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| Topic | Cryptocurrency is amazing. Can't wait for the day that it's mainstream |
| Sad_Face 03/28/21 4:59:36 AM #46 | 1337toothbrush posted... There are problems with the banking system, but that doesn't mean there are no problems with cryptocurrencies. If you send crypto to the wrong address then have fun trying to revert that transaction. Accessibility is an issue, sure. But the potential is there. This is the equivalent to the early times of the internet but we're progressing far more rapidly. DeFi can net you an easy 10% in interest compared to banks' super saver accounts of 0.1% interest. I've used pools that divvy out over 90% in interest. The more you learn about DeFi, the more you use DeFi and understand it, the more it makes you question the future of regular banks. The only thing they have right now is accessibility but even that is going to continue diminishing as now there are applications to convert your public address into something more readable and there are projects out there aiming to resolve the issue of misclicks and accidentally sending assets of what you did not intend to send. --- |
| Topic | Cryptocurrency is amazing. Can't wait for the day that it's mainstream |
| Sad_Face 03/28/21 4:40:42 AM #36 | 1337toothbrush posted... This topic brilliantly demonstrates how crypto fans praise cryptocurrencies for doing things that aren't new. Sounds like you haven't been in a position where you had to fight with your bank over transactions they flagged as fraudulent. I'm ready to look for another bank honestly. The other boon comes from being able to jump between different applications and not needing to "sign up". Just sign a transaction with your wallet and you're good to go. Banks are quaking in their boots. They're going to have to fight to survive when crypto hits its stride in adoption. The decentralized world is super seamless and has zero hassle. To give an example, I applied for a loan with a bank and they wanted multiple cheque stubs, a letter from my company stating I worked there, and a bunch of IDs. It took a few weeks to get verified for a $3K loan with no credit. With crypto? It took me 10 minutes to get a $1000 loan, but I had to overcollaterallize and put up essentially $2K (it's lower than this, but this is cleaner) worth of assets. I had a good 60 days to pay it back and it cost me $13 in fees and interest in total. This was back in 2019, I'm curious to see what kind of ways they'll make loans more accessible to the common man in the crypto world. --- |
| Topic | Baltimore will no longer prosecute drug possession, prostitution, low-level... |
| Sad_Face 03/27/21 6:13:30 PM #23 | HydraSlayer82 posted... Prostitution will probably go a long way toward calming incels the fuck down. We just had a mass shooting because one dude decided his strategy to relieving his addiction to his local "massage parlour" was to gun everyone down. --- |
| Topic | Feminism type test |
| Sad_Face 03/27/21 10:49:05 AM #82 | Rathinor posted... Way to out yourself here Are you seriously denying that guys don't go to extremes for women? You don't know of guys who talk about working harder cause they have a wife and kids (he wouldn't be putting in the effort nearly as much if he wasn't living with her)? Literally a good percentage of the people in investing are dudes who are trying to make it to score a girl in an inevitable failure of an attempt of validation or dudes are pissed off at their exes. On top of that, the blockchain field is trying to make a push to appeal more to women. You can't appeal the same way to women as you do for men, the fact that it's so male dominated is proof of this despite the technology here is the most accessible and identity blind a field could ever be. --- |
| Topic | Feminism type test |
| Sad_Face 03/27/21 10:31:13 AM #80 |  Some of these questions are hilarious. "Women are just as risk taking as men", this is impossible to happen. Half the motivation behind why men take risks is because of women; whether it's to make themselves more valuable to women, or to lash out against them. --- |
| Topic | Is it right for white parents to change their children to a different school... |
| Sad_Face 03/26/21 12:27:34 PM #5 | Put your kid in a school where they can easily hit the top 10% and they'll have the leg up on getting accepted to their college of choice. This comes at the expense of potentially going to a less rigorous school with less resources to give your kid a strong foundation before they go on into a harder degree program. It's not about being right or wrong, it's recognizing how big of an investment college is and being strategic in maximizing their chances at success. ^^That was my driveby post. Now that I read the article, oh man it's worse than I thought. You have kids who are coming from families that crack the whip on their education, to the point where they go to summer school to take classes to get the leg up before they hit HS. It's not even about competition at that point, why bother with a HS with such a cutthroat environment? That's a recipe for suicide. --- |
| Topic | How does Bitcoin/crypto = regular currency? |
| Sad_Face 03/25/21 5:21:51 PM #2 | Some businesses are being forward thinking in accepting BTC/ETH/whatever. Otherwise, you'll have to go to an exchange like Coinbase or Gemini to buy BTC with fiat currency (US dollars) or sell back into fiat currency. And then there are crypto ATMs out there to my knowledge. The goal is to get crypto to be universally accepted. As it stands now, the BTC network and ETH network are too slow to handle the transactions necessary for everyday use. To get a transaction cleared, it takes a good few minutes. That's not good enough for grocery shopping, we need seconds in transaction speed. But what I can see happening is that local governments or corporations would offer their own inhouse currency backed by the BTC or some reserve of value that you could exchange for to use in for that jurisdiction or service. Leave the BTC as a store of value a la gold and peg currencies of faster networks to the BTC. --- |
| Topic | Tharja Thursdays |
| Sad_Face 03/25/21 4:42:06 AM #2 | Another week passed with no resplendent. She didn't need one anyhow. --- |
| Topic | Who else is getting Monster Hunter Rise? |
| Sad_Face 03/24/21 4:18:55 PM #95 | SquirtleSkwad posted... Nope. Three hour tutorials of unnecessary mechanics do not appeal to me whatsoever. I've tried this series with three separate games and it's always been the same. It's the feedback loop my man. You fight some super strong monster and struggle against him. You persevere and finally beat him. Just barely. That's not good enough. So you go after the monster again, fight him over and over in attempt to truly say you have won over him. All the while, each time you fight him, you find you don't need to stock up on the maximum number of healing items anymore as you learn and respond appropriately to the monster and dodge their attacks more often. You respond to openings more and successfully attack more. After each and every successful hunt you find your runtimes decreasing in succession. Progress. That is Monster Hunter. At least the demo in which I have over 130 hours on, last I checked. It's rough starting out, but if you keep at it and learn the weapon so you don't have to fight the weapon as much as you're fighting the monster, you can kickstart the feedback loop and the addiction will kick in. --- |
| Topic | Andrew Schulz & Akaash Singh: Dating Apps Are Making Men Virgins |
| Sad_Face 03/24/21 11:56:09 AM #11 | philsov posted... Sure, we could "blame" this on girls having more choices and guys being rated by looks, but there are other factors to consider like dudes being unemployed and/or living with their parents both of which reduce partner potential. It's very much about putting your best foot forward, and tbh a lot of guys are absolutely terrible about that due to a lack of empathy coupled with entitlement. They'll make terrible first impressions and not even realize it. But, sure, blame the apps instead of self improving. What has to happen for you to believe that it's a cultural problem and not a personal problem? --- |
| Topic | 15 Derek Chauvin Jurors are CHOSEN with 9 Women and 5 Men and 8 are White!! |
| Sad_Face 03/24/21 12:36:30 AM #14 | EricDraven59 posted... So lets see how the defense explains the coroners report with all the damning details he listed You're going off of the autopsy reported contracted by the family. Not the police released autopsy. The police released autopsy sounds unbelievable but this is why I point to the FULL FOOTAGE that corroborates with the autopsy. --- |
| Topic | 15 Derek Chauvin Jurors are CHOSEN with 9 Women and 5 Men and 8 are White!! |
| Sad_Face 03/24/21 12:16:50 AM #6 | EricDraven59 posted... The whole country will explode if he gets freed, and then someone will kill him in public one day If? It's when dude. This is a open and shut case. There's a reason why they didn't release the police footage of 10 minutes before the footage of Chauvin and Floyd and why it was leaked by the dailymail. --- |
| Topic | Why am I such a worthless piece of shit |
| Sad_Face 03/23/21 11:21:52 PM #77 | DarthAragorn posted... Do you crypto nerds ever shut the fuck up about it jesus fuck Of course not, smart contracts are going to change the world and I have the opportunity to be a part of the next revolution. If you make the time, I'm sure you'll learn a lot as to why crypto nerds are so gungho about it. --- |
| Topic | Why am I such a worthless piece of shit |
| Sad_Face 03/23/21 11:08:01 PM #74 | DarthAragorn posted... That is unlikely to happen Well, you could just buy some Chainlink. But you'll have to read up endlessly on what it is and why it's such an important project for you to believe it. --- |
| Topic | Why am I such a worthless piece of shit |
| Sad_Face 03/23/21 10:34:25 PM #70 | awesome999 posted... You're 27. You can b**** and moan about the bad choices you've made while still continuing to make more of them and meanwhile getting nothing done or you can actually do something about your s*** life, choice is yours @awesome999 I know your intentions are genuine but delivery is really bloody important in this context. Your route is completely counterproductive and doesn't help at all. But for the uninitiated, he's trying to mimic this article. https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-you-better-person/ OP, I will tell you that I feel like I've wasted the last 4 years at this one job where I've learned absolutely nothing and feel even further behind in life compared to my friends. Even worse, I've started a number of projects and I've failed to complete any one of them. But this sounds a bit disingenuous because I've had insane life changing success investing in the crypto world, more so than 90% of the people who have touched the field, am quite knowledgeable of the field yet I feel like a total failure in life. But my point is that to get out of your funk, you want to have accomplishments under your belt. Therapy isn't going to help anywhere near as much as finding a goal and working toward to fulfilling it. What you'll have to do is keep trying new things, keep learning new things, and focus on finding a field that will absorb your time and through it, developing a skill that you want to show off to the world and enjoy doing so. Be willing to use it for others and give it away for free and opportunities will follow and you'll gain accomplishments through it. I spent my time reading up on blockchain tech and was knowledgeable enough to do a couple lectures at my local university for a friend's professor. That opportunity evolved to us collaborating with a few others on a grant that we could have turned into a legitimate company, but things went south and so it's on hold. It didn't work out that well, but this would never have been possible if I weren't gungho about blockchain wanted to share with the rest of the world my adoration for the field. You're 27, which is old, but I was busy burgerflipping at 26 and I still live with my parents at 29. It's still possible to turn your life around. But you have to take risks and be adventurous. --- |
| Topic | Trump: America no longer has the free press |
| Sad_Face 03/23/21 1:33:48 PM #26 | AvantgardeAClue posted... But if y'all don't think the media isn't trying to influence the way people think and act then God bless The way Zimmerman-Martin incident was reported opened my eyes to how the national news media have an agenda to push. And even with all the glaring mistakes they made trying to race bait in that story, they still succeeded with flying colors. --- |
| Topic | Why do women and men think the other gender is privileged? |
| Sad_Face 03/22/21 9:25:11 PM #3 | The grass looks greener on the other side. Though I should also mention that if you don't have looks, talent, or ambition as guy, yeah you're screwed. While the ceiling for males is higher than women in terms of who can get the most out of privileges, the floor is lower for males than it is for women. In other words, a woman is inherently more valuable than a man. Remember, a village of 99 females and 1 male is going to thrive while a village of 99 men and 1 female is doomed. --- |
| Topic | Man urinates on asian woman in NYC subway |
| Sad_Face 03/22/21 7:25:15 PM #12 | Joeydollaz posted... I only said one thing, Are you serious?! she recalled. As I looked around, none of the bystanders said or did anything. They would move if she shouted at them to do something. This is just the bystander effect in action. Everyone froze up wondering what they should do and if they should intervene. Not everyone is meant to be a leader. --- |
| Topic | Kylie Jenner flies her sister Kendall on $72M jet amid GoFundMe controversy. |
| Sad_Face 03/22/21 6:48:35 PM #3 | Lebronwon posted... Kylie, 23, posted about Rauda who underwent major surgery on March 14 on social media in an effort to raise awareness and help pay for his medical expenses, since Rauda is a close friend of her current makeup artist Ariel Tejada. These certainly put things into a different context. Wasn't her friend to begin with and the original goal was $10K which she put them over the limit with her donation. Why is the goal $120K now? Because they want to ride on the publicity she gave them? --- |
| Topic | African Americans are being made to be the face of Asian American hate |
| Sad_Face 03/22/21 10:56:42 AM #97 | InhumaneRaider posted... You say this, but Nigerian's are the most successful ethnic group in the U.S. If anything it supports the argument that Black Americans still feel the effects of slavery to this day since Nigerian immigrants tend to come from wealthy educated families already. what influences culture the most, if not history? And Nigerians also didnt have their culture and dignity stripped from them. Their parents didnt have to spend time fighting for basic human rights on American soil. They got to skip that part because of AAs. The culture my parents grew up on and the culture I grew up on are night and day. For starters, when my mom grew up, she couldn't go down more than a few blocks without some neighbor informing her parents where she was going. We don't have that sense of community anymore. All the while, other races in my area huddle together and pool their resources to get ahead. I implore you all to learn about wealth and how generational wealth is made. "The Millionaire Next Door" is a good book to read. The reason why I bring this up is because the lifestyle to rise to a millionaire status is the EXACT OPPOSITE of so many trends in black culture. We have a lot of cultural values that end up sabotaging ourselves. SPE posted... its easy to whine about the black absentee father, but people rarely bring up many of those absentee cases is because the father went sent to jail over some minor bulls*** a white dude would have not even paid a fine for In my immediate friend circle alone, we have 2 mothers and one expecting father and one expecting mother. The expecting are both married, the other 2 are single. Their baby daddies are deadbeats. I have another friend whose kid's father is once again a joker. The nuclear family is not the norm and racism isn't to blame for this (unless you want to delve into the production of hip hop culture). It's the decay of nuclear family values. --- |
| Topic | African Americans are being made to be the face of Asian American hate |
| Sad_Face 03/22/21 9:59:26 AM #69 | cjsdowg posted... Easy if you attack other POC, you get closer to the whiteness, in their minds. Many Native American tribes did that to try to show they were "civilized". Look we are like you white community we treat black people like s*** too. (love us) Being resistant to any criticism is a guaranteed way of maintaining stagnation and being left behind. Stop that. --- |
| Topic | Covid Spiking In Over A Dozen States,Most With High Vaccination Rates |
| Sad_Face 03/22/21 9:42:27 AM #11 | Joeydollaz posted... He has that saved up for sure, posted that too fast  You should hang around anonymous imageboards, you'll build up a compendium quickly for every occasion. --- |
| Topic | Covid Spiking In Over A Dozen States,Most With High Vaccination Rates |
| Sad_Face 03/22/21 9:39:19 AM #5 | Joeydollaz posted... you got a pic promoting your name? wtf is this It's not difficult to put text on an image. Takes 2 minutes. --- |
| Topic | African Americans are being made to be the face of Asian American hate |
| Sad_Face 03/22/21 9:35:07 AM #65 | cjsdowg posted... A white criminal will get job over black person with no record if everything else is the same . And that is just the tip of the iceberg. Are you African American ? Yes. They will also choose a white sounding name over a Mexican sounding name. In other words, they are going to choose their own versus "The other". The odds are stacked against us. Yes. But that doesn't absolve us of personal responsibility to find our own success and do our best in what we can control. It wasn't institutional racism that lead half the mothers in my friend circle to be raising kids alone. It was them having accidents with not so good men. It wasn't institutional racism that a family in my neighborhood of 8 kids have a few of them not in the school system and aren't learning anything. It's the lack of action on the parents. There are toxic issues in our own culture that we can directly influence. If we prioritize having strong family values, the base standards of the black community will rise. --- |
| Topic | African Americans are being made to be the face of Asian American hate |
| Sad_Face 03/22/21 9:13:17 AM #56 | FrisbeeDude posted... https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1372655731762204674?s=19 What's wrong with this tweet? It's true. Culture and having strong family values are among the top factors to success. An Indian buddy of mine once told me every kid is told by their parents; "Medical doctor, Engineer, Investment banker, CHOOSE ONE". And they foster that growth toward one of those careers all the way through their lives. We don't have this in black culture, we are already struggling to make sure kids have a strong father as a role model in their lives, let alone seeing more children in married households. --- |
| Topic | I don't really get the whole 'incel' thing |
| Sad_Face 03/19/21 3:21:25 PM #29 | Prestoff posted... We do recognize it as a problem, but how would one go about trying to fix it? You can't force people who aren't attracted to each other to be with each other.Most clearly don't recognize it as a cultural problem. Look at the responses in this topic. Heck, What_ posted... Are you an incel? Trying to justify their murderous behavior is disgusting This guy can't even have a discussion without flinging insults. --- |
| Topic | I don't really get the whole 'incel' thing |
| Sad_Face 03/19/21 1:44:03 PM #12 | The objective isn't sex, it's companionship they desire. With no chance at companionship, there's no chance to raise a family which means these guys have little reason to contribute to and be invested in the future of society. This will be a major problem in the future and it's a shame people don't recognize this as a problem and keep pushing the blame on the incels themselves. --- |
| Topic | I'll donate $1,500 to the admin's charity of choice for my old account back. |
| Sad_Face 03/18/21 1:32:57 AM #33 | pure_temper posted... Edit: Since no admin presence yet I'm free to edit: I require my account back before donating anything, since you have the power to ban it if I don't keep my end of the bargain. Whereas I have no power. :) What guarantees you won't fudge proof that you held your end of the bargain? You can't be trusted, we need a smart contract using a Chainlink data feed to show proof that you have $1500 and that the payment was made. --- |
| Topic | *Black man accused of using fake 20 dollar bill* |
| Sad_Face 03/18/21 1:29:29 AM #12 | OP, how would you feel if Chauvin was acquitted? --- |
| Topic | Indiana Man kills 4 and abducts baby after argument over stimulus check. |
| Sad_Face 03/17/21 9:04:02 AM #20 | I4NRulez posted... he shot the brothers daughter A day before Malik Halfacre allegedly shot Jeanettrius Moore on Saturday and gunned down her family killing her young daughter, brother, mother and a cousin Eve is her daughter. They named her before they named her brother in the list of homicide victims. --- |
| Topic | Black people can't be racis- |
| Sad_Face 03/16/21 10:11:56 AM #97 | |
| Topic | India to propose cryptocurrency ban, penalising miners, traders |
| Sad_Face 03/16/21 7:54:42 AM #10 | AtelierRyza3462 posted... The heck is going on in India? The measure is in line with a January government agenda that called for banning private virtual currencies such as bitcoin while building a framework for an official digital currency. There's your answer. They're trying to make way for their own cryptocurrency. Good luck trying to regulate people. At most, they can only prevent people from buying on regulation compliant exchanges. But once you're in, there's nothing they can do, you can always declare your crypto lost in a mysterious boating accident or was hacked or whatever. --- |
| Topic | Has your teacher ever cried during class? >_> |
| Sad_Face 03/14/21 10:19:38 AM #4 | My 6th and 8th grade Spanish teachers cried due to not being able to handle the class. Whoops. --- |
| Topic | So...TIL they Deep Fake Audio too... |
| Sad_Face 03/14/21 2:05:39 AM #27 | Dat_Cracka_Jax posted... I'd have to know what an NFT is first before I could imagine it. A type of crypto. One that ties ownership to a specific digital asset. Think of as them as trading cards, but expanded to everything that can be digitized. --- |
| Topic | Bitcoin uses more power than the entire country of Argentina. |
| Sad_Face 03/13/21 10:22:18 PM #109 | ssjevot posted... Proof-of-Stake coins that don't require mining or fees and transfer instantly have been around for years. Bitcoin is terrible at what it does, as should be expected for the very first crypto, but the value is based on speculation, not some objective assessment. It should also be noted that a Proof-of-Stake coin functions identically no matter what the price, do speculation doesn't matter for actual function. People just want to make money, they don't care about the actual technology for the most part. The problem with PoS is that its security is nowhere near the level of PoW. Just a few weeks ago one chain went down because 3 of its nodes went offline while having enough staked tokens collectively to be required by the network as a whole for the validation. --- |
| Topic | Bitcoin uses more power than the entire country of Argentina. |
| Sad_Face 03/13/21 7:37:37 PM #106 | LivingLegend posted... Ban Bitcoin and freeze all assets of people who are buying it. He owns crypto (chainlink). Don't be fooled. --- |
| Topic | Bitcoin Spikes to New Record High Over $60K |
| Sad_Face 03/13/21 7:16:29 PM #27 | cavalierking posted... would you recommend that route over coinbase and binance?@cavalierking absolutely fucking not. You don't own your crypto on Paypal. With Coinbase or Binance, you can move it off the exchange and that's the most important part. --- |
| Topic | Bitcoin uses more power than the entire country of Argentina. |
| Sad_Face 03/13/21 3:10:19 PM #70 | 34_ShaqRule_34 posted... We can start with not having to pay $50 extra to buy $25 worth of crypto.Every ETH competitor in the market has scaling as their advantage over ETH. But I do agree, the gas fees are too. Damned. High. --- |
| Topic | Bitcoin uses more power than the entire country of Argentina. |
| Sad_Face 03/13/21 3:04:30 PM #66 | MarthGoomba posted... Even with all of the ETH "fixes' ALGO will still be superiorProblem with every Ethereum competitor is what are they offering that would cause the development community to move on from ETH? The NFT industry is flourishing on ETH, DeFi is all on ETH. How would a competitor recreate the same community and market? It's not enough to have as good as tools or better than ETH because they have the community that is developing all the tools to make ETH succeed. --- |
| Topic | Finally hit a million dollars of Bitcoin |
| Sad_Face 03/13/21 2:49:44 PM #32 | ROOTFayth posted... believe me, you still wouldThis, nothing would change. This isn't like winning a lottery ticket and having your life change overnight. --- |
| Topic | Bitcoin uses more power than the entire country of Argentina. |
| Sad_Face 03/13/21 2:47:40 PM #62 | In terms of energy consumption of the ETH network, they're working on it. Scaling is a number 1 priority. ETH 2.0 is moving towards Proof of Stake which is considerably less computationally intensive. In addition there are other scaling solutions coming into play like Arbitrum that moves transactions onto the Chainlink network to minimize the amount of transactions needed to settle on the ETH blockchain. --- |
| Topic | Finally hit a million dollars of Bitcoin |
| Sad_Face 03/13/21 2:41:28 PM #25 | OP, make sure to save some BTC for your great grandchildren. Preferably 75%. --- |
| Topic | Finally hit a million dollars of Bitcoin |
| Sad_Face 03/13/21 1:29:12 PM #13 | Congrats! Perhaps I might buy a full BTC in the future. Too expensive right now. --- |
| Topic | Bitcoin uses more power than the entire country of Argentina. |
| Sad_Face 03/13/21 1:26:31 PM #56 | Doom_Art posted... I'd ask what blockchain is but I've done that before and shit's gotten really weird so I don't know To try and put it simply, it's an architecture for maintaining a public ledger, where everyone's transaction history is in the open and available for viewing and transactions are grouped up in blocks in order of recency, i.e. each block stores transactions that took place during the time miners were mining for the rewards of that time period. I've omitted a good deal of information (especially parts about being decentralized, how mining works) while still trying to be accurate. The most important thing is that it's a public ledger, everyone can see your transactional history so they know what wallet you sent crypto and how much you're worth. But this is a consequence of aiming to create a digital currency where no fraudulent transactions are possible. --- |
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