Truth is that an artist put a midget on display in a glass box in Trafalgar Square for a week.
Karl Pilkington, himself a “royal pain in the arse” and “village idiot” according to Ricky Gervais, was only put on the show for Ricky's amusement.
The famous quote I put before you is that when told about the poor little disabled fella in a glass box on display in London, his fellow Londoner only had this to say: “what's art about that?”
He had yet to realize that he himself was also a true gift to our generation put on to dance and sing and put on a show. Afterwards he would swear to never collaborate with Rick again, but at the time he just didn't put 2+2 together - not everyone who is nice to you is your friend.
Regardless, when put to the question of whether or not people in glass houses should throw stones, Karl posed they shouldn't walk about naked - Fair point and I'll come back here, but Rick laughed him off and said it's about making sure to worry about the fragility of your own situation before waging war.
Re: walking around naked, it's a fair point- you'd be treated to absolutely no credible privacy should you, too, end up in a glass box on display or a glass house.
What it truly means is that if your success and career has been delivered, then you cannot test the bounds of the system else worry about biting the hand that feeds.
We're about to see all the tweets being deleted and all the books be burned. What record of our purgery will there be?
None.
Unless we return blockchain back to it's core purpose as a distributed consensus mechanism and boot all these strangers and their get rich quick stuff out.
I built a few useful tools lately - backup all your Notion.so docs to Bitcoin as compressed text ordinals, do the same with stack exchange sites. I even put the entirety of the bitcoin stack exchange onto the bitcoin testnet and now anyone running a testnet node in the worst case scenario will be able to do whatever they please with Bitcoin if they just look at those ordinals.
We need a Diary of Anne Frank for the Holocaust going on in front of our eyes, or else everything will be forgotten if anything is left.
-second article gracias, on the house-
A Bit of Background
As an avid gamer I found myself modding often - it started with a title called Black & White, where I rewrote the maps to give you a whole bunch of extra spells so you could teach your monster the hilariously best spells right off the bat without much knowledge.
Or giving infinite resources to the map Big Game Hunters.
The idea was simple: lessen my time playing the game, while I could still enjoy the various aspects of the game. This is maximizing utility in a sense - or a nice little life hack.
Either way, one of my most glorious triumphs was in modding Civilization IV.
I never understood why in any of the Sid Meier’s titles you couldn’t have a much more playable experience if each team had access to a much more frequent birthing of Great People. If you could found a few more squares with 9+ of each resource, by having your Great Person set up camp there - or whatever other benefit your various Great People might have - you could have a much more enjoyable (and relatively easier) time playing.
That is to say: if the opposition (especially an AI-driven opponent) has no idea how to utilize these plethora of new tools and weapons, they would be centuries behind your empire. No matter how many cities they founded or how far they extended their reach - the ways in which your nation outshone theirs would multiply exponentially.
A quick and dirty setup would be to birth a Great Prophet followed almost immediately (maybe even the same turn, if you’re lucky) by another Great Prophet. You’d have a religion before anyone else!
Or is that Civilization V?
The solution to gaming is easy:
change the rules. And bring back corporations and spies from the earlier games - much cooler, imho.