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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Within the realm of what many people consider “bugs”, intelligence also exists. For example, jumping spiders have intelligence similar to mammals or birds. Research is ongoing with bees and they’re seeming similarly advanced, with some havi
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Employing people to handle phone cancellations is way more money and effort than a cancellation script. I’ve never encountered a small startup that relies on call to cancel—only big companies that actively know they’re making it hard to lea
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Nobody really knows what'll happen with housing. There are a lot of people dumping in cash, hoping to double their investments in a span of a couple years. Many are successfully doing this. There is also a growing percentage of people
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
China is making economic investments that may lean heavily in their favor in the future, but they're absolutely nowhere near behaving anything like old colonial powers. Belgium was systematically cutting off hands and it's estimat
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Always resorting to blaming a foreign boogeyman is dangerous thinking. Sometimes you need to accept that there are bad actors within your own country. For a lot of news programs, the credits are publicly visible and verifiably citizens. The
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Most people who post more than once a year seem to have a Patreon or something set up.
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
I've been told this by various MLM salesmen multiple times. Seems NFT "investors" aren't hiding it anymore.
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
I can go and make an NFT by absolutely any artist I want and there's nothing that can be done to stop me. Nobody is forcing me to provide several levels of documentation to prove my identity before selling my image online. In fact, it&
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
It didn't. The Mona Lisa was a work specially commissioned by a family. The modern version of that is someone paying an artist to commission a unique work. What changed? Nothing. The Mona Lisa was copied, and digital works can be copie
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
> otherwise the market wouldn't exist in the first place. That's not even remotely true. Bubbles, scams, and artificially inflated markets have existed as long as artists have been signing their works to ensure scarcity and va
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
NFTs don't create scarcity either. The image is freely available to anyone. Nobody knows you own an NFT unless you explicitly drop in and mention you own the image every single time it's posted somewhere, in which case people will
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
So how exactly is the "gas money" calculated? I was led to believe it was expensive because putting all that data into the blockchain costed a significant amount. Asking because, wanting to verify whether NFTs were really a scam o
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
I also highly suggest reading Paul Krugman, and turning all his "wills" into "won'ts" and "won'ts" into "wills." His insights are worse than political talk between a couple drunk guys at a b
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
A lot of Americans are morbidly afraid of their children being away from adult supervision for more than a minute. I think suggesting 10 year olds ride a bike instead of taking a car or bus might infuriate more than a few people.
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
A rapidly evolving virus rapidly evolved, to the surprise of no one who paid attention in biology class. I wonder if covid conspiracy folks also think influenza is a "happy accident" by the pharmaceutical industry.
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Some spiders do.[1] They protect their own and viciously attack outsiders. People are terrified when they see a single massive huntsman spider--imagine 300 angry ones coming at you because you offended one of their friends. And related to t
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Possibly most of the people in Tokyo aren’t even originally Tokyoites. They’re random people from other cities living there for a couple years for the big city experience and decent work. There’s nothing intrinsically unique about their cul
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
I’ve had consistently the polar opposite experience. Tokyo people treat me fairly normal, but in Kyoto, people will absolutely insist upon broken English and ignoring what I’m saying despite speaking to them in Japanese. They’ll also look t
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Treat crypto no different from stocks. You can’t just buy, trade, and cash out stocks from some random guy online. Crypto is basically no different from stocks at this point—things change in value just because people think others expect the
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
I’m fine with nuclear, but producing excess nuclear waste simply to produce random bits to do absolutely nothing isn’t something I’d support.
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
> Market makers make a profit by buying things and then reselling them for slightly more. When a lower middle class guy in your town does this, he’s called a scalper and seen as a villain. When rich elites do this with life essentials, t
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
If world hunger isn’t just a hoax, why do I have food on my plate? It’s really quite bizarre to say the US isn’t a war machine when it has the world’s biggest arms industry and readily sells to nearly anyone. That’s before even getting into
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
> I don't think you understand how the value of these assets is supposed to rise. When you buy a flat in the center of town, it's supposed to increase it's value for being in the center while town is expanding. Why is it &
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
I wasn't talking about adderall. Desoxyn is literally methamphetamine and available by prescription.
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
What should happen when someone violates the legal protocols in which they're controlled? Meth is already legal, in actuality. It's just controlled in production and distribution and only available by prescription. There are milli
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
One problem is a lot of people really will buy the cheapest thing without even thinking about it. Then 5 years later they'll complain that wages are down, local shops are closed up, the quality of products they bought went to hell, and
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
I remember in the 90s sitting on my grandmother's porch in rural PA at night. Huge moths everywhere. Luna moths being just about as common as mosquitos. Beetles bangings into the walls. Chubby spiders having so much food they couldn&#x
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
> I see this "I've tried one solution and I'm all out of ideas" approach a lot. Not sure where you've seen it, because it sure wasn't in my post. I've tried the alternatives. I once (regretfully) paid f
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
I use Photoshop for art. Unfortunately, all other desktop software just isn't good, but thankfully Procreate is absolutely amazing software that I can use on my iPad (if you're reading this, devs, please port it to macOS. There ar
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by forgotmyoldname 5y ago
Graphics cards don’t really have anything to do with the pandemic. It’s more to do with scalpers and crypto clownery. Some countries have had absolutely disastrous bouts of covid this past year (like Vietnam) and it screwed up supply chains

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