LeFrog
@LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on OMG! Two Actors the Same Age Look Different! 1 day ago:
there you go: www.gamebrew.org/WiiTweet
- Comment on And it's not unsettling at all 2 days ago:
like a door arch? omfg
- Comment on most libertarian costume 6 days ago:
didn’t know that, thank you very much! I updated my comment ಠᴗಠ
- Comment on most libertarian costume 6 days ago:
Libertarian police
I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.
“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”
“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”
“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”
The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”
“Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”
“Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.”
He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.”
“Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.”
I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.
“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t.
“Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime?” No one spoke up.
“Come on,” I said. “Don’t you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?”
It didn’t seem like they did.
“Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or autographed Penn Jillette posters.”
Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn’t care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing.
I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth. Just then, a man in glasses made a break for it.
“Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled.
Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.
“Stop right there!” I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen.
I was losing him. “Listen, I’ll pay you to stop!” I yelled. “What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? I’ll offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn ‘Bob Barr ‘08’ extra-large long-sleeved men’s T-shirt!”
He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.
“All right, all right!” the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. “I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.”
“Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos™ Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs® on the guy.
“Because I was afraid.”
“Afraid?”
“Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers,” he said. “I’m a central banker.”
I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head.
“Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street,” I said. “No matter how many bitcoins you steal, you’ll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.”
He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me.
- Comment on rip to a real one 1 week ago:
I think it is from Fall of Eagles
- Comment on Be sure to say it correctly 1 week ago:
HOLY SHIT this page still exists??? I remember visting it daily like 20 years ago ಥ_ಥ
- Comment on Task failed successfully 2 weeks ago:
a moth
or maybe a vacuum robot?
- Comment on ass men after seeing their 69th tiddie meme today 5 weeks ago:
ah, the Angry German Kid
- Comment on Tasty! 1 month ago:
- Comment on It's time to move on....to JEANS! 2 months ago:
feans = flattering jeans
- Comment on Lemmy > Reddit 2 months ago:
So I guess my mother is trans now because she has no uterus since her latest cancer treatment
- Comment on Google Maps Reviews in Germany are utterly pointless 2 months ago:
I wrote this a few months ago:
On the other hand, a business owner has no other tool against review bombing except this. In a village near me a barber shop was review bombed by neo-nazis due to their support for refugees. They removed the fake reviews successfully but from time to time this Nazi scum remembers and review bomb them again. This goes on since at least 2020.
- Comment on how to cut aluminum pipe with hardly any comments about flock cameras 2 months ago:
That being said, please do not attempt this in real life. These sign posts/ camera posts are often made of steel. For safely cutting any harder metal with a saw, you should use way slower blades (like a tenth of the speed of a wood saw). In the best case your blade will just fuse with the metal pole. In the worst case, your blade shatters or you will get a kick back that breaks your bones easily.
- Comment on how to cut aluminum pipe with hardly any comments about flock cameras 2 months ago:
they cut a little bit further
- Comment on First time seeing Cyber truck in South Africa ! 😍 3 months ago:
- Comment on Shoutout To My Boy 3 months ago:
Poor Klaus
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- Comment on Should've just picked a better password 3 months ago:
On the other hand:
- Comment on Badge of Honor 3 months ago:
And sometimes using the “end-of-string-token”
$, sometimes not. TF they doing over there? - Comment on three cheers for fate! 3 months ago:
GENTLEMAN!
- Comment on Snake 3 months ago:
Understandable, have a nice shit
- Comment on Snake 3 months ago:
Wait, aren’t you replying to the other shitpost with Lindsey House?
- Comment on 3 months ago:
They are even inflatable after passing the tunnel:
- Comment on Not a single one 3 months ago:
It will come right after the year of Desktop Linux (I wish)
- Comment on Not a single one 3 months ago:
Now I get what you mean. I should have phrased this better. I meant “no such thing as safe long term storage [could be determined in Germany yet]”. Which means, as of today, they could not find a safe location in Germany to build such a storage facility like Finland did.
Germany is densely populated and the ground/earth is mostly unsuited for long time storage.
- Comment on Not a single one 3 months ago:
Nothing, because they have only space for 6500 t high-level nuclear waste which is already reserved for Finnish nuclear waste, whereas Germany has like 17.000 t.
- Comment on Not a single one 3 months ago:
Ah yes, the Fusion Reactors that are coming soon ™ (promised decades ago).
We need energy now, not at some unknown point in the future. Of course, resaeching this technology may make sense. But it does not help today and also not the next 20 years.
- Comment on Not a single one 3 months ago:
The costs of construction and deconstruction are significant. You cannot just ignore them. That is useless cherry picking.
- Comment on Not a single one 3 months ago:
Any source for this significant claim?
The German ministry for Safety of nuclear energy (BASE) published an official statement that nuclear energy is not only unsafe, but also way too expensive:
base.bund.de/…/atomstrom-alternative-energiequell…
There are studies by the Deutsches Insitut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW, German Institute of Economic Research) that show significant higher costs per kWh than other power sources:
diw.de/…/ausbau_von_kernkraftwerken_entbehrt_tech…
diw.de/…/zu_teuer_und_gefaehrlich__atomkraft_ist_…
At my company, we work together with the Gesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE). These guys are responsible to find safe long time storage for nuclear waste. Spoiler: as of now, there is no such thing as safe long time storage.
The German energy provider Enbw claims costs per kWh to be as high as 0.49€ for nuclear energy, which is ridiculous high. And they did not even factor in the high costs of safe long time storage!
- Comment on When you ask someone a boolean question....... and they return a string 4 months ago:
ELI5?
