“oh shit! Is that Tim?”
“With a rats nest like that, it has to be.”
“Hey Tim, a wise man trims his bush once in a while!”
“Jesus Christ. Is that a Cheeto?”

I played TF2 from release, to the month they implemented matchmaking. Technically they left the ability to host and join specific servers, but those emptied and never came back. I was now essentially only allowed to pay with strangers.

I joined again for the Halloween event, thinking my tradition of playing hours of Mann Manor could still be enjoyed at least. After all, it was a special event, and I knew others would join the 24/7 Manor servers like they had every year, just like me.

Nope. They were all empty. Everyone still only joined matchmaking. I miss my server-friends. Mostly it was just acquaintances, but sometimes I’d make a real long-term friend after we’d find eachother at an event IRL.

As is almost always the case, the algo that optimizes, doesn’t optimize for what I want or need, it optimizes for what an unfeeling corp “needs”. I want less downtime, sure, but not at the cost of meaning.

In this era, let us not forget that paramedic fetus from the east, the octagynacologist, Kool Keith.

How are you in any way “enjoying nature” in a manicured location next to a parking lot, that is packed with people? I dunno, ‘I want to experience outside around tons of people but don’t want the things that come with tons of people’ is just a really weird niche to expect everyone else to conform to.

What if my music is a driving rhythm made to amplify ones enjoyment and celebration of being alive with others that’s just what we’ve been doing in nature since before the United States showed up with a bunch of indoors people?

I mean, I’ve had to listen to some pretty shitty, country music before, definitely not something that fits my idea if music or a good time, but I just move, or swim out 100’, or hike, and bam, nature sounds.

99.9% of the outdoors is not full of these people. You can just go there. If you can’t just go there, maybe you have to put up with the other people who also can’t go there.

Flint Lockwood!

One is a fluke
Two is a copycat
Three is a movement

Says more about the buttery soft texture of your own flesh than anything about Chuthie tbh

I like leaving all that stuff in random places. It’s all decorating my life with memories. Why would I want to lock the good memories away in a book I’ll open 3 times in my life?

Being that the only other consensus mechanism so far has been “I has a lot of money”, I’ve not seen much out of this public ledger manifested in a block chain technology.

I love the idea of no longer having to ally with the biggest thug on the block, to be safe from the other thugs, but that never manifested. Bitcoin’s biggest problem isn’t scams, it’s that the same people who had all the money before, bought all the Bitcoin cheap, made USDT, and now run it all like USD without a pretense of being respectable, or having to build roads and hospitals.

Blockchain is like the financial version of being dragged to Epstein’s Island. Suddenly the banks are looking at me all funny and smiling. Then later I wake up, my wallet is loose, it hurts when I spend, and I cry and shake every time I get near anything bigger than 10TH/s.

No, it’s totally possible. Not with any technology we’ve ever built, maybe not with any technology we can build, but physics doesn’t preclude it outright.

Your point still stands though. It’s a promise that’s impossible to meet within the lifetime of the investors.

Oh god, he’s listening to yud?

Bernie, my man, you’re too old for this one. Your discernment breaks in this basin. Get out and find some youths you know and trust for reasons outside politics and tech.

You keep building these, you’re gonna scare off the crows!

I never said it was an empire. It was probably just early people really good at building on land so they tried and succeeded building on water, and they happened to be at a daily caloric intake and a generationally coastal diet that made long voyages easier.

Then they just sailed around the world over a few thousand years or ten. Probably on what we would consider boats far far to primitive and small to do it, but nevertheless they did it.

The fact that you needed to build a strawman, the very familiar tones dripping off your words, and that you assumed my race and belittled me for it, speak volumes about your personal isms and beliefs. You are a shining example of how and why this information, when it appears in the geologic and oral record, is treated poorly and promptly discarded.

Compared to the British, those are amazing
Compared to the Creoles, those are pretty bland too

Theys easy to find. Opinions make you cry when you cut them.

For your lay: the government puts a significant fraction of the coins into these boxes and can use the statistical information gained from this to deobfuscate transactions. If you put enough money in, either at once or slowly over time, they can figure out who you are.

We live in the future!

We live in the future!

We live in the future!

There is very little information on them, but they left evidence and stories all over. Off the top of my head

The native Hawaiians maintain that there were people who lived there already when they themselves got to Hawaii. They called them the Menehune. Most modern descriptions label them as an ancient, mythical people but the original Hawaiian descriptions did not portray them this way. They firmly maintained that people lived there before them and they all shared the island for untold generations.

The Olmec colossal heads in Mexico are likely depictions of these people

The Ishak and the Uma, two native people from the Louisiana Coast were tiny, and very very dark brown to black skinned people who did not share cultural or physical similarity with the taller native groups throughout the rest of North America. I know at least one of their stories comes from a time of dramatically different ocean levels. They passed down that when the ocean rises and won’t stop, you have to walk to San Antonio essentially. Compared to elevation maps of a full melt, they are right. They also have stories of the entire bottom half of Louisiana disappearing and eventually showing back up.

One of the oldest stories passed down by the Gunditjmara people of Australia that can reliably be dated and located in Australia, is from 40k years ago. They have older, verifable stories, the oldest being 100k years, but they deal with the sky so scientists say they were in Africa at that time. Though they themselves maintain they were not. They also have stories of tiny seafaring master builders, just like in Hawaii.

Everywhere I’ve mentioned had very ancient, giant structures. In some places, only the foundation remains. Everyone always remembers how deft these people were at building. They were always remembered as being small. They had black skin and African features. They are from so very long ago that they must have come from Africa.

It makes sense that the first successful sailors were tiny. They would need dramatically less space and less food. We already know Africa has an ancient, genetically destinct line of tiny people.

You can’t just Google up any information on any of this unless you already know specifically what you are looking for. Colonized history absolutely will not abide information about a powerful, ancient Africa. The whole of the European historical record is now and has always been, overtly hostile to it, but the proof is everywhere.

You can find it in first accounts, ancient depictions and stories, and absolutely beyond ancient foundations. I mean, even giant Greek and Roman buildings, themselves ancient, have been found to be built on foundations that make the current structures seem young, and the current giant marble works, seem small.

There was a people doing great works all over, a long time ago, and Europe would rather deride it as “ancient aliens”, than the simple, evidence based truth that Africa, all our motherland, was obviously first to the world’s throne.

And the Chinese before that, and what we now consider the native people before that, and tiny sailors from Africa before that.