Shit That Impresses You

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Originally Posted by halliday

Ive blacked out the eye to protect the identities of the innocent. I cooked supper.

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Didn't work. I ran them through AI and got Saddam Hussein, Ronald Reagan, and Beyonce.

I guess were all busted and have to leave town. Again.

Sitting in the lobby of the auto shop, lady in her 60s comes in with a tote of gear from her car that she didn't want to leave in it. It's full of pink boxing gloves and pads. I was curious so I asked if she was a boxer, expecting the answer to be she's in a boxercise class or something. She's like yes, more of a kick boxer and I've been a Boxing USA coach for 20 years. She started kick boxing and Muay Thai in her 20s. She left while saying "all women should be in martial arts!" It's always impressive and humbling to me to meet these total badasses among us that look so normal. I bet she'd snap my neck if she wanted to.

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Originally Posted by Bronco

Sitting in the lobby of the auto shop, lady in her 60s comes in with a tote of gear from her car that she didn't want to leave in it. It's full of pink boxing gloves and pads. I was curious so I asked if she was a boxer, expecting the answer to be she's in a boxercise class or something. She's like yes, more of a kick boxer and I've been a Boxing USA coach for 20 years. She started kick boxing and Muay Thai in her 20s. She left while saying "all women should be in martial arts!" It's always impressive and humbling to me to meet these total badasses among us that look so normal. I bet she'd snap my neck if she wanted to.

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Best advice is to not fuck with anybody. You never know what you are locking horns with.

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Originally Posted by Bronco

Sitting in the lobby of the auto shop, lady in her 60s comes in with a tote of gear from her car that she didn't want to leave in it. It's full of pink boxing gloves and pads. I was curious so I asked if she was a boxer, expecting the answer to be she's in a boxercise class or something. She's like yes, more of a kick boxer and I've been a Boxing USA coach for 20 years. She started kick boxing and Muay Thai in her 20s. She left while saying "all women should be in martial arts!" It's always impressive and humbling to me to meet these total badasses among us that look so normal. I bet she'd snap my neck if she wanted to.

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Best advice is to not fuck with anybody. You never know what you are locking horns with.

https://snowbrains.com/french-climbe...ecord-in-half/

This is nuts.

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Originally Posted by jackstraw

https://snowbrains.com/french-climbe...ecord-in-half/

This is nuts.

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No O2? Insane.

The people in Venezuela impress today. They're fed up with Maduro and his unlikely win in Venezuela’s election. Wishing them success. May the dictator step down peacefully.

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Originally Posted by MultiVerse

The people in Venezuela impress today. They're fed up with Maduro and his unlikely win in Venezuela’s election. Wishing them success. May the dictator step down peacefully.

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I hope they take their country back. I know lots of good people from Venezuela that want to go home and just live their lives.

This

https://www.instagram.com/p/DCFFUUeOS3a/

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Originally Posted by evdog

This

https://www.instagram.com/p/DCFFUUeOS3a/

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Never fuck with or underestimate older people. That guy probably made his living riding logs down river. That guy is pretty bad ass. On another note my friends grandfather passed away recently. He was a hard working, church going, family man. Took care of those around him and his community. Very soft spoken. Two years ago we were all hanging out and he was telling stories of WW2. After a couple glasses of Scotch he blurted out "you know, we were trying to kill Japs with our bare hands". You never know....

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Originally Posted by halliday

Never fuck with or underestimate older people. That guy probably made his living riding logs down river. That guy is pretty bad ass. On another note my friends grandfather passed away recently. He was a hard working, church going, family man. Took care of those around him and his community. Very soft spoken. Two years ago we were all hanging out and he was telling stories of WW2. After a couple glasses of Scotch he blurted out "you know, we were trying to kill Japs with our bare hands". You never know....

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Seems like a reasonable response to people trying to kill you with their bare hands.

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Originally Posted by evdog

This

https://www.instagram.com/p/DCFFUUeOS3a/

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If bona fide, wow.

Scammers are getting kind of intense. I got this via text message. The link looks almost legit…almost.

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U.S. Customs: You have a USPS parcel being cleared, due to the detection of an invalid zip code address, the parcel can not be cleared, the parcel is temporarily detained, please confirm the zip code address information in the link within 24 hours.

https://usps.com-j.win/x

(Please reply with a Y, then exit the text message and open it again to activate the link, or copy the link into your Safari browser and open it)

The US Postal team wishes you a wonderful day!

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One of the better ones I’ve seen. Wonder why they bothered to say “your Safari browser” which is the one I use most of the time.

Why did they, use so many inappropriate, commas that make it look like, a scam?

my "PostalTeam" ain't never done no "wishes you wonderfuls daze" ta me... i feel let down buy my goverments...




fact.

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Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper

Scammers are getting kind of intense. I got this via text message. The link looks almost legit…almost.


One of the better ones I’ve seen. Wonder why they bothered to say “your Safari browser” which is the one I use most of the time.

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I got the same one a couple of days ago.

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Originally Posted by frorider

Why did they, use so many inappropriate, commas that make it look like, a scam?

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Must be from Oxford

The fitness level of the little old ladies in the aqua fitness classes I have been going to. Never underestimate the fitness of a little old lady. Damn good workouts as part of my self-guided rehab.

Kurdish jazz 'Gangsta's Paradise'

https://x.com/menavisualss/status/1858267089326203059

guy shreds

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Originally Posted by jackstraw

https://snowbrains.com/french-climbe...ecord-in-half/

This is nuts.

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Dude has finally done something pretty legit. Woulda been better if he also skied it though.

I posted this in the Bitcoin thread, but it deserves to be here too:

I just did something that truly impressed me. Way more than a random pizza purchase from a friend.

1) Swapped SOL for PYUSD on Solana network;
2) Transferred PYUSD to my PayPal account;
3) Shopped for some goods/services, put it in my cart and chose to pay with PayPal;
4) Chose PYUSD as my payment method in PayPal;
5) Express checked out with merchant; and
6) Confirmation e-mail from merchant and PayPal.

Cost literally a few pennies for all of the above. An actual viable payment system that took about 10 minutes to settle all the above steps, and completely without using fiat.

Holy shit, mind blown.

Pretty incredible.

whatcha get? more TP?

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Originally Posted by m2711c

whatcha get? more TP?

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A frisbee actually.

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Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark

I posted this in the Bitcoin thread, but it deserves to be here too:

I just did something that truly impressed me. Way more than a random pizza purchase from a friend.

1) Swapped SOL for PYUSD on Solana network;
2) Transferred PYUSD to my PayPal account;
3) Shopped for some goods/services, put it in my cart and chose to pay with PayPal;
4) Chose PYUSD as my payment method in PayPal;
5) Express checked out with merchant; and
6) Confirmation e-mail from merchant and PayPal.

Cost literally a few pennies for all of the above. An actual viable payment system that took about 10 minutes to settle all the above steps, and completely without using fiat.

Holy shit, mind blown.

Pretty incredible.

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So…. All you needed was a centralized authority (with the ability to freeze your assets on a whim) and 1000x more time and 10000x more energy than it takes to process a normal transaction?

Maybe I’m missing something but what exactly is impressive here? Relying on PayPal as a centralizing authority seems like the exact opposite of the pipe dream of crypto. At this point we have decades of evidence that PayPal is a WORSE actor than Visa/MC/banks when it comes to arbitrary freezing of accounts and similar fuckery. They are convenient for small payments but I will never trust them with any significant quantity of money.

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Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark

I posted this in the Bitcoin thread, but it deserves to be here too:

I just did something that truly impressed me. Way more than a random pizza purchase from a friend.

1) Swapped SOL for PYUSD on Solana network;
2) Transferred PYUSD to my PayPal account;
3) Shopped for some goods/services, put it in my cart and chose to pay with PayPal;
4) Chose PYUSD as my payment method in PayPal;
5) Express checked out with merchant; and
6) Confirmation e-mail from merchant and PayPal.

Cost literally a few pennies for all of the above. An actual viable payment system that took about 10 minutes to settle all the above steps, and completely without using fiat.

Holy shit, mind blown.

Pretty incredible.

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Try that shit in a long line at Costco and you'll be lucky to get out of there alive.
Meanwhile if the coin doubles in a week you'll wish you hadn't spent it, and if it crashes the rest of your wallet crashes. There's a reason people prefer stable currencies.

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Originally Posted by old goat

Try that shit in a long line at Costco and you'll be lucky to get out of there alive.
Meanwhile if the coin doubles in a week you'll wish you hadn't spent it, and if it crashes the rest of your wallet crashes. There's a reason people prefer stable currencies.

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There is a reason why you are oldAF and can't understand that I paid in a stable coin.

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Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark

There is a reason why you are oldAF and can't understand that I paid in a stable coin.

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SOL doesn't look particularly stable.
I do agree though--your mind does seem blown.

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Originally Posted by old goat

SOL doesn't look particularly stable.
I do agree though--your mind does seem blown.

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#facepalm

BTW, the reason I am oldAF is pure luck.

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Originally Posted by old goat

BTW, the reason I am oldAF is pure luck.

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You have to know when to holdem, know when to foldem, know when to walk away, know when to run. I'm aware of your close calls.

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Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark

You have to know when to holdem, know when to foldem, know when to walk away, know when to run. I'm aware of your close calls.

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Not all of them, I'm sure. And if you're quoting Kenny Rogers you ain't that young yourself.

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Originally Posted by old goat

I do agree though--your mind does seem blown.

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https://i.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc...9YAg/giphy.gif

Josh Allen. I've become a Bill's fan because of this guy.

FREAK athlete and seems to be a really good person and a great leader/uniter

(Check this out on a tablet or cpu, not your phone)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...e=articleShare

Great graphics/animations & description of how Notre Dame was developed over time & how it was rebuilt in so short a time after the fire

Just really cool & amazing

My new asus laptop. $289 black friday

Professional boxer grabbing coins mid-air:

https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1865704229484015901

Mike Tyson deserves to be in the GOAT conversation, but speed & strength diminish with time for everyone

I'm not fighting that guy.

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Originally Posted by old goat

I'm not fighting that guy.

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Not for very long.

Our local ski hill keeps track of passholder vert, and the ranking is published on their website. Four days into the season, the first place guy already has already skied over 265,000 feet. This is on a 2,000 foot hill with ok-ish but definitely early season conditions.

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