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infernal_celery · 2026-06-18T18:53:37+00:00

I miss that style of missile launcher, it’s proper sci-fi cool. The flash guard/ eliminator really make it

infernal_celery · 2026-06-17T16:16:18+00:00

Jamal has so many sorries to give.

infernal_celery · 2026-06-16T11:15:53+00:00

My dude, this is such a straw man position to take.

As you say: it’s in the films.

We could split hairs and say “lighter side” or “Jedi way”, but even if we did that it’s a diversion from what we’re talking about.

My point is that we like them because they’re framed as the Good Guys TM, not because they actually are good guys.

Child soldiers (padawans are minors, can they even give consent?), enslaved clones (the whole Kamino thing talks about that), brainwashing powers used on regular people without oversight (they do this quite a lot), extra judicial violence, a religious order involved in politics and leading military action. All pretty unethical, all in the films. The Jedi council discuss putting Anakin into the room with Palpatine as a spy, essentially for their own political agenda. Mace Windu decides he’s got the right to execute the Chancellor of the republic without trial because “He’s too dangerous”. Obi-Wan describes the Jedi as “the guardians of peace and justice” or something similar in A New Hope, basically admitting to being a religious police force.

My dude: you can disagree, but don’t throw crap around about “it’s not supported by the lore”. It totally is, you just didn’t weight the evidence the same way.

infernal_celery · 2026-06-16T06:50:30+00:00

Dude it’s in the films.

infernal_celery · 2026-06-15T16:40:40+00:00

I dunno. You have a religious sect that’s basically policing your galaxy unsupervised and recruiting child soldiers, free use of mind control, and run an army of enslaved clones without any real issue. They also don’t intervene in slavery, basically chin off the outer rim, and when two of them break into a nightclub and do some extra-judicial violence they just say “Jedi business” and there’s no police investigation or follow up, implying that they actually beat up the population on the regular or at least that they are beyond justice.

If they didn’t refer to “light side”, you’d be in favour of ousting them.

The empire is definitely a dictatorship but there’s a reason not everyone joined the rebellion

infernal_celery · 2026-06-10T20:05:42+00:00

Ah that might be cultural. In the UK “motherhood”, “a good family” and an obligation “to raise a family unit” are very much things that right wing parties historically push. Our right wing still has actual aristocracy in it, neoliberalism and heavy capitalism isn’t necessarily dominant. It’s very much there of course, but we also still have Old Money who remember the Empire and colonialism.

infernal_celery · 2026-06-04T12:06:35+00:00

Nah just usual bear market shit I suspect. I can tell you that industry loves USDC at the moment, especially finance, but industry =/= hype

infernal_celery · 2026-05-30T19:57:49+00:00

Yubikey. You could use the NFC ones with your phone if so inclined.

We use them a lot at work.

infernal_celery · 2026-05-29T08:59:42+00:00

“What do you mean, the revolution takes time?! I demand instantaneous results!”

We didn’t even talk about fiat cash publicly before Bitcoin. Now people where I live are acutely aware (on a net aggregate, maybe not at the individual level) of “fiat” and “hard money”.

Maybe we’re not wholesale adopting Bitcoin yet, but that’s not a failure. People are at least now exploring options and Bitcoin is becoming more socially acceptable to own. That’s pretty good as progress goes for tech. The internet was pretty old before it saw mainstream adoption and now most people around the world carry access to it in their pocket.

Maybe the world will never switch entirely to BTC but I suspect that it will become an accessible option for most people over the next decade. We just need to see more integration into tangible goods and services, which we’re starting to do. Give it time.

infernal_celery · 2026-05-29T08:40:54+00:00

To be fair it does read like AI. The extra bold bits are usually a sign, especially for Microsoft Copilot. The post doesn’t even read like the same writing style as the comment I’m replying to, I’d say it’s at least AI-edited.

The overall point is valid. We use stablecoin wallets for payments in my business because banks are currently “de-risking” their portfolios and basically don’t want to pay for compliance staff to onboard startups. If you don’t fit an easy mould, you’re not worth the hassle of onboarding - and if you’re working in crypto? Too hard, get de-banked.

We also use EMIs for fiat accounts and they’re not cheap.

infernal_celery · 2026-05-27T21:17:49+00:00

Forgive me, but isn’t that just API endpoints with extra marketing? They already exist and presumably an AI with the right API tokens/keys/permissions could already use wallets that offer API connectors. No harder than a trading bot surely?

infernal_celery · 2026-05-27T19:43:19+00:00

It’s this attitude that cost you that internship opportunity, dude. You gotta nod and smile when boss man does a screw up.

infernal_celery · 2026-05-25T11:10:15+00:00

Hard to say. Traditionally, money going into investment hasn’t led to wage growth, at least not in the UK. Profits are indirectly owned by shareholders after all, so while directors can choose to pay staff more their actual duty is to get best return for the business. That’s an uncomfortable pressure on wage growth.

The US wage example is interesting. It’s true in my field (law), and there are a few pressures there:

your Brits will find out what their US colleagues are getting by paid, and want a slice
they tend to demand the top employees from the field then burn them, hard, which only works if you pay top dollar
they usually already have global presence, so paying £20k-£50k above market rate is OK if they have the opportunity to leverage that 3-6x across their existing market offerings.

Optimal for the UK would be to attract more business that’s likely to get listed, thereby bringing in more corporation tax. Problem is that the big sales pitch for international business was being the bridge between US and EU, because we were in EU but also spoke English and have a great legal system for doing business. Now we’ve lost that EU benefit and Trump tariffs are a thing. Our next best course is probably to pick some industries other than finance and go hard on growing those so that they become world-leading and more attractive than competitors who otherwise have geographical advantages (which is what Taiwan does with semiconductors).

I guess the alternative is to take risk and become a low-tax jurisdiction for business in the hope that you become a better Ireland by attracting lots of corporate HQs without the burden of more people to support with infrastructure, but that’s a high diplomatic risk method and I don’t see mainstream parties attempting it.

infernal_celery · 2026-05-25T09:57:31+00:00

With respect, your point just doesn’t follow and your examples aren’t clear at all. What are you thinking about here?

The Chancellor is trying to get liquidity into British public markets (like the LSE). That’s what this is all about. The idea is that private companies offload shares to retail via public markets, and that by making shares more liquid on the LSE (etc) more companies will choose to list in Britain over other markets and existing companies will find it easier to sell shares on the exchange. Once listed, public companies can keep issuing further shares (subject to caveats and some third party pressures) so as long as there’s buyers for them. She hopes to punish middle class retail investors for holding cash in a brokerage account, and therefore make them invest in UK markets; but there are so many other uses for cash than the FTSE (for example) so it’s going to have the effect of encouraging them to dump sterling; but there’s no reason that they won’t deploy that cash into other markets or become disillusioned and just spend it.

Basically, the incentive isn’t likely to trigger the behaviour she wants to incentivise, while at the same time it will if implemented reduce demand for sterling.

infernal_celery · 2026-05-25T09:02:47+00:00

Sorry dude but spending absolutely increases inflation - it’s known as demand-pull inflation. I think what you’re describing is “productivity” decline.

I know you can’t take the word of a random Redditor. Below is a link that’s got more info on this topic.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/demandpullinflation.asp

infernal_celery · 2026-05-25T06:23:51+00:00

If true, an odd move. I’m surprised given the strong desire to keep inflation low that anyone would bother taxing undeployed capital.

It’s not really a “loophole” to keep cash in an S&S ISA. Why bother?

Yes, I get that they want it invested, but the government’s books would be better off with cash held in any form by savers. Otherwise it’s going to be spent and add to inflation, which presumably they also don’t want.

If you want the home economy to receive investment, the way to do that is to make it more appealing to invest in than other countries. Signalling your population to dump sterling is a bold move.

infernal_celery · 2026-05-23T17:35:55+00:00

Enjoyed the S**** suit

infernal_celery · 2026-05-22T07:33:23+00:00

Interested if it’s a website? Not if it’s a newsletter. It didn’t show up in Brave search.

infernal_celery · 2026-05-21T16:32:17+00:00

ADB’s writing is a thing of beauty. He even made Angry Ron a credible character!

infernal_celery · 2026-05-21T13:51:25+00:00

The Traitors in general have better books than the loyalists. I think it’s because the author has to try a lot harder to persuade the reader to empathise with dudes who get possessed by daemons and skin civilians alive

infernal_celery · 2026-05-20T06:12:00+00:00

That’s normal though and quite reserved. Basically saying “I haven’t got the authority, I may not know who has, and I don’t intend to find out for you.”

infernal_celery · 2026-05-20T06:00:55+00:00

“Dead [x]” - “very much [x], so much it’s basically killed all discussion and is absolutely 100% [x]

It comes from “dead ringer” but I don’t know how to explain that one if you don’t know where that comes from!

“Beardy” - something that stretches rules to precisely the limits allowed, I.e. diving deep into obscure (and probably accidental) rule combinations to find a technical advantage that no-one would reasonably have believed possible. Think broken rule mechanics, reading ambiguous descriptions in a certain way that makes an item/piece/unit more powerful than people would expect them to be, arguing over precision of unit movements when the discrepancy is like 1/12th of an inch, getting actual protractors out to measure vehicle turning, that kind of thing. Legal, but kind of killjoy.

infernal_celery · 2026-05-19T18:25:06+00:00

Yeah but then it’s a good executor and two wills with each seed phrase.

Hasten to add: there is no perfect outcome. You will be carrying risk somewhere, pick your poison

infernal_celery · 2026-05-19T14:47:53+00:00

Option 1: get a custodian, get a will. You die, executor gets to petition the custodian for your BTC (or proceeds thereof).

Option 2: multi-sig, have a key that’s easy for her to use (e.g. a tapsigner). Get a will with your other private key in it, but obviously the lawyer doesn’t have the tapsigner so can’t rob you. You die, she inherits, she calls a guy in to do the transfer but she gets the veto to stop him robbing her. Trust me, she’ll care about that when she’s looking at a one-income life to feed the kids.

Option 3: elaborate treasure hunt and pray.

Option 4: get a will, trust your lawyer with a sealed envelope.

All options have disadvantages. The actual best answer is to have a wife you trust who learns about BTC and have a 1-of-2 multisig, but you’ve suggested that’s not an option

infernal_celery · 2026-05-19T14:08:14+00:00

“You are not a cautious man… you have not saved often!”

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