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It's possible to disable the Tapatalk signature.the fact that tapatalk have to put their stupid fucking slogan in the same typeface as you so as to make it look like you're the one saying it every single time you use their app is the reason I deleted that app from my phone almost immediately after downloading it. welcome to watmm Quixote! i would recommend the watmm mobile theme on your mobile-browser of choice
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Scandinavian countries are in no way anti-capitalist or anti-consumerist. It's just more regulation (eg. hard liquor is only sold in government monopolies) and things like free education and universal health care and progressive taxation to balance income differences.
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Something that bothers me is when people slow down towards the end . of .. the ... sentence. On . every .. single ... sentence.
Particularly done by some . people .. on ... TV.
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Basically same as innit, innit? You know what I'm sayin?Yeah, it's valley talk and it has a longer history than I realized? i thought it's a recent fad, but apparently this goes back to the 70/80s? so, like, I was reading into it? And some linguist or psychologists or what? are saying that:
By turning a declaration into a question, it invites the listener to listen actively, to nod or confirm, much like adding “you know?” or “right?” to a sentence. It also serves a more basic function of “floor-holding,” preventing interruption by indicating there’s more to come; it turns a period into a semicolon. Research has confirmed as much: As Douglas noted, a handful of studies have demonstrated that uptalkers rely on the inflection to keep their conversation partner engaged and attentive. To skeptics, uptalking may seem like it’s turning every statement into a question, but really, it’s turning them into demands: I’m not done speaking yet, so keep listening.
So, like, when I was reading this? i realized that what bothers me? is exactly that obnoxious, self-entitled style? that really has no substance to it? but is there just to keep the attention.
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I'm reading The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino and it's great. Hard to describe, but if you're into stuff like Borges then check it out (also you probably know Calvino at that point already).
Also I read the afro-futuristic scifi series by Nnedi Okarafor called Binti. It was interesting but started to feel like Hogwarts in space at some points, just more violent for sure. Still entertaining.
I've been reading also the Budayeen series by George Alec Effinger. It's cyberpunk noir set in Middle-East. I think I've read the first part When Gravity Fails a long time ago, but couldn't remember any of it (except for some vague memories of transgender muslim strippers) so basically same as brand new. A bit dated for sure but entertaining. Worth the read if you're into cyberpunk.
Edit: Ah, also the Box Man by Kobo Abe, which I think was recommended by somebody itt. Thanks, for the recommendation.
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LinkedIn has had a similar functionality for a while. Makes it so much easier to answer the messages from recruiters (which already are mostly copy-paste anyway).Yeah, most of the options fit perfectly. Just funny how cold and impersonal it is. Won't take long for people to start getting offended by all the stock replies their friends and family are sending.
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'Hair of the dog' just delays the rest of the hangover, in my experience.
It makes the hangover last longer for sure, but it can smooth out the roughest parts. Really depends on how bad the hangover is and do you just want to get rid of it fast and hard or smooth and over a long time. (haha, sexual)
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Let's suppose you had to select from two different lifestyles with the same average amount of happiness/misery (zero sum):
1) Life in which you are either mildly happy or content about half of the time and mildly sad the other half on varying days.
2) Life in which you are miserable most of the time but then experience brief moments of almost ecstasy like happiness.
Which one would you choose?
I think I have a tendency to choose number two when given the chance, but sometimes a need for comfort pushes me towards number one. This is maybe a personality trait?
Option 2 is just manic depression.
Maybe if it was happening involuntarily without direct external factors, but I didn't mean it like that.
Consider them like two different career options, for example:
1) An office job, let's say in sales, where you lose a little or win a little daily and feel happy or sad based on your day to day performance. But highs and lows aren't that big.
2) Scientist working on a new field. Endless hours, constant stress, complete uncertainty if your work will ever amount to anything or be recognized in any way with moments of success few and far in between. But when you finally succeed in something and break through it's like an ecstatic joy for a while.
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I think I used to be 1, but something went wrong with ma brainthingy in the past 15 years or so.
For example now I'm in Southern Africa, several thousand kilometers outside my comfort zone. Most of the time I'm on the edge and not really comfortable. Sometimes I'm outright scared. But when it's good it's oh so good and I feel very happy, like full body happiness.
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Let's suppose you had to select from two different lifestyles with the same average amount of happiness/misery (zero sum):
1) Life in which you are either mildly happy or content about half of the time and mildly sad the other half on varying days.
2) Life in which you are miserable most of the time but then experience brief moments of almost ecstasy like happiness.
Which one would you choose?
I think I have a tendency to choose number two when given the chance, but sometimes a need for comfort pushes me towards number one. This is maybe a personality trait?
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Entz
Toe Story
Umpire Strikes Back
Sinderella
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BTW, I read the title today as "Cryptoburners as the next significant stage for humanity, not just an investment" and I was thinking "finally somebody agrees with me on Team Doyobi"
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Aphex Twin Peaks
Autecreche
Pentagonpusher
DXM Krew
Antique Sound of London
Draft Punk
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Mark Prickhard
Duplowelt
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You're pretty optimistic how things work in the third world countries.
I'm in Zambia currently. I was in Zimbabwe a few days ago. Even having a working cellular network is not given. When the electricity goes off it usually means all connections, including cellular, are cut off and this is pretty common occurrence. Common people can afford maybe basic 2G phones. Definitely not satellite phones. And they can't just leave the country on a whim because for that you need a passport and possibly a visa. Which might take weeks or months to obtain if even possible. Sending anything sensitive or valuable by mail is a joke.
Even trying to manage things here with a credit/debit card is pretty useless because of the connectivity issues. If people were to rely on internet or even cellular connections for payments it would mean business would grind to a halt sometimes for hours, sometimes for days.
So, currently I'm carrying USD, euro, rand, pula and kwacha as cash. Having cash at hand is the only way to make sure I can buy lodging, transport, food, etc when needed. It would be ridiculous to try to handle things here with a cryptocurrency.
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So, err, the value of Bitcoin can go up, what 10000, 1000000 times?, but it can't drop the same? On what do you base this assumption?Think of all the harm these things cause, look at the hyper inflation situation in Venezuela right now for example. Those people are suffering due to corruption. With decentralized cryptocurrencies (specifically decentralized ones only, this is why I am so against centralized ones, even if it's "temporary"), this is impossible because no one individual controls the network protocol that defines the currency - everyone has to agree to hyperinflate, and they won't because it will hurt each individual, so it won't happen.
Also you don't think the governments wouldn't actually be able to manipulate the value if needed? Better check who ultimately controls the infra to run all the transactions..
What? Currency debasement based inflation has nothing to do with the value of the currency. Sure the price can go down, but nobody can ever print more Bitcoins.
With centralized currencies, if you own 0.001% of the world supply, that's not guaranteed forever. You might own 0.0005% if they decided to print more. With Bitcoin, if you own 0.001% of the world supply, you own that much forever. It's a stable store of wealth.
It doesn't matter who owns the infra to perform the transactions, that doesn't mean they can manipulate the supply. If you can connect to the internet at all you can safely perform Bitcoin transactions without tampering. You're exposing a fundamental misunderstanding about how the technology works.
Also you're building hypothetical situations that stress test Bitcoin far more than they stress test fiat currencies. Sure, governments can go rogue and destroy the internet so you can't use Bitcoin. But that goes for anything. They can just nuke us all then any discussion on any economic topics is made irrelevant, but in a normal context this is irrelevant.
Most people use the currency of their country or group of countries. That's a single point of weakness in the economic system of a country. Using a decentralized worldwide currency is safer, especially for people in the third world who can't rely on their governments at all. Giving them access to the world economy is extremely important to help them ascend above corruption in their local governments.
I don't see why the value wouldn't be able to drop to like 0.001% of the current value if there is a massive global panic to sell the coins? If it can happen with stock markets why would it not be able to happen with a cryptocurrency in where the value is also speculative?
What I meant by the infra comment was not tampering, but for example influence through throttling or completely cutting off the connections needed for Bitcoin transactions in the certain areas, companies, banks, individuals or connections to particular outside instances. There are so many ways to fuck with the people using bitcoins if you control the infra.
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Think of all the harm these things cause, look at the hyper inflation situation in Venezuela right now for example. Those people are suffering due to corruption. With decentralized cryptocurrencies (specifically decentralized ones only, this is why I am so against centralized ones, even if it's "temporary"), this is impossible because no one individual controls the network protocol that defines the currency - everyone has to agree to hyperinflate, and they won't because it will hurt each individual, so it won't happen.
So, err, the value of Bitcoin can go up, what 10000, 1000000 times?, but it can't drop the same? On what do you base this assumption?
Also you don't think the governments wouldn't actually be able to manipulate the value if needed? Better check who ultimately controls the infra to run all the transactions..
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Helpraiser
The NaN
Friday the 12th
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Night of the Loving Dead
Lawn of the Dead
Gay of the Dead
Band of the Dead
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It's been 10 years since Breaking Bad first aired, and I still think of it as recent television. #accelerated aging
All video games that have 3D graphics (instead of 2D sprite graphics) still feel modern and vaguely futuristic.
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Yeah but some people get drunk and get into these epic, yet regrettable adventures that are just horrible. I used to work with a dude who had a family history of alcoholism and he fucked one of our co-workers who was just horrible. She was an unrealistic character from some nightmare sitcom. Like, he HAD to be a classic Irish American alcoholic to make that happen and I honestly feel bad for him to this day.
Another guy walked right into a fire station and stole one of their jackets, got caught on camera. I’ll just fall asleep/fade away and I’m totally fine with that.
I hardly ever pass out no matter how drunk I am and do I sometimes wish I had passed out.. I mean I'm not violent, destructive or anything like that, more like the opposite, I'm overtly friendly with everybody including the people who have tried to pick a fight with me. But some questionable decisions have been made..
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This is from Sint Maarten. The airport is so close to the beach that the jet blasts actually reach the beach. Some people actually hang on to the fence the experience the blasts and there have been fatalities when they have been blown over.
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Back in the 90s when I was a teenager in high school I had a really tedious guy as a music teacher who went on and on about how AOR (by which I think he meant mostly late stage prog rock bands) is the pinnacle of western music. And all the other rock, pop, disco, etc is garbage. And I fucking hated that stuff back then (learned to like some of it later, but different story). Hairy guys in bell-bottom jeans and earth colors, very stuffy and pseudo-intellectual. The guy was stuck somewhere two decades ago listening to Genesis from vinyl. I was banging Aphex Twin's Polynomial-C from my Sony Discman.
So, recently I started thinking maybe I would be viewed like that by modern teenagers if I started to go on and on about IDM being the greatest music ever. Music from two decades ago that is overtly complicated, done by some bearded freaks in cargo pants.
But IDK, actually if the guy had liked disco, funk and particularly some early synth music I would have dug that. If he had played Brian Eno's ambient stuff in the class I would have been so impressed. So, it's not necessarily the age of the music.
Anyway, who cares what the fuck the teenagers think. They are all idiots. But that music teacher really put me off prog rock for several years..
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WARP ain't selling like in 1998, kids these days don't give a fuck about IDM.
We're all pretty much now listening to dad-rock version of electronic music.
Struggling to think about how Aphex or Ae could compare to “dad rock” just cause kids aren’t listening...
Finland's biggest newspaper actually referred to Aphex Twin as "beer belly techno" because it's mostly listened to by 30-50 year old males with dad bods..
stupid first world problems you're dealing with
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I'm lying in a hammock and there's a monkey above me in the three eating stuff and dropping the leftovers on me. Fucking monkeys.