Posts by Lanny

2015-12-19 at 11:56 PM UTC in Starbucks & Wholefoods market gift cards at 65% "Order Now"

Lanny Bird of Courage

I would be down for the whole foods thing in an instant if it weren't an obvious scam. Hate to call a nigga out but without at least putting in the effort of some samples you're not going to do very well with a cut and run scam.

2015-12-19 at 11:23 PM UTC in Am I transgender/sexual?

Lanny Bird of Courage

I'm genuinely surprised that's a thing.

2015-12-19 at 3:42 AM UTC in Am I transgender/sexual?

Lanny Bird of Courage

As a verified quasi-tranny I'm qualified to say the way you represent yourself online is decidedly masculine. No idea what you're like IRL beyond your videos which, again, don't seem particularly feminine. Do you want cross dress? Do you want to be a woman? I think the "man with feminine sensibilities" phenomenon is generally more common if only because it's more socially acceptable.

Just do what you want to do (wo)mang, if cross dressing is your thing then go for it, if you just like floral displays then what the fuck, might as well enjoy some floral displays and fuck anyone who disagrees.

2015-12-19 at 3:23 AM UTC in Any wantreprenuers here?

Lanny Bird of Courage

Mind me asking about that hobby project? In my case I feel that doing something like this would realize a desire to produce something I am proud of, something that would genuinely solve someone's problems. I think Ive had bad luck as all the places Ive worked at pushed for tight deadlines and after a short while I began to hate my job because it put severe constraints on my work - I could never make something that I'm proud of, only things that looked nice but barely worked.

Know it's been a long ass time since this post was made but on the off chance you're still around it was a cryptography scheme for email that would make subpoenas generally ineffective. Kinda like hushmail but technically better (at the cost of some corner cases being (maybe) unintuitive). It was really fun because I got to implement crypto in javascript which actually worked (despite that being, in general, a bad idea) and tackle a whole host of other interesting but solvable problems (I ended up writing this whole parser-generation framework which served in interpreting emails and email addresses (ironically the RFC specifying an email address grammar (which basically everyone ignores) is far more complicated than the RFC specifying email grammar))). The plan was, more or less, to store public keys for users and encrypt email on receipt before storage which is fairly simple but has a surprising number of complicating cases and pitfalls. It would make providing plaintext records to LEO impossible and thus subpoenas (in the traditional sense of a request for data at a given point in time) useless. We started the project shortly after the Snowden/lavabit thing in an effort to "replace" lavabit (defunct) with something better.

I'm in college and not content with working for a dim-witted boss for the next 20 years in the hopes I move up the corporate ladder… If anyone wants to start a business, hit me up. I'm more than capable of giving 110% if it's viable. I'm interested in finance and stock market stuff, but also anything that's profitable. Seems like there are already some great ideas being thrown out there.

This feels like a joke post. I think this is a joke post. Is this a joke post?

2015-12-19 at 3:06 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition

Lanny Bird of Courage

I don't consume a lot of news media but for whatever reason I was browsing r/sanfrancisco a little while ago (I know you read this sub sometimes malice, you were the first person I've seen link it) and like half the posts were about murders or rapes or random acts of violence. Going off this shit I'd be fucking terrified to step out of my house. Like a day or two ago I was making a greek salad and realized I didn't have feta. I was kinda drunk at the time so I grabbed my wallet and keys and went down to the nearest store a couple of blocks away to buy some. This was at like 1 in the morning and I was wearing an undershirt and jeans (and I look very white in a not-so-white area) and after a block or two of walking I started to feel kinda exposed, lots of drunks and homeless around, the idea of getting mugged was in my mind. I got to the store, bought my cheese, and on the way back I realized I've been mugged twice since moving up (~5 years ago) here which is kinda high relative to friends which has ended up costing me like a grand total of $30 and less than 20 minutes of my life. Like on this one walk, of the two randos who I interacted with, one wished me a happy holidays and the other asked me for spare change. I live in what's considered to be the most "dangerous" neighborhood in SF. This doesn't even approach the level of "danger" people make out like. I guess it's just an issue of not being evolved to deal with numbers, stats, relative probabilities that make exceptional cases of violence seem imminent but it's sometimes amazing how people will blow things out of proportion. But I guess it's not surprising if the media you consume is all about the worst examples of behaviour we can find in our society. I guess it's hard to write a good news article about how yuppie faggots like me can go get fetta at 1 in the morning without issue but it seems legitimately damaging to occupy your cognitive time with the most negative microtesmial portion of occurring events in a given area.

Weed didnt cause her to miscarry. I smoked a lot of weed through my entire pregnancy (due to being violently ill if I didnt), among other things and my baby is perfectly healthy and happy.

So I obviously have no reason to think weed could cause a miscarriage but in personal experience every time I try to use it as an anauseant I end up feeling like total shit. Like I still feel like I need to throw up but can't and end up doing it while wishing I could just so I could be done with the feeling of needing to. Again, not something I think would kill or harm a fetus but I just never understood people who use weed as a treatment for nauseating conditions.

2015-12-18 at 10:09 AM UTC in A thought I had reguarding free will

Lanny Bird of Courage

It's just a question of if executive function is preserved in the "rewind". Like there are a lot of things that go into our decision making that don't involve memories (genetic predisposition for things like addiction of example) so just erasing a person's memories likely would produce different actions than previously. But if we just assume you revert to a previous total mental state then sure, I'd argue it would be logically contradictory to make a different set of decisions. But even the alternative, the idea that identical initial conditions can produce different terminal states, doesn't permit the thing we generally think of when we talk about free will.

2015-12-18 at 2:44 AM UTC in Is tor really totally annonymous?

Lanny Bird of Courage

I guess it depends on what you take "totally anonymous" to mean. If we take anonymity to mean lacking identity then the answer is sure, tor (and only tor) is anonymous under the assumption asymmetric encryption exists (which we can take for granted, if the opposite is true then our world would be so radically different the last thing you need to worry about is the feds). Almost everything that runs on top of tor is not anonymous, because things don't really work without identity. But anonymity isn't what you care about when you're selling drugs right? Everyone knew who DPR was, he had an identity (the account) but ran SR with impunity and could have indefinitely if technical considerations were the only thing involved. Pseudonymity is what people usually mean when they talk about anonymity, which is divorcing one identity from another.

Like imagine you have one of those tin can/string phones or whatever. Assuming the other end is out of sight you can't possible know who's on the other side, they're anonymous. Once they start talking through they could tell you their name, you might deduce who they are by their voice, so on and so forth. It would be fair to say tor is anonymous, and that tails/torbrowser make efforts to be pseudonymous (such that your real identity can not be connected to your identity wrt a given site) and are generally successful (although there are high profile examples of failure in this department).

The "nothing is 100% anonymous" response is bit of a cop out. Firstly it's trivial to imagine situations with provably true anonymity (dead drops (ignoring location exchange) are a physical example with digital analogs) although they're not usually of much use and secondly there's a huge range of mediums of communication that are not strictly anonymous.

2015-12-18 at 1:35 AM UTC in Is nutmeg worth trying?

Lanny Bird of Courage

It's the shit drug you try when you're 13 and smoked weed like maybe once before and have no real source for anything. At least that's the way I've always thought of it, though admittedly I haven't tried it in many years. Never felt particularly trippy to me, just made me feel stupid and uncoordinated like bottom shelf indica does except with hellish cotton mouth and an awkward onset/duration.

2015-12-17 at 10:11 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition

Lanny Bird of Courage

Seems pretty accurate to me.

2015-12-17 at 9:54 AM UTC in Fucking Fuck My School

Lanny Bird of Courage

I've been out of the loop for a while but weren't you going off to the military last I checked? In any case, if there's anything I can do to help you get access I'm happy to do it. Tor is slow as shit (I mean the site itself is show as shit, but tor is even slower). If it's a domain name enhancement on "nigga" I can grab one of my other joke-domains and point it at the same addr so there are no niggas, niggers, fagloards, kikes, spics, or niggercocks in the url if that's all it takes.

2015-12-17 at 9:50 AM UTC in Do rainbows exist objectively?

Lanny Bird of Courage

I knew, in the moment I typed the word "noumena" that someone was going to make some joke, basically this. All I can say at this point is "no I don't like that" and "I'm too drunk to work up the enthusiasm to reply to a joke post". Hey hey, maybe booze is a short term cure for autism. I could believe that, seems to fit pretty well too.

2015-12-17 at 9:43 AM UTC in New Star Wars or How JJ Abrams Ruins a Franchise

Lanny Bird of Courage

implying TPM didn't run the franchise a decade ago.

I'm at least willing to give Abrams a chance. He can't save it at his point but if he can entertain me for 2~3 hours I'll call it a win.

2015-12-17 at 6:37 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition

Lanny Bird of Courage

I bet you two fags are jacking off to each other's pictures

I could jack off to your picture as well if you like baby

2015-12-16 at 7:24 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition

Lanny Bird of Courage

Oh, and is this a selfie thread now? I want in https://i.imgur.com/2FrlQez.jpg

I've been kicking around the idea of taking round-trip train rides on the same day for a little while. Like taking a train down to gilroy or something and catching the next train back up. For the last 5 years I've taken the train down to fresno for thanksgiving but I've found that I actually really enjoy the ride. Once you get out of oakland (poor black neighborhoods, trash and shit everywhere) and before you get into the central valley proper (poor mexicans, not particularly shitty but just suburban housing) there's a really pretty run of land along the inside of eastbay and south, hills and water and farms and shit. In particular the tracks run right by this sugar refinery that for whatever reason I think is one of the most beautiful structures I've ever seen:

That ride is literally one of the most relaxing experiences I've ever had, just staring out the window at the land rolling by. I find it's really ideal working conditions too, minimal distractions, comfortable, internet if I need reference material but it's too slow for me to do the things that usually distract me. Maybe it's just the association with thanksgiving, when I was a student it represented a break from work (although I never really felt a lot of stress from school) or seeing family (I'm on good terms with my family but I don't get particularly excited about seeing them). Probably sounds like a really stupid idea but I'm tempted to do it, I mean tickets are pretty cheap.

2015-12-16 at 6:53 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition

Lanny Bird of Courage

The transformation has already begun. You need only look into my eyes, latin charm in full force.

Full zoom, centered on the face: http://i.imgur.com/QGpggs7.jpg

Is that actually you? Actually bretty cute, kind of an older anthony kiedis vibe (not that the person in that pic looks old, pretty young actually, just anthony kiedis looked pretty different when young).

2015-12-16 at 6:25 AM UTC in My retraction of previous beliefs and new opinions on human sexuality

Lanny Bird of Courage

I like your logical approach to the issue lanny, you should read Oplus post in sploos. Original thread that sparkeds the current pedophilia discussion it's pretty insightful even if you think he is a tryhard pseudo intellectual he did study psychology and he is a smart guy.

Wait, Oplus is back or was this a thread on rdfrn/sanc?

I actually like ole Oplus, like you said he's definitely smart. Well read too. Our big shit-flinging thing back on, uhh, one of those boards was over shitposting, he wanted somewhere with enforced standards and, as evidenced by where we all are now, I had different ideas about how a forum should be run. But I always liked what he had to say even if I disagreed, and I respect that he wanted to recapture some of the loftier aspects of the forum even if I didn't agree on means. I think my own shitposting was balanced out but enough "contribution" that he warmed up to me as well, at least that's how I remember things when the fern up and died.

2015-12-15 at 11:07 AM UTC in Do rainbows exist objectively?

Lanny Bird of Courage

the difference is that lava lamps have an objective existence. Colour is subjective

To save us time I've chosen this quote as representative of your whole post, mostly because it is. What you've done is make a pair of statements with zero support, as opposed to my argument from definition (common usage). Yes, you can continue to make this claim but until you do something to establish it as true rather than just a random assertion I can't say I find it very convincing.

2015-12-15 at 11 AM UTC in Tool isn't actually that bad

Lanny Bird of Courage

I like the singer's energy but mostly the bass is just flawlessly iconic prog rock rumble.

Yeah, I'm not sure the bass "makes it" but it definitely wouldn't work without it. Good instrumentals and memorable vocals, guess that's all you need to be popular. Not that I think there's anything exceedingly deep in the lyrics but the hooks are pretty goat

2015-12-15 at 10:54 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition

Lanny Bird of Courage

Crying while grocery shopping because it feels so empty, on the way home, thinking sad thoughts while washing the dishes. Good old depression.

I always get a mild boost out of shopping. A little physical exercise to get the heat beating (just dragging X pounds a couple of blocks), the feeling of "progress", satisfaction of seeing a full fridge. Just the act of shopping and hauling groceries home is kind of quaint as well.

I've had a recurring mild urge to stab myself in the heart lately.

Been listening to this on repeat. Officially emo.

Oh man, I hope. It's be cool if you turned me onto drugs which eventually turns me into a junkie and in exchange I can turn you onto emo and you end up being a post-hardcore emo nigga. If you want the "classic" emo (revival) artist you should checkout snowing:

And if you want something more like crywank, pathetic-core for lack of a better term, checkout patron saint:

(full album link but the first track is pretty representative of the release)

2015-12-15 at 10:38 AM UTC in My retraction of previous beliefs and new opinions on human sexuality

Lanny Bird of Courage

Just out of curiousity, being stoned and all… if you one day had a daughter, would you have the same feelings? I mean, part of fathering is caring for your offspring. I just see, you have a CHILD. How can a child consent at that age? How can they comprehend sex? Children are very volunuarable and taken advantage of even in some completely legal ways sometimes too. Look, if youre talking a teenager, already at puberty, well… honestly some of them are very sumb but they have a better shot at making an informed decision compaired to a 8year old kid. Anyway… whatever.

People live and die dumb, unable to make good decisions for themselves. It seems reasonable that there are children who are fully as capable as adults in making decisions about sex. I mean the whole "they don't understand what they're getting into" line doesn't really pan out, some children would know and many adults fail quite spectacularly at showing the same foresight. I admit, I'm not particularly in favor of reduced age of consent laws, I think most children under the age of 18 aren't really qualified to make good decisions in that respect, as are many people older as well, but people seem to really abandon the ideas of liberty (something I don't hold in great regard to start with, although others do) as soon as you bring children into the equation.

I'm honestly split on the idea of decriminalizing pedophilia (the negative repercussions should be apparent) and designating certain classes of people so incompetent at making good decisions that they have to be kept away from things like sex (or forced into chemical castration or something similar). But if your argument lies on "children don't know enough to give informed consent" then there's this whole large secondary class of people who seem equally unable to do so but are not children and who we generally consider A-OK to have as much sex as pleases them.

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