That’s neat. Until a representation of something on a blockchain has any legal meaning regarding authenticity, ownership, or anything else, and until the overwhelming majority usage of NFTs isn’t as a scam, NFTs remain a pathetic and comically stupid class of speculative asset constituting a pyramid scheme that also happens to destroy the environment.
Whether something is open-source or not is dependent on what license if any its creator chooses to put it under. a) This comment confuses me more than anything, and b) if you want to make a better Flappy Bird game, you’ll probably have a better shot forking one of the existing clones than waiting for whatever steaming, uninspired pile of shit comes out of Belfort’s wallet.
The interpretation in the rest of this thread is that this man is being a sexist, condescending douchebag to his peers. I hope “overly enthusiastic about your favorite subjects” is better than that.
I choose to believe the more wholesome version that this is their gay, autistic, and genuinely endearing friend who got started on his special interest without realizing that nobody else cared, and his friends otherwise like him enough that they’re trying to figure out how to move the conversation forward without hurting his feelings after they all lost interest minutes ago.
“So during Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Spock is passing through decks in the Enterprise, and we see one called Deck 78. Now you see, this class of Enterprise only has 23 decks, and so unless we assume someone misnamed this deck, how did this one get here? Some fans have speculated that maybe maybe Q put it there as a practical joke to confuse the audience, but why would Q use the number 78 specifically? This could be a reference to the episode All Our Yesterdays in The Original Series which is production code 78. In this episode, Spock reverts to being emotional like his primitive ancestors after traveling back through time, and this could be hinting to the idea that he secretly feels emotions for his half-brother Sybok who’s the antagonist of the movie.”
It’s pretty insane to me that someone would trust their life 20 meters above the water to a rope swing put in by some rando. What if the rope snaps or becomes detached from its anchor? What if the rope is way too long and you dislocate your shoulders hanging onto it on the way down? Or if you let go midway down because you realize it’s too long, if you belly flop into the water, pass out, and drown? What if the rope wraps around one of your limbs?
I wouldn’t trust this thing 3 meters off the ground. This is just begging for a hospital visit, and that’s if you’re not too unlucky.
(This isn’t really close to terminal velocity, by the way.)
Silly vegoon, you can’t just invoke obvious facts from 2nd-grade biology and a rudimentary understanding of thermodynamics which would tell you that there are enormous energy losses in converting plant matter to the animal flesh that I eat. I don’t understand either of those subjects, and so that means you haven’t addressed my point. 😡 Now excuse me while I seriously claim that animals are only fed on “waste crops” or whatever while 67% of crops in the US are grown to feed animals and every 3 calories of beef takes 100 calories of grain.
I am very smart and not at all arguing in bad faith.
Just clarifying that animal agriculture in Europe still represents unthinkable cruelty on an unimaginable scale even if specific practices are outlawed there.
I love this idea that veganism is a grift by the big Vitamin B12 supplement industry (???) despite literally zero evidence and in fact evidence to the contrary, unlike the notoriously corrupt and gargantuan animal agriculture industry. God, please be a troll or someone who was out sick when their class learned critical thinking in 3rd grade as well as every single period of science class.
Oh yeah? Name them. Name the specific one. Every single one of these has a statement on potential conflict of interest and/or how it was funded. Go ahead. Tell me.
Hi, Europe! Four years ago, Denmark systematically killed 2.84 minks for every one person living in Denmark.
Oh, and how’s that whole banning live exports thing going? Not at all? Cool!
But to straight telling anyone who eats meat is subhuman is nearly unbearable annoying of you.
Boy, that’s an absolute hell of a strawman. I’m deeply comforted that this is the sort of sound, rational thinker that the LW administration thinks should be kept on-board.
Oh god, oh fuck, we need to get the word out to these highly educated nutritional scientists, cardiologists, gastroenterologists, endocrinologists, pulmonologists, oncologists, bariatricians, and nephrologists that “it’s the opposite, actually” as soon as possible. I’ll bet they’ll feel like idiots when they need to retract the dozens of meta-analyses and systemic reviews they’ve meticulously authored both showing that plant-based diets tend to be healthier than omnivorous ones and giving explanations for why.
I thought it over, and I’ve decided that from now on, I’ll only be getting my meat from Elwood’s. They’re stock animals, so I don’t have to worry about harming pets anymore.
“pro-life” in scare quotes might be more fitting here.
Entirely true; it sucks a lot that this is a victory, but it is. That said, I don’t think it could be argued that this does anything to normalize the machine unlike on Reddit, which is the main thing for me.
I genuinely love UpliftingNews here compared to on Reddit because it’s always about the orphan crushing machine being dismantled by those in power instead of stopped temporarily by children, the elderly, and underpaid workers throwing themselves into its gears.
True. I believe B12 is the other big one, although that is trivially supplemented to my recollection.
The first usage was January 1842 by William E. Clarke, not 1846 by W.T.G. Morton, and there was yet another one that March by Crawford W. Long for a tumor removal. Morton was of course still one of the pioneers of ether as an anaesthetic.