Purposely wearing your pants halfway down your butt. There is no way that is comfortable.
Name something you “just don’t get”.
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Blockchain is a distributed ledger of information. If you understand the concept of a general ledger in accounting that is a running log of all transactions, think of blockchain in a similar vein. Something happens, it gets logged. Someone changes it, they don’t change the record, they add an edit entry instead. And so on and so on. It is distributed instead of centralized like a bank. Meaning that the ledger is controlled by a majority of the people participating. I could try to force a transaction to occur through nefarious means, but it won’t actually occur because no other participants in the blockchain will respect my bad transaction. What blockchain is potentially susceptible to is some one or some group somehow obtaining control of greater than 50% of the participants in the blockchain, then they would have total control until they lost majority ownership. But most of these public block chains have hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of participants so that would be hard to do.
Think of crypto currencies like commodities traded in a market, company stock or gold/silver. They only have value based upon what someone is willing to pay and then ownership of crypto is maintained by a ledger and an account, or wallet, that the commodities are assigned to. The wallet is a local file that has an electronic identification in the ledger. If you forget the password or if you lose the file you won’t be able to access the assets anymore, just like people in old times and the potential of losing their company stock certificates to a house fire. Just like gold and silver they had to be “mined” before being used. In the case of bitcoin, mining consisted of a computer doing calculations for a task. Bitcoin has a limit to how many coins are available, so it became harder to mine them over time and require much more calculations to mine one coin. There are also some bitcoin wallets that have been “lost” where people don’t know the password or lost the computer the files were on and nobody has access to them anymore, similar to gold that sunk to the bottom of the sea that nobody knows where it is. Crypto currencies utilize blockchain technology to be the ledger for which wallet owns what, so that is how they connect together. You may say, why can’t I just edit the wallet, since it is a local file, to make myself have more bitcoin? You can’t because the blockchain knows how many bitcoin you have access to because of the ledger.
NFT has been talked about by others.
Stephen Sondheim? He has some great stuff.Stephen Sondheim - yes he was (is?) a great lyricist but he is the Seinfeld of writing the music. His melodies are about nothing
Give his "Ballad of Booth" a listen. You will surely change your opinion:
Iced coffee. I don't get how anybody can drink this.
I dont get how onlyfans is such a big deal when there are 18 billion free porn videos that cover any possible fetish.
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Daylight savings time. It is a useless relic of an era long gone. The energy savings are negligible - why do we allow this to persist?
Shout rap. My son likes all kind of rap that gets played while we work out. I probably like 20% of it, tolerate 70% of it, but then 10% hurts my ears and has no redeeming value. It kind has a heavy metal aspect to it, of which, the shouting kind I also hate. He says it gets him pumped up. I do not get it.
Coffee is great hot to very warm, and then iced. Room temperature coffee is not good.
I think daylight savings should be year ‘round. I prefer the extra hour of light at night versus during the morning.
I'm a weirdo that enjoys coffee at any temp. I use a lot of creamer though.
Yes. Avoiding a 300 calorie sugar bomb is always good for you.
It has value for the same reason any other currency has value. That being, enough people agree it has value.
I'm the opposite. I'd rather have standard time year round.
The thing that makes standard time still important is making sure our kids aren't going to school in pitch dark. Otherwise most people would rather stay on daylight time imo.
Kind of like having a 1/4 convertible. I enjoy driving with it open and all of the windows down.
Wrong, with regard to homemade. Agreed on the bottled shit. But, if you don’t like the bottled stuff you probably haven’t had good homemade ranch.
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This is a good idea. I don’t care which schedule we stick with - just keep it to one.
The crap that passes for entertainment on commercial tv is astounding.
You don’t understand why people
“Don’t leave the country” or essentially travel. Hmmm I wonder why.......
I don’t know wtf you’re saying. Sorry if I’m missing something obvious. I’m saying I don’t get people that don’t travel. Period.
women’s aviator sunglasses. They look stupid.
Smoking. It's a really unnatural act. It's expensive, and it's filthy. Literally burning money.
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It's a speculative market, just like real estate. You buy it because (you hope) someone else will pay more for it, even though it holds no intrinsic value to you. A few people will make money, the bottom will fall out, and many people will lose money.
Actually, hearing LeAnn Rimes cover songs last season was amazing. A true talent. Whether the show is good depends on who they got to participate that season.
Blind devotion to one dude...who has been a grifter conman his entire life.
How David Blaine makes your card appear in a piece of fruit, or inside a beer bottle, or on a window.
