They can line the pants/shirts at that point.

Just go around neked. Tell everyone you hear Putin does it too,

The… huh? The ides of march is the 74th day of the Roman calendar (that happens to correspond to 15 march in the Gregorian.) doubling that it’d be may 28th.

For those elsewhere… what’s special about today?

Tobacco, big oil. Firearms makers….

They all did the same argument

I’ve thought about invading for the poutine…but then the border guard was like “yeah, just go here, they have the best and safe travels” and it’s like… ruining all the fun…

They don’t even really support Russia… they’re looking forward to Russia becoming a puppet state when/if sanctions finally kick in.

The luddites down voting us are probably the same sort of people that believed that computers were just a novelty, or the Internet was just going to be a thing for nerds and nothing important.

Most people hate the idea of it because they were told to hate it.

The reality is NFTs are the future. It’s not even the proof of ownership thing. We’ve only just begun exploring what they can be used for. DAO crowd funding with dividends? They can do that.

Proof of ownership? Sure.

Contain art or utility software? Absolutely. Act as digital access points with improved controls? Or even a digital key to physical controls?Certainly.

There’s possibly use cases for overhauling national elections to be something… with both complete anonymity and transparency.

Right now in the us… how do you know your vote was counted? really counted ? And counted correctly ?

That potential is probably what scares people the most.

Those are “least concern”- they adapted to life well on the beaches, feasting on unwary tourists.

Yeah… that was an analogy. I’m not saying nfts are ready to go mainstream yet- but they will. That is only a matter of time. And I’m certainly not encouraging anyone to go out and stock up on shitty ai art, either.

But go ahead and downvote anyhow. Luddite.

You can take it and sell the nft to a 3rd person.

It’s like a digital album, you can sell it back or to a random store or something.

More interesting, the nft can represent a contract with a cut of each subsequent sale going to the original artist.

And if you treat it as a certificate of ownership and authenticity then you can verify what you’re buying before you ever buy it. Because every transaction is recorded in the blockchain. So, you’re not going to wind up with a random Spanish language version of Cleopatra instead.

Another potential us case bejng for ticket sales; the tickmaster shit couldn’t happen with that (and the nft could be treated as a collectible after. The same way as stubs are.)

There are a lot of utility things you can run (including programs) as well. Right now, it’s people figuring out what can be done. It’s the very bleeding edge and there are grifters. But like everything innovative… it will go main stream.

While most current NFTs are stupid, and the rest are barely better than that, NFTs in the future will have value. It’s only a matter of time before they start becoming mainstream keys to digital locks.

Criminals don’t.

The kremlin does, and yes, they employ entire divisions of hackers to get shit done

The government has been getting less and less involved across multiple sectors… and here we are.

Reason being it’s cheaper for big corporations (like Southern Norfolk,) to buy a fucking senator than it is for them to actually maintain a safe rail line.

And these are the assholes you want looking grout for you?

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