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601  Other / Meta / Re: Reports to the moderator due to political disagreements in the Wall Observer on: November 18, 2020, 03:42:15 AM
...but your point had already been made, and there was no real reason to bump the thread; which was what my post was really about.

Full disclosure:  I paid Mr “hacker” to bump, bump, bump this thread for me!
/s

Any on-topic comments?
602  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Will Trump Pardon Snowden? on: November 18, 2020, 02:44:47 AM
[Subject: Will Trump Pardon Snowden?]

If he wants a way really to make “civil liberties” liberals’ heads explode.  They would be so confused!
603  Other / Politics & Society / Anti Democracy (Re: Trump ≈ Biden) on: November 18, 2020, 02:20:02 AM
My anti-democracy message is generally applicable.  I focused it on the American election, only because this is an American-based forum where “Love Trump”/“Hate Trump” talk is all the rage!

P.S., if you are German, then don’t votedemocracy is a SCAM, and all of the parties are bad.  But if you do vote, then vote for AfD:-)


Not voting is not the fix.

Yes.  Yes, it is—or rather, it is the beginning thereof.

What would disillusioned non-voters do, if they lost the faith of democratic votaries?  Surely, not nothing!

Don’t make me bring out that hamster-wheel GIF again, or launch into another speech about
the consent of the governed upon which the power of all régimes must ultimately repose.
...which is a phrase that I first used in reply to you in WO, philip:
The illusion was being lost—and with it, the consent of the governed upon which the power of all régimes must ultimately repose.  Thus stepped onstage Trump, a professional showman, to stir the pot just enough to get the enthusiasms flowing both for and against him.

Tell me, why do you suppose that the mass-media wail and gnash their teeth whenever voter turnout rates drop?  Do you believe that they care about your freedom?

Democracy is a SCAM, and voting is the trap that keeps you under the control of the system.



The masses vote for tyranny, because it is what they want.  You cannot reason with them.  If you cherish freedom, then your table of values differs fundamentally from that of the masses whose votes will always outnumber yours.

Are so many millions of people, in so many democratic countries around the world, all voting for leaders and policies which they actually don’t want?  Really?  Or do you simply disagree with what they want, and project your own desires onto them through your unexamined assumption that they must be just like you?

Against that, what can freethinking individuals do?

Free yourself first from the moral authority of the mob.  You owe nothing to mass opinion; therefore, the laws which rise on mass opinion have no proper authority over you.  You do not consent to be governed by the votes of millions of anthropoid livestock who want to be bound in chains—who eagerly embrace those chains just as long as they remain warm, fed, and adequately entertained.  You are a law unto yourself.

Wherefore “anarchy” as to the masses and their so-called “governments”, which are in truth no more than the largest, most well-armed organized criminal gangs.  Don’t reject authority:  Be your own authority.

Reductio ad absurdum, if millions of people were to vote for mandatory coprophagy, then would you comply?  —More importantly, would you consider it a matter of conscience to obey their laws?

Freedom begins in the mind.
604  Economy / Speculation / [WO] The Devilishly Disguised Saint on: November 18, 2020, 01:54:00 AM
Because messing with American politics has caused me ennui:

P.S., if you are German, then don’t votedemocracy is a SCAM, and all of the parties are bad.  But if you do vote, then vote for AfD!  :-)

I suppose that everyone has forgotten the annoying election show, for some reason. 🚀

Thanks.  I’ll save that for everybody who ever mentions, among other things, the American reality-TV “election” show—about which I was working on a P&S meta-complaint, when I delved into a minor tangent on Antifa.


A Question for the Wall

No hat.  No haikus.  Nonconformist though I may be, I am feeling left out.  :'-(''''''

Does this count, in lieu of a haiku?

Quote from: Nietzsche, Die fröhliche Wissenschaft (The Gay Science), „Vorspiel in deutschen Reimen“, 31.
Der verkappte Heilige.

    Daß dein Glück uns nicht bedrücke,
    Legst du um dich Teufelstücke,
        Teufelswitz und Teufelskleid.
    Doch umsonst!  Aus deinem Blicke
        Blickt hervor die Heiligkeit!
605  Other / Meta / Re: Reports to the moderator due to political disagreements in the Wall Observer on: November 18, 2020, 01:43:11 AM
[—elaborate explanation of the fact that an Internet forum, which exists for the purpose of discussion, has ongoing multiple different discussions of varying priority and, I may add, different levels of interest to different people—]

...your point had already been made, and there was no real reason to bump the thread; which was what my post was really about.

OK, thanks.  Roll Eyes


Any on-topic comments?
606  Other / Meta / Re: Reports to the moderator due to political disagreements in the Wall Observer on: November 17, 2020, 11:53:32 PM
Was it really necessary to make a second post in here? It looks like you are still beating a horse that's already been dead for some days, and by doing so, you're burying some other threads that may be important. At least more important than "I got my post deleted in a thread moderators aren't suppose to act", it was deleted, might have been the right or wrong thing to do, but for the love of god; let it go

Based on evidence that I discovered after my previous post, I drew a reasonable inference that my posts were reported due to political disagreement with my opinions.  How is staff handling of politically motivated reports not an important issue for Meta?

This is a private forum—a private forum where the freedom of speech is a cause dear to the administration, to the community, and most of all, to regulars of the Wall Observer.  Whether or not one agrees with the opinions that I have expressed, the real issue hereby is everybody’s practical ability to express controversial opinions unimpeded.

As always, it is only comfortable to defend speech when you agree with it.  I stand here on principle.  If I wanted a forum with more like minds, then I would go elsewhere—here, if staff were to delete from WO e.g. nutildah’s utterly execrable pushing of hallucinogenic drug use, then I would be the first to object.  Where do you stand?

Whereas for those who desire to suppress the expression of illiberal opinions, the worst speech of all is that which expresses forbidden ideas cogently.  The crude remarks of troglodytes are easy to dismiss; and indeed, liberals oft enjoy holding up as strawmen the worst examples of their opposition.

Reductio ad absurdum, I doubt that 1miau would have reported r0ach’s posts—for r0ach was and is the butt of jokes, including my own.  I am obviously no cockroach:  I may be feared or hated, but not despised.  My posts may thus cause cognitive dissonance—or worst of all, the danger that someone may actually agree with me!

By the way, I observe that some of my prior WO posts (not the deleted ones) may be illegal to publish in Germany.  (Possibly.  #justsaying.  This is not a formal legal opinion, but I do know something of this subject.)  I always choose my words carefully:  It was not for nothing that I remarked that I had said things that “even Björn Höcke would not dare to say”.  But it does not matter, for this forum is located in the United States; and the forum’s administration does not obey the censorship laws of Germany, Kazakhstan, Red China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, et al.

P.S., if you are German, then don’t votedemocracy is a SCAM, and all of the parties are bad.  But if you do vote, then vote for AfD!  :-)


Well, this time you haven't fed the trolls, you've fed nullius. May the gods have mercy on your soul.

Quotable.  And you owe me another new keyboard—coffee, etc.  Merits are hereby held in abeyance for the moment.  I am trying to save them for something else; you have taken too many!

Quote from: Nietzsche, Die fröhliche Wissenschaft (The Gay Science), „Vorspiel in deutschen Reimen“, 31.
Der verkappte Heilige.

    Daß dein Glück uns nicht bedrücke,
    Legst du um dich Teufelstücke,
        Teufelswitz und Teufelskleid.
    Doch umsonst!  Aus deinem Blicke
        Blickt hervor die Heiligkeit!

Quote from: Nietzsche, Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen, „Vom Lesen und Schreiben“
Ihr seht nach Oben, wenn ihr nach Erhebung verlangt.  Und ich sehe hinab, weil ich erhoben bin.
607  Economy / Reputation / Re: [Interviews] #112208 “Vlad2Vlad” is meritless on: November 17, 2020, 09:04:37 PM

Dude, git yer boyscout panties on cause BSV lovin’ Vlad just gave 33 merits to BitcoinSV and another 33 merits to hv_, another BSV fanatic. 

It’s almost like he’s got zero respect for your noob opinions, bro.  Don’t give up now, don’t let no fraud legendary beat ya!   Kiss

Ya Lil’ snitch.  Lol.  Grin

BSV reprezent!!!  Mo’ merit bombs inkoming. 

For the benefit of those who like these interviews, Vlad and his sockpuppet have been asked to take this up with me elsewhere.

Subject: Yo Sitch!
[—idiotic vulgar PM, quoted in full—]

[...]

Wait your turn.  And meanwhile, you and your sockpuppet should please stop trolling the interviews thread.  Although it was very unwise for that thread to take your interview, I am not inclined to derail it just because you are neurotically fixated on attempting to bait me there.  (Your posts thereby are indeed being followed and archived—even the deleted stuff.)
608  Economy / Reputation / Hate mail from #112208 “Vlad2Vlad” on: November 17, 2020, 08:53:32 PM
Subject: Yo Sitch!

Hey ya whinny Lil’ sitch.  You’ve been kinda quiet after you ran your big noob mouth.  I’m dropping huge merit bombs as I see fit.  Don’t be a coward now, bring it to me, noob.  Hahaha.  

Insignificant Turds 💩 like you make my day.  lol


Answer:  To your inquiry, I don’t mind letting you know that you have been under active investigation since last week.  I am busy, however; and obsessed though you evidently are with me, I am not inclined to throw aside important projects to complete what I have been preparing about you.

Wait your turn.  And meanwhile, you and your sockpuppet should please stop trolling the interviews thread.  Although it was very unwise for that thread to take your interview, I am not inclined to derail it just because you are neurotically fixated on attempting to bait me there.  (Your posts thereby are indeed being followed and archived—even the deleted stuff.)

P.S., does it bother you that I earned >2000 merits in not more than 310 days of total active posting?


BTW, you have over 4,000 merit points with a newer account than mine.  I’m high caliber, that’s just not possible.  How do you do it, brother?

Roll Eyes
609  Other / Meta / Reports to the moderator due to political disagreements in the Wall Observer on: November 17, 2020, 08:20:20 PM
The following verges on going off-topic for Meta; however, it is still on-topic insofar as forum moderators need to be cautious about the potential for bad reports made in the Wall Observer due to disagreement with controversial opinions.



Looks like I was one of those reporting it [...]

I’ve never reported anything on WO before because there was nothing close of being up for reports but [...]

I wasn’t sure if it’ll get deleted, so Kudos to the mod, I’m supporting this move 100%. [...]

So, it means a lot that I’ve reported some of your posts (I’m rarely reporting on “Der aktuelle Kursverlauf”).
And as said before, I’ve never reported anything on WO before. [...]

WO is a place where I’m awaiting positivity about Bitcoin, not obvious off-topic spam walls.

Vast piles of utterly nonsensical garbage are posted in WO, and much of that is completely irrelevant to Bitcoin.  According to you, all of that has always been “nothing close of being up for reports”.

I am not a mind reader.  But I don’t think that I am going out on a limb with the following.  It is presumes little to posit that you specifically targeted me, whereas you yourself said outright, “it means a lot that [you’ve] reported some of [my] posts”.  There must be a reason.  My posts must be extra-special!

I don’t shitpost.  Say what you will—you must admit that all of my posts are highly literate, intelligent, and cultured.  You reported my posts, not others’ shitposts.  I think that my posts were too good, in a way that you disliked.

Those who are not deeply familiar with German politics will not understand this; but I think it’s highly probable that this adequately explains your motives for reporting my posts:

Björn Bernd Höcke: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Bj%C3%B6rn_H%C3%B6cke
Ich bitte dich, mit dem Fluchen aufzuhören. Auch, wenn es um Bernd Höcke geht.


By the way, I can see from that thread that KingScorpio is even crazier in the German forum than he is in P&S.

I aver that in modern Germany, AfD would probably come closest to a political party that I may support.  (Watch for explosion in the German forum because I said this. :-/)  But of course, I would not support AfD, because I am actively anti-democratic, according to my personal political manifesto; and if anything, Björn Höcke is still a little bit too much of a centrist for me.  At least, he is not as bad a leftist as Trump!
I have been calling Trump a Communist for about the past five years.

As set forth below, 2/3 of the posts that you reported were probably quite objectionable to you on political grounds.  And the third, which you mischaracterized as a
fluffypony post
, you obviously did not read at all!  It was specifically a Bitcoin privacy post—
Red alert:  Imminent plans for a mining pool with transaction blacklisting, based on blockchain analysis and, of course, the Diktat of the American world-police OFAC.

[...h/t fluffypony...]

... All users of Blockseer’s pool are required to pass KYC (Know Your Customer) protocols, and blocks posted to the Bitcoin blockchain by Blockseer’s pool will only contain filtered transactions ...
—oops...
I totally appreciate your insightful technical posts and your posts about privacy

But first, for greater context, here is a shortlist selection of a few of the recent “politically incorrect” posts that I have made in the Wall Observer—such things as even Björn Höcke would not dare to say!


Hmmm...

When we have a look at Japan, the people are very respectful to each other. Doing harm to the community is extremely despised by the japanese citizens. That's a good attitude when people are living respectfully together and because of that the crime / terrorism problem is very low there - and the society is working without privacy invading measures.

I don't had time to do an analysis but my first impression how that could be achived is:
[...]
- no extremism / racism => no terrorism
Ah, yes, Japan:  A homogeneous society with a nationalist culture, in which gaijin (‘foreigners’) are almost unanimously despised.  Japan is not diverse—not divided—therefore, the Japanese people are united.  I think that you are making my argument for me!

Now, compare this:

Re: Overcoming Systematic Racism with Bitcoin
To get rid of racism, many factors play a role in my opinion. Most important is to avoid votes for racist or nationalist people / parties.

...to this post which you got cancelled:

   Galileo was not popular.

He stood against not only the Church, but also society itself.  Accordingly, he was about as popular as I am:  A few intelligent people appreciated him, such as the Medici duke who was his primary supporter at the end of his life; he even had supporters high within the Church.  But he was otherwise considered scandalous, and even criminal.

The ignorant modern mind tends to assume that rebelling against the Church was always super-cool.  Whereas in 1632, heresy was like racism, sexism, or social class discrimination are today.  (n.b.)

Galileo’s wife was so embarrassed and angry at his sins, she burnt his papers after he died.  Unknown works of irreplaceable genius were thus irretrievably destroyed.  Because:  Unpopular.  The notion that he would have received 2.3K retweets and 18.6K “likes” is wildly implausible.

    Galileo is cancelled.

You don’t report illiterate “off-topic” gibberish; why did you want to shut me up, specifically?

Another reported/deleted post:
mostly it seems to be about authoritarianism;

I think that that word is way overused and abused.  Well, I am an authoritarian.

the communism side needs drawing out.

How many pages do you want me to add to the Wall Observer?  :-/

C’mon, One Meow!  Cats are supposed to eat birds!



Because this is the Internet, and because liberals love guilt by association, and because I have needed to defend the honour of kitty-cats:  I should note that Lauda did sometimes agree, sometimes disagree with my opinions.  My impression of her was that she was a more or less mainstream conservative with some interesting twists; freethinkers defy labels, and pigeon-holes are for the tweeting birds.

She did love freedom of speech, which is why I said that she would have been a good WO mod.

It is the modern liberal that is against free speech.
*Weird flex*. Liberalism is a disease.

For my own part, I should note that as as a nationalist in principle, I have always been friendly to people of many races and nationalities who want to use Bitcoin to free themselves from the banks, thus to build their own futures.  Liberal simpletons would not comprehend my nuanced Weltanschauung.  Bitcoin is for each his own, as well as being a new medium for a grassroots-level comity between nations.

People who disagree with each other about everything else, can agree about Bitcoin.  [...]  You may dislike me, you may disagree with me, you may condemn me—you may even decide that you hate me.  But we both agree that Bitcoin has value; and Bitcoin itself is absolutely unbiased between us.  This is what gives Bitcoin its power—and this is how Bitcoin empowers anybody who wants to use it.  If I decide that I hate you, we still agree on Bitcoin—and we can’t tell each other what to do with Bitcoin.

[...]

The Bitcoin technology is easy to duplicate.  But the Bitcoin social movement cannot be duplicated.  It exists because everybody agrees on Bitcoin.  People all over the world, of every race and nationality, of every religion, of every political opinion, all agree on Bitcoin.  Their agreements or disagreements about anything else are irrelevant to Bitcoin.

That is why there is only one Bitcoin.
610  Economy / Speculation / [WO] PSA: nullius is the greatest failure in the history of the world! on: November 17, 2020, 04:58:27 PM
It's so obvious. BITCOIN HAS FAILED!

Damn it.  For my programme of perpetual self-improvement, I need to learn how to fail better.
611  Economy / Speculation / [WO] A (not so) minor note on miner incentives on: November 17, 2020, 04:54:10 PM


Incentives are aligned.  Taproot will help increase adoption and thus, increase Bitcoin’s value.  What selfish miner running a business on razor-thin margins would not want for Bitcoin’s technology to improve, especially in ways that increase transaction capacity?  The money must flow!

I think that the reason why incentives got misaligned with Segwit v0 was that it broke Jihan’s covert ASICBOOST.  This led Bitmain and Bitmain-dominated mining pools into an unholy forking alliance with malicious parties who wanted to fork-attack Bitcoin for other reasons.  (Not that Jihan wasn’t malicious—and not that he didn’t probably have multiple motives; I simply point out here that he had a short-term, stupidly myopic economic interest in protecting his covert ASICBOOST capability.)

Many miners also may have another reason to desire Schnorr, MuSig, Taproot, etc.:  Anything that increases Bitcoin’s blockchain privacy on a mass scale decreases the potential for coercive pressure on miners to join transaction-blacklisting, “KYC”-enforcing mining pools.

Just for a gut check, @philipma1957:  Would you prefer a future in which you may be coerced to use your hashpower to attack Bitcoin’s fungibility—or a future in which such attacks are less feasible, or (beyond Taproot-based technologies) even impossible?
612  Economy / Speculation / [WO] Black Helicopters Matter on: November 17, 2020, 04:25:56 PM
Do the helicopters have to be black?

RACIST!
613  Other / Serious discussion / Re: Any KYC is “Too strong KYC” on: November 17, 2020, 03:29:29 PM
:weeping_satoshi:

A thread in Beginners & Help has much more serious discussion than this thread in “Serious Discussion”:

Why KYC is extremely dangerous – and useless

All of us are afraid of losing money due to hacks, scams, our own mistakes or even bad decisions (buying useless shitcoins, selling coins too late or too early, etc). Most topics cover issues such as these. But when it comes to losses, you should be aware that there’s more than money which can be lost. By this, I’m talking about identity theft of personal data of any kind. Protecting this data and paying attention to privacy should have at least the same priority of protecting your money. After all, money is replaceable; it’s "only" a financial loss. Once identity is stolen, however, there is no chance of its undoing.

This is where the issue begins. One of the best ways to protect yourself from identity theft is to understand the false assumptions of KYC. Some crypto services require its users to undergo a so-called “KYC” nowadays. KYC means “know your customer” and forces users to send personal documents to a company or organization. This is already becoming a problematic issue that some companies are very strict and will not allow you to use their services, even if you just want to purchase crypto worth only a few hundred dollars.

The official purpose of KYC should be to prevent money laundering (known as AML, anti-money laundering) and terrorist financing. Strict KYC and AML were mainly introduced by the US after 9/11 and many countries are guided by the SEC in setting KYC as a requirement. AML existed before but only for institutions and big amounts of money. Average customers were affected only after restrictions introduced by the SEC.
At first glance, KYC sounds good for shutting down criminal activities. Unfortunately, this looks very different in reality. KYC in crypto doesn’t necessarily help to stop money laundering or reduce criminal activity; nor does it help to prevent terrorist financing. On the contrary - KYC endangers our privacy and encourages criminal activities (via KYC scams, identity theft and other means).

[—long, thoughtful post—]

Read the whole thing!  (If you are serious, that is.)
614  Economy / Speculation / [WO] Invisible chains on: November 17, 2020, 03:13:43 PM
Quote
Thousands of cars lined up to collect food in Dallas, Texas, over the weekend, stretching as far as the eye can see.

Poor Americans are forced using their cars (on credit) to stand in a food line for hours and the crazy thing is they actually believe they live in the best country in the world.


https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1328370997125410817

 In which other country can poor people line up at a food bank while sitting in an air-conditioned, luxury vehicle, listening to music on a factory-installed, 200+ W, 6 speaker, sound system surfing the internet on their iPhone 11 max pro??

All meaningless consumer gadgets, bought with debt-slavery to the banks.  Those “poor people” are worse off than an honest peasant freeman of the past:  All that junk is provided by car loans, credit cards, and, if they are so lucky as to “own” rent from the bank a home, home loans, too.

They are born slaves, slaves from cradle to grave.  Meanwhile, they have no heirs in any meaningful sense.  No posterity.

It doesnt get any better than this; not even close.  This makes 'Best country in the world' seem like a gross understatement.

Americans stereotypically have a total lack of perspective which is both tragic, and unintentionally comical.

Quote from: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
615  Economy / Speculation / [WO] Bitcoin is a bearer asset! on: November 17, 2020, 02:46:35 PM
Honestly guys I wouldn't normally make fun of these tiny little inconsequential groups of people, in this case the Dutch gov/central bank, not understanding tf how bitcoin works, but when it takes the good guy from Microsoft to tell you how to bitcoin, well, it's quite amusing.


https://mobile.twitter.com/csuwildcat/status/1328677058449268737

Bitcoin is a bearer asset.  It is a bearer asset by the nature of its design.
The god of Bitcoin commands, you shall keep safe your private keys.  An ye lose your private keys, the god of Bitcoin shall curse ye.  An ye let your private keys be stolen, the god of Bitcoin shall bless the thief and curse ye.
—“Not your keys, not your coins.”—

All “KYC/AML” nonsense, including the tracking of the source and destination of funds, attempts to change Bitcoin from a bearer asset into an identity-based asset.

The only way to achieve that is to universally enforce “KYC” via miner blacklisting and transaction censorship, and to make some way to rollback transactions (in the manner of an “irregular state change”) which, to my knowledge, has not been seriously proposed for Bitcoin.
616  Economy / Speculation / [WO] “Land of the Free”, Part 2^n+1 on: November 17, 2020, 02:28:54 PM
Quote
Thousands of cars lined up to collect food in Dallas, Texas, over the weekend, stretching as far as the eye can see.

Poor Americans are forced using their cars (on credit) to stand in a food line for hours and the crazy thing is they actually believe they live in the best country in the world.


https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1328370997125410817

Breadlines.  Does anyone with eyes and a functional brain still doubt my equation of the US with the USSR?

But of course, being Americans, they must stand in their breadlines in their automobiles.  Roll Eyes

...the crazy thing is they actually believe they live in the best country in the world.

Stereotypical American doublethink.  Just as they are the “freest” country with the very worst high-tech mass-surveillance (though Red China is now competing)—onerous laws—rampant corruption in their executive, legislature, and judiciary—a Kafkaesque tax system that is also used to target political dissidents with its convoluted, inscrutable, and ultimately arbitrary rules, an historical precedent for banning and seizing sound money—“civil asset forfeiture” that is essentially a government licence to steal anybody’s property on a whim—“freedom of speech” that is restrained within invisible lines on pain of being fired from one’s job, attacked by Antifas or other Communists as the police fail to provide adequate protection, illegally harassed by the police, attacked with frivolous litigation that can bankrupt the defendant even if it is ultimately quashed, and otherwise reduced to the status of the homeless bum speaking freely to passers-by—decades-old world leadership in the War on Crypto—a culture of spite and jealousy that demands not mere conformity, but conformity to the lowest common denominator—a system of public “schools” that irreparably pickle the minds of the young so that they can never think, and meanwhile trains them to spy on their own familiesde facto dictatorship of the Federal Reserve—and worst of all, a global campaign of state-level terrorism and aggressive warfare by which the American world-police force other people into Americanized political, legal, economic, and “cultural” systems, to “make the world safe for democracy”.

America is an abomination, the very worst “evil empire” in all of recorded or recoverable history.
617  Economy / Speculation / [WO] Ceci n’est pas un bitcoin on: November 17, 2020, 03:52:21 AM


Damn it, Toxic!  I said that I am hungry.  If, instead of something real that I can eat, you send me a possibly fake photograph that you understand how to makei.e., an illusory mirage of the real thing—then I will pay you with BCH BSV BCHN BCHA Bitcoin Ultra Platinum Purple Diamond with Ponies 10k coins that I made by running Core in regtest signet mode.

* nullius trains a GAN to imagine pizza-shaped objects, and runs to register thispizzadoesnotexist.com.


i like my pizza with artichoke heart and garlic glove seared in olive oil then layered in pepperoni  
laszlo was thrifty.  He didn’t want to spend so much coin on gourmet toppings.
618  Economy / Speculation / [WO] Do you not understand that I am starving here? on: November 17, 2020, 02:35:48 AM

Neither.  I don’t like their look.

Instead, I’ll take a couple of pizzas for 10 kBTC.



OK, I’m your fan, for now.  Despatch her to deliver my pizzas, and I will tip her a few sats after she earns them, the old-fashioned way.
619  Economy / Speculation / [WO] In which I cast pearls before swine about pearls cast into wine on: November 17, 2020, 01:20:40 AM
Being now in a magnanimous mood, I will cast this pearl before you unmitigated savages:

I'm no longer thinking about buying Lambos, except in the "yeah I might trade a bitcoin for one". Then I can buff it with the towels I bought for a bitcoin years ago.....

lol some swanky towels you got there  Grin

* nullius munches on pizza.

It reminds me of that time that Cleopatra bet Mark Anthony that she could consume one meal worth ten million (silver) coins—then, won her bet by dissolving the world’s largest pearl in vinegar, and drinking it.

This specimen is anachronistic as to the story, but it is one sestertius:

Worth two and one-half asses, and worth ∞× Democrats.

Did Pliny write truly?  Was his historical account of this event even plausible?

Hmmm...  JONES, PRUDENCE J.  “Cleopatra's Cocktail.”  The Classical World, vol. 103, no. 2, 2010, pp. 207–220.  JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40599928.

CONFIRMED SCIENCE!

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  • Go to the Sci-Hub Wikipedia Page—which I am absolutely sure I will not get in trouble for linking, because it’s fucking Wikipedia, for fuck’s sake.
  • Click on one of the copyright violation site links in the box on the right, for (duh) the sci-hub site.  Piracy, arr!  🏴‍☠️
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https://doi.org/10.2307/40599928
Quote from: Jones (2010)
Cleopatra’s Cocktail

Abstract:  Pliny the Elder’s account of Cleopatra consuming a cocktail of vinegar and a pearl in order to win a bet with Anthony was considered credible in the ancient world, but many modern scholars have relegated the anecdote to the realm of fantasy.  This paper identifies possible reasons for this skepticism, including the visual tradition of the story and the belief that increasing concentration always increases reaction rate.  Experiments reveal that, in the case of acetic acid and pearls, the concentration found in vinegar made from wine is ideal.

I am so rich in poetry that I cast pearls before swine.

Cleopatra was so rich that she cast pearls into wine.



So vitriolic am I, I will bathe that snack of goddesses in a cup of aqua regia, and make it my toast to the gods.  WITH PIZZA.  MUAHAHAHAHA!

I like things like onions, peppers, sausage, mushrooms, tomatoes, pepperoni, etc.

Go, Bitcoin, go!

This nonexistent cat is hungry for
PIZZA

620  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: BetCoin.ag scam accusation on: November 16, 2020, 10:53:24 PM

I agree with this user. He has nothing to hide. And the story about not showing the evidence is ridiculous.
But, we can always see what the result will be. If he will not get his winnings, then for sure it is a conspiracy.

Ah, I see what you did there.  It looks like a setup for a suggestion that if zikzik loses at mediation, then he should open a new Scam Accusation thread against SBR—and I guess, then there would need to be another Scam Accusation against SBR in KILLYMNE’s name.  Roll Eyes

What you say is unfalsifiable, and also one-sided.  I presume that if SBR rules for zikzik and tells Betcoin.AG to pay, then you will praise the mediation process as absolutely fair—perfect justice!  Whereas you have already condemned it in advance, if it goes the other way.

—Tell me, why are you so sure about what you say the outcome should be?  I myself am careful to neither predict nor advocate the outcome—because I do not have access to the substantive evidence, and I have no connection to either of the parties.  Do you?

I think that Betcoin.AG presents a credible story on this thread; but I would not be surprised, if zikzik wins at mediation.  It could go either way, depending on the evidence!

I presume that the mediator is fair and impartial.  To allege otherwise would require evidence.
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