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Decentralization, Some Thoughts on Toilet Paper, and Maybe Some Art If I Finish It

Good afternoon or whatever time it is and welcome to another edition of:

Whatever the hell is on my mind right now!

Today's post will be incredibly exciting and worth every second of your time! Or, at least, that's what I'd probably say if I actually knew where this post is going! But so far all I've done is pull random thoughts out of my ass then added exclamation marks at the end for good measure! Let's hope this gets better!

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Random Thoughts

Now to actually think of something. Hmm...

So I saw a post on that fancy-schmancy trending page published by that dude they call Dan. Unfortunately, like most things these days, a Twitter account seems to be a requirement and I don't use Twitter so I feel kinda left out.

Now I know how that one kid in the early 90's felt when everyone bugged him at school because he didn't have a Nintendo.

I'm over it though.

It's probably better if everyone else writes something cool about what decentralization means to them, then shows the world. I'd just end up writing a shit post with dumb jokes and images that contain blood and guts for no reason, then end it with, "Have a nice day."

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I'm the last guy you'd want to hire as a spokesperson. You couldn't pay me enough and even if you did, I'd still try to find a way to get fired.

Of course, since this world of ours here is intended to be decentralized by design, combined with what I know now — after watching you people for the past couple of weeks — I assume it would take at least three weeks for you folks to decide just what the hell to do with me, since nobody is in charge and everyone has a say but isn't really sure what to do with it.

To me, it seems the term 'decentralized' is often misconstrued around here. The meaning was often quite simplistic, in my mind, when compared to how I see others defining it around here. All it meant to me was, no single point of failure.

Having twenty real witnesses all representing their own personal interests in the top twenty meant the chain was 'decentralized' and as secure as could be. The blockchain would continue to run flawlessly if one of those members wanted to quit or went loony in the head then decided to rob us blind with malicious code and an evil thought or two.

Nobody has to agree they just all have to be on the same page and if one decides to step down, they can do so without halting the chain because they're easily replaced by the next one in line.

Having twenty bogus accounts controlled by one entity in the top twenty means the blockchain has a single point of failure and is no longer secure. I didn't need to be an armchair politician to know a centralized chain is absurd.

If the one entity suddenly loses the ability to run those witness nodes, we can't even fix a minor bug in the code. Worse case scenario that one entity might get drunk again, write up a fuckity fuck post, then freeze all our funds until it wakes up and realizes what it did the night before.

If five real witnesses go out and get drunk, we don't have to deal with their hangover the next day.

To me, 'decentralization' was never about hippies and rainbows. I was always so damn confused when a vote buying shit poster would scream, "I thought this place was decentralized!" after receiving a downvote for being scandalous.

It's like, "Dayum, son! That's not the hire a dictator button so calm down and learn you some blockchain."

But now you see why I shouldn't write these posts.

I don't even know if I know what I'm talking about.

Which brings me to my next point, if I have one.

If there's one entity running the top twenty, and I say something they don't like — such as, I fucked your mom — that one entity with a few lines of code could silence me permanently, even if it was the truth.

I don't want that. I was joking and would prefer to have a place where I can explore the arts freely without the fear of petty differences cultivating nonsensical consequences. Take that freedom away; I go away. Like I said earlier: It would not take me long to get fired.

Enough of that though.

It's time to talk about something more serious.

Toilet paper.

Us humans look ridiculous right now. I always wondered what the end of the world would look like — and apparently when shit hits the fan, people will want to wipe their ass.

I signed in to Facebook last night for my monthly appearance, scrolled through my feed. All I saw was an endless supply of memes about stores being out of toilet paper. Everyone is laughing at this. On the surface, we look like idiots.

Deep down, I know the dirty truth.

When I was young, I used to be the punk filling those shelves. The real reason why toilet paper sold out fast is because of its size. Retail stores have limited shelf space. When the product is massive and you can only fit two units on a four foot wide shelf, it's gone in no time.

I remember we'd have big stupid sales that would actually make me work hard. An entire semi load of those shit tickets would be gone in one afternoon.

It's far too bulky to be able to keep a steady supply in the back. Even going further down the supply chain all the way to the distribution center. It takes up too much room in a warehouse to be able to store an emergency supply.

That's logistics for you so maybe invest in a pair of scissors and cut up those fancy drapes if you have to. Socks work well too, which is why you'll always find one in the forest seemingly for no reason.

Anyway.

I don't know why but I made this:

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The Stocker

Have a nice day.

Credits:

All art and images seen here were produced digitally, by me.

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"In the event of a fire: Stop, drop, and wipe your ass."

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Comments · 19

  • @bidesign(64)· 2355d

    Do you have any motioned one of these art? May be you can add some motion to your art with Pixaloop. Like a flowing face. This style that you make your art always remind me a flowing smoke.

  • @arcange(79)· 2355d

    Congratulations @nonameslefttouse! Your post was mentioned in the Steem Hit Parade in the following categories:

    • Comments - Ranked 5 with 68 comments
    • Pending payout - Ranked 2 with $ 42,19
  • @dreemit(73)· 2355d

    You could have been a teacher, might in fact be a missed calling for you. The best teachers can explain complicated concepts to kindergarteners and grandma and that's your style which is a gift. Just thought I'd let you know 😁

  • @snook(75)· 2355d

    Okay first...the stocker is NOT the creepy face I wanted to see right before I go to sleep at .......... Crap! how did it get to be 8:45 AM............

    so I will thank you for the nightmares I will have between the red dude and the bottom dude.

    Thank You though for making me laugh about the TP.

    Have a wonderful Sunday!!

  • @ryivhnn(73)· 2355d

    Maybe someone else will twit this for you because it was freaking hilarious XD

    The stocker looks like he needs to go on holiday :O

  • @ginnyannette(69)· 2356d

    That's brilliant. It's because of the size. Those stupid toilet paper jokes. So very x 10 stupid. Maybe I've just seen too many of them. Typically I don't do much Facebook browsing, but it's the best place to hear what my local people think and so I've been perusing because of all this virus stuff, and what I've discovered is...toilet paper. They only think about toilet paper. So disappointed.

  • @quotes-haven(69)· 2356d

    You are funny! I am still trying to find the relation between toilet paper and the Coronavirus. But then, I am not the brightest light on the harbour. 😊

  • @waybeyondpadthai(79)· 2356d

    I laugh quite a few times in these not many minutes :D

  • @michealb(67)· 2356d

    Figure i might stock up on oxycontin. bypass the toilet paper issue if it arises

  • @kansuze(69)· 2356d

    Soap has been selling out now.

  • @abitcoinskeptic(75)· 2356d

    Good write up, I'm glad you aren't jumping through hoops to please the vvips. But you are treating decentralization as a state of being and not a process. I think decentralized is a desired condition. So if we assume Steem is decentralized our work here is done and we just gotta keep things that way. Decentralization on the other band is dynamic and a continual struggle. Once it has been achieved, if possible, governance should be safe. Therefore Justin never centralized Steem, steem just wasn't decentralized.

    I'm probably not making any sense above. And I probably misunderstood your points. I'll give it another read after some coffee. I'll be jumping through some of these hoops later today and like you maybe I'll skip some hoops (directions of the whales).

  • @meesterboom(81)· 2356d

    I'm decentralising! It's so exciting!!!

    And I'm out of toilet paper

  • @argsolver(53)· 2356d

    Having twenty real witnesses all representing their own personal interests in the top twenty meant the chain was 'decentralized' and as secure as could be. The blockchain would continue to run flawlessly if one of those members wanted to quit or went loony in the head then decided to rob us blind with malicious code and an evil thought or two.

    Having twenty bogus accounts controlled by one entity in the top twenty means the blockchain has a single point of failure and is no longer secure. I didn't need to be an armchair politician to know a centralized chain is absurd.

    After 4 years of the STEEM social blockchain experiment, a theoretical limitation of the DPOS protocol has turned into a sucesfull attack.

    A fork of STEEM blockchain escaping from Justin Sun wont avoid future attacks from other malevolent actors.

    Im in my opinion a NEWSTEEM should run on an evolved protocol, that I defined as REDPOS

  • @enjar(79)· 2356d

    That Stocker creeps me the heck out. Crazy looking eyes and tongue.

  • @bashadow(70)· 2356d

    I liked the very start of the post, I mean I liked it all, but the very start was something I need to learn to use. I don't use those exclamation marks very often, I don't know why, I just don't. They do add a little bit of feel to lines, add a bit of emphasis to a point, and it is one of the nicer looking punctuation marks there are, or I think so. Like an i standing on it's head saying look at me, see what i can do, but you need to use the small i to get the effect, capital I just does not cut it, a plain ordinary stiffness to the capital I, it could never stand on it's head and be something different, not like the little i and the ! mark. But they don't really look to much alike, but they both grab attention.

    Any ways, I know not much of a good comment, but making it as I listen to the long long MSP waves town hall meeting. "umm, umm" = let me think how to make this lie palatable.

  • @nickyhavey(74)· 2356d

    There'll be a shortage of socks now...

  • @oaldamster(70)· 2356d

    Well, if I ever read a to the point publication about the use of decentralization, then it is yours.

    And thanks for the take on the logistics of toiletpaper, makes sense. No real shortage just not enough shelf space and room in the back.

  • @tarazkp(86)· 2356d

    Ummm... I have been wearing free "forest socks" for years....

  • @dalz(81)· 2356d

    Ha ... that logic on the bulky TP makes a lot if sense :)