E Designs on You Mama Tried Four Leaf Clover Wont Be Home If My Heart was a car Most Messed Up State of Texas Encore 1: Question Barrier Reef Stoned Big Brown Eyes Encore 2: Valentine Streets of Where I’m From Murder (or a heart attack) Time bomb
  21. I guess Haley’s sudden aggression is now just prep for 2028, hoping that Trump is dead and the GOP rallies against Trumpism after so much losing. Doubtful it’ll pay off after she served in his administration.
  22. My worthless thoughts: Obama way too high; he was a decent president but disinterested in or incapable of making big foreign policy decisions. He might rank above average if you put his presidency in the context of him having to deal with being the first black president. Wilson too high. He kind of sucked. I would probably have McKinley and Coolidge a little higher. I would also have Trump much lower. I would find a way. Otherwsie pretty accurate.
  23. Old 97s have been my favorite band since 1999 and Rhett Miller was probably top 3 people in the world that I would’ve wanted to trade places with at that time. They haven’t released a song that I don’t like and they’ve never put on a bad show. They showed their age a bit the last time I saw them but it was still fun. The last few years I’ve seen too many quotes from Rhett lamenting how little money he makes compared to his St Marks classmates and that makes me extremely sad to think he’s that insecure. But from all accounts they are all really nice guys, and like I said they write nothing but good songs and put on nothing but good shows. Rare for a band to stay together and sustain the “popular but not overhyped” level of fame as they have.
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