Love the part where General Dynamics is teaching 5th graders how to build nuclear submarines. One sub can kill everyone in over 100 large cities.

full lockdown when the plague arrives

The barbarians might have finished them off but the Romans did it to themselves. Extraordinary powers given to an Augustus wind up producing a Caligula.

Same as us, direct democracy would buy some time

Not have used lead pipes for water.

I think they saved lots with Constantinople and Christianity. We still use a lot of their language today and even arts, law and engineering.

live by the mercenary die by the mercenary

Division, local government and ownership with a light tax and shared education of all resources to expand eveloution with a shared and joint destination... Hindsight is a beautiful thing thou

Buddies for Proconsul!

We are still in the Roman Empire, only the 2nd coming, the International one which spans across the continents. The Romans never lost, neither the ££££s.....
This is the future boys, complete fucked up western existence

The West is the best

By making a Catholic Church

cool spot can i ask where it is?

They went down hill when they embraced Christianity
Constantine is to blame, cunt

F The Popes - F The Vatican

We are living in it right now - Vatican rules this realm. Burn Babylon.

1 don’t use a crypto wallet that requires you to put your id, allegedly

2, find a friend who does skullduggery and sell him your coin and charge him 5%
Allegedly

This way you can allegedly avoid paying any tax on any crypto you have

So I’ve heard

A lot of my friends lost their BTC in boating accidents

Goto tax free country and cash out .. then open a business and give your self monthly wage from that company.

how did this individual go about selling the crypto?

Hypothetically is about to sell on coinbase

So what would one do?
Send the crypto to another p2p exchange?
Which would you recommend?

Hypthetically, they should convert their coins into USDT or USDC to lock in profits first and foremost.


Peer to peer has much less of a paper trail and I would hate for traders to use P2P if I was uncle Sam.

Which exchange would they send from coinbase to?

I remember something about being stoned to death. They had some serious shit back then I guess

This made me proper giggle

Man that made me laugh my friend

😂😂😂

I always remember an old boy originally from Yorkshire I worked with a few years ago. He told me a story about the time he went to court for cannabis charges and quoted the bible in his defence.

Gen. 1 Verses 29 to 30
[29] And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

Wohooo!..covers shrooms as well!

I’ll tell u what. Life would be a simpler place if one off the commandments was “Thou shall not pass to the right” 😆

Whether it was or wasn’t , god gave us cannabis .

Moses inhaled the fumes from the burning bush then spoke to God...
Sounds like a DMT trip, probably wouldve had a little smoke on the way down!

Was the burning bush the acacia tree?

They've found traces of THC in the lungs of ancient Egyptian mummys so they did have access to Cannabis in that region.

You’d have to pretty baked to come up with that fairy story in the first place...which is a more believable scenario than it being ‘written’ by a bunch of illiterate nomadic peasants wandering around the desert thousands of years ago. So, ‘god’ doesn’t care about whether u get high, or not, because he/she/they?😂 don’t exist

'Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours stash'?

Ha ha

Hi Philjgrove, it's an interesting theory and would be enjoyable if it's true, but I think it's controversial, of course the conservative Christians wouldn't go with this. I know there is a book on the subject "Cannabis: Lost Sacrament of the Ancient World" by Chris Bennet, also a couple of episodes of podcast "Great moments in weed history" on this subject :-)

The Holy Grail was slightly bong shaped!

rastas do call it a chalice :)

Scripture doesn't condemn cannabis but it doesn't condone smoking or being habitually inebriated (your body is a temple, kingdom of heaven not to be inherited by the drunk) but it depends on whether you interpret 'drunk' as relating only to alcohol or having it be a more general term for not being sober. I don't live by the bible but I personally believe God doesn't make mistakes and wouldn't put it here if he didn't want us to use it.

Thanks

My religious mate says the big guy gave us it so the clever amongst us would forget we live on a rock being dragged through space by a massive nuclear explosion lol

not really related to the actual bible, but more the religion as a whole, i read the book The Immortality Key which talks about psychoactive usage in Christianity... I'm pretty sure he mentioned them finding traces of cannabis in archaeological finds. It's very interesting. I think recent research found cannabis on an old Christian alter too.

Genesis 1:11
King James Version
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed

Exodus 30:23-25

"Take the finest spices: of liquid myrrh 500 shekels, and of sweet-smelling cinnamon half as much, that is, 250, and 250 of aromatic cane [kaneh-bosm], and 500 of cassia, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil. And you shall make of these a sacred anointing oil blended as by the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil."

Some scholars suggest that "kaneh-bosm" refers to cannabis. If true, this sacred oil, used in anointing rituals, could have had psychoactive or healing properties, deepening spiritual experiences.

"He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; and wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man’s heart."

This verse celebrates the bounty of the earth, including herbs that serve humanity. It highlights the idea that natural substances can bring joy and nourishment, perhaps reflecting a spiritual purpose for psychoactive plants.

Take a look at the god plant on prime buddy

Jesus, so that's why we still call it weed today

Was catchier than Dried Pubes

I started smoking weed in '70, and the main difference I can tell between late 70s and now is that back then sinsemilla was just a part of the market, with a lot of packages containing seeds and more leaf and stem (amount varied with price). Today it's all sinsemilla (so much so that the term isn't even used anymore). The quality is pretty much the same. We had thai sticks and Hawaiian that certainly equaled top shelf strains of today (as far as anyone could tell - there wasn't much precision on reporting THC levels). I'm happy with the situation, but I stopped smoking between about '83 and 2009 (job), and wasn't amazed by any changes in potency; just the fact that it's all sinsemilla. I did feel silly when I first got back in the market and asked a seller whether or not his product was sinsemilla and he didn't know wtf I was talking about. I quickly found out that was a stupid question... :>)

I remember references to what I thought was the "sense" now I get that was sinsimilla :) Thanks

Yep, that's what it was called. Just Spanish for "without seed". Speaking of Spanish, if we could find Oaxacan sinse we considered ourselves lucky, because it was just about as good as Thai but cheaper. Availability (in my part of Texas) wasn't reliable at all though. Now, it's like going to the weed supermarket. We're living in the future in that sense. Life is good and getting better...

Alternate title: The Current State of Irish Cannabis

LMAO

😂😂

Started smoking back in the 80s red leb ,black.good shit joints or hot knives they rocked.

Yeah bro the stuff with the cloth attached to it, red leb think there was gold leb too it was lovenly stuff. Early 90s.

And green leb. Amazing days. Wasn’t the strongest, but tasted amazing.

We also used to get straws filled with green oil. Either spread some on a rizla or just chase the dragon with it. God knows what it’s done to my lungs.

I was there from 1972-ish, it was mostly pretty good in the Uk depending who you knew, or what grew ;) Avoiding the street ofc.

Most of the pictured weed was grown outdoors on a hillside without fertilisers, boosters and the other shit habitually used today.

I partook in the some of the countries of origin at the time too, thank you Magic Bus. I preferred hash at the time and still do, real Temple Balls were trippy, Leb was a knockout and the black in the Dam was unbelievable and so on. Impossible to get around here, so pleased to have found LB at last!

How did people live with that? With the way weed has gone it's a different world and are kids will think the same as are weed lol

Let's hope there's a little weed in their shunt/ brain interface

Vaguely remember smoking some stuff looking similar to that here in the UK circa late 90s.

Cannabis has came a long way

Meh I’d still smoke it. I bet all of these would get you high as a motherfucker. Because you wouldn’t be used to them at all.

If i got any of that in the post I'd probably raise a dispute. Though I did buy thai stick and brick pack in the 90's. Wouldn't mind seeing a picture of the hash scene back then. All the hash bars look the same now. Just with a different picture under the cellophane. Picture looks like it came off someone's home printer. No finesse to hash bars these days.

1970s cannabis dispute settlement, there's a prompt

first 'grass' I ever smoked looked like Acapulco Gold number 5, first proper weed I got fucked from was like the Thai in number 10

Proper Gold Seal hash. In Amsterdam. Back then. 1991, 2

When Orange Bud was ridiculous, and there was no hope, ever, of getting that shit at home.

Generic “skunk” for £40 on the eighth round my way.

Cheaper to go ‘Dam. Post shit back. And have a nice little holiday.

Nah. Hash. Pop up De Pijp. Buy 10 2 euro dvds.

You might want to watch them. But it’s mainly shite horror. Early Cronenberg if you were lucky. Nikita. That sort of thing.

Then pack them with as much hash as you can. Pop them in an envelope. And post them. Just go for a nice walk. 10 parcels. 10 different post boxes.

Oz of very nice hash, in the UK. Thankyou very much.

But we had Budmonkey back then. Shit like that. Hermes. 2005 ish. You know. That shit.

Can’t even remember how it was done.

Like people thinking this shit is new. 😄

No. Genuinely

😃

we used to get the ferry over from harwich, £35 for a 24 hour return. Sometimes we'd get a coach there and back because they never got searched, would stash hash around the coach and collect it once through customs.

There was a DVD shop we used to go to, open them up and plaster hash all over the inside and post them home. always landed

Colombian Gold for me, and Thai Sticks. Late 80’s goodness. 😂

Blimey! I’m glad to have been born in the 80s.

I saw a lot of weed in '77, but the only pics here that look like what I saw are the Thai sticks. Weed didn't look like the compact nuggets we see today, but it never looked that raggedy that I remember, and I started smoking it in '70.

Beautiful bit of chaff

It would explain the instantaneous communication between quantum entangled photons. Instead of "spooky action at a distance", the "system" or "field" is simultaneously exciting two parts of its occupied space. The photons do not communicate at all and therefore preserve the physical speed limit of the universe.

Imagine an older first person shooter game. Bullets had no travel time or drop to take into account. The moment the trigger was pulled, the enemy player was instantly hit. But here, the two players aren't communicating information, but the system is taking account of all space at all time and calculating to adjust everything on it's next tick, rendering the enemy player "shot".

The bullet's information never has to travel faster than light in order for its effect to be accounted for by the whole system. Just one tick, or one unit of Planck time, is all that is required for adjustment to be calculated.

A pinch of salt required but interesting thought, I think.

Nice post

well put

It’s possible. Atoms are just smaller pixels in our 1000k virtual reality

‘tis true…at the quantum level there is no difference from all that we are and a computer programm…

Philip K. Dick did a lot of drugs.

But he did say a passage from Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said preceded an event that became reality. The man at the petrol station for those that read it.

The Empathy Box from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep resembles the internet in some ways. And as for the Nazis winning the war, well...

My man.

But seriously, he also thought he was Jesus.

If you like a really good read, I recommend his biography - I am a alive and you are dead by Emmanuel Carrère

Thinking your Jesus is pretty common in career speed freaks like Dick.
P.S. The above is an observation not criticism.of Dick whom I totally dig.

Yeah. I love Dick's writing, but he was, well, a bit of a dick.

I just have to say 'Time Out of Joint' is the best scifi novel of all time and also highlights these thoughts perfectly.

I saw him talking about this on another vid, the Bladerunner universe was the same place i think and there were lots of orientals in the facist USA as the Japanese and Germans shared the spoils after the war with the germans taking the east coast and the japanese the west...who knows? there are loads of weird glitches which 'prove' we are in a sim...YT is full of these theories, and as they all seem to say, the chances of us being in the one original out of thousands of sims is very slim...good link mate.

Maybe he'd do a podcast.

I think Anon captured exactly this back in the day.

We all hate hermis haha..

But yes if you put 200 girls in a room nature will try to find a way, same will probably happen with humans at some point.

Acceleration, because let's get this over with.

go beff!

Well done, no good deed is unpunished with some biggaz but you are surely appreciated.

People only understand what they understand, usually that means themselves.

Canon borg provided some more information, this might help:

A new borg is born! Or as we say "forked". In this case forked from cleanup borg, whose general function is removing harmful content from little biggy.

Proof borg isolates particular content, parsing the words that cleanup borg reads to find provable, trustless data.

Proof borg's (littlebiggy.org/4821348) 1st objective is analysing contests for provably fair results, thus preventing manipulated outcomes.

Despite the particularly computative nature of this borg, it's still all of our words that remain it's heart.

1st objective? Sounds like there is more coming..

Yes, terrible people understanding themselves wishing to make this a better place for new vendors and biggas. We should hang our heads in shame 🙄.
As you can clearly see a majority of the community that has engaged actually totally agree about the wall. I would say that democracy is probably not on your side here.
Infact, I think only 3 people have had anything negative to say. 2 of those biggas joined in the same month of the same year and were supporting the other's abstract point and had both coincidentally been offline for 3 days at time of writing so, that means 2 people max in my eyes.

liz truss, democracy, post modernism and paranoid accounting. bigga please. this borg announced actually helping and doing something for us. if you care about the topics wall then it should be obvious that contests get lots of attention from the algorithm, they are starting to dominate the wall and presumably bs ones were proliferating. and we are talking about the front page for this site.

what are the choices they have here? they could be lazy and kill all contests (basically the reddit mod move) or even lazier and let the wall be filled with people trying to enter a zero barrier to entry scam.

this is why i gave you the link to the wall bot. if you have some ideas great, but let someone (something?) that's trying to help do their job.

Ad hominem attacks, invalid arguments, building a strawman.
It's clear you have some dog in this fight, I just wish you would be upfront about it and say, "Sorry Biggas, the wall is perfect and not going to get any better"
It should be obvious from the thread, that people think there are better priorities than comps.
The choice i suggested here is that if somebody doesn't sell an item for over a year, the item should disappear from the wall way before this for a more recently listed item.
You are trying to position this as merely a binary choice -"the wall stays as it is, or it is filled with exit scams"
You know as well as I do that the wall can be fixed without making it susceptible to exit scams.
I see you ignored every point about the fact that LB bots paying lip service to change, but rarely actually makes any.
It's true isn't it? That's why it feels pointless to actually message the wallbot.
I echo what Polly says, if the site doesn't want meaningful dialogue about how to improve, then just say so and we won't bother.

It would help if borgs worked with vendors to make contests provably fair instead of just deleting everything.

Everything can be made easier with a bit of dialogue.

100% , but it's quicker to just click delete 😐

It'd be really good if there was a "wall borg" that was as diligent as you say you will be on this subject.
There are vendors items on that wall that have had no reviews in almost 400 days. Given how easy it is for the owners of the site to make anybody they like invisible to the wall, I find this incidence really puzzling. I hope there is no favours involved in that?
On the last reviews of the particular example item I am talking about (there are many more items like this on the wall) 3 of the last visible reviews in the last 5 from over a year ago are saying the item didn't arrive, vendor ignored them and comms were really bad.
Meanwhile, some new vendors wait and wait and wait to get an item on the wall, but never end up there.
I think this is provably unfair, if I'm really honest.
The dominoes are falling in Europe - Czech and Germany are legalising soon. We will be at the hundredth monkey soon.
I love this place, I really do but the reality is that more of these kind of places will pop up as decriminalisation advances through the West, somebody will copycat the idea for a lightnet weed escrow service with a server in a legal country - and at this point it would not be too hard to change a few simple things to improve the model we have here.
I think the site owners really need to listen to the people who use this site and actually implement some changes that people suggest.
A good example was months back when everybody lost loads of money on Truss' and Kwarteng's historical mini budget disaster. Somebody started an initiative and hundreds voted FOR change to currency listing to £'s so we aren't all at the mercy of the exchange rate as well as btc fluctuation. Not a single fuck given by the site owners.
I don't think it will take alot to make this place hard to better.
Regards
E

the wall bot is here.

As I read it “diligence” was the issue, not existence. But thanks for the downvotes anyhow🤷‍♂️

sorry but its one thing to see you consistently talk out of your ass and another to read accusations that come from the same place.

i do understand how tea leaf reading all day can lead to this though, the borgs do not give out a lot of information about how the wall works and the people that don't like outcomes are left to speculate.

on the other hand this seems pretty difficult, maybe impossible, search engines never disclose their algorithm because they don't want manipulation.

borgs have made quite a few posts about how things work. you're a class act polly, (no retributive downvote underscores this ;) ) and you care about this community we all love. its obvious these folks stand on their head to give users a voice and to do things right, there must be a better path for you than this.

So, just to be clear, we as the community shouldn't make suggestions for improvement when we see an obvious conflict in priority when it comes to talking about fairness?
I think we all realise the nature of this place means no such thing as 100% win. It's not amazon, but suggesting improvements to the fairness in how the wall works (as well as the contests) doesn't seem to me to be objectively unrealistic in any way.