Because it came up in conversation multiple times over the past week or so it only seems right to research the question everyone is asking.
What the hell is a Non-Fungible Token, anyways?
This is my review of Delirium Red Belgian Ale:
Before we begin: I am not an expert, financial advisor, Indian Chief, nor do I own any investments in what I am discussing. I am a guy on the internet that drinks beer and looks things up.
Call me out for being wrong, at your leisure. This is my understanding of it.
A Non-Fungible Token (NFT) is a cryptographic asset utilizing blockchain technology. Where it differs from cryptocurrency is that it is unique unto itself and not a currency, hence the “non-fungible” part. Where is also differs is the NFT is a digital representation of a tangible asset.
Porn for Swiss
But cryptocurrency is an asset, right? In a sense. At the moment, nearly everyone is still using Dollars and every coin in existence has turned into a store of value based on it’s potential utility in the future. This is why they are still priced relative to Dollar (hardcore crypto traders price them in Bitcoin), because the Dollar is still the reference point of transactional value. The analogy is Bitcoin is digital gold. It has value, it is transferrable for goods and services, but have you ever gone to Wal-Mart and try to pay them with a Krugerrand? It doesn’t always work out because Wal-Mart can’t make change in gold—but you can trade one, or several for goods and services of similar value to a willing merchant.
But gold isn’t the only thing that has value, right? Correct. Real estate is another example of a tangible asset. In order for me to liquidate my house I have to go through the state mandated motions in hiring a brokerage to put it on the market, and wait for the government sanctioned regulated banks to approve the buyer’s loan—blah blah blah blah. What if I could simply define my property as a unique token, and transfer the token through the blockchain to somebody who paid a contractually agreeable rate? Is my house still a house or a digital token? In theory I could forego all of steps required to sell my house if it is now defined as something else entirely…
Where this has caught on is the memorabilia/collectibles market. In the event the owner of the broken watch Marlon Brando wore on the set of Apocalypse Now and childishly engraved “M. Brando” on the back, wants to sell it, he can assign it to an NFT and and sell it that way. Where it gets interesting is when an NFT is assigned to say, a widely circulated Playboy photo, or something frivolously intangible like a Tweet. This sucks for a guy on the internet like me, who routinely uses photos without permission. Had this photo I paid $0 to AT&T girl to the right been tokenized, I might have to sent a certain amount of cryptocurrency to the NFT owner’s address in order to use it. The possibilities for the expansion of property rights are endless when we discuss tokenized ideas. Because it is currently unregulated and on a medium that defies regulation it means intellectual property rights can be owned by the entity that owns the digital token assigned to it, outside existing copyright laws.
Imagine the irony of being John Lennon’s spawn and being able to get paid for his musical communist treatise without fear of it turning to public domain.
This is the first beer I bought after my self-imposed beer celibacy and in usual fashion I bought a Belgian Ale. For some reason I favor these in the spring. This one is a sour lambic brewed with cherries and elderberry. What is elderberry? Its a ancient herbal remedy with questionable benefits, and even is sold as a supplement at retailers like Wal-Mart, who will not accept a Krugerrand as payment for elderberry supplements. Assholes. It has a sort of medicinal aftertaste and I got the impression I was drinking a Belgian fertility brew. Delirium Red Belgian Ale: 3.8/5
What’s an elderberry? It’s what your father smells like.
Are you sure he didn’t smell like a hamster? Oh wait, no, never mind. Different relative.
+1 Boiled Bottom
I had a calculus professor declare in class that if you were to hold a hamster upsode down by its tail, its eyes would fall out of his head.
He was right, because hamsters do not have tails.
I’m afraid hamsters do have tails.
That’s an odd thing to be scared of.
Phobia is by definition irrational.
Like Pie.
I’ll find a new one later.
I might amicably debate the definition of phobia later, or sometime.
That particular calc professor struck me as being perpetually stoned. I’m not surprised he’s wrong.
Wait just a damn minute, Spud! I can assure you and have witnesses ready to testify that I don’t smell like an elderberry.
Durian? Maybe that would be more descriptive.
It’s what your father’s music smells like.
“What’s an elderberry? It’s what your father smells like.”
No no, that’s Hamsterberries, duh!
The AT&T girl is a goddess.
I’ll assume that’s the lady pictured in the article and venture to suggest that she’s probably fully mortal. Judging by all known mythological canons, the price for knocking boots with deities and demigods is usually far too high.
Am I channeling UCS or something?
*Adjusts Fedora*
https://archive.li/Ty6aD/9f816026ecfd40609efb7b9984e0edf302b601c6.jpg
*Dons hat-adjusting gloves and adjusts fedora*
You people need to stop raiding my wardrobe!
the price for knocking boots with deities and demigods is usually far too high.
It would ruin a rare edition of an AD&D supplement.
She’s the first woman I’ve ever heard my old man ever say anything about in that context. Granted, my mom wasn’t in the room, but still.
Your Dad ‘s eyesight is still good. Even with my thick glasses she is looking good. Nothing more, nothing less.
Careful, I think she’s a Ukrazyian.
Hell, even I have the hots for her.
(Not really. But dayum.)
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I need to thank you for questioning the legality of my “carbine” the other day. Somehow it slipped through the cracks, but I’ll be remedying that.
Glad to have helped.
Don’t know about a ‘goddess,’ but a solid ‘would.’
Concur. The girl next door vibe gets me every time.
*Taps conch* “Is this thing on??”
Coincidentally, I just had an article idea involving Playboy.
I’ll call this a (((sign))) and go back to writing.
Nice. It’s good to have things to look forward to.
🙂
*Taps conch* “Is this thing on??”
It wasn’t me, Playboy just came up in my search for some reason.
Yeah, me too, Mexi. Totally.
(I’ll be your alibi if you’ll be mine)
Its the perfect crime.
I’ve been a fan of most of the Delirium beers, although I remember the Tremens in the original strength before it was toned down.
I wonder if I should culture some of that yeast to see what it does for a Triple (as a reference, the Ommegang yeast rips through fermentable sugars like nothing else).
I haven’t had a Tremens in a while. Not a bad beer. How recent was the change?
About 20 years ago, at least in the US market. I’m not sure if there was a change in the European market.
I still don’t understand how NFTs work for digital property. What are they even supposed to signify?
Authentication of an original product, i.e., provenance. Like artwork. No NFT? Knock-off.
This, I think its a gimmick for physical property but if you are an artist it makes what is yours, yours forever.
So, what if I own a Picasso and get an NFT for it (Is that something I should even do?) How does the NFT connect to my actual real Picasso? What if I were to also own a fake Picasso of the same painting. How does the NFT know the difference?
Paint a bar-code on it.
That makes more sense to me than an NFT.
I don’t think it works like that, but if it did, it’d just be a chip/lojack for your art.
So kinda like a digital certificate of authenticity.
Say if I were to paint a painting. In my happy little world, I would NFT the original with one code, and use a different NFT for signed and numbered copies, and use a third NFT for lithos.
Which has interesting ownership issues, e.g., do you OWN an ebook you “bought”? No, technically, it’s a lease.
For physical products, does the owner of the NFT still own that shirt you’re wearing? Or do you own an “original”?
I guess I don’t understand what “original” means in the digital space. Original artwork makes sense to me. The artist put paint to that canvas.
Taking a digital photo as an example, the “original” is what? The RAW data sitting on the camera’s RAM? The JPEG data on the SD card? The JPEG on the hard drive? The photoshop file from editing? The copy sitting on Gmail’s server from when it was emailed to the photo contest? The copy on the photo contest’s server? The 5,000 copies sitting in the caches of people who visited the photo contest site?
It’s a weird concept to me.
I say move on with your life. Let Picasso deal with the NFT’s.
It’s a weird concept to me.
Your words are violence. Blacks commit violence against Asians because of white supremacy. Feels are truths. Praying to hate is virtuous. Joe Biden is president.
*honk*
Buy some Bitcoin, it’ll make you feel better. J/K.
Say I make an ebook out of a book I wrote, which is something I regularly do. I would put an NFT on the original ebook file, the one that gets uploaded to Kindle, say. Every book of mine that comes off Kindle is tagged as the original.
The “original” is the one with the DRM.
Okay, now it’s starting to make sense. Blockchain alternative to DRM (but a little different) could be useful.
authentication and access control
useful if portable across platforms
From what I gathered it is something akin to a title or deed but for pretty much anything, correct?
It’s a digital title for a tangible object.
Well… not ‘tangible’ exactly but, yeah… it’s a digital title or deed for a thing.
*RE Agents/Title agent has a sad*
Let me clarify.
When I say “original” with regard to mass-produced/leased/bought products what I mean is “an officially approved copy”.
This all seems like a parallel copyright scheme which doesn’t have the backing of national or international recognition.
Status.
Coach bags with NFT aren’t Chinese knock-offs.
FFS are people dumb enough
yes.
Dinner plans https://twitter.com/egould310/status/1380919813967519747?s=21
⬅
Nice.
Jarack Obiden debates Bennifer Shrimpo
Much better
“Fresh Prez of D.C.” BIDEN RAPS
Come on, man.
The AT&T girl is a goddess.
Value is subjective.
I wouldn’t necessarily run her off the place if she came knocking, but there is a long line ahead of her.
What are they even supposed to signify?
Mencken was a genius.
viz,
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.
ADV China has an NFT auctioning. – discussed in their last 2 podcasts
Our favorite sexy cyborg is also trying to decide if she should NFT a 3d scan of her body ;p
https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1380708584007233539
Cool story idea (probably already done… poorly).
The Rise of the NFTs. NFTs gain sentience, and destroy all IRL art. No one notices.
How can you notice the loss of nothing?
I was expecting a deep dive into something relevant to me, vaping. ?
I keep hearing different shitty regs are coming.
According to our model, the vaccine doesn’t work
An influential Covid-19 model has predicted the total number of US deaths from the virus by August 1, a number that researchers say will be impacted by how many Americans continue to wear masks as vaccinations continue.
A model from the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s (IHME) predicts about 618,523 people will have died from coronavirus in the US by August 1. If 95% of the US population wore masks, the projection drops to 604,413 deaths.
In the worst-case scenario, in which fully vaccinated people return to pre-pandemic levels of mobility, the prediction grows to 697,573, the IHME forecasted. The projection factors in the rate of vaccine distribution as well as the concerning spread of more transmissible variants.
If all of our so-called public health experts should all happen to succumb to an intensely painful flesh eating bacteria, I’d laugh.
The public health “experts” have their target. They will make that number match it, as long as it’s politically valuable to do so. Memory holing is very easy lately, so that’s always an option too.
I can’t believe this is still news. Didn’t everybody read Chicken Little and The Boy Who Cried Wolf?
Dude. Un. Precedent. Ed.
Never before has a respiratory illness swept across the world.
NEVER!
Am I being paranoid in thinking that there’s always or often been some COVID variant circulating, and now every one of them is being ascribed to 19 (and every future variant will forevermore be a 19 variant)?
Nope.
*passes roll of tin foil*
GF sat through a school Covid safety seminar this week. The presenter recommended inside shoes in the classroom so kids don’t track covid around.
Christ. Still?
I’ve learned the term fomite this year; glad it wasn’t all in vain. ?
*smiles and hands T a fomite sandwich*
Coronavirus is responsible for about 1/3rd of the cases of the common cold. The rest are some form of Rhinovirus.
So yes, SARS-COR-2 is some bug that is not that different the stuff people have been living with forever. And it will become (or has become) endemic and people will live with it forever going forward.
https://xkcd.com/2448/
Which I read as people having to live under the asinine, unhelpful, deliberately manipulative impositions that come along with it.
Liberalism and pluralism was a happy fantasy some smart guys thought up but the truth is we always devolve into power politics and this is just the latest and maybe last application of it.
But the mode is “INFLUENTIAL”! How can you doubt it?
So accepting the numbers at face value (stop laughing!), there’s really not much difference between continuing as currently and fully reopening. I’d also say full pre-covid mobility rates aren’t happening for a number of reason- worsening economy and changes in interaction patterns (expanded delivery & shopping options, more WFH, exit from public schools, and so on), although the insecurity of micro managers who need their serfs to be chained to desks in order to justify their own existence and the laziness of parents who want all day childcare will negate some of that.
They haven’t fully decided if it’s best to continue wrecking the economy or to make it appear that they’ve saved the day, yet.
They’re still punishing Americans. They can’t help themselves.
How effective are masks according to the model and how did they arrive at that number? Show us The Science.
FedEx sorted out my package.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/ftHXglAsT5eDw3i-AfEgAQ.7tNZSstp7ukdMoSMVcrjvC
Yay.
Two thumbs up. It’s a good Saturday.
The fact it’s in that packaging cracks me up.
Let’s see: HDMI to Displayport conversion cable, check; Speedloader for 10mm pistol, check; Windshield repair kit; check. Oh, what’s this? An AR conversion kit? Must have it.
*tosses in cart*
Cool vape pen.
Nice! We used subcaliber drop ins for shooting at a local indoor range for annual qualification in the Guards. Sometimes a little trouble with ejecting/feeding but otherwise quite enjoyable. I’ve thought about picking up a personal one for a while. Would be interested to hear how that one works for you.
Nice!
Speaking of shipping (tenuous connection at best,) I’d ordered a new laptop battery directly from NewEgg, and they sent me a USPS tracking number, saying it was due to be delivered today. Yesterday I started getting shipment tracking e-mails from UPS for something supposedly from Amazon. I haven’t ordered anything from Amazon in many months, though I HAVE received the bogus e-mails about some hideously expensive item ordered on my account and being shipped to a total stranger. (I ignored any links in the e-mail, logged into my Amazon account and double-checked my credit card to confirm there was no such order or charge, then deleted the e-mail.)
Sure enough, the laptop battery arrived yesterday via UPS in an Amazon box, and the USPS tracking number NewEgg sent me now says “In Transit, Arriving Late.”
Thanks, Señor!
I really need to get up to speed on everything blockchain. This all seems bizarre to me.
Somewhere, somehow, sometime, someone is going to bust crypto. Then the world ends. Fine. Proceeding on current vector.
*sips bourbon”
I’m sippin’ on some Evan Williams. Cheers!
I had a nice Rheingeist Truth and a Great Lakes Chillwave with my brunch this morning. Food was decent, and cheap, and it was only $5 a pint for each of the beers.
I’ll be biking back up to that place for brunch on a weekend again.
Any word on whether Sokolowski’s will be coming back in some form or manner?
They ded. They announced they were permanently closing a while back, and the property has been up for sale for a while now.
I did grab their pierogi recipe while it was still available, and can share it again if you’re interested.
I don’t want to make the pierogis. I want to fly to Cleveland and load up a tray of food and sit at the bar with the old folks and drink many bourbons and watch college basketball and then walk two blocks through the snow to the parked car and freeze to death but who cares because a belly full of pierogis and bourbon.
Just a fond memory.
egould310:
Understood completely. There’s still a couple places that can fulfill some of that here. And some of the local places are going over the top with brunch drinks now:
The Mother Mary
27 oz of homemade bloody mary mix and vodka, served in a huge beer stein, celery, fried pickle, jalapeno popper, breakfast pierogi, fried mozzarella, hard boiled egg, bacon-grilled cheese, cucumber, tomato, olives. Pony Miller High Life beer. Hand cut potato chips and sriracha aioli.
Dr. Syra Madad, senior director of the System-wide Special Pathogens Program at New York City Health + Hospitals, told CNN Saturday that making the vaccine available to the 12 to 15 age group excited her as a parent.
“We should all be very hopeful,” said Madad, a fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. “This is very welcome news. We know that children are vulnerable to infection and hospitalizations… They certainly are rising in cases.”
I will not and cannot hope for an adverse outcome for her children if she forces them to be vaccinated, but if one of them smothers her in her sleep, I’d acquit.
So they list her credentials then make them irrelevant by jabbering about her excitement as a parent.
Meanwhile, Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations are increasing — particularly for younger people — while deaths are going down, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in a White House briefing Friday.
Oh, horror.
IF IT SAVES ONE GRANDMA, SCIENCE DENIER.
“Meanwhile, Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations are increasing — particularly for younger people”
Positively frightening it is.
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographicsovertime
They told us in 3/2020 that about 1% of us would get it and .5-1.5% of those people would die. They already knew it was the elderly and obese who had to worry. Then, they immediately switched to, ” OMG!?!! We have no idea what’s going to happen!?!? We have never studied how surgical masks work, we would like to think that distancing will help, we now believe that we have a right to suspend all human rights, and it’s just a happy coincidence that all of this helps the left to seize power. Don’t even consider the possibility that this explains why the only entities not screwing you completely over are from the party that did not benefit from all of this.”
I ordered checks this morning. Was halfway down the last booklet and might have ran out in 3-4 months. I remember when that wouldn’t have lasted the rest of the month.
Yeah, I see that “Order now!” page and snort. I write exactly one check a month.
That’s probably my usual- for the electric bill. But I still write them for one offs that seem to come in waves- taxes and other government fees and renewals, on-site repair visits from small shops that don’t take cards, subscriptions for ones I don’t care to go through the hassle of setting up yet another online account just pay it.
I was thumbing through the last booklet and there are two more reminders inside, besides the top tear off one. Apparently a lot of other people ignore it now too.
I ordered checks through walmart. They are dirt cheap. I have enough to last the rest of my life.
I’m hoping to live at least another five years. It crossed my mind to order more all at once but I wonder how long checks will be accepted or they’ll be discontinued such as in other countries at some point. Plus I didn’t like the idea of too much drawer space being taken up by extra boxes.
The puppet master pulling Biden’s strings is fucking with liberals (maybe).
Why a milquetoast Supreme Court commission matters
Court-packing is not something that anyone should do lightly. If Democrats did add seats to the Supreme Court in order to change its partisan balance, the result most likely would not be widespread acceptance of the newly liberal Court’s decisions. It would be massive resistance from Republicans.
As Justice Stephen Breyer recently warned during a lecture at Harvard Law School, “structural alteration [of the Court] motivated by the perception of political influence” will erode trust in the Court’s decisions.
Yet, while Breyer is correct to warn that significant reforms to the Supreme Court are likely to undermine the Court’s legitimacy, the mere threat of court-packing can serve an important function. If the justices believe that President Biden may send them six new colleagues if the Court dismantles what remains of the Voting Rights Act, then those justices may be less likely to dismantle the Voting Rights Act.
A healthy fear of a Democratic majority could lead the Supreme Court to become less partisan.
But Biden’s new commission sends the opposite message. With so many prominent members of the Federalist Society praising the commission right out the gate, it’s clear that conservatives do not feel threatened by this commission. And the justices themselves are just as capable of looking at the list of names that Biden picked and seeing that this commission is unlikely to support significant reforms.
“If the justices believe that President Biden may send them six new colleagues if the Court dismantles what remains of the Voting Rights Act, then those justices may be less likely to dismantle the Voting Rights Act.”
That’s pretty much what happened when FDR tried to pack the court.
Not wrong. See, “switch in time that saved nine.”
See, also, history rhymes…with F U.
“reforms”
GFY
This seems to be their go-to method, right here.
And anyways, isn’t the judicial branch supposed to be unsullied by partisan concerns?
Not nuking election security is dismantling the Voting Rights Act?
Preserve protect and defend
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday ordered new steps to tackle the threat posed by extremism in the ranks of the military, including updated screening questionnaires for recruits, a review of the department’s definition of extremism and efforts to prevent veterans from being drawn into violent movements.
The move follows a 60-day stand-down across the armed services that Austin ordered to allow commanders and troops in every unit to discuss how to confront the problem of white supremacist or other extremist ideology within the military. The Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump thrust the issue into the spotlight, as some of the mob were former or current members of the military with links to ultra-rightwing groups.
In a memo Friday to top officials and commanders, Austin said the department was still reviewing the results of the stand-down but he had decided to move ahead with “several immediate steps.”
Love America? Respect the Constitution?
It’s time you found another career, son.
This right here is NOT GOOD. Not good at all.
This whole thing will not end well.
Xi and Putin just put in another huge order for popcorn and champagne.
???
Our military is going to persecute the most loyal and best fighters they have right out because they believe the Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
White supremacists… my ass.
It might not necessarily be a bad thing. An government’s inept handling of the military is a step toward that government’s (administration’s?) dissolution, according to The Anatomy of Revolution. From the conclusion,
“…it is almost safe to say that no government is likely to be overthrown until it loses the ability to make adequate use of its military and police powers. That loss of ability may show itself in the actual desertion of soldiers and police to the revolutionists, or in the stupidity with which the government manages its soldiers and police, or in both ways.”
I tend to agree, but a LOT of eggs are going to get broken when this omelette gets un-made.
That goes for the rest of societal imbalance. I’m not looking forward to it.
*starts yelling at the bastards while flopping down on the beach*
Unless… states begin to declare and assert their independence. With an ineffective/woke military and administration, what could fedgov do? If a proggie admin can’t pull a Lincoln…
Signs of states’ doing just that are bubbling up: https://www.newsmax.com/politics/gop-governors-guncontrol-laws/2021/04/09/id/1017054/
Yup.
The mutinous attitude of the senior service leadership during Trump presidency, both for the Syria lie, the Afghan withdrawal refusal, and the domestic insurrection insubordination (when the services leadership publicly said they wouldn’t restore order from actual sustained rioting), is a far more corrosive vein but they aren’t going to address that at all.
LOL ok… you stick with that fig-leaf
“updated screening questionnaires for recruits”
If you were ordered to seize guns from peaceful, innocent American citizens, would you
a) Salute and say “when do I start, sir/ma’am?”
b) Request permission to seize all sharp objects as well
c) Rejoice that the country has been cured of its gun-fetishization
d) Commit treason and resist the order
Porn for Swiss
Works for me too.
have you ever gone to Wal-Mart and try to pay them with a Krugerrand? It doesn’t always work out because Wal-Mart can’t make change in gold
No I haven’t, though I will admit there was a time I was tempted to try and use some US bullion coins, which are legal tender in the US, at stores in the US.
Thanks for the Milana Vayntrub picture.
That beer doesn’t look good. I don’t much like cranberries.
I just finished some boozy coffee. I was at the gym this morning. At some point I should do some work outside and finish the latest installment of Too Local news. I also want to go out to the brewpub tonight. I suspect what I’m actually going to do is spend a lot of time here in front of the computer surfing the web.
I would’ve said a Double Eagle, but I didn’t want to offend anyone here.
And-
FedEx sorted out my package.
Nice, Sean. One of my 1911 frame builds has a .22 conversion top end living on it. Much good to shoot.
Under Austin’s instruction, the Pentagon’s top lawyer and other officials will review and update the department’s definition of “prohibited extremist activities” for all service members. Critics have said the Pentagon needs to take into account how extremism has evolved in the digital era, and how some adherents engage in more loosely formed networks.
The secretary also called for updated screening questionnaires for potential recruits to gather information about current or previous extremist behavior ”to ensure that only the best qualified recruits are selected for the services,” according to the memo.
Best qualified.
*outright, prolonged laughter*
I am glad I retired before the institution of political commisars. Oh wait we have had those since the Clinton administration. They just called them Equal Opportunity Advisors.
The Pajama Boy Division is going to be fearsome.
Yeah, I’m sure. If Biden is not taking his orders directly from Beijing, then I just don’t…get it…
The wokes were right all aling, it’s white dudes who fucked everything up.
The division’s reeeing at the enemies’ microagressions might have deleterious affect on their morale.
“prohibited extremist activities”
Let me take a shot at it:
White
Male
Christian
Conservative
I’m sure the list is longer…
Inventory has been so low around here that I almost bought a plain jane wood stock 10/22 at the sporting goods store. Might go back Monday if it’s still there.
I almost bought a scary looking black 20 gauge pump thingy yesterday.
Why didn’t you?
Wasn’t totally feeling it. If I had bought every gun I almost bought I would own a whole lot more guns. I am weak and pathetic.
If I had bought every gun I almost bought I would own a whole lot more guns.
/looks around house
Yes. It’s also dangerous to your bank account.
I never had any urge to go buy every gun that caught my attention.
Every purchase had a purpose.
I SEEZ HIPSTER JUICE!
I don’t think many hipsters are drinking Belgian sour ales.
With that can, just make it $12 a can and they’ll all be drinking it.
The bottles look better.
This right here is NOT GOOD. Not good at all.
This whole thing will not end well.
It’s mindboggling.
I’m just envisioning the entire country locking up in a paralysis of woke, unable to achieve a single damn thing any more.
Soon, all of our bridges and commercial airliners are going to be designed and built by obese pink and blue haired butch dykes with IQs under 70. Best to just not go outside anymore, the vid is the least of our worries.
Nah, the Chinese will have dominated our continent long before we’re reduced to that. Which, of course, was always the point.
Wife said the line outside the local gun show was 100s of people long. Dems are great for business.
WRT memorabilia- I figured Id solicit the vast knowledge-base of the Glibs hive mind.
Some years ago, and ex (OG-2X-OG) got me this (cell?) framed Bugs Bunny thing that looks to be done by an actual artist. Of interest to me is the stamping on the back.
Front- https://postimg.cc/1fNz3ZzK
Back- https://postimg.cc/v4rH5Lfg
Something like this worth anything ?
If you can find someone willing to pay for it. Is it a print? It’s stamped not for sale and for promo use on the back.
I dont know if its a print or a sketch. I lack the eye of a curator.
Mainly because mine are red, and usually seeing double if I have my way.
I’ll give credit to the lady for being thoughtful- classic Bugs Bunny and Warner-Bros is my jam. Ill still giggle my ass off at those cartoons.
I have Looney Tunes checks.
Sweet. I hate paying a fee to get cheques printed, but if my bank offered Looney Tunes cheques, I’d fork over.
Somewhere around here we have this Mel Blanc memorial print, but the frame is damaged, so we’d have to have it reframed before hanging it.
As you may have seen from his rarely-appearing avatar, Yosemite Sam is Tom T’s spirit animal
So in the before times, a local comic book store would do a big to do for Free Comic Book Day. I used to go to the midnight event, until my oldest nephew was old enough to come to the daytime event (his younger brother joined us a couple years later). Each year, they got a local artist to do a poster for the event. Each one was themed for the big comic book movie releasing that year. In the later years, the artist started showing up to sign them.
The last one I went to, they had finally done reprints of the full run of posters, and I was chatting with the artist. He was shocked that I had the full run already (the first year they had only printed ~500, not expecting them to sell well). I’m trying to decide if I should just put an empty frame up for last year and this year’s spot on the wall.
You have that much wall space?
I do. The basement was half finished, but the division is the long way. Too narrow to put in a pool table (I measured, several times). But long enough to put up a lot of art, have two full arcade cabinets (Tekken 2 and Marvel vs. Capcom), a bar, and a TV/Movie area (with only two seats that fit next to each other).
In animation they are known as cels (single-ell), after the transparent celluloid medium on which they were drawn. This is how cartoons were made back in the day, by drawing/painting images on cels. Cels were layered so that graphic elements such as furniture, walls, etc could be re-used and not have to be redrawn for each frame (24 per second, yo). The holy grail of cels is a bugs bunny cel from an actual cartoon drawn by, say, Avery, Clampett, or Jones. Be aware that for each cel drawn by a master that there were several intermediate cels drawn by lesser animators called in-betweeners because they did the scut work of drawing the multiple character (etc) animations in-between the cels drawn by the master animators.
There are also “authentic,” licensed cels drawn specifically as collectors’ items but never used in a cartoon.
It’s clearly not for sale. The NFT says so. You must obey the NFT.
“that’s not what NFT means”
Yes but who’s going to enforce it”
“It’s just a way for dumb people with too much disposable income to shed money impecuniously
Well, I can’t argue with that
Dumb people are certainly impecunious, and might spend themselves into impecunity, but the rich can’t be impecunious, you fucking subliterate retard.
Sorry, I forgot to put the quotation marks around that.
Also,
“I get your point, but who would spend money to own something people can freely replicate with no concern for your claim on the thing? We share around quotes from the famousest people we don’t actually know and sometimes don’t actually think said the things we’re quoting, but the words still hold value. Why bother obsessing about the actual attributability of something as immaterial and infinitely available as an image or whatever that has an NFT?”
“I’m not saying it’s valuable, I’m arguing against your suggestion that it won’t hold value.”
“And in addendum, the people buying these things aren’t as dumb as you suggest. In fact they’re likely very smart. They’re smart enough, in any event, to recognize that someday, they’ll be recognized as being just as important as, and maybe even superseding, copyrights. They’ll lobby to see it done.”
“But isn’t the same basic method for guaranteeing tokens available to anyone, like the development of cryptos? Couldn’t anyone start an NFT scheme?”
“Why is a supposed libertarian arguing against the value, even (and especially) the subjective value, of a scheme which bucks the statist valuation of intellectual property? This has the potential to upend the IP monopolists and their institutionalist
”
No, it still seems dumb.
“Well, that’s why you’re a poor dumb bore, narrator. You don’t recognize the potential genius of something”
Fuck you, too. At least I’m not spending money on tokens nobody’s ever going to want.
“If you’d dropped the two hundred dollars you wanted to on Bitcoin back in 2012 you’d be stupid rich, you fucking idiot. Who are you to say this thing doesn’t take off?”
“BECAUSE IT’S SO FUCKING DUMB.”
“You said that in 2012, too.”
“Fuck you, you weren’t any smarter. Look where you are now.”
(c) 1970 Revlon nail polish promo?
No idea (sorry!) but would be intrigued at an antiques show.
intrigued now, actually. Hair Raising Hare, the first of two Gossamer cartoons. ❤️ ?
Its from this bit with Gossamer (I think thats the monster’s name)
Yeah, piddies in da water.
LOL Bugs gaying it up even more than usual.
Before the year 1995 or so, its seems that “camp” was du jour for homos. See also: Charles Nelson Reilly. And the greatest of all- Paul Lynde.
Its original name was Randolph (or Rudolph – something like that).
(I learned that just yesterday morning on MeTV.)
Belated correction of eminent-domain abuse, wokeness flexing its muscles, both, neither?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9455263/Plan-return-beachfront-taken-Black-family-20s.html
Reparations work-around?
Evidently, and perhaps some lobbying from descendants?
Too Long; Only Skimmed.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/news/text-9455263/Plan-return-beachfront-taken-Black-family-20s.html
I read that as “reach-around”.
“The Bruces and their customers were harassed by white neighbors, and the Ku Klux Klan attempted to burn it down. ”
The 1st part….maybe. Could be plausible. The 2nd? Bullshit.
Furthermore: “‘What we want is restoration of our land to us, and restitution for the loss of revenues,’ said Duane Yellow Feather Shepard, 69, a relative of the Bruces who lives in Los Angeles and is a chief of the Pocasset Wampanoag Tribe of the Pokanoket Nation. ”
So is they injun? Or colored ?
There *was* a California Klan in the 1920s –
https://library.csun.edu/SCA/Peek-in-the-Stacks/KuKluxKlan
I figured they were too busy surfing.
Bruces!? Why are we letting Australians make claims on our land?
Sadly, YouTube took that clip down.
https://montypython.net/scripts/bruceskit.php
I meant the akshual vid, not the script
“Crack tubes!” before they start a meeting is likely my favorite (favourite?) part
(Apologies for the myriad misspellings therein)
I would be interested to find out which part of the TOS that violated. It is known that being racist against white people is not possible.
Am still confused about the ostensible reason for the eminent domain buyout. Sounds as if they were paid 11x what the family bought it for a few decades earlier? Sorry to be lazy but am not a lawyer and I have things to do.
There’s a giant chucnk of land that was stolen by the government between LAX and Dockweiler beach. It was filled with high end homes. The people who agreed to sell early got sorta decent money, but anyone who fought got jacked hard. The whole plot now sits vacant because they found a butterfly that was on the verge of extinction there. Not allowed to build or develop it in any way. There’s a bunch more land that was taken all around the airport. It’s spooky to drive through a ghost neighborhood in the middle of Los Angeles.
Then , there’s Dodger stadium. That was some racist assed shit right there.
https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-lax-ghost-town-preserve-20190218-story.html
Oh! How exciting! Ever since we stole these people’s land and levelled their houses, the wildlife is starting to return! My disdain for these people just seems to always get “fortified.”
Btw, I did see on of the burrowing owls right outside our shop. Which is a half mile away from the ghost town. Nobody that works there has ever seen a blue butterfly.
Surfridge? Famous residents included Mel Blanc a/o Morey Amsterdam IIRC? I can’t even afford to read the links I find due to paywalls.
Yes. It was featured in the movie “In Time” I thought it strange that such a place would be in L.A. so I looked it up. Now, I work across the street from it.
I remember when Sandpiper Street wasn’t closed. Lovely view.
*sigh*
I got all my painting supplies in order earlier, and realized I didn’t feel like painting.
So I’ve been sculpting more stuff that will need painting later.
I thoroughly jacked up my painting project today. How do you remove dried model-car spray enamel from wood?
Belt-sander
Nail polish remover?
If you’re going to use that as a source of acetone, be sure it doesn’t have any additional ingedients that might have unexpected impact. Formulations do vary.
True. They may have ingredients to soften cuticles and/or strengthen the nails. There are also non-acetone (acetate-based) removers, but the same caution would apply.
Dynamite.
Ascetone first, then abrasives if that doesn’t work.
Thank you.
.50 BMG
In L.A., you just wait for the volunteers. They come along and use a close-but-not-quite color to paint over the graffiti. Of course, some other ganag already crossed it out and now theres a running gun battle because of the “dis.”
I once had a visitor from AZ come out and ask me why there’s all these off color spots painted down low all over town. I told him that we call them “south central racing stripes!”
I finally got a marginal image of the Experimental bases
Is the “crushed turquoise look” intended to depict actual turquoise, as opposed to water?
Yes, some sort of rock or mineral.
I seem to remember a satirical commercial from Saturday Night Live in the late 70s for South African gold coins called Niggerrands. You’d think that would be enough to get them cancelled.
https://snltranscripts.jt.org/79/79mniggerrand.phtml
You’re terrible, Muriel. Ta.
So in case anyone really needed a reason to drink. Local news is talking about how Ohio just didn’t have enough data to understand the ‘vid. Key takeaways include (but aren’t limited to):
The state hasn’t collected enough racial and ethnic data to precisely identify disparities and address them in a targeted manner.
Ohio lacks fast, thorough and centralized contact tracing.
Ohio spends $14 per resident, as opposed to Washington, D.C., which spends $363 a resident. South Dakota ranks at 25th highest, spending $35 a resident. (ranking us 48th out of 51)
Ohio lacks electronic records that talk to each other across different health care systems
? Gimme some monnay
Do better, Ohio.
I got yer ‘contact tracing’ right here, DeWine.
Do you have any idea how many lives contact tracing has saved? Yeah, neither do they or anyone else. Imma guess none.
But its a great way to get put on a list, that’s added to a book.
Don’t mind the other questions like “do you own firearms?” “are you currently taking any prescribed medications?”
Are you now, or have you ever been, an insurrectionist?
“I have never had an insurrection last more than four hours.”
“No, but I support BLM and Antifa!”
“You’re addressing me with the wrong pronouns.”
At this point in the game contact tracing is absolutely irrelevant.
We were doing that down here in Florida early on. We had a really good handle on it. They knew all 500 infected people and had all of their contacts being quarantined.
Then New Yorkers started getting scared because their state was screwing things up big time. And they started flocking down here. So our governor tried to stop the influx. Cuomo threatened to sue. CNN was on the case immediately, excoriating Florida’s governor and praising Cuomo for standing up to this idiotic and probably racist anti-science proposal.
About two weeks later, several thousand infected people had come into the state from New York and that was the end of that. Once it is widely circulating, you can contact trace until hell freezes over and it isn’t going to do you a damn bit of good. Not unless you are the communist Chinese and you can weld people into their apartment blocks.
When this happened, I thought, “Yeah, but that’s a commie dictatorship, we can’t restrict people’s movements like that here!” Even us old dogs sometimes learn new tricks.
I would imagine the Health Policy Institute of Ohio recommends *moar dollarz* for every issue, and they just happen to be the ones who can best spend it.
But these numbers have to be bullshit because while DC can waste money with the best of them, I’d reckon a good chunk of the ND spending would be via the BIA route and not under the state’s expenditures.
Shoot, Indian Health Service not BIA.
You know, maybe I would care if the deaths weren’t about ~19,000… out of a population of ~11,500,000. Death numbers are from the Ohio Department of Health numbers.
Of course, those same numbers say that there’s been ~1,025,000 total cases already (with ~54,000 hospitalizations). For some reason, at the same time, there’s been an upswing in suicides, overdoses, and violent crimes.
The upswing in suicides, ODs and other maladies will never get the examination they deserve and that is why public policy is garbage. I mean, hell, how many people had to get root canals because the couldn’t go to the dentists and simple filling spiraled from there? Now think of things like higher blood pressure, cancer or whatever. It angries up the blood.
Yeah. More people I know died of suicide then the ‘vid during the past year. It’s a bit personal for me.
Dang.
Yeah. I had another friend make a (thankfully) unsuccessful attempt last year right after the lockdowns started. Of course, I’m in my mid-40’s, so me and mine aren’t really in a high-risk group.
XY got his learner’s permit today, and Monday he has a job interview.
Yeah, so, in other news … since now our school district has been attached to the local community college, I applied to the art program. I could probably use YouTube, but I don’t feel like I’m doing anything right. I know I learn better with in-person instruction.
Yay! Yay!
My goal is to be able to illustrate my books or at least paint some scenes as they appear in my head. I can draw from looking at something. I can’t do it out of my head.
You go!
I need something to jump-start my creativity. The follow-up course to the writing class I took a couple of summers ago is not offered this summer, and even online always seems to require real-time participation at a time when I’m not available. I’m ashamed that I seem to lack the self-discipline to do it on my own.
An in-person visual art class is MUCH better than trying to learn by watching videos.
You don’t lack self-discipline. You’re just not that interested, and that’s not an insult or anthing. I’m saying that’s okay and don’t beat yourself up for it. People need to be more honest with themselves about what they really want to do and then BE OKAY WITH IT.
I do paint by numbers with thread. It’s kind of disheartening to know you’re just painting-by-numbers someone else’s cute artwork. But it is what it is and I’m not going to stop just because I’m using coloring in other people’s art.
Good for you!
XY got his learner’s permit today, and Monday he has a job interview.
Good. Hopefully he gets the job and it helps straighten him out.
I hope the art program works for you.
Congrats.
Have you already primed XY for who the hell FICA is, and why they get a big chunk of the paycheck?
No, now’s the chance to make another glib!
I helped my daughter do her taxes for the first time when she turned 18. She was shocked that she had to pay and didn’t get it all back.
I told her to vote Republican next time around.
I think? No problem. He’ll get the shock effect whether I prepare him for it or not.
My high school history teachers were not entertained when I asked about the no taxation without representation when I was bringing paying taxes in the city I worked in.
I’m watching Secrets of the Castle. Really fascinating. They are building a castle in France using medieval tools and materials.
So, this happened.
The standoff was a block from our oldest daughter’s house, a couple of blocks from the fire station/ambulance garage where she’s working right now. When the state trooper was hit, our daughter and another responder went in and pulled him out while shots were still being fired back and forth.
Kid has balls.
Wow. That shit isn’t supposed to happen in small-town Iowa.
Deep respect to your daughter.
That’s way cool. You must be very proud!
^This. Glad she and the other Fire/EMS responder are okay.
Yikes! So glad she’s OK, and so sorry about the trooper who isn’t! Now, as for what your daughter has…
I love that Betty White quote. The video’s even better, ’cause she delivers it in that slightly ditzy way that her character on Golden Girls would’ve done.
Wow
Send my respect to your daughter.
Day-um.
Damn.
Wow.
Glad she’s OK.
You raised her well.
Damn, nice work!
Are there any good free games on Steam worth owning? For example, I play World of Warships and you can actually advance up the tiers without paying coin.
You know there’s free porn on the internet right?
At my age I can only wack my willy for so long 😉
There are only 24 hours in a day…. So there is indeed a hard limit.
I thought 4 hours was the hard limit?
Worth owning or worth paying money for?
Path of Exile is a decent ARPG (Diablo style) where the only cash transactions are for cosmetics. The company making it has a connection to Tencent recently, if that matters.
Team Fortress 2 has been around for a damned long time, and can be fun.
Warframe isn’t bad if you don’t mind lots of grinding.
thank you, sir (or madam or other)
Really man?
If you’re willing to branch out from the Steam store, I’ve also been dicking around in Magic the Gathering: Arena (free to play, and you can earn quite a bit free just by playing). I actually tossed this one $10 to pick up the season passes (from that and games, I’ve been able to earn enough gems to pay for each season since).
https://media1.tenor.com/images/34893f2617da8a26814881347d8f87c3/tenor.gif?itemid=3545944
Friend (female) from high school has a teen daughter that has decided she’s not a she.
Mom has a PhD in English, works in a university, socializes with other university employees, identifies as liberal, lives in California, etc…
In other words, mom has no way to object and not suffer massive negative feedback. She’s made an announcement on behalf of her new son but I get the distinct sense there’s some reticence there.
Meanwhile, all the Facebook lib friends are issuing congratulations and celebrating.
I’m keeping my trap shut.
I heard some people saying “It is a fad” several years ago and I thought they were idiots. The only people I knew on this path were folks like Renee Richards and Caitlyn Jenner.
I am now revising my opinion. There is unquestionably a fad at work. I have heard a bunch of talk about a serious decline in the number of women identifying as lesbians. Apparently the in thing to do if you are a butch lesbian is to identify as transgender.
So a bunch of that will come back around on the wheel at some point.
I have also noticed a trend with the teenage crowd. Jojo siwa just came out as pansexual something or other. Nobody would have said such a thing around the millennium. She would have just finally said she was a lesbian or maybe bisexual. But you got to add some extra cool sauce to it these days. Listening to what she talks about It sounds like she is what we used to call bi-curious. But these days you have to have an officially announced position before you have a high school diploma.
This is why the whole push to medically transition people in their teens or earlier is a bit worrying. 25 years ago you would not have had a group of hangers on getting wrapped up in a cultural phenomenon only to regret it 5 or 10 years down the road. I don’t think that is the case today.
“I’m keeping my trap shut.”
I see what you did there.
So, I’m sure you guys have noticed that the anti-racist movement has been pushing colleges to stop accepting standardized tests, because objective measurements are racist. (Even though they were actually designed to combat racist subjective judgements)
Well, in case you were wondering if this was actually going to be a thing, it is already a thing.
My nephew is a genetic freak. He’s one of those rare super genius types. He got a perfect score on the SAT. He got perfect scores on 8 AP tests. He’s never made it be in his life. He goes to a special invitation only boarding high school for science and engineering that draws the best of the best from across the state. His extracurricular activity is studying quantum computing with professors from big name universities in the research triangle.
He applied to a bunch of big name engineering schools. Stanford. Georgia Tech. MIT. Other big name schools like Vanderbilt and Duke.
He was 0-fer.
Every one of them announced at some point in the last couple of months that they are not considering SAT scores this year. His high school decided that in the interest of diversity and not hurting anyone’s feelings that they would not publish a class rank. So even though his class rank is number one, that doesn’t count for anything as it doesn’t exist as far as anyone is concerned.
So as far as the top universities in the country are concerned, his grades look exactly like someone taking remedial classes at the worst high school in your town and making straight A’s.
He took linear algebra in high school. I don’t know if you guys remember linear algebra, but that was really hard when I was a junior science major. He was a sophomore in high school.
Now, I’m not saying that there are other criteria that matter less that are getting used, but one of his close friends got into all of those schools. She is really smart. Not nearly as smart as he is, and didn’t have straight A’s and didn’t take all the courses that he took and didn’t have the SATs that he had. But she had that je ne sais quoi that he just didn’t have.
So that’s where we are. At any of those schools he would be in the top 1% of the people who are already admitted. No doubt about it, and it isn’t close. Yet he can’t get admitted because he doesn’t check other boxes.
When I first heard people talking about a coming backlash I kind of thought they were being silly. I was wrong. There’s going to be a backlash, and if it comes later rather than sooner it is going to be nasty.
JFC
We’re tearing down the structure of our success.
Don’t worry, a society of race and gender study majors can only bring hope and riches to everyone 🙁
I did not say this when I was talking to him, but he is probably better off. On the first day at his science and mathematics high school they asked for his preferred pronouns and his response was:
“You can determine my pronouns by proper application of the standard rules of The English language.”
Yeah, he’s going to have a hard time no matter where he goes. But Cal Berkeley would have eaten him alive and displayed his skin on a flagpole out front.
He should try being less white.
(Sorry)
Yeah, he should have checked other and put “identifies as african-austrailian-indigenous no gendered”. Then double-dog dared them to question anything about it.
Perhaps a state school is willing to accept a student with this kind of potential? A grad degrees can suffice for the prestigious college box, and the admission is also a test (GRE).
He should go to a school in Europe or even Russia. Something like ETH. They are not as crazy as Americans.
The same thing is happening at the HS level. Deblasio desperately wants to destroy the system of selective high schools in NYC. And the ‘rona is giving him the perfect excuse to make a go at it. There are basically no grades this year. I guess no tests either.
Sorry about the kid. Really bad timing for him.
He should online learn himself into greatness and change the world. Fuck college. People that smart do not need to go to college. College is a disease.
It will work out; they’re not the world . . . they’re just the ones who are nice enough to tell you how stupid they are.
He’ll land somewhere solid.
The possibilities for the expansion of property rights are endless when we discuss tokenized ideas.
If it kills IP, I’m okay with that.