I mean not just Bitcointalk, but also e.g. ads on news sites. Maybe I just tune them out subconsciously.

Any such forum "system" is about as good as its members make it. theymos wanted wider representation in DT and he's probably unlikely to make it more restrictive, but with or without such change its ultimately up to the members, mainly DT1 members, to make the best use of the system.

Back at the start of this new vote-based DT system I used to think that the level of personal responsibility (for including/excluding DT2 members) exhibited by the old DT1 would improve in the new one but that obviously didn't happen. There is a huge passive majority of DT1 members who don't seem to care whom they include or how the trust system is used. And even if the more active minority tries to mitigate some of the garbage (e.g. by excluding self-scratchers) it doesn't really work that well due to the lottery.

Don't get me wrong, I support the idea of making it more difficult to get into DT (DT2 in particular) but I think it's a band aid for a broken leg.


I ain't gone nowhere

As for "protesting", I'd argue that if someone doesn't have time and/or interest to keep up with the trust system or fundamentally disagrees with how the system is used, then getting blacklisted or otherwise removed from it is better that just leaving their trust lists unmaintained or going against the flow with a huge red trail of drama.

Does it though? $50 each from a million idiots, and the scammers totally honest unsuccessful cryptobusinesspeople can enjoy retirement. Not giving any money to these ponzi-like structures is the only way they can be defeated but sadly that's not gonna happen.

Anyway, it kinda interesting that I've never heard of these collapsing "platforms" before, so they must have worked out their marketing to not waste money on old scrooges like me and focus on the malleable yoof.

I really do understand that nutjobs like you are pushing all sorts of nonsense under that guise of "God's will", which is really what you want but have no will of your own to achieve (or it's too absurd to achieve to begin with).

And even if we go along with this bible thumper bullshit, it takes a special kind of moron to believe that Trump is actually the president right now.

That's a good advice in most forum situations involving personal dislike, but when you ignore wordy trolls like nullius their posts without opposition suck out even more oxygen from the already barely breathable atmosphere here.

Ideally moderators should take care of attacks like the one on fillippone instead of forcing everyone to scroll through that BS in an otherwise interesting thread, but that's not how this forum works unfortunately.

As for personal issues, internet in general and this forum in particular is a bad place for people with mental problems. Particularly if the user is purposefully looking for conflict.

Now that's proper nutjobbery, well done. Thoughts and prayers for your fucked up head if you're being serious.

It's a Chinese hoax, there were no classified documents, and Trump never was a president.

You sound like you're in a cult.


It's a vehicle, not a Picasso. A utility vehicle at that, and not like a collectible rare edition right hand drive Ford Pinto. If it costs beyond what comparable vehicles plus any unique features are worth, it's a shit deal no matter how you twist it. I mean the brick shape might be worth a million bucks to you and you're welcome to waste your money on it, but that's not objective value.

It will be watered down even more, and will cost six figures... like everyone except Elon's fanboys been saying for the last three years.


What "changed" is that reality started catching up with child's drawings.

When one country invades and the other says "we don't want your books anymore" it's absurd to claim "discrimination". Come on, master of whataboutism, find us some historic analogy. Like Russian imports of German books during WWII.


That's your conclusion, not sure why you're ascribing that to me. I'm sure there are many bad books issued in countries that Ukraine has good relationships with. I never argued otherwise. It's a tangent that doesn't mean anything in the context of restricting book imports from a country they're at war with.

Here you go:




IIRC we had the same points for QBs last year, 4 per TD and 0.04 per passing yard. I think we had -2 for interceptions, now it's -1, not sure if that's a good thing or not.

whataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhatabo ut fucking hell do they not teach you anything else in the Kremlin troll academy LOL

But yeah, if Mein Kampf was being used by Russians to brainwash children in occupied territories, the import restrictions would likely apply to it as well.

Was there a prior disagreement between fillippone and nullius? That's how it usually works with him - someone tries to argue with His Holy Wordiness, and he goes digging for some nonsense he can turn into red trust. Otherwise there wasn't much of a reason for him to necrobump that thread.

As for ethics etc... red-trusting for imaginary thought crimes is some next level shit, beats nullius' regular "defamation" nonsense. Not that it matters much, he should be ~ed anyway.


It's going to result in an obvious fact being stated for the benefit of those who may not be aware of his cuntyness.

Nice try, but it's quite clear from the video that the protester was tackled for getting too close to the moving vehicles, not for yelling. As evidenced by many other protesters along the street doing just fine.


Ok then. Suppress any protests in the country - that's freedom in Russia. Tackle someone somewhere in the US for breaching the security perimeter - that's oppression. Am I getting this right?


14 thousand people died in total during the 8 years of conflict, most within the first year. That includes those killed by the terrorist ponzi republic sponsored by the KGB. The conflict was essentially frozen (~20-25 deaths per year) before Putin decided to invade and killed many more Donbas residents in the few months than the alleged "bombing" in 8 years.

I think I'm gonna stick with Putin being the bad guy.


You still don't get the whole democracy thing, do you? Unlike in Putin's Russia, "leadership" in democratic countries doesn't exist in its own separate universe. They get elected. Also if a referendum is required by the constitution, it will happen, and many countries have other ways to trigger it (e.g. gather a certain number of signatures). As evidenced by some countries having them with regards to NATO (Slovakia was one IIRC).

Under nooblius doctrine, the fact that you even think of such a horrible crime makes you a thief. Desist at once and report to your local Ministry of Truth office for mandatory brainwashing.

If Taiwan was not independent, we wouldn't have this discussion - China could deny Nancy a visa if they don't like her going there. The fact is (and has been for 70 years) that Taiwan is a separate country, recognition notwithstanding, and that annoys the mainland communists.

There are many countries with no president. And yes, Taiwan is an independent country.


Because she wants to. It's not China's business.


Invasion? An 80-year old woman single-handedly invades Taiwan LOL


She's not suicidal either. Everyone knows China won't do squat, at most maybe fly some planes around and talk tough. They're not gonna kill the grandma. But Xi wants to try and see if she would blink. It costs him nothing, and the upside is huge in the small chance that he can successfully bully the US.

The point is that we don't know for sure if the original owner lost the keys completely or just one copy thereof. It's not like physical cash, which if unclaimed can be reasonably assumed to be lost after a certain period of time.

For example the original owner may not be aware that one copy of their key is missing, or may think that it was destroyed. Sloppy, yes, but they might still be hodling another copy of the key thinking to cash out when Bitcoin hits $1m. So I don't think there is any time limit as to when this wallet can be assumed to be lost.

Re divisions: I think 2 divisions would make the schedule fit nicely into the 17 weeks. 8 games within division (twice with each team), 5 games with the other division (once with each team), that's 13. 4 teams into playoffs, two-week playoff round, two-week championship match. Total 17.

Alternatively we can have 8 teams in the playoffs, and three one-week playoff/championship matches, total 16 weeks. But 8 teams out of 10 into playoffs, and then a top team possibly knocked out by one bad game seems a bit too random.

Nancy should call Vinnie's bluff and just go. There's no way China would take any military action against the US, they're not suicidal.