BRAVO!! TRÈS BIEN!!! HONHONHON

JE M’APELLE MITTENS!!!

im built different

haha… yea… i feel sad for them also…

there’s degrees to “falling for that shit” though. the cost of minting an NFT is literally negligible for the coca cola company, and the upside is enormous if it becomes an irrational market like bitcoin was. otoh, making a game centered around NFTs is sad as fuck, those people got screwed hard.

also, this is just my perception, but it could’ve been the other way around even. bitcoin became an irrational market because there was some purity to its conception: it was merely an unfeasible currency theory put into action, so libertarians could masturbate over it. as lousy as the theoretical pinnings of bitcoin are, there were no companies getting in on the action from the getgo. it wasn’t meant to be a casino, it just devolved into one. companies getting day one onto the NFT train just made it way more obvious that it was meant to extract profit from compulsive gamblers, and the unsightliness accelerated their demise. it was just too on the nose for most people.

lmao yeah, i’ve been saving money like fucking mr scrooge this year believing that at some point this year there were going to be massive cuts, and i was right! there were massive cuts, except i didn’t get the axe. so now i have months worth of savings, probably a year if i get really really frugal (just rent, and amenities and basic food stuff) and i’m sooo tempted to just quit and do nothing. take the chance to work out in public parks or something. write a book. start a psych rock band. make a video game.

it’s like eating solero split lime ice cream with a hint of cotton candy

i could’ve told them sweet and sour go well together but i guess chatgpt can tell them that too

it is, that fact solidifies her position as basically an immenesly overpaid 4chan mod.

tbh it baffles me more that this ivy league moron spends her days sitting around discussing subs named “ReallyWackyTicTacs” or whatever. a true asset for the intelligence apparatus

the reason why this sort of shit is so popular is because nation-states have some level of “personhood”, so to speak. someone here posted an essay about how arguably nation-states are a type of consciousness of sorts, but for my life i can’t find it

what if hetalia for the lads

so he just has the handwriting ability of a toddler? damn he’s just like me fr

what’s wrong walter

did he write that backwards so it shows correctly on a selfie

If I pull that coup will I die

it’s just cope. certainly easier to think that every institution was defeated by a cabal of reptilian financiers through complicated subterfuge and not that our carved out institutions were no match for an unthinking, unyielding, barely living thing that only insists on its own reproduction which spontaneously came about. the latter requires reconciling with the fact that every institution is impotent against every upcoming global warming crisis which demand incredible unprecendented change at nearly every level. the former only requires some sort of heroic strongman figure to vanquish evil.

I think online fundraisers were a thing before Breaking Bad, but I swear to god that after GoFundMe reality got rewritten and I can’t find evidence of them ever existing.

When people discuss Framework laptops or whatever, this is what comes to mind. They’re priced at a pretty inaccessible price point already and people tell me that Framework laptops being reliably sold at that price point is a success for upgradeability and right to fix laws because it shows there’s demand for it, but it really isn’t. What succeeded here was Framework establishing a “tinkerer” niche, one that grants you upgradeability and freedom to install whatever software you see fit without jumping through weird hoops at a premium. Cisco did this with WRT54G and WRT54G-L routers, the second had a steep price difference even though the hardware was essentially the same, just because it allowed you to flash in OpenWRT without using exploits. It’s the same for enthusiast phones, most if not all of them allow you to flash in your own bootloader without exploiting, but most enthusiast phones are sold at flagship prices. It’s just capitalism that’s so incredibly good at spotting its own rot and commoditizing the solution.

Can’t say I feel any empathy for the guy, but the gal to tell an employee to go become cannon fodder on a war you cannot possibly win is all sorts of fucked up.

I still can’t believe the “No Russian” thing was a real thing, what the fuck was that. That was some CIA conditioning bullshit I swear to god