Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

Bitcoin Matters

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From the start of 2024 until early March, Bitcoin (and all crypto) went straight up, which was massively encouraging to the crypto weirdos, who collectively still pretend BTC is anything but a gambling token. Since then, things haven’t been so great, and although these yo-yo’s will argue how much money you would have made if you bought BTC in, I dunno, 2016, the fact is that in recent days and weeks it is bleeding out.

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Sideshow Bob

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As a person who dislikes noise, I have a strong opinion about the “sideshows” that have become popular in urban landscapes lately (that is to say, those events in which a few morons drive their Dodge Chargers, Mustangs, or some other piece of crap around and around, threatening the worthless lives of the spectators around them). I think a phosphorous bomb dropped in the middle of these things would be a positive boon to society. Failing that, I just saw this photo of the mug shots of the sub-humans at a sideshow that stomped on a police car. Can you imagine how completely pointless the lives of these goons must be? The second mug shot is, for obvious reasons, my favorite.