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Projects => The F Plus => Topic started by: Lemon on August 24, 2020, 11:11:34 am
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(https://treknews.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/armin-shimmerman-quark-destination-star-trek-750x480.jpg) (https://thefpl.us/episode/332)
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In case you missed it: https://twitter.com/TheFPlus/status/1294465638082195456?s=20 (https://twitter.com/TheFPlus/status/1294465638082195456?s=20)
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"How can we cover up the fact that we don't know a thing about financial investments, overhead costs, and computer hardware? That's it! Horrifically illiterate sexism! To the forum submission box!"
In all seriousness though, the ROI of cryptocurrency is very much in the "results may vary" category.
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The universe willed this podcast into being so that someday, someone would read the words "women is really a paths duck" out loud.
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This is a GOAT episode.
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The only thing I can imagine a paths duck being is "apathetic". (Say it with one of those stuffy-nosed voices.)
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(https://i.imgur.com/6fpnpNm.png)
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women just keep taking the path duck less traveled by and it makes all the difference
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In this chaotic, unpredictable, often frightening world it's reassuring to know that Portaxx still doesn't understand toilets.
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all of the posts saying "women love money and they love spending money. that's why they will never understand bitcoin" really give the game away that bitcoin is more of a lifestyle that makes them feel cool and smart and masculine than it is a thing that they really sincerely believe is good and important for the world
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all of the posts saying "women love money and they love spending money. that's why they will never understand bitcoin" really give the game away that bitcoin is more of a lifestyle that makes them feel cool and smart and masculine than it is a thing that they really sincerely believe is good and important for the world
positive stress, August 25, 2020, 12:37:58 am
It's also a tacit acknowledgment that they will never, ever be able to turn their bitcoin "riches" into actual monetary gain, instead of an abstract number on a website. Only the pure, rational masculine mind can appreciate the beauty of NUMBER GO UP!
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Finally got around to paying the ten bucks now that I've actually submitted a doc. A few things I wanted to mention:
- At one point Boots is told to read a post by "saddampbuh" and immediately rejects it. That was actually one of the least disgusting posts by that dude I could find. In an early version of the doc, I actually had a whole section of just saddampbuh posts where he explicitly says the "women having sex with women is hot, men having sex with men is disgusting and sinful" thing, followed by a long diatribe on how pornography was invented by jews to corrupt people. I realized at some point that it was way too disgusting for the podcast, though even the bitcoiners were making fun of this dude so that's... something I guess?
- There's a section in the doc on a coin called BREED that was pretty long and understandably didn't get read, but I highly recommend you give that a look if you want to see bitcoiners trying to start some kind of sex cult. Personally I would have called it Cumcoin but whatever.
- Regarding how bad everyone is at typing, a bunch of them are ESL but at the same time a bunch of them... aren't... Man I don't know.
- I genuinely like the term "Money Slavering" a whole lot
Anyway I really love how this ep turned out, thanks for reading it!
(Oh also, I made this ballpit account before I had "standardized" on the Shame Boi spelling, I'm not sure if y'all can change that or I just have to live with it. It's not really a big deal regardless.)
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The bitcoin threads over on SA came to the conclusion that, similar to how scammers will send super obvious fake emails so that they'll only catch people too clueless to know any better, bitcoin self-selects for people who are dumb enough to think it's a good idea to invest in bitcoin. I assume the same process of selecting only the biggest rubes is why the spelling is so bad.
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(Oh also, I made this ballpit account before I had "standardized" on the Shame Boi spelling, I'm not sure if y'all can change that or I just have to live with it. It's not really a big deal regardless.)
Shame Boy, August 25, 2020, 10:24:30 am
Go into your account settings under profile menu. You can change your display name there.
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Go into your account settings under profile menu. You can change your display name there.
Boots Raingear, August 25, 2020, 12:53:33 pm
Thanks, I could have sworn I checked there already but I guess not...
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(https://i.imgur.com/J2S7rJp.jpg)
Puppy Time, August 25, 2020, 01:51:35 pm
sticker design please @lemon
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Now that I think of it, are the slack-jawed troglodytes in the doc mining or investing in bitcoin? I'm 90% sure that they don't have a spare $11,000 to buy one btc, nor the technical know-how / capital to get a mining setup up and working...
Or you know, any sort of understanding of finances besides "NUMBER GO UP WOOHOO"... Honestly, they'd have better odds in actual stock markets.
(edit for the current price of Bitcoin, sweet Jesus)
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while cleaning the dishwasher i thought about the f plus theory of niche fetishes (someone gets a random boner and associates it with the thing forever), and then realized there's probably an f plus listener who this happened to. and now they're out there somewhere with a bug/clingfilm/whatever fetish
auaurorau, July 21, 2020, 11:57:34 am
Turns out it was Kumquat moaning with increasing intensity.
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Now that I think of it, are the slack-jawed troglodytes in the doc mining or investing in bitcoin? I'm 90% sure that they don't have a spare $11,000 to buy one btc
Tipsy Almond, August 25, 2020, 04:35:14 pm
You severely underestimate how absolutely idiotic rich people can be.
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Now that I think of it, are the slack-jawed troglodytes in the doc mining or investing in bitcoin? I'm 90% sure that they don't have a spare $11,000 to buy one btc, nor the technical know-how / capital to get a mining setup up and working...
Or you know, any sort of understanding of finances besides "NUMBER GO UP WOOHOO"... Honestly, they'd have better odds in actual stock markets.
(edit for the current price of Bitcoin, sweet Jesus)
Tipsy Almond, August 25, 2020, 04:35:14 pm
I think a big clue is that nearly everyone on bitcointalk has a sig where they're advertising their particular favorite dumb altcoin or illegal online casino or whatever. The whole of the bitcoin ecosystem is an enormous ponzi scheme and everyone involved is constantly trying to siphon suckers from each other.
Also I think bitcointalk has some weird karma / cheevo / tip system where people can give you points for a good or helpful post, so a lot of the threads are full of people just desperately jumping in to say their dumb uninformed response to the OP regardless of what anyone else in the thread is saying or how many people have said the same thing already. I think that's also what that dummy thicc guy was trying to do but who knows.
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Now that I think of it, are the slack-jawed troglodytes in the doc mining or investing in bitcoin? I'm 90% sure that they don't have a spare $11,000 to buy one btc
Tipsy Almond, August 25, 2020, 04:35:14 pm
You severely underestimate how absolutely idiotic rich people can be.
Puppy Time, August 25, 2020, 05:33:16 pm
The people in the doc don't strike me as the rich sort. Or the sort who passed the 7th grade.
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I think a big clue is that nearly everyone on bitcointalk has a sig where they're advertising their particular favorite dumb altcoin or illegal online casino or whatever. The whole of the bitcoin ecosystem is an enormous ponzi scheme and everyone involved is constantly trying to siphon suckers from each other.
Also I think bitcointalk has some weird karma / cheevo / tip system where people can give you points for a good or helpful post, so a lot of the threads are full of people just desperately jumping in to say their dumb uninformed response to the OP regardless of what anyone else in the thread is saying or how many people have said the same thing already. I think that's also what that dummy thicc guy was trying to do but who knows.
Shame Boi, August 25, 2020, 06:11:33 pm
I'm wondering if another reason for all the horrible, sub-ESL level English on that forum is also not just a case of the community self-selecting for folks who can't communicate, but is also populated by folks who are so deep into online scam culture that they've lost all ability to not talk like an obvious phishing email. Like, they've written so many deliberately poorly-spelled emails trying to convince people they're the Prince of Zanzibarland that the part of their brain that lets them write like an actual human being has just atrophied...
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How long until we get a crypto spells episode? I want to know what spices I need to burn to earn money back from all these garlic coins reddit told me to buy. I will start researching this tomorrow.
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Until I read this thread I had no idea what Boots had actually been trying to say through all the laughter. My brain just could not parse it.
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Ever since the episode, I've been humming that phrase to myself as part of
🎶 I said, be careful, his women is really a paths duck. 🎶
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If you didn't notice earlier, these are now MAGNETS (https://thefpl.us/also-made/magnets#2).
(https://thefpl.us/also-made/magnets/duck-sneetch.jpg) (https://thefpl.us/also-made/magnets#2)
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I think a big clue is that nearly everyone on bitcointalk has a sig where they're advertising their particular favorite dumb altcoin or illegal online casino or whatever. The whole of the bitcoin ecosystem is an enormous ponzi scheme and everyone involved is constantly trying to siphon suckers from each other.
Shame Boi, August 25, 2020, 06:11:33 pm
Bitcoin : men :: DoTERRA : women
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Magnets are really a path stuck.
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I can't find the specific moment, but in one of the SA bitcoin mock threads someone found some posts where a number of bitcoiners were crossposting to a camgirl forum, trying to convince users to adopt cryptocurrencies. This effort included someone who registered on the forum pretending to be a lady new to the scene who was curious about bitcoin and extolled its virtues in a number of threads.
Turns out that sex workers are pretty cluey about finances and quickly identified and shunned the impostor as well, much to the surprise of the coiners who had thought they had found some easy marks.
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I can't find the specific moment, but in one of the SA bitcoin mock threads someone found some posts where a number of bitcoiners were crossposting to a camgirl forum, trying to convince users to adopt cryptocurrencies. This effort included someone who registered on the forum pretending to be a lady new to the scene who was curious about bitcoin and extolled its virtues in a number of threads.
Turns out that sex workers are pretty cluey about finances and quickly identified and shunned the impostor as well, much to the surprise of the coiners who had thought they had found some easy marks.
Megacrex inepta, September 09, 2020, 08:16:58 am
I feel like you could make an entire (probably depressing) FPlus document about guys trying to scam camgirls and quickly learning that online sex workers are all way, way smarter than they are.
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I asked, heres the one I was thinking about:
https://www.stripperweb.com/forum/showthread.php?173251-Have-you-heard-of-this-new-currency-and-way-of-getting-paid-called-Bitcoins
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That is absolutely beautiful and perfect. I am in awe.
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OH MY GOODNESS THEY TRIED ANOTHER FORUM (https://www.ambercutie.com/forums/threads/ever-heard-of-bitcoins-ladies.7955/)
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There's a general rule of thumb in business:
If you pay money for something, that thing is the product / service.
If you are paid money in exchange for something, YOU are the product / service.
Which raises the question of what exactly your computer is calculating during mining runs. :B
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There's a general rule of thumb in business:
If you pay money for something, that thing is the product / service.
If you are paid money in exchange for something, YOU are the product / service.
Which raises the question of what exactly your computer is calculating during mining runs. :B
Tipsy Almond, September 15, 2020, 12:47:47 am
IIRC, it's explicitly just a lot of useless mathematical calculations designed just to churn processors, because the idea is that you generate coins via "proof of work," not through actually producing anything of value. If Bitcoin mining were secretly processing EvilCorp's world-domination weather-control algorithm, that would be of more value to the world than the current status quo.
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Is there a folding@homecoin? That feels like the logical conclusion to that.
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I vaguely remember there being a couple of altcoins that use some kind of "useful" work for their proof-of-work. The difficulty with using something like folding@home is that your ideal proof-of-work should be difficult to brute force, but trivial to check. The harder it is to tell who got the right answer first, the more likely you are to have the transaction record get out of sync between different parts of the network.
Also, to Tipsy Almond's point, the people doing the mining are in fact doing a service for the bitcoin network. The huge amount of garbage number-crunching that goes into mining theoretically protects the network from being controlled by any one actor, because in order to control the network, you need to provide more mining work than the rest of the network combined. The mining reward is supposed to be an incentive to keep as many people mining as possible, thereby keeping the network secure.
In short, bitcoin by nature has to be as useless and wasteful as possible.
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There's a general rule of thumb in business:
If you pay money for something, that thing is the product / service.
If you are paid money in exchange for something, YOU are the product / service.
Which raises the question of what exactly your computer is calculating during mining runs. :B
Tipsy Almond, September 15, 2020, 12:47:47 am
IIRC, it's explicitly just a lot of useless mathematical calculations designed just to churn processors, because the idea is that you generate coins via "proof of work," not through actually producing anything of value. If Bitcoin mining were secretly processing EvilCorp's world-domination weather-control algorithm, that would be of more value to the world than the current status quo.
Antivehicular, September 15, 2020, 01:54:45 am
Jesus, it's like a metaphor for modern capitalism but real.
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I know y'all love bitcoin, FEEMALES and absolutely excellent domains, so let me dredge up this thread to present you with:
https://girlfriend.finance/
I have no clue what it's trying to do, buy and sell NFT's of women or something? Definitely check out their eight-page "one pager" PDF though:
https://girlfriend.finance/assets/files/onepager.pdf
We plan to
1) Generate buzz of relationship status tokenization with help of celebrities (e. g., Hollywood actress Bella Thorn is now on OnlyFans, you can be her boyfriend on girlfriend.finance).
2) Incentivize females to embrace the new normal of relationship tokenization and blockchain relationship management.
3) Focus on providing females with blockchain tools that help them grow and manage their brand, navigate romantic and personal relationships.
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I find this episode inspirational.
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I find this episode inspirational.
Biggie Fries, September 12, 2023, 09:41:19 pm
Thank you for your art. It's lovely.