#Wendy code monkeys

[akilahia]

Heyyy Code Monkey fans, here is a little compilation of funny moments for season 1.

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THE PILE PRESENTS: X-Play - Sarkathlon II: The Sarkening | 4/17/08

Watch Kane pull a rabbit out of his hat!

(4GTV - STREAM WHAT YOU PLAY!)

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a comprehensive list of songs and lyrics that remind me of hawkeye pierce ( either about him / his perspective ) ( will be updated )

angst / sad

— johnny cash , hurt — “ what have i become / my sweetest friend / everyone i know / goes away in the end “

— jason isbell , white elephant — “ there’s one thing that’s real clear to me / no one dies with dignity / we just try to ignore the elephants of now “

— todd snider , too soon to tell — “ and dear lord if you’re up there / you sure got some nerve / seems like even the wicked / they get worse than they deserve “

— warren zevon , hasten down the wind — “ she’s so many women / he can’t find the one who was his friend / so he’s hangin’ on to half her heart / he can’t have the restless part / so he tells her to hasten down the wind “

— boy genius , afraid of heights — “ when the black water ate you up / like a sugar cube in a teacup / i got the point you were making / when i held my breath ‘ till you came up “

— surf curse , freaks — “ i am just a freak / my head is filled with parasites / i dream of you almost every night / hopefully i won’t wake up this time “

— dandelion hands , i could have sworn you were dead — “ i could have sworn you were dead / but i saw you in a dream last night / there were flowers growing out of your head / and it made me smile “

— todd snider , carla — “ leaving me was one thing carla / why’d you have to leave so slow / i didn’t mind you walking away / what hurt was how you walked so slow “

— willie nelson , angel flying too close to the ground — “ and i patched up your broken wing / and hung around awhile / trying to keep your spirits up / and your fever down “

fun

— bruce springsteen , born to run — “ together wendy we can live with the sadness / i’ll love you with all of the madness in my soul “

— todd snider , ballad of the devil’s backbone tavern — “ life’s too short to hurry / life’s too long to wait / too short not to love everybody / life’s too long to hate “

— hozier , someone new — “ i fall in love just a little oh , little bit / every day with someone new “

— mgmt , me and michael — “ in every scene , it’s me and michael / imaginary bombs raining down from the clouds / so it seems / the danger will never let the feelings die “

— billy joel , only the good die young — “ we might be laughing a bit too loud / oh , but that never hurt no one “

— alanis morissette , hand in my pocket — “ i’m sad , but i’m laughing / i’m brave , but i’m chicken shit / i’m sick , but i’m pretty , baby “

— aha , take on me — “ take on me ( take on me ) / take me on ( take on me ) / i’ll be gone / in a day or two “

— crosby , stills , & nash , love the one you’re with — “ well there’s a rose / in the fisted glove / and eagle flies / with the dove / and if you can’t be / with the one you love / honey , love the one you’re with “

love songs

— r.e.m , at my most beautiful — “ i found a way to make you / i found a way / a way to make you smile “

— john prine , iris dement , in spite of ourselves — “ in spite of ourselves / we’ll end up sitting on a rainbow / against all odds / honey , we’re the front door prize “

— arctic monkeys , baby i’m yours — “ baby i’m yours ( baby i’m yours ) / and i’ll be yours / until two and two is three “

—the cults , always forever — “ you and me / always forever “

— coldplay , sparks — “ and i know i was wrong / but i won’t let you down / oh , yeah , yeah , yeah i will / yes i will “

old songs

— etta james , one for my baby — “ i could tell you a lot / but i know you got to remain / true to your code / just make it one for my baby / and one more for the road “

— elvis presley , love me — “ treat me like a fool / treat me mean and cruel / but love me “

— frank sinatra , i get a kick out of you — “ some , they go for cocaine / i’m sure that if i took even one sniff / that would bore me terrifically , too / but i get a kick out of you “

— dooley wilson , as time goes by — “ you must remember this / a kiss is just a kiss / a sigh is just a sigh / the fundamental things apply / as time goes by “

— frank sinatra , in the wee small hours of the morning — “ when your lonely heart has learned its lesson / you’d be her’s , if only she would call / in the wee small hours in the morning / that’s the time you miss her most of all “

i have no explanation for these i honestly can just imagine him liking them . or singing them . obnoxiously .

— the gourds , fossil contender — “ well , how would you feel / if i dug up your head ? / well i wouldn’t want to be answerin’ any of your / loaded questions , no “

— counting crows , mr . jones and me — “ mr . jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky / when everybody loves you / oh son , that’s just about as funky as you can be “

— don mclean , vincent — “ and when no hope was left inside on that starry , starry night / you took your life , as lovers often do / but i could have told you , vincent / that this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you “

— warren zevon , werewolves of london — “ you hear them howlin’ around your kitchen door / better not let ‘em in / little old lady got mutilated late last night / werewolves of london again “

— queen , bohemian rhapsody — “ mama , ooh / i don’t wanna die / sometimes wish i’d never been born at all “ ( i’m sorry but you guys know he’d fucking love this song . idk what to tell you . )

— weezer , buddy holly — “ whoo - wee i look just like buddy holly / oh , oh and you’re mary tyler moore “ ( sorry . again . but we know it’s true )

unfortunately i am under the opinion that hawkeye would know all of the pitch perfect songs . there is nothing you can do to sway me from this opinion .

[slicedcat]

Sliced Mermaid Facts #2 🧜‍♀️

Life:

Mermaids that don't live in a group or pods are called standees. Usually they are mermaids kicked from a pod or grew up as unadopted orphan guppies.

A group of guppies without a nurturer is called a school. They will usually become delinquents and fight other pods for resources as they grow older.

Mermaids speak a language called “Dolphish”. Dolphish is a language they adopted from dolphins and other sea mammals. They sound almost like Dolphin squeaks and whistles and are used in the exact same way, for hunting and communication. It's much like Morse code as well.

Mermaids can survive up to 1 month out of water and completely dry.

Media:

The mermaids seen in Peter Pan are more accurate than Ariel. The mermaids are seen as playful and dangerous, willing to drown Wendy yet they love Peter Pan. Mermaids are somewhat like this. Their frisky nature leads to them getting overzealous and sometimes drowning their human friend by accident. Mermaids do not have an extreme yearning for humans and human life, rather a curiosity. Mermaids are also known to be friendly bullies rather than gentle sea people.

The release of The Little Mermaid has had a Jaws Effect on mermaids. Since the release of the book and later the movie, there has been an increase of human and mermaid relationships. Although it isn't too harmful, these types of relationships are not ideal because of the difference in life and anatomy.

Common Myths:

Mermaids live in Atlantis: This could be true. Mermaids will definitely take over sunken underwater cities, ships, and other sunken human vessels and buildings. Atlantis has not been discovered yet, but if it were to be, mermaids would definitely reside in the kingdom.

The Fiji Mermaid was a legit mermaid: Yes, actually! The Fiji Mermaid is called a Monkeymaiden or monkeymaid that is a rare and endangered species located in South America. They look like adorable monkeys with fish tails, much like a mermaid! They are considered cousins to mermaids as monkeys are considered cousins to humans.

Anatomy:

Mermaids go through puberty as well. The scales on the human half of their body become thick and somewhat flaky, like acne. The hair also evolves. The strands become thicker and the baby hair is shed.

Mermen hide their penises in a special pouch made of thick cartilage. It looks almost like a male mannequin.

Mermaids have periods. They produce a thick syrupy bloody menses that looks like a mass of caviar.

[mylistofmovies]

2023

sluberland

pinocchio

the menu

puss in boots the last wish

the green knight

meet cute

aftersun

amsterdam

ella enchanted

i used to be famous

to leslie

you people

the fabelmans

shotgun weeding

babylon

triangle of sadness

spoiler alert

somebody i used to know

my fake boyfriend

lady chatterley’s lover

emergency

the whale

knock at the cabin

your place or mine

long weekend

a man called otto

cocaine bear

we have ghost

80 for brady

operation fortune russe de guerre

my policeman

goodnight mommy

the pale blue eye

the good nurse

the abyss

murder mystery 2

a futile and stupid gesture

champions

shazam fury of the gods

65 millions years ago

ant man and the wasp quantumania

call jane

the amazing maurice

what’s love got to do with it

lars and the real girl

reinfield

the donor party

dungeons and dragons honor amongst thieves

the super mario bros the movie

robots

jonh wick chapter 4

magic mike last dance

mathilda the musical

mafia mamma

air

peter pan and wendy

crater

the portable door

beau is afraid

book club the next chapter

one true loves

armageddon time

maggie moore (s)

are you there god? it’s me margaret

hocus pocus

about my father

fool’s paradise

guardians of the galaxy vol 3

mona lisa and the blood moon

maybe i do

book club

you hurt my feelings

knights of the zodiac

opening night

somewhere in queens

love again

someone great

robin robin

the outlaws

best in show

asteroid city

dear zoe

the estate

bird box barcelona

the kids are all right

the flash

ruby gillman teenage kraken

transformers rise of the beasts

outside in

barbie

no hard feelings

the little mermaid

namona

oppenheimer

joy ride

the chronicles of narnia the lion the witch and the wardrobe

the chronicles of narnia prince caspian

the chronicles of narnia the voyage of dawn treader

happiness for beginners

the house

tourist guide to love

spiderman across the spiderverse

duck butter

red white and royal blue

the adventures of priscilla queen of the desert

elemental

little shop of horrors

the adults

confess, fletch

infity pool

hot fuzz

nightbooks

meg 2 the trench

past lives

you are so not invited to my bat mitzva

the world's end

white noise

the wedding singer

tour de pharmacy

the last voyage of the demeter

teenage mutant ninja turtles mutant mayhem

theater camp

the afterlife of the party

the beanie bubble

bottoms

how do you know

strays

scooby doo and krypto too

the monkey king

love at first sight

when you finish saving the world

cassandro

haunted mansion

puppy love

totally killer

nandor fondor and the talking mongoose

hubbie halloween

no one will save you

killers of the flower moon

strange way of life

chicken run

pain hustlers

five nights at freddy's

nightmare before christmas

hocus pocus 2

a haunting in venice

if you were the last

quiz lady

a good person

fools rush in

nyad

she came to me

foe

lego avengers code red

the creator

hunger games the ballad of songbirds and snakes

trolls band together

paint

leo

ode to joy

cabaret

fingernails

may december

freelance

leave the world behind

cat person

genie

vacation friends 2

chicken run the dawn of the nugget

saltburn

elf

the wonderful life of henry sugar

the rat catcher

poison

the swan

family switch

exmas

[bookclub4m]

Episode 117 - Sociology Non-Fiction

This episode we’re reading Sociology Non-Fiction! We discuss the differences between sociology and psychology, what Karl Marx and Aziz Ansari have in common, the over-educated but kind-of-broke worker, and the difficulties of reading books that make us both sad and angry. Plus: Pandemic Monkey Brains!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Amanda Wanner

Things We Read (or tried to read)

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks (this is better than Matthew implied in the episode, it is worth reading)

Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr

Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life by Eric Klinenberg

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell

All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers and the Myth of Equal Partnership by Darcy Lockman

Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon

Other Media We Mentioned

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshona Zuboff

Disasters: A Sociological Approach by Kathleen Tierney

The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification by Randall Collins

Engines of Anxiety: Academic Rankings, Reputation, and Accountability by Wendy Nelson Espeland and Michael Sauder

Beyond the Body: Death and Social Identity by Elizabeth Hallam, Glennys Howarth, Jenny Hockey

The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman

Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America by Michael Ruhlamn

Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal by Abigail Carroll 

Death of Sandra Bland (Wikipedia)

Food Mirages in Guelph, Ontario: The Impacts of Limited Food Accessibility and Affordability on Low-income Residents by Benjamin Reeve (not mentioned during the episode, but this is someone’s actual sociology thesis that Matthew thinks is neat)

Body Politics: Power, Sex, and Nonverbal Communication by Nancy M. Henley (Amanda meant to mention this book but forgot!)

Links, Articles, and Things

Where Do Librarians Come From? Examining Educational Diversity in Librarianship by Rachel Ivy Clarke (I think this is way less humanities-focussed than our program was…)

Michel Foucault (Wikipedia)

Dr. Thomas Kemple

Readers' Advisory for Library Staff (Facebook Group)

JUMPSUIT - “Jumpsuit: how to make a personal uniform for the end of capitalism”

Code Switch (NPR Podcast)

Louder Than A Riot (NPR Podcast)

According to Need (99% Invisible Podcast)

Sabrina and Friends: Answers in Progress

How Conspiracy Theories Work (a good example of a video showing the research process)

Trader Joe's (Wikipedia)

What does it mean to be working class in Canada? (Macleans article)

15 Sociology Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation by Oluwakemi M. Balogun

W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America edited by by Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs &  Scott Kurashige

Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas

Follow Me, Akhi: The Online World of British Muslims by Hussein Kesvani

I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism by Lee Maracle

Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and The Fight Against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson

Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity by Paola Ramos

Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles by Rocío Rosales

Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith

Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor by Sudhir Venkatesh

Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada by Chelsea Vowel

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

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Our Twitch channel - Fridays in January, 9pm Eastern

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Join us again on Tuesday, January 19th when we’ll be talking about our Reading Resolutions for 2021!

Then on Tuesday, February 2nd, just in time for Valentine’s Day, we’ll be doing our annual romance fiction episode and talking about the genre of Regency Romance!

[noloveforned]

looks like we'll be set for a new show on wlur at 8pm tonight. i hope you can tune in! last week's show is below if you'd like to catch up.

in only semi-related news, over the weekend i was informed that june 10th was the birthday of kim and kelley deal from the breeders, who we heard from as part of our 'sibling band' theme two weeks earlier. sometimes i wish i had a time machine so that i could make these indie rock puzzle pieces all fit together nicely but then i guess it wouldn't be radio!

no love for ned on wlur – june 10th, 2022 from 8-10pm

artist // track // album // label the fiery furnaces // here comes the summer // ep // rough trade the undertones // here comes the summer // the undertones // sire blondie // moonlight drive // against the odds, 1974-1982 // numero group superchunk // endless summer // wild loneliness // merge horsegirl // anti-glory // versions of modern performance // matador boat featuring the crystal furs // dark dependency // no plans to stick the landing // magic marker sasami featuring j. mascis // tried to understand // tried to understand digital single // domino teenage tom petties // lambo // teenage tom petties cassette // safe suburban home junk monkeys // all in a day // bliss // metal blade chronophage // summer to fall // chronophage // post present medium helvetia // the brink // fantastic life // moone camp cope // blue // running with the hurricane // run for cover angel olsen // big time // big time // jagjaguwar bill noire // breathin' // bill noire cassette // we don't make it roy montgomery // rhymes of chance, part four // rhymes of chance // grapefruit lucas brode // we all miss and are missed // "vague sense of virtue" and other dreams of mundane profundity // cacophonous revival maxime petit and daniel carter // iv // maxime petit and daniel carter cassette // lurker bias grachan moncur iii // exploration // new africa // actuel dave holland quartet // see-saw // conference of the birds // ecm jean carne, adrian younge and ali shaheed muhammad // the summertime // jid012 // jazz is dead moor mother featuring melanie charles // woody shaw // jazz codes // anti brian jackson // all talk // this is brian jackson // barely breaking even gang starr // manifest // no more mr. nice guy // wild pitch fly anakin // got it for cheap // got it for cheap digital single // bigger picture phife dawg featuring rapsody and renee neufville // fallback // forever // smokin’ needles m.i.a. // the one // the one digital single // island adrian quesada featuring angélica garcia // ídolo // boleros psicodélicos // ato claudine longet // here, there and everywhere // claudine // a&m isik kural featuring spefy // coral gables // in february // rvng intl. acid house kings // honey, honey // honey, honey digital single // labrador the wendy darlings // fun in the summer // the wendy darlings against evil // odd box belle and sebastian // a bit of previous // a bit of previous 7" // matador

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How To Make An Nft A Fairly Easy Step-by-step Guide

Forward-looking brand names are now using NFTs as part of their marketing tactics as well as the answers are extraordinary.

Throughout Drive 2021, Charmin, the United states make-up brand, published numerous toilet paper NFTs upon Rarible, an NFT industry. The greatest bidder provided greater than $2000 for one in the arts within the exact same 30 days.

Wendy's, the fast-food chain, in addition offered their total ‘Transformative Taco’ NFT series upon Rarible within thirty minutes.

Along with other huge brand names such as The company, Adidas, Team GB, Coca-Cola, and Nike possessing dove to the NFT space, understanding how to make the NFT is now an absolute necessity rather than nice-to-have to the contemporary organization.

Most favored NFTs inside 2021

NFTs aren't brand-new. The actual first-ever NFT, Huge, is made inside This year. The actual NFT trend raised in 2021, with Huge ultimately selling pertaining to $1.Several million within July 2021.

The biggest NFT sale made nevertheless is at 12 2021, exactly where renowned musician Pak created a mind-bending $91.Eight trillion about his or her artwork, ‘The Combine.’

Beeple, an additional established designer, also shattered the particular statements within 03 2021 following they scooped $69 million in Christie’s public auction for his collection of 6000 electronic digital images.

Bored stiff Monkey Luxury yacht Club, The actual Sand box, along with CryptoPunks capped this list of all well-liked NFTs through revenue quantities from the initial 7 days involving 12 2021.

What is the NFT as well as Exactly why Invest Thousands upon NFTs?

NFT is an acronym with regard to Non-Fungible Small, and therefore a great NFT differs from the others and not interchangeable to bridal party, as opposed to additional cryptocurrencies.

NFTs are usually digital camera possessions that you can offer on the blockchain. Widespread NFT resources contain photos, tunes, sound, video clips, and collectors' items.

Customers use the crypto supported on the blockchain to buy NFTs. For instance, on the Ethereum blockchain, purchasers are able to use Ethereum bridal party to make a purchase.

A few NFT purchasers tend to be determined to pay hundreds of thousands to enjoy the status involving possessing authentic functions developed by folks and brands they will enjoy. Other medication is keeping things they feel will be worth much more in the foreseeable future.

Thinking about learn how to help to make an NFT?

NFTs can safeguard your small business through enterprise cutbacks like the well known $31 million coupon fraud. These kinds of bridal party have got exclusive identifying codes, which makes them counterfeit-proof. Brand names are now moving for you to NFT commitment charge cards as well as promotional as well as voucher codes instead of classic kinds.

You can even create NFTs and make use of the earnings to:

Raise funds regarding charity

Create brand recognition while increasing consumer diamond

Secure financing pertaining to growth rather than taking an expensive mortgage

How to develop an NFT art work

An individual don’t require extensive crypto knowledge. Here’s how you can produce NFT artwork:

Determine what you would like to produce and your organization goal. Should you don’t recognize the place to start, start by simply developing the NFT commitment card or perhaps a marketing signal to your customers. You can even acquire a number of NFT art work concepts for creativity.

Focus on offering actual benefits to your current market. A good example is actually giving those who own the NFT entry protection under the law to an exclusive club or perhaps a high quality support.

In case you can’t make your personal artwork, engage a freelance writer to generate a portray for you personally.

Pick a blockchain to your NFT. The commonest Blockchain regarding NFTs is Ethereum. Other popular blockchains that will keep NFTs are usually Binance Sensible Archipelago, Tron, Tezos, Polkadot, Eos 550d, Litecoin, and also Cosmos.

Several a few prior to you buying a blockchain tend to be:

Transaction costs on a blockchain

The forms of cryptocurrencies the viewers very own since they’re your current targeted buyers

Join the crypto finances. Each blockchain features a diverse NFT symbol regular which determines which in turn wallet is going to be appropriate. The particular Ethereum NFT expression regular is ETH-721, although Binance Sensible Chain’s will be BEP-721.

With ETH-721, it is possible to join several wallets, including Coinbase, MetaMask, and Believe in Pouches. For Binance Smart String, you may use wallets for example MetaMask along with Binance Sequence Finances.

Some. Top up your own crypto budget

When you’re making a good NFT, you might need to shell out financial transaction service fees, commonly known as ‘gas’ for the Ethereum blockchain. Load your bank account together with backed crypto to hide these types of fees.

If you use the particular Coinbase pocket book, you can buy crypto on Coinbase. Normally, acquire crypto in swap systems for example Binance.Us all, Kraken, along with Gemini.

From OpenSea, one of the primary NFT areas, you’ll pay one-time sign up and also contract acceptance charges. The platform doesn’t charge you to produce the NFT selection and checklist it available for sale.

Deal expenses depends on your NFT blockchain. Charges about the Ethereum blockchain are often higher due to the amount of people creating transactions. Handle in the course of weekends or even pick a less-congested blockchain such as Polkadot to save on gasoline.

Pick a suitable NFT market place. There are numerous marketplaces where one can add the artwork that will create a great NFT.

Polkadot, for example, capabilities the particular Xeno NFT link market place.

Tezos works on different market segments, including Rarible, Bazaar market place, and OneOf.

Ethereum NFT market segments consist of OpenSea, Mintable, along with Rarible.

Link your bank account in your NFT marketplace as well as publish the art

Pick your wallet from the record and connect the idea. Just click ‘sign in’ in your directly to update your user profile by simply editing your own login, electronic mail, impression, and biography.

Build a new assortment. Publish folders, name this, along with include a information. As soon as you just click ‘create,’ you’ll be able to a page where one can distribute personal files, brand that, and add a outline. OpenSea needs you to definitely upload format-specific NFTs.

You can manage a variety of elements of the NFT, like the quantity of duplicates you can great, your best blockchain, and if they should sell with a repaired price as well as choose antique dealer. After you’ve personalized your current NFT, just click ‘create,’ along with your NFT should go live.

You’re then ready to begin the entire process of marketing your NFT!

NFTs would be the upcoming pertaining to growth-seeking small enterprises

Developing NFT artwork starts your company approximately progress possibilities.

You possibly can make income greatly from a art work via NFT royalties and lift cash for leads to which might be crucial that you your company.

NFTs also safeguard your enterprise through cash losses by way of avenues such as phony coupon codes.

The world of NFTs is simply limited by your own qq slot imagination.

[akilahia]

Sorry I lied about writing the code monkeys fanfic stuff today, I did this instead

Is this anything.

[g4zdtechtv]

FULL EPISODE: G4TV.com - You Know You’re A Geek When...

The nerdy equivalent to Jeff Foxworthy. Plus, 3D Graphics Card talk and a look at Batman v. Superman!

(An episode so nice, Spooie accidentally uploaded it TWICE.)

[chromoscience]

H. pylori Inhibits Heat Shock Protein Production

Source: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325119.php#1 During stressful conditions, cells have the ability to produce heat shock proteins or HSP which function as a companion that play a role in aggregation, assembly, transport, and folding in proteins (Science Direct). New evidence suggests that cells also produce HSP which regulate the immune system when exposed to pathogens. Almost half of the world’s population is infected with Helicobacter pylori bacteria which cause chronic gastritis. H. pylori infection may lead to peptic ulcer or in worst case, stomach cancer. Study suggests that H. pylori is capable of reducing the expression of HSP. However, only a few percentage of the infected develop clinical illness and therefore, scientists are interested in bacterial and host factors that may be related with illness. A small group of researchers from University of California Davis, Wendy S. Axsen, Cathy M. Styer, and Jay V. Solnick, further investigated this fact by examining the role of various H. pylori strains and identified virulence factors in cell culture and mouse model. The results of these experiment include evidence showing the reduction of HSP expression using co-culture of H. pylori with two gastric carcinoma cell lines. Mice was also infected with H. pylori which resulted in the reduction of HSP. It has been thought that the reduction of HSP expression by H. pylori may be an immune evading mechanism that causes chronic infection since HSP functions as a warning signal during bacterial infection. Cytotoxin associated gene pathogenicity island or Cag PAI is one of the bacterial factors in H. pylori related with disease. Cag PAI is a group of gene that codes a type IV secretion system necessary for the virulence and survival of the bacteria. It is often found in H. pylori that causes the symptomatic illnesses (peptic ulcer, stomach cancer) than illnesses that do not show any symptoms. When H. pylori attaches to the gastric epithelial cells, the type IV secretion is activated and the bacteria utilize a syringe-like pilus that injects into the stomach cells and transfers cytotoxin-associated gene A or CagA, peptidoglycan, and other bacterial elements. CagA is a 120-145kDa protein encoded on the 40kb Cag PAI which is thought to be associated in stomach cancer development (Hatakeyama, 2005). Vacuolating cytotoxin or VacA is another toxin from H. pylori associated with disease. It is an 88-kDa pore-forming protein synthesize by approximately half of the H. pylori strains and has the ability to induce vacuolation in stomach cells (Science Direct). Under normal circumstances, the total protein content of cells contains about 5 to 10% of heat shock proteins. In healthy cells, HSP has many intracellular functions including aid in protein transport, prevention of protein aggregation, and protection of newly formed polypeptides or proteins. HSP can be activated by different exposures including high temperature, oxidative stress, deficiency in nutrients, UV radiation, chemicals, ethanol, and bacterial infection. HSPs are categorized by their molecular weight (HSP60, HSP90, HSP27, HSP70, HSP40). They are regulated at transcriptional level and have been thought to serve as an early danger signal which activates the immune system. Some types of HSP bind to the receptors of antigen-presenting cells and activates the production of cytokines during inflammation. Generally, HSP expression is increased during bacterial infection but new study suggests that H. pylori can reduce the expression of HSP. Cell culture and mouse model was used to understand the role of H. pylori in HSP expression. Isogenic mutants were also examined to discover whether genetic diversity and bacterial components such as Cag PAI and VacA play a role in reducing the HSP expression. Determining the reduction of HSP expression by H. pylori requires culturing the bacteria with stomach epithelial cells for several hours and performing Western blots with antibodies that will react specifically with HSP70, HSP27, and HSP60. Western blot is a technique used in research to detect, separate, and analyze proteins based on their molecular weights (Mahmood, 2012). One of the H. pylori strains reduced the HSP70 expression (Figure 1). The same strain also reduced the HSP60 expression of only one type of stomach cancer cell and was observed only on the 6- and 12-hour time period.

Figure 1. Western blot result of two types of stomach cancer cells infected with H. pylori. At all time points, the expression of HSP70 was reduced by H. pylori. The first type of stomach cancer cell shows no reduction in HSP60 expression but shows reduction on the second type of stomach cancer cell only at the 6- and 12-hour time period. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5494282/ H. pylori are highly diverse and another type of experiment was performed to determine if the reduction of HSP expression is caused by a specific strain of the bacteria. Three types of H. pylori strains were cultured together with the stomach cancer cells and the expression of HSP70 and HSP60 was observed. After the 12-hour culture, the result shows that all three strains of the bacteria reduced the HSP70 expression and two of the strains also reduced the HSP60 expression (Figure 2).

Figure 2. Western blot result of the three types of H. pylori strains (J166, J99, 26695). All strains reduced the HSP70 expression and two strains reduced the HSP60 expression. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5494282/ Another type of experiment was performed to determine if the primary virulence factors of the H. pylori are associated with the reduction of the HSP expression. H. pylori mutants in VacA, Cag PAI, and CagA were created and observed if they influence the HSP expression reduction. The result shows that the normal strain and all mutated strains reduced the HSP70 expression suggesting that the virulence factors of H. pylori are not associated with the reduction of HSP expression. Groups of mice were infected with H. pylori and stomach tissue samples were taken at two different time points, after 1- and 12-week period. The tissue samples were used to determine the total RNA isolation and the number of viable H. pylori bacteria. The result shows that at 1 week, the infected mice were colonized with the bacteria and at 12 weeks, the number of H. pylori bacteria reduced (Figure 3).

Figure 3. Number of viable H. pylori bacteria at the two time periods. At 1 week, a good number of bacteria colonized the stomach tissues of the infected mice. At 12 weeks, the average number of viable H. pylori reduced. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5494282/ To determine the amount of HSP expression in mice infected with the bacteria, cDNA from the stomach tissue samples was amplified using polymerase chain reaction or PCR. PCR is a technique used to quantify small segments of DNA (Genome.gov). The result shows that the HSP70 expression was reduced at both time points between the uninfected control mice and infected mice, and the number of viable H. pylori affects the amount of HSP70 expression and in this case, the more bacteria, the less HSP70 expression (Figure 4).

Figure 4. HSP70 expression in mice infected with H. pylori. At 1 week where the number of viable bacteria is at most, HSP70 expression was significantly reduced. At 12 weeks, the reduction in the number of bacteria amplified the expression of HSP70. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5494282/ The experiments confirmed that H. pylori reduces the expression of HSP, and the reduction is not influenced by the virulence factors of the bacteria. One study results in the reduction of HSP70 expression by adding CagA from another source but the physiological relevance is not fully understood. The reduction of HSP70 expression is most notable in cell culture compared with the group of mice infected with H. pylori. HSP expression reduction has also been found in other types of study such as proteomic and microarray in epithelial cell cultures, and in other animal models including studies associated with a species of monkey. The reduction of HSP expression by H. pylori is a very powerful phenomenon that can be shown across different cell lines, animal models, and different strains of H. pylori and the reduction seems not dependent on the virulence factors of the bacteria. This article was chosen because it demonstrates how bacteria can affect the physiological processes of the cells and cause disease. According to World Health Organization, stomach cancer is the third leading cause cancer death and it is interesting to know from this article that a cancer may originate from a foreign pathogens that can inhibit protein production related to immunity. The experiments involve only one species of bacteria and observed only one protein inhibition. Who knows what other protein production that an H. pylori can inhibit and who knows if the other species of bacteria affect a mechanism in a cell. The article gives us one reason to study microbiology and not to underestimate any microorganisms around us. References: Axsen, W. et. Al. (2009) Inhibition of Heat Shock Protein by Helicobater pylori. Microbial Pathogenesis. Volume 47. Page 231-236. October 2009. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5494282/ Hatakeyama, M. et. Al. (2005). Helicobacter pylori CagA: A New Paradigm for Bacterial Carcinogenesis. Cancer Science. 96: 835-843. Accessed November 17, 2019 Science Direct. Vacuolating Toxin. Accessed November 17, 2019. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/vacuolating-toxin Science Direct. Heat Shock Proteins. Accessed November 17, 2019. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/heat-shock-proteins Mahmood, T. et. Al. (2012). Western Blot: Technique, Theory, and Trouble Shooting. North American Journal of Medical Sciences. Vol 4. Page 429-434. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3456489/ Genome.gov. (2015). Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Fact Sheet. National Human Genome Research Institute. Accessed November 17, 2019. https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Polymerase-Chain-Reaction-Fact-Sheet World Health Organization. (2018). Cancer. Accessed November 17, 2019. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/cancer Read the full article

[fly-pow-bye]

Powerpuff Girls 2016 - Home, Sweet Homesick

Written by: Haley Mancini, Jake Goldman

Written and Storyboarded by: Alicia Chan

Directed by: Nick Jennings, Bob Boyle

I'd make a joke about how I'm sick of something here, but I don't think it would fit.

This episode starts with a bad guy committing a crime, and the Powerpuff Girls coming in to save the day. Seems like an ordinary Powerpuff Girls episode if such a beginning wasn't so rare in this reboot. In this case, it's Reboot Jojo robbing the bank on his hover-scooter, causing some property damage along the way.

Of course, the Powerpuff Girls come in and beat him up. Surprisingly, not only does this scene exist, not only does it not have any hit flashes, but he's lying in a bruised state in the end of it! Sure, some of the hits look like Jojo is selling it too early, but baby steps.

The Professor smoothly drives his car where this carnage is taking place, and tells the girls it’s almost time for a two week stay at Camp Big Dipper. Buttercup shrugs, calling it a nerd camp. The nerdy little red smart person that apparently isn't as good at coding or math than her sisters, on the other hand, is super excited! To her, it's going to be a huge academic institution, with all of the greatest minds of tomorrow! Maybe there's even going to be some pop quizzes!

They do this entire conversation while they’re still punching Reboot Jojo to the ground, his body a lightly bruised mess. Reboot Jojo doesn’t seem to mind too much; it's just a normal day for him. He even takes the time to call the camp a "super nerd camp" after Blossom explains what it is. This doesn’t end well for him, as I'm sure she'll call him a bad monkey.

Or she could break his hand, complete with a bone cracking sound! This whole scene seems to exist only to show that, indeed, this is a show about kindergarten first grader school-without-grader superheroines who fight crime. The rest of the episode doesn't really do that, and with all the Monster Punch Girls Down and Superheroine In Distress situations, that's not necessary bad.

After Blossom makes Rorschach proud, and a terrible impression of an opera singer singing "SPACE CAMP", the Professor and the Puffs arrive at Camp Big Dipper. The Professor won't be going with them, much to the chagrin of Bubbles, who practically turns into a demon demanding he'd come with them. They throw away this joke pretty much immediately, for this episode’s benefit, as Buttercup carries Bubbles out of the scene. The Professor tells the girls that they can call or text him any time.

While Bubbles is still sad from the previous scene and has to be carried by a bored Buttercup who thinks this is all "lame", Blossom can’t wait to check out everything in this space camp! She hopes it's going to be full of learning and advanced rocket science, inspired by her idol of the week, Dr. Wendy Q. Dallen. Last name and a middle initial. I don't know if she's supposed to be a reference to anything.

Unfortunately for Blossom, and only Blossom, the attractions are all fun fare for the kiddies: a jumpy house with a moon theme, a bumper car ride where the cars are shaped like Mars rovers, and a petting zoo with animals that are made to look like aliens. There's even an attraction that just involves a guy in a spacesuit with a sign that says "kick the moon man". The show itself takes it time to point out how rediculous this is.

Bubbles and Buttercup immediately start liking camp now that it's not as much of a nerd camp as Blossom made it out to be. Blossom isn't liking it, and wants to talk to the camp director about how everyone is goofing off.

Camp Director Joey: Did someone say GOOFING OFF?!

Because the show hasn't established enough that this space camp is lame to Blossom, we get Joey, a jokey camp director voiced by Robbie "Cousin Oliver" Rist. At least, I think; the credits only credit him as an additional voice, but they don't say who voiced him. He looks like a cross between David Bowie and Donny the Hell-Horn. More like the latter than the former. Outside of one scene in particular, when this guy is on screen, you want him off. Even Bubbles and Buttercup realizes this eventually, so it's probably intentional.

Blossom literally gets thrown into the audience of a laser light show with this guy talking about how everyone is ready to have lots of moon fun! The reboot goes out of its way to do the most predictable joke they can do with that, though sparing us the actual butt. Blossom booes him asking for real science, and Joey outright asks who's booing him. Bubbles and Buttercup try to save face by saying she meant boo-yah. Yeah, I'm sure that's what I mean when I boo this show.

At night, we see Blossom sitting on the porch of the cabin they're going to stay in, sad that everyone is having fun but she'd rather not have fun. She decides to text the Professor about how everyone is having fun but she'd rather not have fun. Unfortunately, there's no good cell phone reception at the camp, ruining both of Professor Utonium's suggestions.

A week passes by, and Blossom has done nothing but read her Dr. Wendy Q. Dallen book. They really put a lot of importance on that name, because she's the reason why Blossom looked forward to this place. It's not another co-worker insert as far as I can tell, which is a shock. Bubbles and Buttercup show up with glitter crafts and garbage crafts, respectively, and Buttercup tells Blossom that she should just have fun.

Camp Director Joey: Did someone say FUN?!

Did someone say running gag? He talks about a big carnival, but Blossom is not interested. That sounds like too much fun. She wonders why Dr. Wendy Q. Dallen would even want to be associated with this place with its fun and games.

Blossom wanders around to find a locked road to an abandoned rocket museum. She opens the doors, and she finally finds things that she's interested in: models of rockets! She even finds a life-size scale Apollo rocket model. She can go inside it like a real rocket! It even has all the buttons like a real rocket! It's just like a real rocket!

Blossom decides, in this lifelike simulation, to press the buttons to launch a rocket. Blossom even outright talks to herself about how she read about Apollo rockets, so people don't need to ask how a 6 year old knows how to launch one.

It turns out, this isn't a fake rocket, it's an actual rocket donated by NASA. She is instantly strapped in, and gets to experience 3gs of force as the rocket escapes the Earth's atmosphere. I guess nobody was really interested in that rocket museum. One would think someone would say "what does this button dooo?" and cause the camp to get sued for launching someone's kid into space.

The other kids see this rocket launch, and just see it as something cool. They even get the parts of the rocket that fall off raining on them later in the episode, and nobody wanted to investigate.

Blossom initally loves seeing the sights of space, until seconds later, when she realizes it's just so lonely out there.

She looks out the window of the rocket, and she starts hallucinating a Space Joey. Just like in that classic movie, RocketMan, Blossom is clearly going nuts from the isolation. Soon, she'll be making paintings using the ketchup and mustard on the ceiling. Nah, I'm just kidding.

Being the David Bowie-like person that he is, Space Joey starts to sing a song. Of course, it's a parody of the David Bowie's Space Oddity, right down to starting with "can you hear me, Captain Bloss?" To be honest...it's really good. I am not kidding, this is one of the few legitimately good moments this show has brought me.

We have scenes of Blossom slowly flying around in the lonely rocket. We have some good singing from Space Joey; it helps that Robbie Rist is also a musician. We even have Space Bubbles and Space Buttercup show up to tell her the fun they're having back on Earth. Hopefully this reboot can give us more of this in the future.

The screen shows an old video, not triggered by anything but plot convienence, showing Dr. Wendy Q. Dallen at the same space camp in her younger years. Blossom sees that it's always been a fun camp, and that it inspired her to further her advancements in astronomy. This reinterates the message of this episode: there's a time for learning, and a time for fun. This is actually the same lesson Painbow had, and this episode can't be further in both content and quality.

With the song and video, Blossom finally realizes the lesson of the episodes, and decides to go home. She flies the rocket back to Earth.

Blossom is reunited, who reveal that they missed her so much, they read her Dr. Wendy Q. Dallen book. Joey shows up again, apparently not worried at all that a kid just wandered into an abandoned place and went into a rocket that just flew into space. It's a good thing she was able to survive in a vaccuum, even if she never needed that ability! Buttercup tells him not to ruin the moment.

The episode ends with a pan to the stars, with some shooting stars. Hopefully they're wishing there's no monster attacks while they're at camp. Considering how rare that seems to be, it's likely they don't need to make those wishes. Maybe they should wish for more episodes like this.

Does the title fit?

Not really. Bubbles is initially homesick because the Professor isn’t coming with her, but that’s as close as that title gets. Blossom is more sick of the camp not being as “scientifically accurate” as she thought it was. There was a moment where Blossom looked at a picture of the Professor and her with sad eyes, but that’s as close as we get.

The TV Guide description is a flat out lie, too; Blossom never worries about her schoolwork in this episode.

How does it stack up?

This episode has an actual good song number, and a good use of a lesson that was done extremely poorly before.

The only issue is that it's not really a episode that requires superheroes. As said before, it's not a big issue. A lot of the worst aspects about this reboot revolves around the show's premise. The one scene that does follow that premise is practically unneeded in the episode, but may have been needed when it comes to the reboot as a whole.

I was originally going to give up on this series after the Season 1 finale, but I decided to keep going. I decided to keep going because, well, it wasn’t right to stop at People Pleaser. There’s two kinds of episodes that don’t make me regret that decision: awesomely bad episodes like Snow Month that give me lots of material to work with, and episodes that are surprisingly decent. Yes, they exist, and this is one of them.

Next week, the show will take a look back to the past...and probably not learn anything.

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[denialofspoon]

all the asks

Mmmmmboy I’m lazy but also I love attention so ty anon!

Spotify, SoundCloud, or Pandora? 

Spotify! Pandora sucks and SC got to ad-heavy.

is your room messy or clean?

messy ;_;

what color are your eyes?

Brown

do you like your name? why?

It’s nothing fancy, but I feel like it suits me pretty well, so I like it.

what is your relationship status?

@nottootypical and I have been together for over 2 years now lol

describe your personality in 3 words or less

Witty, driven, creative

what color hair do you have?

Brown-auburn… Also my beard is orange lol

what kind of car do you drive? color?

Silver VW Jetta

where do you shop?

Amazon mostly, also a local outdoor mall. Clothes in my size are tricky to find.

how would you describe your style?

Hipster with accents of streetwear. “Shitty SoundCloud DJ” I guess? lmao

favorite social media account

This one! I love being anonymous enough to be honest. Plus y’all are super nice to me.

what size bed do you have?

Honestly I don’t remember. Full?

any siblings?

Two! They’re very different from me but we’re close.

if you can live anywhere in the world where would it be? why?

I’ve been around and honestly, Austin represents the greatest opportunity for my dreams… Plus it feels like home! I’d love to be able to travel when I wanted to. Would love to spend some time in Reykjavik.

favorite snapchat filter?

That one with the pug! It’s so unsettling!

favorite makeup brand(s)

Don’t wear the stuff, but @nottootypical‘s Urban Decay palettes are awesome!

how many times a week do you shower?

7-9. I need to be cleeeeean

favorite tv show?

Twin Peaks! I’m hype af for the reboot!

shoe size?

American 10.5

how tall are you?

5′10″/180cm

sandals or sneakers?

Sneakers

do you go to the gym?

Not lately. As soon as the semester ends I’m jumping back in.

describe your dream date

We eat like 3 pounds of steak, sit quietly and hold hands, pet like 20 dogs at once, and then get launched into the void of space with all those dogs and start a dog colony on the moon.

how much money do you have in your wallet at the moment?

$100 in cash.

what color socks are you wearing?

Black

how many pillows do you sleep with?

2 personally. In total we sleep with like 50 because Alisa is a pillow hoarder.

do you have a job? what do you do?

I’m an analyst/consultant. 

how many friends do you have?

Several? I dunno the quantity. I have maybe 7 or 8 friends, 3 very dear ones.

whats the worst thing you have ever done?

That I’m comfortable telling the internet? Uh, awhile back I let a breakup get the better of me and turned into a pretty toxic, unpleasant person for a few months. I’m pretty sorry I put everyone through seeing me like that.

whats your favorite candle scent?

It’s super basic but I enjoy vanilla/gingerbread scents.

3 favorite boy names

I honestly don’t know

3 favorite girl names

^^^

favorite actor?

Leonardo DiCaprio or Mahershala Ali. Both are brilliant.

favorite actress?

Marion Cotillard is super underappreciated IMO

who is your celebrity crush?

Chris Evans holy shit dude

favorite movie?

Interstellar. I don’t think I’ve ever had another movie fill me with so much wonder or make me feel such a wide range of emotions. I’m also really partial to space operas tho don’t mind me

do you read a lot? whats your favorite book?

I used to read a lot. Less since college. I look forward to returning to reading for pleasure. I really love the Witcher Saga or the Silmarillion.

money or brains?

Brains can beget money.

do you have a nickname? what is it?

Nope!

how many times have you been to the hospital?

5? I think?

top 10 favorite songs

In no particular order:

Shelter- Porter Robinson & Madeon

Pay No Mind- Madeon & Passion Pit

Do I Wanna Know? -Arctic Monkeys

Empty Threat- CHVRCHES

Paper Boats- Darren Korb & Ashley Barrett

Gold Dust Woman- Fleetwood Mac

Running in the Night- FM-84

Everlong- Foo Fighters

Let Them Feel Your Heartbeat- A Silent Film

Destination Unknown- Scandroid

do you take any medications daily?

Nope. I’m occasionally on treatments for asthma or a digestive condition.

what is your skin type? (oily, dry, etc)

Dry, but really reactive and can get oily quickly.

what is your biggest fear?

Dying without leaving a mark on the world. I want people to remember me.

how many kids do you want?

Currently 0. If I have kids, probably 2. I feel like having a sibling is an important part of growing up.

whats your go to hair style?

Somewhere between an undercut and a pompadour. 

what type of house do you live in? (big, small, etc)

A small apartment.

who is your role model?

My friends, honestly. I feel like they’re always showing me new ways to improve and kind of exude goodness and ambition.

what was the last compliment you received?

Alisa said I was cute :>

what was the last text you sent?

“ayy lmao”

how old were you when you found out santa wasn’t real?

6ish.

what is your dream car?

Maserati’s Birdcage Concept. It looks like it’s from the future.

opinion on smoking?

Filthy, harmful habit. I worry for my friends who smoke.

do you go to college?

Only for one more week! I’m 15 class hours and a few exams away from a BBA!

what is your dream job?

CEO of a tech company. I want the power and influence to make the world better, and I want to be able to make devices that improve lives.

would you rather live in rural areas or the suburbs?

This is super hard for me. I grew up in a rural area and I love being out in nature, but it can be so dull. I suppose suburbs to be closer to the city, but eventually I’ll need to escape.

do you take shampoo and conditioner bottles from hotels?

yeah lol

do you have freckles?

Yep!

do you smile for pictures?

Yeah, just to counteract my RBF

how many pictures do you have on your phone?

Like maybe 20. Android phone quality.

have you ever peed in the woods?

So many times

do you still watch cartoons?

Yeah lol

do you prefer chicken nuggets from Wendy’s or McDonalds?

Wendy’s hands down.

Favorite dipping sauce?

If salsa doesn’t count, honey mustard.

what do you wear to bed?

Underwear/nothing. I gotta be free man.

have you ever won a spelling bee?

Yep!

what are your hobbies?

I write, draw/paint, make music, and I have a few coding projects on the side. I take a lot of joy from the act of creation.

can you draw?

See above!

do you play an instrument?what was the last concert you saw?

I play trumpet and bass guitar. The last concert I was at was a music festival. Pretty Lights Live was probably the coolest act, but I wasn’t super impressed with anything.

tea or coffee

Decaf tea.

Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts?

Starbucks

do you want to get married?

Yes I do!

what is your crush’s first and last initial?

AY lmao

are you going to change your last name when you get married?

Nah m8

what color looks best on you?

Grey is my go-to. Also dark blue.

do you miss anyone right now?

Yep!

do you sleep with your door open or closed?

Closed.

do you believe in ghosts?

I have some thoughts, but no definite answer.

what is your biggest pet peeve?

People who don’t consider other people in their actions or decisions. If you can’t handle seeing the world from someone else’s perspective, shut up and sit down.

last person you called`

Alisa!

favorite ice cream flavor?

Orange blossom!

regular oreos or golden oreos

Regular

chocolate or rainbow sprinkles?

Chocolate!

what shirt are you wearing?

A Saint Pablo Tour shirt. Mahhhsanoonah.

what is your phone background?

Snowy mountaintops! 

are you outgoing or shy?

I’m so heckin shy

do you like it when people play with your hair?

y e s

do you like your neighbors?

Nah they’re pretty dumb. I don’t hate em, but I prefer they leave me alone.

do you wash your face? at night? in the morning?

Yes, at night.

have you ever been high?

lol ye :~)

have you ever been drunk?

l o l  y e : ~ )

last thing you ate?

I made a peanut butter/coconut ice cream shake. It was amazing.

favorite lyrics right now

“If I could try a little harder, I would succeed/I’d rather give up and be happy” is super sad but pretty to me, idk

summer or winter?

Winter.

day or night?

Night!

dark, milk, or white chocolate?

Dark as a moonless night!

favorite month?

November is top.

what is your zodiac sign

Libra af

who was the last person you cried in front of?

Alisa pretty much exclusively over the past 3 years. I’m not super good at crying tbh

Thank u for asking me so many things and helping me put off doing work anon! We’re friends now, u and I!

[ecotone99]

{SF} The Spoilers Ruin Everything

{SF Satire} The Spoilers Ruin Everything

By DWG

Since the Spoilers had come, everything kind of sucked.

They wore long fuzzy white robes and purple plush hats that were pompous and had a smooth velvety feel to them. They smelled like pimp juice and had Star Wars TV shirts on but they were always full of puns like: I AM THE DARK SIDE with a picture of James Earl Jones instead of Darth Vadar or C3PO FOR GAY ROBOT RIGHTS with R2D2 painted like a rainbow flag. They even had their very own Miley Cyrus dogs on a leash. They all had a male dog’s body with Miley Cyrus heads with the tongue hanging out and all they did was suck their own balls all day.

We don’t know where they came from. Did they crawl out of the basement abyss? Did they all live with their mother? Was it even possible to have that many fat overgrown late forties white men smelling like Burger King in one city? Soon they spread across the mid-west and a few Spoilers were in Canada. They loved to go around and tell people things. It was as if they could read your mind.

First it was small things like they just knew what TV shows you were into, they were television psychic. If you were a Game of Thrones fan, they would ruin the show for you if you hadn’t read the books. If you hadn’t seen a movie that just came out, they would tell you how it ended and why it sucked before you had a chance to see it. Then they got personal, they seemed to know intimate details about our lives. An acne-crated Spoiler in a pimp hat with a neon overcoat wearing a Yoda shirt that said: BRINGING SEXY BACK, AM I? came up to me and my friend Diandra at the bus stop. He told me, “Your mother never forgave you, she died thinking you hated her!” and then he turned to my friend Diandra who had been dating the same guy for eight years, “He is never going to propose to you, he is cheating on you with your sister Rhonda”. I flew into a rage and grabbed the fat bastard by his shirt and flung him into traffic, he smelled like old cheese and pit sweat. A bus came by and—SPLAT!

We were covered in lard and internal organs. A dozen undigested cheeseburgers from various fast food joints filled the pavement and a homeless man grabbed them and began eating. The smell lingered grotesquely like cat urine burning my nostrils.

I prepared myself to be arrested for manslaughter but instead the people at the bus stop began to applaud. They said things like, “Way to go! About time somebody stood up to those assholes! They told my daughter that Justin Bieber was really created in a test tube to be a pop star, I knew that but she liked that lesbian,” I smiled, Diandra patted me on the back.

That was when we decided to kill all the Spoilers.

We started a movement.

Occupy Comic Con.

We called ourselves the Secret Keepers. We wore shirts with pictures of Nostradamus shot in the head that said, “WE DO NOT WANT TO KNOW THE FUTURE!”

A man came out as a Spoiler and was crucified by the media.

He went on Twitter and outed gay celebrities before they had a chance to out themselves on the cover of People and Binge and Squeal like a Kardashian magazine.

He told people who was going to win the Super Bowl that year. He said he was chosen by God to spoil things and he had visions of the past, the future and TV show finales. His name was Tom Cassandra. He told us about books, movies and TV shows that were still in preproduction years in advance, what the trends would be for the next 20 years and what the next controversy would be. What celebrities would die year by year. We tore him limb from limb and cannibalized him on Skype to an adoring audience. The revolution had begun! Operation Occupy Comic Con was under way.

The first rule of secret keepers is that we don’t know where the secret keeper meetings are held until the late minute which makes commuting a bitch. The second rule of secret keepers is that we cannot use our real names, we have to have code names. I called myself Wolverine, Diandra called herself Cleopatra and we were lead by Giant Boner of America. He was a wise old Buddhist monk who had come out of seclusion and broke his vow of silence to help us take down the spoilers.

“Fuck those know-it-all, motherfuckers!” he said, “Enlightenment can only be achieved by shutting the fuck up! So let’s kill these nerds!”

We quickly learned the behavior of Spoilers. They liked McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell and occasionally Wendy’s. They rode those electric carts at Walmart and farted as they passed you in the aisles. They went to Comic Cons, a lot. I mean, A LOT. They were into hentai tentacle porn and only liked Asian girls. They travelled from city to city to get all the best swag and then sell it on Ebay. They always bought ten issues of the same comic book and then spoiled the ending by publishing the last page online.

We set up the bombs shortly after noon that Friday the 13th. Two furries were fucking behind a dumpster while a guy in a Chewbacca costume was jacking off a guy dressed like Nick Fury. A group of Whedonites were talking about Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly and how they were the best shows that had ever existed since the beginning of time. Before we knew it there was an explosion and screaming and a decapitated Chewbacca head spinning in the street. I was surprised they hadn’t seen that coming.

Then things got really ugly.

As hard as we fought back against the Spoilers, they got more vicious. They weren’t just fucking with people’s entertainment, they were fucking with people’s lives.

In Chicago, a fat guy wearing a coat made of green monkey fur approached a young couple and whispered to them how their first child would die. The man pulled out of a knife and stabbed him to death. The cops came but refused to arrest him. It was as if we had all made a silent pact to kill all the Spoilers and we would not let anyone stop us. The Spoilers just couldn’t help themselves though, they started to dress in disguise so we didn’t recognize them. They wore FUBU clothes and NorthWest jackets and even L.A. Raiders shirts to blend into the crowd.

A Spoiler in a porkpie hat approached an elderly woman at a Walmart and told her the exact month and day and hour of her death, she pulled out a knitting needle, stabbed him in the eye and then drove away on her electric powered cart. An employee shouted, “Cleanup on aisle 6! We got some human garbage over here!”

The Spoilers took to the internet and spoke of being persecuted, they said they were modern day Jesus types and that it was all part of a government conspiracy to suppress the truth. They said JFK was an alien, they said Elvis was still alive, they said James Dean was really black and that Obama could shapeshift into Taylor Swift on weekends. We knew they were just making shit up at this point to throw us off their trail. It wasn’t until a Spoiler named Arthur McFadden III Jr. spoiled a terrorist attack plotted by a Norwegian militant named Sodarnmadatjerall that things took a strange shift.

Suddenly a spoiler had saved thousands of lives. He had spoiled a major disaster and saved a country from another 9/11. We were screwed.

He was given the Congressional Medal of Honor.

That was when things got weird.

The President put a no kill policy on spoilers.

Spoilers have the right to spoil, just don’t listen or read the paper or go on the internet, he said, it is your own choice to allow yourself to be spoiled.

Angry protestors lashed out at the President. Amanda Billingsworth of the Anti-Spoilers Society of America or A.S.S.A. said, “The President is asking us to exercise self-control and make informed decisions, I don’t know about you but that is not the America I grew up believing in! I expect immediate gratification and people to bend to my personal likes and dislikes!”

The audience cheered.

Some people didn’t want to listen and were arrested for dragging a Spoiler behind their car for five miles in Alabama and then hanging him from a tree.

Crosses were burned on the lawn of a family of Spoilers in Louisiana.

Suddenly people were fighting for the rights of Spoilers, there was even a Million Spoiled March of people walking hand in hand with Spoilers. It was catered by McDonalds who spoiled the secret of their own food by making their new trademark: Our Food is Awful and Will Slowly Kill You. Stop Loving it! But that only made people want it more. After all, people wanted the happy meal toy even if that meant plumping up their children into butterballs. After so many years of eating nothing but fast food, a person’s skin would get greasy and yellow and their transformation into a Spoiler would begin.

After the Spoiler Rights Act of 2018 passed, no one could do harm against another Spoiler.

On a daytime talk show a woman reunited a mother with her Spoiler son who had a falling out after he spoiled her relationship with her ex by telling her that the man didn’t really love her and fantasized about dolphins during sex.

They made an entire movie about Spoilers.

It even said how much it would make in the ads for it, the reviews were written by critics who gladly spoiled the ending and every aspect of the film but people still went to see it and it won the Academy Award that year. The Spoilers walked up to the stage before the envelope was opened because they knew they would win.

IT IS OKAY TO BE SPOILED, Oprah screamed on the cover of Rich Bitch magazine. Once Oprah says something is true, no one else can oppose her. (There was also a great article on 2000 ways to jack off your man with inanimate objects but I digress).

We knew then that we were defeated.

Now we live in a world without surprises.

I don’t get angry when some guy at the bank tells me when my car is going to break down or what happens on my favorite TV show that night. I realize now that nothing matters. Every single aspect of our lives is mapped out now, there are no surprises. We have no free will anymore. I met my wife at a rave because a Spoiler came up to us and said, “You two are going to get married one day.” I smiled and introduced myself.

Before we moved in together, the realtor turned out to be a spoiler woman who said, “The place is horrible and smells funny but it’s really all you can afford, anything else you look at they will reject you because you have shitty credit so you might as well sign up now.”

We did.

Our doctor told us the sex of our child before my wife even knew she was pregnant, he left it on her voicemail and said he was sorry but it just came to him in the middle of the night.

So we weren’t surprised when the barista at Starbucks told us what the name of our child would be. We told him to hold the whip and thank you. We named our child Leviathan in case you are interested.

After a while it’s comforting to live in a world with no surprises, where free will and destiny are essentially meaningless.

As I cross the street today, I do it knowing that today is the day I am going to die, I was told this seven years ago. A lesser man might try to avoid this fate but others have tried and they end up dying in other ways that are even more horrible and painful. You cannot be unspoiled. If you try to be unspoiled or ignore your Twitter feed or don’t go on Facebook they will find you and spoil you somehow.

When the car hit me, I knew the face of my killer, it had been spoiled for me.

It was the same guy who did my taxes. As I laid there bleeding in the street, feeling the life drain out of me I heard a fat kid on his mother’s lap eating a cheeseburger say, “He’s going to die in the ambulance, Mommy.”

And guess what? I did.

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Noticias de series de la semana: Nueva serie para Maura Tierney

Renovaciones

Apple TV+ ha renovado Truth Be Told por una segunda temporada

Netflix ha renovado Ragnarok por una segunda temporada

Cancelaciones

La tercera temporada de La casa de las flores (Netflix) será la última

Syfy ha cancelado The Magicians tras su quinta temporada

Netflix ha cancelado AJ and the Queen tras su primera temporada

Pop ha cancelado Flack tras su primera temporada

Pop ha cancelado Florida Girls tras su primera temporada

Pop ha cancelado Best Intentions antes de su estreno

Starz ha cancelado The Rook tras su primera temporada

Noticias cortas

Kayla Compton (Allegra) y Brandon McKnight (Chester) serán regulares en la séptima temporada de The Flash.

Beau Mirchoff (Jamie) será regular en la tercera temporada de Good Trouble.

Brett Gelman (Murray) será regular en la cuarta temporada de Stranger Things.

Tom Ellis, protagonista de Lucifer, ha cerrado un acuerdo para volver en una sexta temporada.

Fichajes

Maura Tierney (The Affair, ER) será Grace Poe, una mujer que intenta organizar un sindicato entre los trabajadores de su fábrica y cuyo hijo (Alex Neustaedter, Colony) es acusado de asesinato, en Rust. También participan Bill Camp (The Outsider, The Looming Tower), David Alvarez y Julia Mayorga.

Ann Dowd (The Handmaid's Tale, The Leftovers) será Jillian Stroud, la presidenta desaparecida, en The President Is Missing.

Daniel Dae Kim (Lost, Hawaii Five-0) será recurrente en la segunda temporada de New Amsterdam como Cassian Shin, nuevo jefe de cirugía traumatológica.

Mike Vogel (Under the Dome, Bates Motel) protagonizará Sex/Life junto a Sarah Shahi. Será Cooper, el marido de Billie. Adam Demos (UnREAL) y Margaret Odette (Sleeping with Other People) serán Brad Simon y Sasha Snow, exnovio y mejor amiga de Billie.

Derek Hough (Nashville, Dancing With The Stars) será recurrente en la segunda temporada de High School Musical: The Musical: The Series como Zack, exnovio de Miss Jenn (Kate Reinders).

Cheyenne Jackson (American Horror Story, 30 Rock) será Max, el crush del instituto de Kat (Mayim Bialik), en Call Me Kat.

Kylie Bunbury (Pitch, When They See Us) protagonizará The Big Sky junto a Katheryn Winnick. Será Cassie Dewell, detective privada y compañera de Cody (Ryan Phillippe), el exmarido de Jenny (Winnick). Brian Geraghty (Chicago PD, The Alienist) será Ronald Pergman, camionero con un lado oscuro.

Maxim Baldry (Years and Years, Hollyoaks) protagonizará The Lord of the Rings.

Grace Gummer (Mr. Robot, The Newsroom) y Molly Griggs (Prodigal Son, Servant) se unen a Dr. Death. Serán la enfermera Kim Morgan y Wendy Young, novia de Duntsch (Jamie Dornan) y madre de sus hijos.

Vanessa Lengies (Glee, Mixology) será Erica, entrenadora jefe, en Turner & Hooch.

Bill Heck (Locke & Key, The Leftovers) sustituye a Austin Stowell como versión joven de Dan Chase (Jeff Bridges) en The Old Man. Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Deuce, The Good Wife) será Julian, un agente especial enviado a cazar a Chase. Completan el reparto John Lithgow, Amy Brenneman, Alia Shawkat, Leem Lubany y EJ Bonilla.

Emily Alyn Lind (Code Black, Revenge), Whitney Peak (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Home Before Dark), Johnathan Fernandez (Lethal Weapon), Eli Brown (The Perfectionists, Spinning Out) y Jason Gotay (Peter Pan Live!) se unen al revival de Gossip Girl. Lind interpretará a Audrey, que empieza a preguntarse si allá afuera hay algo mejor que su duradera relación actual.

Emily Hampshire (Schitt's Creek, 12 Monkeys) protagonizará Chapelwaite, la adaptación de la novela de Stephen King 'Jerusalem's Lot', junto a Adrien Brody. Será Rebecca Morgan, una ambiciosa joven que dejó Preacher's Corners para asistir a Mount Holyoke College y ha regresado a casa para escribir para la nueva y prestigiosa Atlantic Magazine. Su bloqueo de  escritora desaparece cuando Boone (Brody) llega al pueblo con sus hijos.

Rinko Kikuchi (Babel, Westworld) será una supervisora del reportero Jake Adelstein (Ansel Elgort) en Tokyo Vice.

Michael Chernus (Orange Is the New Black, Manhattan) será Clay, motorista y amigo de Evel Knievel, en Evel.

Jeff Pierre (Once Upon a Time, Shameless) será Trey Barnett, novio de Micki (Lindsey Morgan), en Walker.

Juliet Stevenson (Riviera, One of Us), Fiona Button (The Split), Cariad Lloyd (Peep Show), Adrian Edmondson (Summer of Rockets), Navin Chowdhry (Doctor Foster), Sean Gilder (Poldark, The Last Kingdom), Tom Stuart (Psychobitches), Scroobius Pip (Taboo), Jumayn Hunter (Attack the Block), Sheila Reid (Benidorm), Jack Gleeson (Game of Thrones), Cash Holland, Lorraine Ashbourne (The Crown, Cheat) y Cian Barry (Doctor Foster, Nina Forever) protagonizarán Out Of Her Mind junto a Sarah Pascoe.

Ivana Sakhno (High Fidelity, Pacific Rim: Uprising), Cillian O'Sullivan (6Degrees), Lydia Fleming, Charles Brice (Homeland, Show Me a Hero) y Alyona Khmelnitskaya se unen como regulares a In From The Cold.

Pósters

   Nuevas series

CBS All Access encarga Guilty Party, comedia negra protagonizada por Beth Baker (Isla Fisher; Arrested Development, Now You See Me), una periodista sin prestigio que intenta salvar su carrera investigando a una madre joven condenada a cadena perpetua por mutilar y asesinar a su marido, crimen que dice no haber cometido. Beth tendrá que lidiar con contrabandistas de armas, la cultura del clickbait o su propio pasado. Escrita por Rebecca Adelman (Dead to Me) y dirigida por Trent O'Donnell (No Activity, New Girl).

Neil Druckman, escritor y director creativo del videojuego The Last of Us, escribirá la adaptación para HBO junto a Craig Mazin (Chernobyl). Producen ellos junto a Carolyn Strauss (Chernobyl, Game of Thrones), Evan Wells (presidente de la compañía que desarrolló el juego), Sony Pictures Television y PlayStation Productions.

Disney+ desarrolla una precuela musical de Beauty and the Beast centrada en Gaston y LeFou. Luke Evans y Josh Gad volverán a interpretar los papeles. Alan Menken está en conversaciones para componer la música. Escrita por Adam Horowitz y Edward Kitsis, guionistas de Lost y creadores de Once Upon a Time. Seis episodios.

Ava DuVernay (When They See Us, A Wrinkle in Time) desarrolla la serie de animación Wings of Fire, adaptación de la saga de novelas de Tui T. Sutherland que se centra en los distintos puntos de vista de cinco dragones jóvenes que, según la profecía, acabarán con una guerra que dura ya décadas y ha diezmado las tierras de Pyrrhia y Pantala. Producida por DuVernay y Sutherland.

Frankie Shaw (SMILF) escribirá, producirá y dirigirá el primer episodio de Wifey, limited series adaptación de la novela de Judy Blume (1978), para HBO. En ella, Sandy Pressman, un ama de casa de los suburbios en los años 70, se ve obligada a hacer realidad sus fantasías sexuales para combatir su predecible existencia.

Fechas

La segunda temporada de Boomerang se estrena en BET el 11 de marzo

La tercera temporada de The Good Karma Hospital se estrena en ITV el 15 de marzo

Kate & Koji se estrena en ITV el 18 de marzo

The English Game llega a Netflix el 20 de marzo

La segunda temporada de Bulletproof se estrena en Sky One el 20 de marzo

Hitmen se estrena en Sky One el 25 de marzo

Brews Brothers llega a Netflix el 10 de abril

Stargirl se estrena en DC Universe el 11 de mayo

La séptima y última temporada de The 100 se estrena en The CW el 20 de mayo

La segunda temporada de In the Dark se estrena en The CW el 28 de mayo

Tráilers y promos

Élite - Temporada 3

Siren - Temporada 3

Home Before Dark

Kingdom - Temporada 2

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels

What We Do in the Shadows - Temporada 2

Ozark - Temporada 3

La casa de las flores - Temporada 3 y última

Our Girl - Temporada 4

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Wendy McElroy: Interview With Jeffrey Tucker on All Things Crypto, Part Two

Wendy McElroy: Interview With Jeffrey Tucker on All Things Crypto, Part Two

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Interview with Jeffrey Tucker on All Things Crypto, Part Two

Conducted by Wendy McElroy

The multi-faceted Jeffrey Tucker is an American writer who focuses on market freedom, anarcho-capitalism, and cryptotech. He is the author of eight books on economics, politics, and culture, a much-sought after conference speaker, and an Internet entrepreneur. Jeffrey is editorial director and vice president of the venerable American Institute for Economic Research, founded in 1933. His career has focused on building many of the web’s primary portals for commentary and research on liberty, and is undertaking new adventures in publishing today.

I have incredible good fortune, as Jeff has written the preface to my book “The Satoshi Revolution,” which will be published in early 2019 by bitcoin.com. Meanwhile, a rough draft of the book is available online for free, compliments of bitcoin.com. Be sure to come back for the substantially-rewritten and thoroughly-edited book. I expect there will be a forum established here for me to chat with readers and answer their questions.

To access Part One of this interview, please click here.

Wendy: I was very impressed by an article in which you argued against the idea that Misesian regression theorem invalidated bitcoin as a money. For readers, the Regression theorem claims “Any valid medium of exchange (money) has to have a previous use as something else.” Could you offer an overview of your argument?

Jeff: Mises’s argument was that the root value of money traces to a conjectural history in which the pre-money form was deployed, for example, in barter. By 1949, Mises became hardened in this view: money had to originate in barter; there is no other path. From a historical point of view, this is probably correct. But it is a theoretically misleading formulation.

To understand the theory behind the conjectural history, you have to return to Mises’s original 1912 argument. Here he is more precise. In order for something to become money, it had to have a pre-existing use value. Use value. That’s not the same thing as being used in barter trade. His point was that you can’t take a useless thing and call it money and expect it to take flight.

How can we reconstruct the history of Bitcoin to discern if this applies here? From the January 2009 genesis block until October of that year, Bitcoin’s posted dollar exchange value was exactly $0. And yet we know, because we have a perfect historical record, that there were many thousands of trades being made all these 10 months. What was happening? What was going on? This was a period in which the network was being tested by enthusiasts. What does this network do? It permits the peer-to-peer exchange of immutable information packets on a geographically non-contiguous basis using the Internet so that they can come and go without corruption or compromise.

Is this a valuable service and does it work? This is what was being tested. By October, the use value of this network had proven itself, and so we began to see the emergence of a dollar/Bitcoin exchange ratio. That is to say, Bitcoin was priced as a scarce good. We can see, then, that the conditions of the “Regression Theorem” as theory are met via the services provided by the blockchain. You can also see, however, that if an economist looking at this did not understand the payment system embedded as part of the monetary technology, he or she would be completely befuddled.

To be sure, some very smart people disagree with me. My friend William Luther is blunt about his opinion about his matter. He thinks the Regression Theorem is just wrong, so it doesn’t matter if Bitcoin is theoretically compliant. He once made the argument to me and pretty much backed me into a corner. If he turns out to be correct, I’m fine with that. What matters more, my theory or existing reality? I faced that problem in early 2013 and concluded that I had, as a matter of intellectual integrity, to defer to reality, even if it meant admitting the wrongness of my position or even that of Mises’s. Shocking, I know!

Wendy: The crypto community parallels the libertarian one, in ways both good and bad. An example of the latter is the deep personal schisms with which it is rift. You are a person who stays away from internecine battles. What advice do you have to others who wish to do the same?

Jeff: I try to stay focused on the big picture and imagine that my audience is not my friend network but rather the general public. I try to serve that readership. That means no Twitter wars. No flame wars at all. Plus, I’ve seen vast destruction spread by vicious internecine battles. I’ve seen friendships wrecked, bad theory perpetrated by virtue of ego alone, massive setbacks take place in understanding and marketing. Also, there are some people who are ideologically attached to the friend/enemy distinction. Unless they are smashing someone and hitting “the enemy” they think they are not working. It’s extremely strange how some people thrive off this posture.

To be sure, I have no trouble taking a stand, as I have when libertarians have wrongly drifted left and right. Why? I like to seek greater intellectual clarity and share my thoughts with others, in hopes that I can help others understand too. I’m not seeking saints and not looking to burn witches. I try to choose my battles carefully and stay focused on doing productive work, cooperating with anyone who thinks, writes, and acts in good faith. That’s the main thing to ask yourself, not “Who have you destroyed today?” but rather, “What kind of light have I brought to the world today?”

Wendy: Different explanations of crypto’s recent plunge in price have been advanced. Some people point to increased government regulation, especially in China and in the U.S., where the SEC is taking active steps against the crypto community. Many believe the tumble resulted from a bursting bubble that was created by surging prices earlier in 2018. Still others speak of manipulation by “the whales.” These explanations are not mutually exclusive, of course. But do you favor one over the other? Do you have another explanation?

Jeff: It’s impossible to untangle all of this, and many of the factors you name are right, but let me add another issue. The amazing bull market of 2017 was fueled by wild optimism and adoption. People in the space were ready to rock. Then this optimism was massively interrupted by a terrible realization. Bitcoin would not scale. It stopped behaving like Bitcoin and started becoming more expensive and slower than regular credit cards. To use street parlance, it sucked. It was an amazing thing to have happened. It was a true calamity. And to top it off, it was completely the fault of the guardians of the code. When the code would not adapt to broader use, the optimism turned to pessimism and we experienced a huge setback.

By the way, I’ve worked for years with people who are geniuses at code but completely stupid when it comes to the user experience. It was the tragedy of Bitcoin that it fell prey to exactly this same problem. Coders desperately desire cleanliness, zero bloat, no cruft, perfect logic. It’s an old joke in the community that a coder invites you to use his new program but all you see on the black screen is a blinking green cursor. “Of course I still have to write the user interface.”

The OCD-ish mind of coders is a great thing for some purposes but this outlook has never prevailed in the commercial marketplace. In the early 1990s, there was a great battle over word processors. Microsoft kept making Word larger and larger, puffed with cruft, and the code monkeys were screaming that this was a disaster in the making. For my own part, I hated Word in those days and completely agreed that the hard-to-use light-weight programs were better.

But guess what? The market disagreed. Moore’s Law kicked it as it always does and eventually Word destroyed the competition. Why? Because it had more features that users like. Eventually the code got clean again and now Word itself has many elegant competitors. This is the normal progression of any software with a consumer focus.

Incredibly, some people with the keys to the kingdom of Bitcoin actually came to imagine that they could develop a digital money without an efficient, consumer-focussed use case. They drove a wedge between two functions: store of value and medium of exchange. This is not how much work. One function depends on the other. The freeze in the development of Bitcoin, in the name of staying light and elegant, was a fool’s errand. During all the scaling debates of 2014-16, they dug in their heels, shouting slogans, guarding their small blocks, instead of thinking about adoption and scaling when the time came.

When the time did come, Bitcoin did not perform. It fact – and it pains me to say this – it completely flopped.

Old school Bitcoiners like me were horrified to see it all happening. It was like an old friend had become possessed. When the mempools exploded, and the miners were in a position to ration trades based on price, it would cost $20 to send $2. This was in the fall and winter of 2017. It was absolutely disgraceful, and all the more so because the newly emergent “maximalists” defended this preposterous reality, acting if as this was part of the plan all along. They were like PeeWee Herman explaining that when he fell off the bike that he “meant to do that.” They flagrantly ignored even the title of the White Paper. Then the fork came in August of 2017, as it necessarily had to. But then followed a tremendous explosion of tokens of all sorts.

I don’t regret the competition, and I think this is all a good thing. I’m not a Bitcoin Maximalist. I’m a Competition Maximalist. But the absurdities of Bitcoin’s performance could have been completely avoided with just a bit of concern for the user. I would love it if we could perform a controlled experiment and see the BTC price today if the thing had properly scaled. We can’t do that. We have the reality we have.

Privately, of course, Bitcoin Core developers will admit that this was a disaster and that scaling will eventually take place on the chain. But at this point, pride and arrogance had gotten the best of them. How long will they continue to promise the Lightning Network while showing no concern for the use case? It’s time for a bit of humility.

To be sure, the Lightning Network is super great. We run a node at the Atlanta Bitcoin Embassy. I look forward to its final stability and adoption. The problem is that this was proposed as an eventual solution to the scaling problem that currently exists. Real-time technological development has to deal with problems in real time according to the time schedule of the market rate of adoption. Markets don’t obey code architects; the reverse has to be the case. Bitcoin Core forgot that at the very point it mattered most.

Wendy: Whatever the probable explanation(s), do you have a sense of when or whether crypto markets are likely to rebound significantly? Do you have a sense of what will cause a rebound or prevent one?

Jeff: Like all enthusiasts, I do expect a turnaround. Remember that I’ve been in these markets since BTC was $14. I’ve seen wild swings and long periods of nothingness. I’m prepared for anything.

Wendy: A debate within crypto parallels one I have heard between gold bugs. That is, should one take physical possession of precious metals, or they can be stored with reputable entities. In crypto, the parallel argument is whether coins should be in private wallets with undisclosed keys, or can they be stored with exchanges that do not demand possession of the keys?

Jeff: That is an interesting parallel! I think it is a valid one. I’m disappointed with the rise of what are effectively Bitcoin Banks that now dominate the market. I’ve reluctantly concluded that there is indeed a demand for financial intermediation, even within crypto. Here is a case where my own preferences are being overridden by market choice. That said, intermediation in crypto is not going to have the problems that it does in a central banking world. We have transparency. We have clear lines of ownership. We know the difference between money and a money substitute. I don’t necessarily think that intermediation is an evil thing in the crypto world.

Wendy: Any other thoughts you’d like to share on this subject?

Jeff: I would council Bitcoiners and anyone who sees the potential of this technology to be patient. Think back to railroads and how they came to be. The headlines were all about land speculation, wildcat banks, stock fraud, bankruptcies, and crashes. The reality, in the end, was a transformed world. It was true with the Internet too. People said for years that no one could make money on the Internet. The dotcom crash of 2000 seemed to prove it. Now Internet commerce leads the world. It will be a long time before crypto becomes competitive with nationalized money, and even longer before the pundit class comes around.

The important point is that we have the knowledge. We have the technology. We know now that it is possible. It can be done. There is no longer any excuse for not turning over the production and management of money itself to the market.

Also let us not forget what matters most. Bitcoin is a technology but the goal is much more grand: a better, more peaceful, more prosperous world. I’ve seen it myself how this works. When you pull down the barriers, when you provide opportunities for people to cooperate, beautiful things happen. I see it constantly at the Atlanta Bitcoin Embassy. This is a place where people from all walks of life come together in a spirit of joyful cooperation to build the future. This inspires me more than anything else and points to the kind of future that can be built by a P2P technology. It’s a microcosm of what life in the cryptocon can be like.

Wendy: Thank you, Jeff! This has been fascinating.

[To be continued next week.]

Reprints of this article should credit Bitcoin.com and include a link back to the book

Wendy McElroy has “published” her new book The Satoshi Revolution exclusively with Bitcoin.com. However, things aren’t over yet. Every Saturday you’ll find another installment in a series of interviews about sections of the book with people like Doug Casey, L.Neil Smith, Jeff Tucker, Carl Watner…and so on. Altogether they’ll make up her new book ”The Satoshi Revolution”.

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