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Holding a zen lineage, the papacy, every Nobel prize, every olympic gold medal and a driver's license are non-fungible tokens.

To be saying that NFTs have no use is absolutely ridiculous. People just don't abstract from "ape image" to the underlying concept.

I will not stop beating this horse

think about it: someone is like "huh i wonder why my file needs to be on a specific server, can not just everybody have my file and give it to each other?"

and a week later they're talking about Merkle trees, DHTs, zk-SNARKs and s-boxes. the cruelty is the point.

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gotta get a 9 year old with cancer to wish for a tiling-stable subagent-persistent otherizer idiom

pareto improvement: instead of letting students write bachelors/masters theses that are basically just literature reviews, let them rewrite the respective wikipedia articles instead (and then the supervisor checks the article)

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Laziness is not laziness, it is many things: avoiding encountering one’s own body, avoiding triggers, avoiding thinking about the future because it’s proven to be unbearable. Slashing the Gordian Knot isn’t a sign of strength; it’s a sign of exhaustion.

- Porpentine, Hot Allostatic Load

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It's spring -> I must sneeze

Modus pollens

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if you're wondering why inflation hasn't led to more Gecs (say, 108 or 109), you have to remember that Gecs are pegged to the US Dollar, and remain stable at 100

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really sick to see people still use "bl**k friday"

i had hoped that we as a civilization have gone beyond such using that kind of terminology, especially given the historical context

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axiom of decidable excluded middle (whenever something is true or false, it is true or false)

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Would you kindly BOOST THIS POLL
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@7@collapsitarian.io this is how we should be shitposting, none of this gay computer bullshit. just a girl in her underwear, a shortwave radio, and a joint

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i feel like, given the time and education, i could breed larger snails. not too big, just bigger than the ones you normally come across

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Sometimes I sit back and think, "wow, Tolkien would not have had anything to write about if the blockchain existed in the '40s"

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the US government has spent the last decade trying to figure out how to maintain GDP growth without allowing brown people into this country, and you think they're gonna kill off existing citizens with a vaccine?

get your shit together, conspiracy theorists. google the word "incentives"

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daygame, obvious joke 

the women on the street are free to talk to. you can just go over and start blathering. I have 373 approaches

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