Never knew photographs were once argued to be uncopyrightable due to being a product of a machine. Neat history.

Small network fee to deploy the contract. For a simple one, probably like $1. And this guy minted himself billions of tokens.

So sure, technically you'll need some "startup capital" but saying they bought the tokens suggests it was on the open market which isn't the case.

These days, in all seriousness, I'm more afraid of the corpo surveillance. I was there for the PATRIOT ACT, and that "insane" NSA datacenter that everyone freaked out about. Now we have corpos building scale way beyond the NSA.

The government spying also has oddly not had an obvious impact on society in the last 20 years. I think the corpo one will reshape worldwide culture. But yeah, governments will of course take advantage of that cheap surveillance data as well.

Right now anyway, I'm less afraid of imprisonment or violent retaliation than I am of being manipulated or silenced by less forceful means. You can't imprison a majority of the population, but you can control them through ideas and the ability to communicate.

Dev coins are just the initial amount of coins that the dev bought to start their own meme coin.

A minor but important clarification is that the creator does not buy anything. It's just the initial allotment they assigned themselves upon deployment of the contract.

Think fast hot shot! You both started crossing the street at the same time for the same reason and neither of you noticed until you're in the middle of the road. Now what?

Maybe eventually it'll morph back into iMacs.

basic Italian beef

For those of us unaware of what Italian beef is?

At first I thought chicken, then I thought the ice cream, then finally what the literal name is...

I occasionally wonder if there's like an epigenetic memory going on there. Not that it would excuse anything. It's just so weird how an abused population of people can turn into the abusers in 1 or 2 generations.

“Normally what would happen… is like one cop would have heard that, flip on the blue lights, race down there… and someone’s about to die,” [Flock CEO Garrett] Langley explained, describing a case in which a woman called 911 on a man, who later turned out to be holding a lighter, not a gun, as initially suspected. “Instead, they launch the drone.”

Langley claimed that “we have thousands and thousands of stories like that where communities are safer now with our drones. They’re safer with our cameras.”

That's your prime example of a community becoming safer? The cops droning a mf because he lit a cigarette and some Karen panicked? You're the CEO of the fucking company with like the worst PR and you say this shit.

I can't seem to find a reference, but didn't DOGE actually close the office that was specifically tasked with preventing eyedrops from blinding people?

Some people like to peel the tomatoes… That means put them in a pan of boiling water after scoring them on a few sides, and then taking them out after a minute or two and removing the peels, then putting them into the sauce. I don’t do this. I just remove the peels after the sauce has been cooking for a while.

You can also just fuck it all up with an immersion blender, too.

I hope you remember this post at some point and cringe at the fact that you hit submit.

Imagine all that effort put into catching someone smashing a stupid camera, it could’ve been used on a pedophile or something.

Now I'm just imagining them putting out a fake child as a pedo sting.

*eating the slop

What's this referencing? It's so familiar but I can't quite remember.

I think you mean... John Dick

But I am disconcerted by the level of visceral hatred I feel towards this VP. [...] I’ve probably made a straw man out of him. He probably has a family and interests. I don’t like how I feel this way. I’ve never felt this way.

The VP doesn't think about you at all. Don't waste your time and effort hating them.

I appreciate the greens. That's a rich breakfast, would be good to have that to break it up a bit.

Thank you!