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On 5/1/2025 at 9:33 AM, NorthLoop said:
I mean is she gonna notice the ring is turned off for 20 minutes?
You'd think that, but 4 months from now, something else will set her off and you'll be getting interrogated about those 20 minutes like your marriage depends on it. At that point, you won't even remember why the hell you did it, but your life and bank account will depend on it.
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2 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:
never heard of asteroid anal rape fetish
TILT. Will not be googling.
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Haven't read the whole thread, but I can't f'ing believe DHS is spending $200 mill on those sh*t ads with Kristi Noem. 2024 budget for public broadcasting was $535 million.
Why are we spending money to advertise a federal agency? It's not recruiting related, it's purely for publicity.
What the actual f*ck?
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On 5/2/2025 at 12:23 PM, midtown said:
749/999 is a beautiful bike that is starting to gain the following that it deserves. Congrats to your son on his new bike and hard work!
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11 hours ago, Ghost of NMAS said:
The second fifty men stab the gorilla to death with the bones of the first fifty
Honestly, this is similar to what I came up with. At some point in time, the remaining men figure out they need to use the dead bodies to kill the gorilla.
The argument that the gorilla would get tired is bullshit. I feel like the gorilla would just turn ripping guy's heads off into a cardio workout.-
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On 1/20/2025 at 9:11 PM, Anastasis said:
Why atf and not just some thin synthetic?
I actually always thought that atf had more detergents than regular oil, but did some research and learned something today. It sounds like oil would be the better option.
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23 hours ago, No Mames Guey said:
Anyone else confused by the depiction of a brain in that meme?
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On 1/10/2025 at 12:18 PM, Satchel said:
Does he have concepts of a plan to lower the price of eggs?
Has anyone asked how many chickens there are in Greenland? I mean maybe Trump is a genius, and we just don't know it? (Highly unlikely, I know)
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On 1/10/2025 at 5:18 PM, TexasEd said:
hope I’m not spamming too much but excited that the 2 year restoration is almost complete. Really been more like 14 years.
here’s a video showing the interior installed.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEpcCn6RAgz/
Looks beautiful. You should be proud!
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1 hour ago, Mittens said:
Do y'all really not have old measuring cups laying around? I have a whole drawer full of shitty kitchen stuff that's been replaced by good kitchen stuff just waiting to be used for something other than my food. And ordered? You know the grocery store has those you can just pick up the next time you're there, yes?
Moved into our new place in July, so we haven't had a chance to acquire the "second set of" stuff. Yeah, HEB would have been a totally viable solution as well.
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26 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:
Seems like the solo cup was a perfectly viable option
The point can be argued, but I wasn't complaining about her choice for a permanent solution as:
1) the Solo cups are stored nowhere close to the dog food bin
2) the Solo cups are replaced by the same person that is responsible for taking out the garbage and the recycling
There's literally a shredded Solo cup sitting in the bin, now. I've held off on replacing it in anticipation of this epic solution.
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13 minutes ago, Sam Lin said:
Why is this an issue at all? Do you not wash your stuff?
(I laughed hard when I saw the scoop photo btw)The whole point was to leave the scoop in with the dog food. I'll let you guess how many times the Solo cups get washed.
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Well, I made a solid recovery from the asshole zone. Admittedly, the whole thing is probably my fault as I left my wife unsupervised.
About 2 months ago, she proudly ordered a measuring cup for our dogs' food on Amazon. I didn't really think anything of it, as we have two dogs: one gets 1 cup of food per meal, the other gets two cups of food per meal. Our current solution has been to use a red Solo cup until it ultimately self destructs, and we replace it with another one, so I fully supported this purchase.
Before Christmas, my wife informs me that the measuring cup isn't expected to arrive until after Christmas, as it's coming from the UK. This should have raised some flags, but I let it go.
Today, the long anticipated day arrived and she showed me the measuring cup:
I started laughing as soon as I saw it, which immediately led to her getting upset and telling me that she figured we could use it for other things like measuring food in the kitchen. I held off on the obvious issue with not wanting my food being measured with the same device we use for dog food. I was able to take the edge off with some kind words and affection.
Needless to say, I ordered this today:
It arrives tomorrow.
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I'm an excellent driver.
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On 11/26/2024 at 9:21 AM, Harrison Stafford said:
Black Mass To Rescue EV Battery Supply Chain
The EV battery supply chain has been quite a headache for automakers. The materials that go into EV batteries are mined from the Earth, dragging the heavy baggage of environmental and cultural destruction as well as human rights abuses and conflict issues. Recycling provides at least a partial solution, if only recyclers could figure out an economical way to extract cobalt, nickel, manganese, and lithium from spent batteries…oh, wait, here comes black mass.EV Battery Recycling & Black Mass
CleanTechnica’s Jo Borras spotted the black mass angle last year, when he featured the Canadian EV battery recycling startup RecycLiCo in a pair of articles. The idea is to strip out the plastics, aluminum, and other non-essential materials from an EV battery and render the remainder into a shiny, metallic powder, which for lack of a better name is commonly referred to as black mass. Not to be confused with another product of EV battery recycling called black powder, black mass contains cobalt, nickel, manganese, and lithium.
The next step is to extract the valuable materials and use them to make cathodes for new EV batteries. As described by Borras, the process enables RecycLiCo to recover almost all of the cobalt, nickel, and manganese for recycling into cathode active material for new EV batteries. Lithium is also recovered in the process.
When the topic of recycling comes up, the big question is whether or not second-use applications perform as well as virgin materials. RecycLiCo has the answer: yes. Independent tests confirm that lithium-ion battery cells made with RecycLiCo’s high performance materials matched the performance of cells made with virgin materials on purity and other key parameters.
Black Mass Is On The Move
As of last year RecycLiCo had a demonstration facility to its credit. The company was also working towards a full-scale EV battery recycling facility in Taiwan with Zenith Chemical Corporation, and it has not let the grass grow under its feet.
In July of this year, the company announced that its Stage 1 shredding facility at the Taiwan site was already up and running in June. In August, they also announced that the Taiwan venture reached a key milestone in the design phase, leading to the start of construction within the next several months.
Meanwhile, in July the company was awarded a European patent for its EV battery recycling system, joining the US, South Korea, Japan, China, India, Australia, and Canada for a total of 16 global patents in all.
—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————An article yesterday from Cleantechnica.com mentioning AMYZF.
So, sell it all today?
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30 minutes ago, Hornbeliever said:
I set an eject button for BTC on Jan 1 2025. I’m now debating canceling my own strategy.
No one ever went broke cashing in a gain but how boring is that.
Tell me you're on the stonks thread, without telling me you're on the stonks thread.
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5 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
Maybe. When orgs like MicroStrategy are buying billions of dollars worth of btc, prices can quickly jump when supply dries up. Disclaimer, I don’t think they are buying on the retail apps but I have to think there is a relatively quick impact to retail prices.
im more of the opinion that we run up to $100k before there is a correction. Perhaps even exactly at 100k because that could trigger large auto sales.
Looks like your opinion could be correct. See you at $100k?
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5 hours ago, Tailgate said:
This run looks like it’s going to sustain.
Hard to believe at some point we will hear people say “I wish I would have got in when it was only $100k per coin.”
I think we'll see a slight pullback (mid-$80k) before the run to $100k, but I'm not selling what I hold.
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21 minutes ago, Captainant said:
It's moreso the unknown unknown of the cryptography space. Quantum computing is an emerging field and designed to solve the very NP-hard problem at the core of proof of work.
At this point, it not likely to see a successful 51% attack. But it's not impossible or something that you can rule out, because code is law. Nobody writes perfect code, there will always be a flaw found and exploited. Or technology will sufficiently advance to work around the difficulty built into the code.
It's been a loooooong time, but even the BTC blockchain has had a couple forks to undo unintended bugs. The larger that monied interest gets, the more impossible those sorts of after the fact adjustments are to coordinate.
It's not one of the greatest risks to Bitcoin, so I'm sorry for bringing it up now that you've reduced my entire position to that
Second question, can you explain how BTC is leveraged? Specifically, more leveraged than any other "real asset" that people can invest in?
I'm fully aware of the fact that people are buying BTC on margin, and companies like MSTR have used debt to acquire BTC, but how is this any different than the stock market or mortgages? The introduction of options trading against IBIT does add more leverage, but I'd argue that we haven't gotten to the point where you can leverage leverage on BTC the way you can with many investments.So, is the leverage just worse because it's Bitcoin, or is there some way in which people are getting significantly more leverage on their BTC investments than other "real investments?"
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9 minutes ago, Captainant said:
It's moreso the unknown unknown of the cryptography space. Quantum computing is an emerging field and designed to solve the very NP-hard problem at the core of proof of work.
At this point, it not likely to see a successful 51% attack. But it's not impossible or something that you can rule out, because code is law. Nobody writes perfect code, there will always be a flaw found and exploited. Or technology will sufficiently advance to work around the difficulty built into the code.
It's been a loooooong time, but even the BTC blockchain has had a couple forks to undo unintended bugs. The larger that monied interest gets, the more impossible those sorts of after the fact adjustments are to coordinate.
It's not one of the greatest risks to Bitcoin, so I'm sorry for bringing it up now that you've reduced my entire position to that
So, it's safe to say that your primary argument is less about a 51% attack, and more about the code being hacked. If that's the case, is it safe to say that I should have the same level of concern for a BTC hack as I have for my Fidelity account being hacked?
If that's your point, then sure, I'll accept it, but in that situation, we're going to have much bigger problems, as I think it's safe to say, unless BTC flips the banking industry, hackers will be going after the bigger fish first.
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29 minutes ago, Captainant said:
Happy to return to past conversations if you don't prejudice my position or put words in my mouth.
Sounds good. First question - do you think that a 51% attack on Bitcoin is a legit concern? You mentioned it in the past few pages, was that some sort of brain fart, or can you provide an explanation for how this could happen without the price of Bitcoin going parabolic (I think $1 million/BTC would be a very conservative number if an attempt was made).
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27 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:
Tell me you don't know what a ponzi-scheme is. If I invest in Nvidia, it is because I expect Nvidia to make more money selling GPUs and related services. I'm wanting to own a piece (however small) of that business. When one "invests" in bitcoin, you're not doing so because you expect people to actually start using bitcoin as a currency. And you're not doing so because you expect bitcoin fundamentally will do something useful (it never will). You're doing so because you're hoping other people are drawn in the by allure of quick money and then you can sell your bitcoins to them at a higher price. That's it. That's the business. And, by definition, that is a ponzi-scheme.
Agree with you on this. Stocks are not Ponzi schemes, as the value is in the underlying company, and there is an actual asset there. To be critical, your claim that Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme and my claim that the US dollar is a Ponzi scheme are not accurate, either. For Bitcoin, investors are not being paid with other people's money. They are paying more for an actual asset, albeit a digital asset. An asset with a finite supply. Celsius was a Ponzi scheme, unfortunately for me. Miners contribute energy to generate more bitcoin, and thus they have skin in the game. They aren't creating BTC out of thin air.
Conversely, the US does create money out of thin air. I'd argue that the US dollar is the biggest scam the world has seen. The US managed to establish the dollar as the world reserve currency in 1944, when it was backed by gold. The world committed to the currency and for ~25 years, all was well and good. But, then the US started printing more money than they had gold to cover and in 1971, you could no longer claim gold in exchange for currency. There is nothing behind the US dollar. Nothing other than a promise from our government that is adding debt at a ridiculous rate. It's appropriate that Trump is going into office, this could be his biggest bankruptcy ever.
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36 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:
I agree, "every major bitcoin player" would be an exaggeration. Fortunately, I said "every other major bitcoin player".
Fiat-currencies aren't ponzi-schemes because they are used as currencies, not speculative investment holdings. No one is selling you on the idea that dollars are going to go up in value forever. No one is selling you on the idea that you'll get huge yearly gains by investing in dollars. That isn't why people hold them. For bitcoin, people want you to buy them so the value goes up. When the value goes up, they can sell for a profit (in dollars of course). They want your new money to fund paying out previous investors like them. That's a ponzi-scheme. Bitcoin isn't used for real (non-illegal) transactions, not in any volume that matters. And never will be because it fucking sucks as a currency. It is volatile and unpredictable. Rapid inflation or deflation of a currency is bad. And bitcoin is quite literally setup to ensure that both will occur.
Bitcoin may continue to go up for a long time. People get excited about quick money, and that is what Bitcoin sells (or rather what people who promote bitcoin sell). The market can remain irrational for a long time, so I ain't betting against it. But I sure as fuck recognize it for what it is, and you should too. It is gamble, pure and simple. At some point the house will win and someone will get left holding the e-bag.
It's totally a gamble for sure, but there is a chance that it could have widespread adoption and become a real world asset. I think most people investing in it are assuming that risk. At the moment crypto makes up 5-10% of my portfolio. In my mind, that's a pretty solid risk/reward for something that could 10x or more.
If you want to discuss the real risk of BTC, I'm all for it. The BS arguments that Captainant has posed (other than the energy consumption) just shit up this thread. As stated earlier, leverage is no bigger of an issue than it is with any other asset at the moment, and I'd argue that BTC is less leveraged than most other assets. Edit: funny that they just announced options for IBIT.
The risk of a 51% move is complete bullshit, given the economics of supply demand. Hell, I'd welcome someone trying to make that play, as I can't even imagine what the price of BTC would be as a result of that play.
Fiat currencies are a Ponzi scheme. I take a dollar with the assumption that the next idiot will give me something in exchange for that dollar. Other than being a piece of paper with print on it, there is nothing backing it. Worse than that, the government has full authority to manipulate the supply of that piece of paper at will.
Bitcoin is still in the very early stages of adoption, and thus extreme price fluctuations are to be expected as adoption increases. If universal adoption occurs, the price will stabilize (at a significantly higher level), if it doesn't it could go to $0. I believe there are strong signs for the former, and that's why I'm taking the risk that I am.
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1 hour ago, Dahobbs said:
That's the nature of ponzi schemes. They go up until they don't. I'm glad your speculative bet is paying off right now. I'd just suggest not letting it ride until snake eyes.
P.S. You'd think the fact that every other major bitcoin player ends up in jail at some point might be a clue as to the type of people pushing it, but whatever.
Appreciate the advice, I do plan to take some gains as the price skyrockets, but I won't sell it all.
I would like your thoughts on when a Ponzi scheme becomes "too big to fail?" Is it when governments start putting it on their balance sheet? Are fiat currencies Ponzi schemes? If not, why not?
"Every major bitcoin player" is a bit of an exaggeration. I'll admit, I got hosed in the Celsius deal, as I wasn't paying close enough attention. That was a tough hit to take, but I still believe in the fundamentals of Bitcoin. Thankfully, we've never had any bad actors in the realm of real investments. No companies, wealth managers, or investment bankers have ever stolen people's money or gone to jail. Guess I'll just stick to the safe investments.
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I'm not sure how bad the damage is, but I'd have a PDR shop go through the truck before letting anyone throw bondo at it.