It is my understanding that’s how all speculation bubbles work. Same thing happened to beanie babies. “People are buying these because they’re going to be worth something someday…somehow; we better buy some too.”

and/or gambling that was shaped in such a way as to be difficult to prosecute.

NFTs just slide out of my brain.

I remember someone bought a piece of art, like actual bespoke art, that was NFT’d, for some millions of dollars. This created the dumbest speculative bubble I’m aware of when people were paying actual money for ugly randomized monkey pictures they could prove ownership of on the blockchain.

It’s my understanding that NFT technology could be used for things like proving copyright ownership; a creator creates an NFT of his work as published, and then anyone attempting to plagiarize it can’t provide the NFT, kind of like PGP signatures. But it didn’t get used for that and that dumbass monkey bubble probably poisoned that use case for a generation at least.

Okay, how do you do that? How do you make some weird bullshit uncute thing that gets a billion people to buy one or two and ten thousand people to buy four hundred? Trolls, beanie babies, funko pops, whatever the fuck a labubu is, to a lesser extent, pokemon cards…Surely these people are millionaires but don’t deserve it. I should be a millionaire and not deserve it.

Honduras.

I mean, Dad was watching the kids while Mom did the shopping? sounds like a functional and healthy family to me.

that’s men’s room egg salad.

KFC was good. it’s now slop.

The British came up with that one.

My thing is, a dumb phone has the features I would like to do without on my smart phone. Telephone and SMS ARE THE GODDAMN PROBLEM. If people who were not explicitly whitelisted by me out of band had no method of contacting me, that’d be great.

Same reason she did a show with a gigantic toilet. Ridiculousness is all she’s got.

My mind just played out a little skit.

in a library

Librarian is standing at the front desk, doing front desk things. A man enters, driipping wet, comic injuries such as a black eye, fake bandages etc, kelp draped around him. He walks in, looks at librarian meaningfully, stalks off into the library without a word. Stalks back up to the front desk, and presents this book and a library card.

That tracks.

At that point, no license will help you, because they’re outright ignoring the law.

It’s not like these licenses require approval by any regulatory board. Remember you can write “all rights reserved” on any of your copyrightable work and extend no license to anyone whatsoever, or you can voluntarily release your work into the public domain and relinquish your copyright entirely, or anything in between.

Surely there are people who bought Chromebooks for college? Or boomers who bought the $245 Chromebook instead of the $285 Win10S manufactured ewaste laptop?

Name me a feature SteamOS has that Bazzite doesn’t.

Come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs…

So, my understanding of auroras is, the planet’s magnetic field draws particles emitted by the sun toward the poles, and as those particles interact with the atmosphere they glow. So without a star and thus without solar wind, where do the aurora come from?