Thinking about Sherlockian villains, another memorable one is "roaring Jack Woodley" from the story "The Solitary Cyclist." He's perhaps not the most menacing one, since Sherlock disposes of him in pub combat. But he is certainly up to no good . . .
This is an extremely long post but I’m gonna say what I gotta say. If you need to, save it and read later. Time to dive into the Rabbit Hole…
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This is how I feel when I think about my journey with GameStop. It’s been a wild fucking ride and I’ll always think fondly on my time here. Just so everyone’s clear on what’s going on: starting tomorrow, I am taking a hiatus from the mod team with plans to return when this rocket launches cuz we’ll need all hands on deck. I’ll be holding all of my shares tight until we are way beyond the moon and if my finances allow, I’ll buy more. I literally can’t fucking wait to come back and unleash my MOASS memes 😂
A teaser of my MOASS memes <3
When I became a moderator, I put every part of myself into it. I live an extremely purposeful life and I try my best to make positive change wherever I am. Because of how important our plight is to me, I gave quite nearly everything I could to help this community. All my waking energy was spent doing something for GameStop and it simply isn’t sustainable for my mental, spiritual, or financial health.
Just to give you an idea of the shit I went through: I moved to NYC on July 1 this summer and like two weeks later was the mod drama that compelled me to become a mod. I was trying to get a lease signed, roommates added, job searching, and learning a completely new job ON TOP OF TRYING TO KEEP THE SUBREDDIT FROM IMPLODING…it was extremely fucking stressful…
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So that’s the main reason I decided to keep my self-imposed term limit. I’m gonna be taking a hiatus from stocks and social media in general. We’re doing a lot of good, but there’s also too much toxicity right now. People are anxious and worried. Many of us have put our literal life savings into this. And when I look at how we live against the backdrop of the whole world being on fucking fire, it’s overwhelming! It’s too much noise, too much bullshit, and I know I need to disconnect from it all for a bit.
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I'm kinda new to Folk Punk although it's became my new favorite genre. What's some good/underated bands you guys recommend? I like Days N' Daze and the members other bands, all of Patrick Schneeweis's and his 4 bands, Mischief Brew, and Against Me!.
*I'm not the original poster. This is a repost with very minor edits. Original post by u/Clickity_clickity *
Jack, the Worst End User, Part 1.
I had been working as a small office's sysadmin for a little over two months when Jack was hired. Jack was a paid intern whose mother was friends with my boss's wife. Jack grew up in the wealthiest county in the state (where my Boss lives) and has had everything he ever wanted. A sense of entitlement that hung around him like the smell of five-day-old socks was the first thing I noticed upon being introduced to him as he went around the office.
"Jack, this is Clickity, our, erm...uh...tech...guy..." My boss introduces me, in that way that old bosses who don't use computers often do.
Jack extends his hand. "Oh, cool. Nice to meet ya."
I shake. "Welcome aboard."
Jack is very eager to get started doing...whatever. "Will I get a business email?" as if this is the most interesting thing ever. Adorable, I think.
"Eventually, yes. For the moment though, we have a shared email for interns on staff. I'll get you the credentials shortly." Most of the interns use the shared email for a while until getting their own. just standard procedure.
"You run the firewall, right?"
"Yes."
"So you can block and unblock sites?"
"Yes." Jack's eager smile is contagious.
"Cool! Nice to meet you." He waves and the Boss and Jack leave to go be introduced elsewhere.
Now, dear reader, you might be wondering why I would call Jack the worst end user ever given his politeness and general smiling demeanor who has some understanding of what a sysadmin is, and what a sysadmin does. That's above average when it comes to end users.
Well, we're only getting started here with Jack.
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The first thing Jack did was complain the moment he was out of earshot. He apparently explained to the Boss that it really would be professional to have his own email given his experience and the fact that he was really more than just an intern. See, Jack knew his shit and that was that if he complained to Mother, she would complain to Boss-Wife, who would complain to Boss. And Boss, figuring an email is a small thing to ask for, had a request to set up a personalized email account for Jack on my desk within the hour.
This was not to be a good start of a relationship with one's IT Guy.
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Day 2, I got an IT ticket for the room where the interns work. it's a
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
tldr; I have an old twitter account that gets likes removed from DFV & RC posts, the censorship has been increasing slowly over time.
Just in case y'all need some confirmation bias... I've been here since January, regularly interacting with GameStop, GameStop Canada, Ryan Cohen and Roaring Kitty's Twitter posts. I know a lot of you hate Twitter, and clearly with good reason...
I regularly go back and check on Ryan Cohen & Roaring Kitty's old tweets, almost all of which I've liked, and notice they haven't been liked and I have the option to like it again. If I do so the like stays on refresh, but after a few hours/days I'll go back and it's gone.
Originally I assumed that this was just a few of the oldest posts (ice cream cone era), and I figured this was some sort of anti-spam prevention method even though I have an old ass Twitter account. But it's been increasing over time. Now ones recently as June (the sears post) has my like removed.
At the same time, all of Roaring Kitty's posts that I've liked June and back have had their likes removed. This tells me super clearly that these are in a basket of posts that Twitter is actively trying to suppress. Might not mean much to some of you, and this might not be new news... but just more confirmation bias for me and wanted to share.
Enjoy the Streisand Effect Jack. I wonder why he would step down at a time like this....
Edit to add in:
A few people have mentioned this extends beyond DFV/RC's Twitter profiles; I checked and found the same thing that all old posts (pre January 2021) had their likes removed as well. They still showed up in the like history on my profile.
As a web dev, I'm 99% sure this isn't some sort of bug, it's a feature. If we honestly have anywhere close to 700k users in SS, I refuse to believe RC has a max of 20k likes per post he's made.
Twitter is almost certainly being dishonest with their data. With the new info I think it's more likely the case of my original assumption apes profiles being censored/flagged as spam accounts.
How is turning off the like button any different then turning off the buy button though?
THIS IS WHY WE NEED WEB3. Honest data being processed by public contracts that can't be manipulated by a centralized entity. Fucking delicious.
Rotten Tomatoes: 67% (6.10 in average rating) with 100 reviews
> Critics consensus: House of Gucci vacillates between inspired camp and dour drama too often to pull off a confident runway strut, but Lady Gaga's note-perfect performance has a timeless style all its own.
Metacritic: 59/100 (43 critics)
As with other movies, the scores are set to change as time passes. Meanwhile, I'll post some short reviews on the movie.
> Ridley Scott’s film is a trashtacular watch that I wouldn’t have missed for the world. But it fails to settle on a consistent tone — overlong and undisciplined as it careens between high drama and opera buffa.
-David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
> It may not resonate with the biblical weight of “There Will Be Blood” or scald with the hedonistic swagger of “The Wolf of Wall Street,” but Scott’s film offers a shrewdly divided fable about the way things tend to get cheapened as they grow more lucrative. As art sells its soul to commerce. Maurizio was a Gucci, and Patrizia made him merely rich. It would be hard to imagine a more fitting place to see it than at a big multiplex full of steaming franchise shit over Thanksgiving weekend.
> House of Gucci is an icepick docudrama that has a great deal of fun with its grand roster of ambitious scoundrels, but it’s never less than a straight-faced and nimbly accomplished movie.
> In the end, this is Lady Gaga’s film: her watchability suffuses the picture, an arrabbiata sauce of wit, scorn and style.
-Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian: 4/5
> “House of Gucci” clocks in at two hours at 37 minutes and for the most part moves at a good pace, though does tend to plod when Gaga’s not on screen and the plot turns to Maurizio’s business dealings as Gucci competes with rival fashion houses for fresh talent. There are also some on-the-nose needle drops and those seeking Oscar-ready earnestness might n
... keep reading on reddit ➡I believe the main reason for the wait right now is the launch of counterfactual wallets. Daniel Wang specifically hinted at this while being interviewed about smart wallets and the counterfactual wallet update.
”Right now on the Ethereum mainnet, each wallet will cost about 650K gas, which translates to, you know, about $100 sometimes.”
”This is a huge barrier to our massive adoption.”
”So the idea now for us is that we want to allow people to try more wallets before they pay for the wallet creation.”
Link to interview:
https://medium.com/loopring-protocol/counterfactual-wallet-nfts-on-loopring-229d38a3c28a
To put it simply, Counterfactual wallets are kind of like a try it before you buy it approach to creating wallets. They also remove the roadblock to massive adoption.
So simply put, why launch a marketplace without removing that massive barrier to new user adoption? They would set themselves up for failure if they did. This is why I believe it makes complete business sense to launch the NFT Marketplace alongside the counterfactual wallet release.
Okay so when does this counterfactual wallet get released? Well I’ve asked multiple times and they are very hush hush and respond vaguely. So this got me very suspicious! Why the secrecy unless it is tied to the marketplace? That’s when I read that medium interview, it really started creating a wrinkle on my smooth brain.
So I did some digging and found this discord post that a redditor shared with me. This gives us our best confirmation of a release date for the counterfactual wallets.
https://m.imgur.com/a/8RY0gnW
You apes ready for next week? This discord response was made on 10/22, which means counterfactual wallets would release on or around 11/5.
Remember remember the 5th of November!
I should also note that publicly traded companies (like GME) love to release news after hours on a Friday in order to build up hype for Monday’s trading session. Also, What’s everyone going to be talking about around the dinner table on Thanksgiving? This release allows for that hype to spread fast and just in time for the Christmas shopping season.
To jack your tits even more, here is a summary of all the theories converging on November 5th in addition to mine!
- Twitter Banner Double Countdown starts after the banner has been consistent for months (6,5,4,3)...after apes notice, the countdown pauses.
- Mario Party Superstars Banner (2) - countdown continues with "Final Countdown" game e
Right then. Let's see about fixing that cliff hanger. Sorry not sorry, he he. I'm sure everyone is fine though... Checks notes Nearly fine...
Anywho remember to praised the editors UnwavoringGray and Bushmaster. They did a great job as always sifting through the shit show to make me look good. So lean back and enjoy the show ;D
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Chapter 139: Exchange of Fire
“Jortun is airborne heading up, red is still diving,” Kokashi shouted out. Tom had to commend them on the little system of using his magic hearing to receive messages from above and below. It worked quite well.
“And the black is running like a stabbed rat. Good. Open the doors and someone get Nunuk! Now!” Rachuck ordered as the mechanism came to life, Wiperna and Shiva cranking it open. Dakota was first out the door, slipping under the opening gate and running straight off the edge, diving down towards the stricken lady.
Tom jogged out onto the platform along with the rest of the dragonettes that had been waiting there, looking down. It did not look pretty. Three of the four brigands that had been on the ground with the black dragon lay dead, strewn around the place. Two of them had been splashed by the black dragon's acid when she had sprayed around madly after losing an eye. Tom had given the two of them a mercy shot as they lay screaming in agony. The acid had eaten right through their armor, even the steel just seemed to melt. The third had missed the acid but taken a pair of crossbow bolts from the keep for his troubles instead.
Nunuk had bolted for the keep as soon as the fighting started, but she h
... keep reading on reddit ➡I first remember cold. Cold and wet. I was weak. Too weak. Mommy left me behind while carrying away my brothers and sisters. It was dark and I was scared and I cried and cried until I couldn't cry anymore, begging someone- anyone- for help. I was so hungry. But nobody came. I could feel myself slipping toward the Forever Sleep, before my life had even really begun.. And then warmth. Something picked me up, picked the chewing bugs off my face, and I could smell.. Food. Milk. MILK! So hungry. But I was too weak to eat on my own, so the Warm helped me. The cold-wet stopped, and I was carried away by a noisy thing. The rumbling is a sound I associate with comfort now. The Warm brought me to a place that smelled like nothing but Clean. I was so tired, I could hear others there- some of them congratulated me on my good fortune. Most were begging for food or attention. I recall brief moments of sharp pains and then there was more milk, and someone helped me pass waste, and despite the brief moments of pain the relief was so intense I didn't care.
For a time I stayed in the Clean Place. The Warm was not always there, but it came regularly, and let me sleep on it. Then my eyes opened for the first time and I saw his face. DADDY! That memory always makes me happy. Mommy was gone but I had Daddy now, and Daddy is a People. He took me home after another People at the Clean Place finished cleaning me up and making sure I didn't have anymore parasites or diseases. I followed Daddy everywhere, and his lap or chest have always been my favorite sleeping spots. I always had toys and food and.. Well, I almost always had a roof over my head. There was a brief time when I was still a baby when Daddy was thrown out of his home by an angry People who wanted stuff from him. We slept on streets and a really mean People tried to take me away from Daddy but then a whole bunch of other People suddenly crowded around them, gave me back to Daddy, and then began beating the ever loving hell out of that jerk. And then I got special treats! It was a good day, even though Daddy cried a lot while hugging me.
One day a really big People with gray skin came and talked to Daddy and she smelled like burning tobacco leaves and her hands smelled like death. Lots of death, very old; Daddy said she was a 'soldier'. She gave us a new roof over our heads! It was all cold metal and it smelled a lot like the Clean Place, but.. Different.
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