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Great news everyone I have decided to endorse Fahrenheit

Benoit Blanc really is the most guy ever. He’s a world famous detective. He’s played by a British man but has a fake country accent. He dresses like a cartoon character and smokes cigars. He hates mystery games because he sucks at them. He plays video games with his friends in the bath over discord. He has a soft spot pathetic, righteous, panicky women. He makes up words on the fly. He’s gay. He hates rich people.

MILLY ALCOCK Flaunt Magazine, 2022

Emma D’arcy at GQ Men of the Year (x)

Everyone always talks about adhd and 100+ tabs in a browser, but no one talks about all the saved posts on tumblr we save for future reference that we never look at either

those anti-oil environmental protestors throwing soup on a Van Gogh painting instead of growing some balls and assassinating an oil baron or ransacking a pipeline construction site at the very least. we need 1970s environmental activism back.

FBI I am totally joking btw just a hehe haha joke I love crude oil I love gas pipelines

In my opinion, the protest was a failure. They succeeded in getting attention but not attention for their cause. They wanted us to feel the rage and frustration they feel about the environment, we all feel rage and frustration but it is mainly towards them and not the oil industry. Their actions were too abstract to get the effect they wanted. They hurt and inconvenience museum staff, not the oil industry. The painting is fine, by the way, but there is minor damage to the frame.

that makes sense

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE In Throes of Increasing Wonder…

@meme-streets

OK, fine, the Brits can take this one W for once.

Steal from the rich; God says it’s fine!  

Cryptocurrencies are a fucking blight.

Love that this post is perfect bait from cr*pto dickheads who I get to instantly block.

I’m old. I don’t understand crypto. It’s just made up money (to be fair, all money is sort of made up money). Can’t they just “say” that x amount of cryptocurrency exists, without doing all that shit that hurts the environment?

I’ll take a stab at this.

What makes things valuable is rarity. If chunks of gold poked out of the ground everywhere where anybody could pick it up, its value would be almost nothing; the same as any other rock.

So how do you make a digital thing (cryptocurrency) rare?

By enforcing some mathematical rules that must be calculated over and over again, billions of times before a new “coin” can be “mined”. 

You know how you can program a computer to calculate Pi to infinite places, and it’ll just keep cranking and cranking, making more and more numbers for all eternity? Cryptocurrency mining is a little like that, where an ever-increasingly huge collection of numbers is calculated (the blockchain) and the next number in the chain can be calculated given enough processing horsepower.

Each calculation takes time, which can be shortened with faster computer hardware, but still… it takes (for example) 7.5 days of constant grinding to create one Ethereum coin. 

And note, that number is already out of date, since it was posted in November 2021. The actual number of days now to mine one Ethereum, when you’re reading these words, is gonna be much more. See, every coin you generate makes it harder (more calculations) to generate the next coin, increasing its rarity; increasing its value. 

If the calculations were simple and could be calculated quickly then bazillions of “coins” could be created instantly, and everyone could have some. But that doesn’t make them rare, and their value would be zero.

Okay so what happens when it takes “too long” to generate a new coin?

Firstly, that calculation time can be mitigated by throwing more and more hardware at the problem, which professional cryptominers do by filling warehouses full of custom mining rigs. Each warehouse chews up enough electricity to power a subdivision, by the way.

Secondly, if a particular currency (there are MANY) becomes too difficult (i.e. time-consuming) to mine, there usually occurs a massive sell-off where the oldest coin holders dump their coins on the market, converting them to hard currency like USD. And of course this tanks that particular market, the price goes down, and any new investors in that cryptocurrency are left holding cheap coins that originally cost them more to buy or mine. They’re screwed.

That’s why cryptocurrencies, the way they’re implemented now, are basically pump-and-dump schemes and should be illegal. The same way any other pyramid scheme is illegal.

And when you factor in the absolute waste of natural resources, the stupid carbon footprint, the needless pollution too? Cryptocurrency miners should be treated as worse criminals than simple scam artists.

davanshatry

writing a cover letter is just like: here is my worksona she has no mental illnesses and hates breaks! i would like to larp her for 40 hours a week with full pay and benefits

Well, then the droid does belong to you.

Luke: the droid says he belongs to you

Obi Wan, who knows full well that is anakin’s fucking nightmare robot: i don’t recall

Motherfucker doesn’t need to be Force sensitive to know that there’s Skywalker fuckery afoot when R2-D2 shows up. This is the gentle knock on the door before the Skywalker Drama Van unloads like a clowncar.

Bold of you to claim there’s anything gentle about R2-D2

Those beeps are actually him calling Obi Wan a motherfucker

EMMA. (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde

If you had £1,000 to spend today what would you spend it on? “I would buy reusable masks and make all the fucking idiots wear them.” OLIVER JACKSON-COHEN for Instyle (Oct 2020)