Quote from: death_wish on Today at 05:28:50 AM

Quote from: Copetech on Today at 12:52:50 AM

I dunno I tried editing the gif in my quote, but all looks correct.
It displays as a link that works in your original post, but I don't think the bbs likes it for whatever reason when it tries to display the actual image.

Thanks for helping out the struggling Newbie! You show the Bitcoin community spirit which has always made Bitcoin strong.

That’s no empty platitude: Bitcoin won the Fork Wars because of people who cared. In my altcoin experience, I have seen up close what happens when almost everyone is driven only by raw greed, and the few exceptions are negligible voices shouting in the wilderness. Ironically, the hard core of Bitcoiners who care give the strength and stability that makes Bitcoin such a good long-term investment. Please stick around: Bitcoin won the Fork Wars, but it needs people like you to stand up for it in against the next round of political, social, and economic attacks.

You did the image just fine. The continued breakage was my fault.

Since I’m a Newbie, I had entirely forgotten that the Bitcoin Forum’s privacy-protecting image proxy has a 2MB limit. (I can never remember whether that’s 2,000,000 bytes, or 2,097,152 bytes; a little Newbie help, please?)

This one was just a little bit over that. I recompressed it, and uploaded it to Imgur. New image URL.

Animated images are usually frowned upon by the forum, but not strictly forbidden. This one is classy. It hereby artistically represents recursion, an important concept in computer science. I almost never post animations here; it’s not a habit. And anyway, I’ve seen suchmoon throw down a boatload of crass, exceptionally annoying animated GIFs in one post when it suited her fancy. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

The next activity period begins at 2022-06-01T07:53:20Z, only a few hours hence. If you want to know how to calculate it, I’d be happy to help. If I make one post after that, then I will be a Jr. Member! Then, all of my images will retroactively show up in my own posts.

I had considered keeping this as a Newbie account, with no more posts. A Newbie account with 81 merits! That’s something special. Well, too late now—unless I either delete something, which I won’t, or stop posting before the activity rollover. Anyway, I do want for my first post’s image to show up as a warning to others that they should AVOID MARGIN.

It is a sacred mission, to save precious bitcoins from the cruel claws of liquidator bots—and to stop Bitcoin sinners from getting rekt by their own hands.

I dunno man, tried the new imgur link and still no likey the cool clock in a clock in a clock in a clock gif. Sucks, cuz it really is a kinda nifty gif. Kinda like the dogfood can label in the old movie/animation "Waterbabies" with a picture of a dog holding up a can of dogfood with a picture of a dog holding up a can of dogfood with picture of a dog .. ahh fuckit you get the point.

In the section you posted that I bolded , you touched on a point that I have been pondering a good bit lately. The fact that a great majority of the governance problems we have in the world are based on the simple but often ignored fact that a majority of peeps are really "good" in nature. Laws are passed and restrictions put in place to try to "fix" the problems caused by the small percentage of narcissistic psychopaths that totally ignore the inconvenience of laws anyway!
I mean, really, if you just tell the world, from a young age throughout their lives, that it's really not good to pick your nose... in general the majority of peeps are gonna make a sincere effort to avoid picking their nose. (or at least do ot when nobody is around to catch them)
The ones that don't, the ones that are not affected by laws, legislation, and social norms are gonna end up generally frowned on and shunned by society (because who the hell wants to be associated with a nose picker) so that their numbers are limited due to the simple fact that it's not a good strategy for advancing oneself in social environs.
BUT!!! If you make a law with punitive enforcement measures and place closed caption cameras everywhere to catch and punish all the nose pickers everywhere... you just end up with a lot of people being restricted and punished while the small percentage who don't give a fuck are still picking their noses and now eating the proceeds to boot!!! Because if everyone is a criminal then Noone is a criminal. (The antithesis of "If everyone is a super-hero, then there are no super'heros")

Bitcoin is onto this concept in it's raw, unrestricted form. Good bad or indifferent it gives everyone control of their own destiny. Granted if you're a fuckup that uses leverage to greedily grab more than you can afford, you'll likely be slapped down. (Don't know any of those types, do we) And likewise if you're a dumbass that can't take simple measures to store your coins safely in an off-line wallet, remember your key without posting it on a 10' x 25' billboard on the interstate... things might not go well for you. But if you're part of the great majority that generally avoids picking their nose... life can be pretty good!

When are we ever gonna learn, as a society in general, that peeps are good if you just leave them the fuck alone! Maybe a good first step would be to stop putting the narcissistic psychopath nose pickers in charge so that they can project their restrictions on the rest of us... maybe?

[drunken ramblings ended for tonight]