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April 13, 2020, 03:48:15 AM Merited by JayJuanGee (1) |
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-much snipped for brevitys sake..apologies-
Well, your story is much more serious than my wanting to hear a boy and girl story.
And, yeah, those items are important, but I am not really in the mood for politics or trying to engage in any kind of serious activism. It's not like you can do a lot during a state of an emergency, until the emergency starts to subside. So, I was just hoping for a more basic scenario, but you are wanting to solve world problems or at least attempt to battle, which is not where I am at, currently.
Well...with Passover and the Holiday..not to mention 4 weeks of pandemic lockdown...my current cocaine and hooker stories are in short supply I am loathe to admit..I will get back to you in a few weeks and see what we can do. Fair enough? I have had quite the week as well..honestly its been very stressful. I am not sure where I derailed on the story really...but I felt some of the writers block I have been experiencing lift and well..words just started to flow. I hope I didnt bring you down to much Juan.. Keep thy chin up..there yet remains hope. #stronghands
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April 13, 2020, 03:57:47 AM |
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-much snipped for brevitys sake..apologies-
Well, your story is much more serious than my wanting to hear a boy and girl story.
And, yeah, those items are important, but I am not really in the mood for politics or trying to engage in any kind of serious activism. It's not like you can do a lot during a state of an emergency, until the emergency starts to subside. So, I was just hoping for a more basic scenario, but you are wanting to solve world problems or at least attempt to battle, which is not where I am at, currently.
Well...with Passover and the Holiday..not to mention 4 weeks of pandemic lockdown...my current cocaine and hooker stories are in short supply I am loathe to admit..I will get back to you in a few weeks and see what we can do. Fair enough? I have had quite the week as well..honestly its been very stressful. I am not sure where I derailed on the story really...but I felt some of the writers block I have been experiencing lift and well..words just started to flow. I hope I didnt bring you down to much Juan.. Keep thy chin up..there yet remains hope. #stronghands You need to de-stress. Colour some eggs with me
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April 13, 2020, 04:10:40 AM |
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1) alts kind of hanging on with a kind of symmetry to bitcoin .. .but what the fuck can we do about that? the situation with alts and the various dumbfucks buying or promoting that crap "is what it is".
Alts are the "lungs" of bitcoin. I was thinking more like an anus, if you touch them you're sure to get shit all over yourself
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April 13, 2020, 04:30:19 AM |
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You need to de-stress. Colour some eggs with me I would really like to do that homer, very much so. Amazing work yet unsurprising considering your other artistic talents. Is it sitting on a piece of nori? +5 WOsMerit's
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April 13, 2020, 04:38:19 AM |
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You need to de-stress. Colour some eggs with me I would really like to do that homer, very much so. Amazing work yet unsurprising considering your other artistic talents. Is it sitting on a piece of nori? +5 WOsMerit's Not nori but it is edible - beeswax. You layer the colours and put a coat of wax in over each colour where you want it to stay and then wash off the colour once the wax is applied. It's time consuming but the result is satisfying.
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April 13, 2020, 04:47:12 AM Last edit: April 13, 2020, 07:02:20 AM by jojo69 |
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So, been thinking pretty hard...
When exactly did we go from dystopian fiction being cautionary to being a fait accompli?
Clearly, Orwell intended his work as a cautionary tale. Emerging from the trauma of World War II, visions of totalitarian futures in fiction and film seemed to offer the viewer the chance to redeem the past by deciding how not to make the future. But somewhere, we lost our way.
Logan's Run seemed to me, as a child, as cautionary, but was it really just preparing me? Soylent Green?
Blake's 7?
The manifesting of dystopian visions in our present reality represent a failure of imagination on the part of the masses, who have abdicated responsibility for what the future looks like to writers and directors and, ultimately, to the Hollywood box office.
By Blade Runner, it is obvious that the individual, as reified by either Hauer's or Ford's character, is exhausted in its struggle against the faceless state. The die is cast.
Now, the trope of "the future" includes militarized cops and ubiquitous surveillance by default. Endless war and increased alienation from nature.
This is a spell we have cast on ourselves, or at the very least have allowed. We must claim sovereignty over our visions and exert our own imaginative effort if we would have the future be another way.
Choice exists.
We can yet take 1984 as a warning, not as an eventuality.
The rest of this noise is bullshit.
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April 13, 2020, 05:01:08 AM |
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So, been thinking pretty hard...
When exactly did we go from dystopian fiction being cautionary to being a fait accompli?
Clearly, Orwell intended his work as a cautionary tale. Emerging from the trauma of World War II, visions of totalitarian futures in fiction and film seemed to offer the viewer the chance to redeem the past by deciding how not to make the future. But somewhere, we lost our way.
Logan's Run seemed to me, as a child, as cautionary, but was it really just preparing me? Soylent Green?
Blake's 7?
The manifesting of dystopian visions in our present reality represent a failure of imagination on the part of the masses, who have abdicated responsibility for what the future looks like to writers and directors and, ultimately, to the Hollywood box office.
By Blade Runner, it is obvious that the individual, as reified by Hauer's or Ford's character, is exhausted in its struggle against the faceless state. The die is cast.
Now, the trope of "the future" includes militarized cops and ubiquitous surveillance by default. Endless war and increased alienation from nature.
This is a spell we have cast on ourselves, or at the very least have allowed. We must claim sovereignty over our visions and exert our own imaginative effort if we would have the future be another way.
Choice exists.
We can yet take 1984 as a warning, not as an eventuality.
The rest of this noise is bullshit.
You are right. That previously dystopian future is almost here in many ways... but what is the alternative? What is the choice? In practical terms and applied to the current situation we are already living, I mean. At this time I would NOT be extremely surprised if we are forced to use that activity control app they are talking about to access any public commerce/place or even to be allowed to walk on public streets. And we would even be thankful that at least we can go out again. Mindblowing.
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April 13, 2020, 05:13:58 AM |
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April 13, 2020, 05:19:54 AM |
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Never watched Blake's 7, watching it now.
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April 13, 2020, 05:28:39 AM |
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fear not, you are sitting at the nexus of the future right here, in bitcoin.
What we are witnessing is the beginning of the end of an epoch of massive centralisation, based primarily on fiat monies and the empires of debt slavery built upon those. The surveillance and control apparatus built up for financial facism to protect the fiat scam is now being rolled out to 'fight the virus' but it is really a dying system writhing around like a snake with it's head cut off. Bill Gates spending billions to build vaccine factories that may never be used are put options on his fiat wealth evaporating in a virus-precipitated global reset away from the empires of the few hundred mega-rich, e.g. Buffet, Bezos and co who attend Davos.
The virus has the globalist apparatchik cornered, like rats. Open up the economy, people die in the millions, endless lockdowns bring the hyper-global economy model to an end. Where to?
Read SnowCrash and other Stephenson novels for possible futures where the Nation States and their crumbling fiat promises are just pie-in-the-sky and unenforceable laws become irrelevant (like 3rd World failed dictatorships). Hyper-local economies of City-States, barter, local currencies and bitcoin for rare travel begin to come to the fore.
Centralisation, globalisation was well-past it's due-by date. The virus has merely pushed it over the edge into oblivion. Command and control economies always end the same way, the fabric tears apart in a myriad of ways at local levels. People disregard confusing endless edicts from remote rulers who are locked in their own mansions miles from anywhere anyway. Taxes revert to local payments for obvious services only. Unpaid law enforcement take bribes, backhanders and blowjobs and real politik takes over in every individual transaction. City-states with their own rules and border controls spring up to stay clean from the virus, local economies thrive inside the walled cities.
It's a brave new world, might not be the one your were expecting. Hyper-decentralisation.
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April 13, 2020, 05:34:18 AM Last edit: April 13, 2020, 06:54:19 AM by VB1001 |
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https://imgur.com/K0nCMYbWe also expect a big green dildo.
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April 13, 2020, 05:58:25 AM |
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^^^ it's a huge worry.
How have the gubmints been sooo slow to actually do anything to stop the virus but incredibly fast and efficient to roll out surveillance measures (supposedly to stop the virus)??
It's part of the play marcus. You of all people, should know that.
At this time I would NOT be extremely surprised if we are forced to use that activity control app they are talking about to access any public commerce/place or even to be allowed to walk on public streets. And we would even be thankful that at least we can go out again. Mindblowing.
It certainly looks that way. Time to get rid of those smartphones boyz n girlz.
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April 13, 2020, 06:07:09 AM |
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In case your mind gets tricked into thinking price = Bitcoin, go back to the basics. Been around for a bit and know this stuff, but a refresh from time to time never hurts. Can be shared with no-coiners as well: https://twitter.com/breedlove22/status/1141567060847149056Robert Brrrrrrrrreedlove @Breedlove22 1/62. As ambassadors of #Bitcoin, I believe we must speak the common tongue and avoid esoteric language so that our message can penetrate minds far and wide. Here, I will shed some light on the Bitcoin and cryptoasset universe in an exoteric nutshell. Let's begin...
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April 13, 2020, 06:46:18 AM |
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A trader’s mind. Love it
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April 13, 2020, 07:03:44 AM |
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1) alts kind of hanging on with a kind of symmetry to bitcoin .. .but what the fuck can we do about that? the situation with alts and the various dumbfucks buying or promoting that crap "is what it is".
Alts are the "lungs" of bitcoin. I was thinking more like an anus, if you touch them you're sure to get shit all over yourself This day was meh all morning, until i finally spit a good sip of coffee over the table after reading your analogy. Looks like a day saver, despite the mess i had to clean up. Luckily i missed my laptop Have a nice day and BTFD!!!
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April 13, 2020, 08:49:48 AM |
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Very disappointing story. Speaking of sad and disappointing story. Mr Dick has a sad story, his hairs are messy. Close family is nuts, his neighbour is called asshole. Best friend is pussy and to make everything worse his owner beats him almost everyday. #Nohomo
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April 13, 2020, 09:15:01 AM |
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and in further #dadjokeskeepthecoofatbay All Members. Now who thought this one up. Bound to bring, hopefully, a smile to your face. PS. Do not try this one at home!!! Thank you Graham B**** for this. Regards all Hon Sec
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April 13, 2020, 09:29:49 AM |
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Government debt as percent of GDP
If billions are transferred from say, Netherlands to Italy, does that affect the GDP of both countries? or just the one pulling the money from there economy? or just the one propping there economy with that money? Or is it not included in the GDP because it's a lone that Italy will all pay back this financial year? The numbers don't really say much anymore when there is so much fake money moving around.
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April 13, 2020, 09:42:14 AM |
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^ I can't think about this, my brain only sees the color red and green, as always, the color red is bad
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April 13, 2020, 09:51:20 AM |
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^^
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