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White Male cis scum - Ontario, Canada - Insult Artist and Douchebag extraordinaire. Ugly as Eff. Here I post small things about my life and interests. My fandoms are mostly Star Trek, Marvel, Elder Scrolls and Doctor Who. I love lots of stuff.

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Live reactions of my friends watching Star Trek.

[bakasara]

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[guerrillatech]

[annoyingalchemist]

Ok so can someone explain to me how cryptocurrency pollutes? Like what crazy calculations are they running that they need enough brainpower to significantly effect things? Like I’m assuming what’s causing the pollution is increased electricity consumption but… how does sending lil pretend money tokens back and forth or whatever cause so much pollution?

Also, what the fuck is “mining”? How d'you mine… like bitcoin is not a naturally occurring resource, and I assume that you can’t just make it, cause that would make it instantly worthless… help?

[commiemartyrshighschool]

So you get “coins” as a reward for performing the cryptographic calculations necessary to update the public ledger which is the blockchain. This is, by design, an increasingly complex and resource intensive process to slow down the collection of (intentionally finite) coins.

So every transaction with bitcoins requires the ledger to be updated with the current ownership of every already existing bitcoin, which also requires encrypting and decrypting a bunch of information and sharing it across the public ledger. So every transaction made with bitcoins increases the energy requirements of updating the ledger making it harder and harder to complete the latest version and get the coin which is a reward for doing that work.

There’s a lot I don’t fully understand myself but the long and short of it is that the actual value of any crypto currency is pretty much just what people agree on, except instead of a fiat currency where a government says it’s worth something and a mint that makes physical currency, there’s a bunch of nerds who agree that solving certain math problems is worth rewarding.

[brokenmachine3553]

Feeling like adding on for a bit of context, I know it’s kind of hard to understand how mining for really any kind of crypto is hard to imagine, but seeing what a bitcoin mining facility looks like for the first time really helped me realize just how energy intensive it is.

See all these warehouses? They’re quite literally filled to the brim with specialized computers that do nothing but mine, each one filled with thousands of these computers, just row after row of this:

So all the power consumption winds up adding up like crazy.

[white-throated-packrat]

Yep, that’s why cryptocurrency and NFTs are considered major contributors to pollution – because the energy needs of all those computers doing the calculation are equivalent to a medium sized country. Currently, crypto consumes more energy than Argentina.

[ralfmaximus]

Guess what’s inside a lot of mining rigs? Gowan, guess.

Graphics cards! 

Lots and lots of these puppies side by side, spinning their little fans as fast as they can go because as it turns out: GPUs are perfect for doing the calculations required for mining cryptocurrency.

Which means amateur miners buy a lot of these things.

So many, in fact, that there is now (May 2021) a world-wide shortage of NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards and building a new gaming rig is damn near impossible because of the shortage. 

OR you can pay a ridiculously inflated price by GPU scalpers on eBay.

Seriously. Places that sell GPUs impose quantity limits because if they don’t… some crypto asshole will buy out their entire stock in one go.

But the “good” news is that the professional miners (like the Bitmain site up there, in the photos) use dedicated ASIC mining rigs which don’t use consumer GPUs. But (bad news) they DO use the same sort of chips that NVIDIA & AMD rely on to make their products, which just starves the supply pipeline at a different point.

Bottom line: not only does cryptocurrency mining consume terawatts of electricity, it also consumes megatons of computer hardware. Which is expensive to produce (in resource terms, like rare metals, petroleum, water, electricity, paper) and will, someday, require even MORE resources to recycle. Or else it ends up in a landfill.

Note that current dedicated mining rigs are so highly specialized they are useless for anything other than mining. They cannot be easily repurposed to  (say) sequence DNA or fold proteins for miracle cures.

What a waste.

[smute]

was anyone gonna tell me that some nerds peepee poopoo “currency” is the reason why graphics cards are sold out everywhere or was i supposed to find that out from comments under a screenshot from twitter user whoreganic cop puncher explaining how bitcoin is just an artificially complicated math problem

[owlet]

i think it’s important to acknowledge that there is a contingent of doctors who have been... uh... coasting ever since med school ended. here’s a quick crash course in telling them apart

competent doctor: recognizes that your symptoms sound familiar but also realizes that the illness is outside the scope of their expertise, so they give you a referral

incompetent doctor: doesn’t recognize your symptoms, chalks it all up to a mental health and/or weight problem and refuses any follow-up care

competent doctor: stays up to date on the latest research in their field, is interested in sharing newly-discovered information with you

incompetent doctor: maintains the absolute minimum amount of knowledge to not have their license revoked

competent doctor: approaches their patients with good faith

incompetent doctor: assumes all patients are deceptive and have ulterior motives

competent doctor: recognizes crying and other overt pain symptoms as unacceptable and tries to resolve your pain any way they’re able

incompetent doctor: ignores pain and either refuses to attempt to treat yours or willingly worsens it during a treatment by ignoring your reactions

competent doctor: realizes they don’t have all the answers, isn’t intimidated by the thought that you attend other doctors

incompetent doctor: views their patients as income-generators and feels personally insulted when you attempt to leave their practice

competent doctor: recognizes all their patients are people; will be transparent about your treatment and speak to you with advanced and specific terminology if you demonstrate that you understand

incompetent doctor: views patients as a sub-class of people, justifies lying to patients as “for their own good”

[jurynullification]

If u r stuck with a shitty dr ask them directly for referrals sometimes they'll do it

[whitepeopletwitter]

[afronerdism]

[gaytriarch]

#FreeBritney

[le-sad-demiurge]

What also horrifies me is that most iuds (afaik) have a string hanging from the bottom so you can pull it out without assistance. Assuming that's the case here, she's not just disallowed from having it removed by a doctor, she's disallowed from pulling a foreign object from her body with her own hands.

[eggbanhmi]

IUDs do have a hard plastic string, but it's not reachable with hands. The string is there for removal from the cervix, which require a tool to pull out. It's not like a tampon. Because it requires removal from a doctor, she can't just take it out. Most likely after her current one expires, she'll be forced to have another one inserted after the current one is removed, if her conservatorship continues. It's awful that her autonomy has been taken away.

[le-sad-demiurge]

I say afaik because I'm speaking from experience here. When I had my iud removed the obgyn told me (kinda rudely) that I was able to remove it myself with my fingers. There are different types of iuds that may be easier to remove than others

[afronerdism]

You should literally never do that. There exists no iud that is safe to do so and I’m horrified Anyone would tell you that

[le-sad-demiurge]

You can do it, it's just not advised.

[afronerdism]

This article was written/reviewed by a sex therapist and psychologist. Not a an MD. There have been hundreds of lawsuits filed against para guard for their IUDs breaking off inside and becoming imbedded leading to surgery and that’s with proper medical equipment. That’s why doctors are supposed to, by law, show you your intact IUD upon removal. The fact that we’re technically able to yank them out does not mean you should. You very much should not do that.

[crunchbuttsteak]

If I had a nickel for every big name Harry Potter fanfic writer who started their own cult, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

[lookingforsarahjay]

Oh man, are we talking about Snape wives?? I because every time I remember them I just have to stare off into the distance for a while.

[crunchbuttsteak]

I’d have three nickels.

[merry-kuroo]

What is a Snape Wife? Someone fill me in on all these Harry Potter cults 😂

[iamthecraftmaster]

Snape wives (or as they called themselves, Snapeists) were an online cult made mostly of middle-aged women who believed the following

Severus Snape is an omniscient, unkillable entity residing on the astral plane.

Snape is the one true god.

Snape possessed JKR to write the Harry Potter books, but she got several things wrong; most importantly Snape dying.

The spirit of Snape abandoned JKR because she wasn't good enough for him and created the Snapists instead.

Snape chose several Snapists that have a special connection with him to lead his religion.

Snapists can serve Snape by marrying him and becoming sister-wives (there was lots of debate on if they could have boyfriends/husbands other than Snape in the real world).

Snape contacts his followers who are worthy, both in dreams and by possessing real life people.

To be worthy of Snape, you need to be... basically a tradwife. Obey Snape in all things, never question him, don't be independent, be pretty, be thin, only have feminine hobbies, etc.

The snapewives wrote a crazy amount of fanfiction about Snape, both erotic and otherwise. Plus they had their own prayers, ceremonies, shrines... shit was wild. The whole religion fell apart when one of the leaders criticized Snape and was subsequently bullied out of the community and another decided that the one true god was actually Jethro Gibbs from NCIS.

[keyofmgy]

when the second half of that last sentence hits you like a brick in the face

[upthewitchypunx]

SASS WITCH CON

August 13-15, 2021 - A virtual event

SASS Witch Con aims to bring together a community of Secular, Atheist/Agnostic, Skeptical, and Science (SASS) witches to meet, commune, work together, network, share and learn from each other in a virtual symposium. This is a safer space where we respect magic and science equally, acknowledging that sometimes there is genuine beauty in the mysterious.

This space welcomes, respects, and seeks to empower those who, like witches, are on the fringe and do not have mainstream support including but not limited to ethnic and religious minorities, LGBTQ+, sex workers, those with disabilities, those formerly incarcerated, those struggling with home/food/work insecurity.

Finally and importantly this space is to enjoy each others’ company, engage in riotous fun and laughter with kindness, curiosity, and SASSy creativity!

Please spread the word! Follow us on instagram, facebook, and our website. Save the dates: August 13-15, 2021 and stay tune for ticket information!

[upthewitchypunx]

The website isn't up yet but I'll post again when it is.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Random mansion generator

The Procgen Mansion Generator produces large three-dee dwellings to toy with your imagination, offering various architectural styles and other options. Each mansion even comes with floorplans:

https://boingboing.net/2019/07/12/random-mansion-generator.html

[something-from-elsewhere]

Oooooh! Saving this

[lady-feral]

That’s fun

[vesperlionheart]

Hey, but don’t fall asleep on this Medieval Fantasy City Generator   

[guerrillatech]

[annoyingalchemist]

Ok so can someone explain to me how cryptocurrency pollutes? Like what crazy calculations are they running that they need enough brainpower to significantly effect things? Like I’m assuming what’s causing the pollution is increased electricity consumption but… how does sending lil pretend money tokens back and forth or whatever cause so much pollution?

Also, what the fuck is “mining”? How d'you mine… like bitcoin is not a naturally occurring resource, and I assume that you can’t just make it, cause that would make it instantly worthless… help?

[commiemartyrshighschool]

So you get “coins” as a reward for performing the cryptographic calculations necessary to update the public ledger which is the blockchain. This is, by design, an increasingly complex and resource intensive process to slow down the collection of (intentionally finite) coins.

So every transaction with bitcoins requires the ledger to be updated with the current ownership of every already existing bitcoin, which also requires encrypting and decrypting a bunch of information and sharing it across the public ledger. So every transaction made with bitcoins increases the energy requirements of updating the ledger making it harder and harder to complete the latest version and get the coin which is a reward for doing that work.

There’s a lot I don’t fully understand myself but the long and short of it is that the actual value of any crypto currency is pretty much just what people agree on, except instead of a fiat currency where a government says it’s worth something and a mint that makes physical currency, there’s a bunch of nerds who agree that solving certain math problems is worth rewarding.

[brokenmachine3553]

Feeling like adding on for a bit of context, I know it’s kind of hard to understand how mining for really any kind of crypto is hard to imagine, but seeing what a bitcoin mining facility looks like for the first time really helped me realize just how energy intensive it is.

See all these warehouses? They’re quite literally filled to the brim with specialized computers that do nothing but mine, each one filled with thousands of these computers, just row after row of this:

So all the power consumption winds up adding up like crazy.

[white-throated-packrat]

Yep, that’s why cryptocurrency and NFTs are considered major contributors to pollution – because the energy needs of all those computers doing the calculation are equivalent to a medium sized country. Currently, crypto consumes more energy than Argentina.

[ralfmaximus]

Guess what’s inside a lot of mining rigs? Gowan, guess.

Graphics cards! 

Lots and lots of these puppies side by side, spinning their little fans as fast as they can go because as it turns out: GPUs are perfect for doing the calculations required for mining cryptocurrency.

Which means amateur miners buy a lot of these things.

So many, in fact, that there is now (May 2021) a world-wide shortage of NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards and building a new gaming rig is damn near impossible because of the shortage. 

OR you can pay a ridiculously inflated price by GPU scalpers on eBay.

Seriously. Places that sell GPUs impose quantity limits because if they don’t… some crypto asshole will buy out their entire stock in one go.

But the “good” news is that the professional miners (like the Bitmain site up there, in the photos) use dedicated ASIC mining rigs which don’t use consumer GPUs. But (bad news) they DO use the same sort of chips that NVIDIA & AMD rely on to make their products, which just starves the supply pipeline at a different point.

Bottom line: not only does cryptocurrency mining consume terawatts of electricity, it also consumes megatons of computer hardware. Which is expensive to produce (in resource terms, like rare metals, petroleum, water, electricity, paper) and will, someday, require even MORE resources to recycle. Or else it ends up in a landfill.

Note that current dedicated mining rigs are so highly specialized they are useless for anything other than mining. They cannot be easily repurposed to  (say) sequence DNA or fold proteins for miracle cures.

What a waste.

[smute]

was anyone gonna tell me that some nerds peepee poopoo “currency” is the reason why graphics cards are sold out everywhere or was i supposed to find that out from comments under a screenshot from twitter user whoreganic cop puncher explaining how bitcoin is just an artificially complicated math problem

[horreurscopes]

jessica rabbit is literally a sex symbol though she can't be asexual?

she is in romo with a rabbit because he makes her laugh and aside from using her looks to get things out of people she literally never once shows interest in anything or anyone sexually through the entire movie and is clearly appalled when anyone makes advances towards her like there is canonical evidence that jessica rabbit from the classic motion picture who framed rogger rabbit is an asexual character  

[harocat]

I am here as fuck for this. Jessica Rabbit for new asexual icon.

[drdadster]

“She can’t be asexual because she’s hot tho”

[commandertrevelyan]

“I can only see her as a sexual object so I can’t imagine her not wanting to have sex with me.”

[skottichan-deactivated20240228]

I’ve always remembered the line “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way” as Jessica’s admission that while sexualized, she isn’t inherently a sexual entity.

I mean hell, literally, her line before is “You don’t know how hard it is being a woman looking the way I do.”, to which Eddie responds; “You don’t know how hard it is being a man looking at a woman looking the way you do.”

I think that’s pretty damning evidence to her asexuality. The whole plot point with Jessica is how everyone is either convinced she’s sleeping with every human and toon around, or why does she stay faithful to Roger.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit does a great job at satirizing Hollywood/American culture and ideals when it comes to appearances. It also does a great job at hiding some really well thought out challenges to how we look at others in plain sight.

I completely believe that Jessica Rabbit is an asexual romantic (hetero/bi/pan/etc not sure, and to be honest, I don’t know if that part is important, as she’s married to the toon she loves).

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

I LOVE this headcanon <3

[pixiebutterandjelly-deactivated]

This is important!

[luxarcher]

This headcanon is just so perfect I had to draw it

#JessicaRabbitForAsexualIcon

[grace-and-ace]

I am here for this

[bringmetothe-pilot]

No cops at Pride, just Elton John with his Gucci shirt and a knife

[pinballwizzer]

no cops just elton john with his elton john brass knuckes

[sjhamart]

happy pride, everyone

[mytalkingraccoon]

pov elton john finds you 

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

i’m sorry but this is fucking hilarious

[lightblindingme]

Frank’s idea of fixing things

[crybourg]

me trying to comfort my friends

[onlytwitterpics]

[catoverlord]

[iamonlykidding-deactivated20210]

[ouchmyworm-deactivated20190708]

[verdeinvolumes-deactivated20190]

[braetsch]

[star-cocks-deactivated20181217]

[pastelburrito]

[jojomangaedits]

[rainbowgazes-archive]

[gamerphobic-deactivated20200727]

[thewomenandthechildren]

It’s time to activate it…

Bites The Dust! now this entire post will be reversed!

[aliiiiiiice]

[avocadosfromfigaro]

[averruncusho]

Am I having a fucking stroke

[thefloatingmage]

what the fuck was that

[blurrymango]

World heritage post.

[obeymeheadcanons]

BRO AM I GOING CRAZY WTF IS GOING ON?!

[awkward-finger-guns]

@nonbinary-hedgehog its the pineapple jojos post!!

[eightyproof]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame just incase you dont have it

[tastefullyoffensive]

What a ride.

[deepspace-ninth-daxhost]

garak loves jane austen

[theweefreewomen]

[image text: “It’s difficult to select something for a man like you.” Picard gestured toward the pile of books he had considered and rejected. “I assume you already knew The Prince.” “I’ll send you my annotations,” Garak deadpanned. “And I saw a complete set of Austen in your home.” “Who could be without the sublime Jane?”]

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[wakandamama]

I fucking hate that is took me 3 loops to get it 😂😂😂😂

[dizzy-lunar-sea]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[my-writer-jus-hates-the-clock]

Pay attention to the hands

Ann was standing in his hand he picked her up

[therainbowgorilla]

OH NOOOOO LMAO

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[wakandamama]

I fucking hate that is took me 3 loops to get it 😂😂😂😂

[dizzy-lunar-sea]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[my-writer-jus-hates-the-clock]

Pay attention to the hands

Ann was standing in his hand he picked her up

[therainbowgorilla]

OH NOOOOO LMAO