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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

Last weekā€™s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

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    (itā€™s called Tonal btw)

    Oh no this will make Luke-Jr so mad.

    Context, Luke-Jr is an early Bitcoin adopter, literal Florida man, and all-around kook. His wikipedia user page used to be a work of art with an ordered list of his obsessions[1], starting with sedevacantism and including Tonal, an early attempt to promote hexadecimal. Hereā€™s a long page on the old Bitcoin wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Tonal_Bitcoin. Sadly it never caught on, people donā€™t want to say ā€œbong bitcoinā€ apparently.

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Luke-Jr&oldid=593942679

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      Iā€™m vaguely remembering this and not sure where to look for confirmation, but wasnā€™t Luke-Jr the bitcoin maintainer who put his foot down and blocked a design change that wouldā€™ve made bitcoin much more efficient because it would have made it inconvenient for him to run a full node on a slow Florida residential cable internet connection?

      people donā€™t want to say ā€œbong bitcoinā€ apparently.

      thatā€™s weird, Iā€™ve known so many guys whose whole personality is bong bitcoin

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        Yes he led the charge against the ā€œbitcoin maxisā€ who wanted to increase the actual block size to contain more info. (this later became Bitcoin Cash). We had to endure stuff like ā€œUASFā€ (user activated soft fork) for complicated reasons no-one can explain now.

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      including Tonal, an early attempt to promote hexadecimal

      I am so happy Iā€™ve seen this, itā€™s so bad.

      I will now forever pronounce $2^{16}$ as bong.