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  1. 22 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

    We can pay for it, and it’s extremely cheap. Neutering Russia without the US shooting one shot or losing one soldier is a big F’n deal

    1000 times this.  We are able to watch real time footage of our mid-level tech vs what Russia is throwing out there.  This intel is priceless. Plus all the munitions that will have to be rebuilt here on home soil maintains/creates a lot jobs.  I mean, if we are going to keep the Defense budget what it is, it makes complete sense to keep supplying them arms and tech. 

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  2. 11 hours ago, HenryJames said:

    These trad dudes are so fucking weird.

    i follow that account for the lulz.  probably some incel in the basement wishing any girl would talk to him.  his notions on how easy farming/ranching is and how idyllic that lifestyle is are extremely off base.  and yes, the breast milk icecream is a recurring thing with this nut. 

  3. 12 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

    Sat him this week with his supposedly bum ankle, will likely be the reason I'm chillin' next week. 

     

    Stupid sport. 

    i had him benched all week, but put him back in the lineup because yahoo said he was changed from questionable to healthy right before game time. thought about just leaving him on the bench but then faded my first intuition as i normally get it wrong.

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  4. On 12/12/2022 at 9:28 PM, shadow_operative2.0 said:

    Anyone get fucked by Rhamondre tonight? I had two VERY small leads with him left, thank jesus I didn't need anything. 

      I was up slightly and had him vs Nick Folk.  so yes, yes i did get proper folked by him and lost by 2 points.  still sitting 4th place (top 4 make playoffs) with the last regular season game this week.  good start with Kittle so far.

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  5. 1 minute ago, C-Man said:

    So what you're saying is the stupidest timeline? Check.

    well, what i am saying is what most likely happened is nft degens likely bought most of these.  right now unique ownership is 33%.  they are now offloading on likely trumpers  who will get stuck buying these at inflated pricing.

    but yes, as someone who has banged around NFTs for better part of the last 1.5 years, this project selling out with 45K items surprises me.  But nft degens are thirsty for any action right now. 

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  6. man those thing are actually selling well on the secondary market.  ~2.2x initial pricing.  the rare 1 of 1 i saw sold for ~$4K, another one for $5K

    people who minted are flipping for a profit.  sales every 45 seconds or so, which indicates great volume

    https://opensea.io/collection/trump-digital-trading-cards/activity

    1500 ETH traded so far.  so at 10% thats another $200K in royalties.  the entity that bought Trumps likeness for these is making out very well.  Their 'labor' consisted of stealing stock photos and pasting an orange head on top.  Probably used the Opensea boilerplate smart contract and got Trump to do marketing.  pretty much pure profit.

     

     

     

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  7. 1 minute ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    I’m not really all that familiar with them. I had heard what they are but the first specific NFT I heard about being offered for sale was from Melania Trump and it was a digital painting of her eyes. They held an auction where the winning bidder got one of her hats, an actual painting of her, and the NFT. It appeared as though either she or whoever set up her NFT was the winning bidder. But there wasn’t a random chance to the NFT you’d get. It was just that one thing.

    https://fortune.com/2022/02/16/melania-trump-nft-auction

    But if they’re selecting NFT’s at random when you place an order and creating planned scarcity then it’s not really a sale, it’s a lottery. Hell, even trading cards don’t do that anymore. If you want to collect baseball cards, nowadays you can just go out and buy a complete set. (Or at least you could the last time I visited a store that sells those things. And they weren’t cheap.) I wouldn’t buy an NFT in the first place. But if they’re all just a grab bag then it’s even dumber than I thought. 

    there are 'art' NFTs where it's like a painting that you can buy or compete at auction, but most are set up like the baseball cards back in the day.  you buy a pack and you don't know what you will get inside.  what 'ant said about gacha was (sorta) correct but that even a semi-obscure reference from pay to win gaming.  Think they are call lootboxes now in fortnite etc....  the difference being that with NFTs of this sort, there is supposed to be a hard cap, usually 10K or below so that the manufactured rarity is never diluted. (gacha/lootboxes do not have a hard cap on the # of 'rare' items that can be won)  This is why you would see stories about people spending 6-7 figures on rare NFTs.

  8. 3 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    I learned on Colbert last night that you don’t get to choose which trading card you’re purchasing. They’re selected at random. So I guess that could create a situation where you would be in a position to trade them with others. Clever solution to that little problem.

    I’m not going to go to the website to review the fine print personally. I trust Colbert’s staff to have gotten it right.

    They shared these:

     

     

    Typically, this is how NFTs work during a mint.  It's supposed to randomly generated and there is a baked in/manufactured  'scarcity' on how the traits are generated.  So kindof like a lottery and only a few get the 'rare' ones.  Rare traits can generally be sold on the secondary market for higher prices.

  9. for a lot of the images associated with NFTs, the graphic files are hosted on other servers.  The blockchain contract 'points' to those websites to link the image and then pull it up when a website references an NFT blockchain.  So the NFT is not really gone, but the image link is broken.  could probably be fixed by whoever has the keys to the contract, but i don't think the holders themselves could fix the issue of getting the image to display properly.

    I really have no idea how FTX did their NFTs though.  so my explanation could be way off.  what i described above was in reference to ETH based NFTs.

    I don't think i have made a single transaction in 7+ months as there is just no money to be made like in the 'old' days (well, no easy money).  Still follow the action a little on twitter and a few discords but had liquidated a lot of my stuff in Dec of last year.   

  10. 13 minutes ago, axiom of foundation said:

    Fusion is not likely to be commercially viable in our lifetime, and maybe not in anyone’s lifetime. This has nothing to do with the actions of oil and gas companies or any other group with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.  The reason is because there are lots of cheaper ways to make clean energy.  There is a massive gap between showing that something can make net energy for brief moments in a lab and having a grid level commercially viable energy source. Even after decades of experience operating them, the much simpler and cheaper fission reactors are seldom commercially viable.  After decades with fusion and billions spent, we just barely made net energy; almost certainly the most expensive energy ever produced.  But somehow commercial fusions reactors that require materials yet to be developed (and certainly not cheap) that can handle the intense neutron radiation will solve our energy problems. 
     

    I would love to be proven wrong on the above and I’m glad there are folks working on fusion.  But I’m skeptical we get a silver bullet solution to the global energy problem.  The world needs to focus on clean energy solutions based on proven technology as if fusion will never become viable at scale. 
     

     

    plus this dude would steal the secret

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  11. yeah, go to a cutter and get an mri/xray

    - i had a bone spur once and did surgery to file it down and they also tried to abrade some arthritis off the joint.  worked ok, but i have gone back to get cortisone shots when some inflammation would not go away

    i have always gone to the Carrell Clinic in Dallas

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