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I think that Lauda must have had a kitty robot to herd cat photos to her realm. (Or a catbat catbot?) Queen of Cats. 😺
Now, I will apply the Zen of Nullianity to thiscatdoesnotexist.com. Why, it is a conspiracy of a generative adversarial network of nonexistent cats!
The infinite nonexistent cats are unbounded!*
* Not really unbounded, much less infinite. I wax poetical. A paper on the theoretical upper bound of nonexistent cats would be most intriguing. 🐱
Here are 0x10 other cats who do not exist:
What about lone wolves?
I will admit that Lauda converted me to be a cat wolf. 😸
A nocoiner wants to backstab Lauda in this thread, just to stir otherwise nonexistent drama here. OK. —LOLWUT, “drama”? On the Internet, that usually means flamewars. Whereas this thread has been almost unanimously positive! Most of the people who have long-term grudges against Lauda have just ignored it, as you are also free to do. Aside from some blatant trolling that was deleted by the moderators, and a few backhanded compliments, the only naysayer here is you.
Hey, did you not know that the Internet was invented for the purpose of cat photos? 😹
First of all, Lauda has been gone for all of one week (!).
For the newcomers here: Back in the day, I was caught up in the maelstrom of a thread attacking Lauda, which reached 24 pages within its first week—and just kept going... For only one example. Some of those threads were not locked until a certain topic starter eventually made peace with Lauda. Some were never locked at all. I don’t think that any of them were mod-locked—though I am not sure who locked some of the threads specifically pertaining to forum issues.
A thread with some positive talk about Lauda sort of balances out the hundreds (maybe thousands?) of pages of forum threads attacking her over the years. 😾 It is as if the universe is bringing itself to order.
Zeroth of all, I do not think that this thread should be locked at all; and it probably won’t be. Why would the forum admins and staff do that? They liked Lauda well enough, despite some occasional problems with her. ;-) And it is a (generally) shining example of a drama-free positive discussion, without personal attacks. Amazing for the Reputation forum!
Lauda has been gone for seven days, after having been a forum fixture for seven years. Some people are just now noticing this—
But if you really want, please feel free to create a meta reeeee thread bringing to the administration’s attention the dire threat to the forum of nullius coping with his grief by spamming cat photos in Lauda’s goodbye thread. 😼
Just PM me a link, so that I can fairly reply. I’m not following much on the forum now. Kitty gone—Nully mourning. 😿
Thank you. I would not assume that she is reading. I dearly hope that she is! Her last communication to me was even more forceful than OP here in expressing a desire for a clean break. 🙀 But I hope that she is seeing this.
I know that she would appreciate the kind words of a tech/SE legendary with serious Bitcoin/LN skills.
Thank you for your respect for privacy. It is meritorious. 😻
I myself always kept things purged, as you noted; and a week ago, I securely deleted... such other Lauda-related stuff (except for cat photos ;-)... as may have remained.
She was indeed quite careful. I don’t know what all that was about; but even in the cloak-and-dagger worst-case hypothetical scenario, in the small probability that somebody were to find me and to give me the proverbial “drug him and beat him with a $5 wrench” treatment, I could not say even if she was really male or female—let alone any useful information about her. Now, that’s opsec! A policy of information on a “need to know” basis protects everybody.
catpics on the Wall to end all Walls
I think that Lauda must have had a kitty robot to herd cat photos to her realm. (Or a catbat catbot?) Queen of Cats. 😺
Now, I will apply the Zen of Nullianity to thiscatdoesnotexist.com. Why, it is a conspiracy of a generative adversarial network of nonexistent cats!
After this post, "Lauda" will cease to exist.
The nature of Lauda’s existence is now a problem more baffling to the human mind than Schrödinger’s cat.
The infinite nonexistent cats are unbounded!*
* Not really unbounded, much less infinite. I wax poetical. A paper on the theoretical upper bound of nonexistent cats would be most intriguing. 🐱
Here are 0x10 other cats who do not exist:
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Anyway I ramble, just popped by to say good luck to all the cat people. I prefer dogs, but dog people - meh.
What about lone wolves?
So as for cats and lone wolves.
I will admit that Lauda converted me to be a cat wolf. 😸
Opened a megaspam drama thread, got herself banned
A nocoiner wants to backstab Lauda in this thread, just to stir otherwise nonexistent drama here. OK. —LOLWUT, “drama”? On the Internet, that usually means flamewars. Whereas this thread has been almost unanimously positive! Most of the people who have long-term grudges against Lauda have just ignored it, as you are also free to do. Aside from some blatant trolling that was deleted by the moderators, and a few backhanded compliments, the only naysayer here is you.
This nonexistent cat disdains your opinion:
and now nullius can spam the shit out of this forum forever with cat photos.
Hey, did you not know that the Internet was invented for the purpose of cat photos? 😹
We got her point, I think it is time to lock this thread.
First of all, Lauda has been gone for all of one week (!).
For the newcomers here: Back in the day, I was caught up in the maelstrom of a thread attacking Lauda, which reached 24 pages within its first week—and just kept going... For only one example. Some of those threads were not locked until a certain topic starter eventually made peace with Lauda. Some were never locked at all. I don’t think that any of them were mod-locked—though I am not sure who locked some of the threads specifically pertaining to forum issues.
This grumpy kitty does not exist:
A thread with some positive talk about Lauda sort of balances out the hundreds (maybe thousands?) of pages of forum threads attacking her over the years. 😾 It is as if the universe is bringing itself to order.
Zeroth of all, I do not think that this thread should be locked at all; and it probably won’t be. Why would the forum admins and staff do that? They liked Lauda well enough, despite some occasional problems with her. ;-) And it is a (generally) shining example of a drama-free positive discussion, without personal attacks. Amazing for the Reputation forum!
Lauda has been gone for seven days, after having been a forum fixture for seven years. Some people are just now noticing this—
I just noticed this thread...
—some still haven’t. I myself do not intend to bump it every single day for the rest of eternity. These things tend to run a certain course; it will probably wind down eventually, then get bumped again, then wind down again, and so forth... There is no reason other than sheer spite for Lauda to pop up suddenly demanding that people stop talking about her, on her own final thread.But if you really want, please feel free to create a meta reeeee thread bringing to the administration’s attention the dire threat to the forum of nullius coping with his grief by spamming cat photos in Lauda’s goodbye thread. 😼
Just PM me a link, so that I can fairly reply. I’m not following much on the forum now. Kitty gone—Nully mourning. 😿
I just noticed this thread... I usually try to stay away from emotional farewell-like threads, but in this case i'd like to make an exception since Lauda's choice of words leads me to believe he/she is still lurking anonymously, and i truly hope he/she gets some closure from reading the posts in this thread.
Thank you. I would not assume that she is reading. I dearly hope that she is! Her last communication to me was even more forceful than OP here in expressing a desire for a clean break. 🙀 But I hope that she is seeing this.
I know that she would appreciate the kind words of a tech/SE legendary with serious Bitcoin/LN skills.
I have had some minor communication with Lauda over the years, and during the exchange of PM's I always perceived Lauda as an honest, caring person with high regards to his/her privacy. Upon his/her request, I've always deleted any PM we exchanged, every key used, every txid sent in any form and I truely hope the other members he/she had dealings with did the same (if requested) so he/she at least has the piece of mind no other identifying information might be floating around.
Thank you for your respect for privacy. It is meritorious. 😻
I myself always kept things purged, as you noted; and a week ago, I securely deleted... such other Lauda-related stuff (except for cat photos ;-)... as may have remained.
A cypherpunk goodbye, and goodbye for real.
I have no idea if she is watching this or not. I hope so. :-/
I have no idea if she is watching this or not. I hope so. :-/
I find it odd that somebody apparently got the drop on him/her, but i guess everybody makes mistakes sooner or later.
She was indeed quite careful. I don’t know what all that was about; but even in the cloak-and-dagger worst-case hypothetical scenario, in the small probability that somebody were to find me and to give me the proverbial “drug him and beat him with a $5 wrench” treatment, I could not say even if she was really male or female—let alone any useful information about her. Now, that’s opsec! A policy of information on a “need to know” basis protects everybody.
Eventough i didn't have the honour of being a member of the cult of Lauda, I truely respect this member, and i think him/her leaving this forum is a sad event.
A generative adversarial network of nonexistent cats thanks you and salutes you:
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