Gold is a actually extremely useful, and has a ton of practical applications where it’s not used because of cost. Diamonds, which are supposedly abundant in asteroids, and quite plentiful on earth, on the other hand, can be manufactured in tool grade cheaply, and gem grade can be made for about $300/carat.

Oh, you know, pandemic, plagues and shit have been kind of a recurring thing for centuries here in Europe. We’re kind of jaded.

How does painting a pond that size cost 7 million?

Cuba is next, remember.

I imagine that a dollar store disguise mask should work wonders. Actually, I’m going to buy one today and do the face verification that Aliexpress is now requiring for many items, even basic cutters, for example.

What is this? A walk into a bar joke written by an illiterate person on shrooms?

Not to be confused with Glitoris, a Gnome app which does the exact same thing.

Yeah, he has the BEST disapproval, biggest, strongest, most beautiful disapproval.

That’s a myth. DVDs tend to lose synchronicity if you don’t rewind them and always turn them the same direction. Why do you think there is subtitle timing adjustment in most media players?

Might have been a joke to you.

I have my collection all rewound and ready to go.

Hmm mm. Isn’t that a national ID system?

What is the American rationale for hating it? It makes so many things easier, cleaner, safer.

Voting is so much secure, for example.

Do most Americans live the unabomber life?

Banks, the IRS, insurance companies, internet companies, data companies, the DM, the credit card companies, schools, yada yada. All have your data.

As a matter of fact, if the government acts a a data proxy, it could prevent you from having to disclose a lot of the data you disclose now.

You are in so many places, and this is pre-digital, that not having a national ID is just idiotic.

MAGA squirrels

I bought the original Gameboy on launch week. A couple of years later I bought a bootleg cart that was like 100-in-1 games.

I still have the Gameboy, but I don’t know where that cart is.

Yeah, good luck. I’m fuddling about with a local AI setup, with RAG and web access, and it usually accesses like 2-3 websites and takes a bit to figure out time and date.

Early W10 was actually pretty decent. I have it running on a windows tablet, and a stick pc, both 2gb RAM.

One is getting Linux, but I have to do a bit of digging to decide on the distro, as many are becoming kind of bloated too.

I use CP/M, BTW.

AI. No car has that much gas in it these days.

He must have made a hell of a deal to have Mexico agree to pay for it.

There is Huawei Harmony OS.

Chinese, etc, and I don’t know about licenses, but it’s mostly compatible with Android apps. I have a Huawei tablet, with awesome hardware, but de googled from the get go. I mainly use it as a media consumption device, though. No mail, banks, etc.

I’m working on ways it right now. Aliexpress wants me to do a face check for some items. I’ve been a customer long enough to have been born and become a legal adult as a customer!

They don’t want my face for verification. It’s an excuse to feed their AI, which is already scary good at voice.

I’ve been toying with this idea, items are classified as “new or perfect condition” “used but good condition” " near or EOL"

If you return it in the lower tier, you pay the owner a third of the value.