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Cake day: November 14th, 2023

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  • Disney has for gatekeeping media,

    Disney hired real artists. Their artists did such amazing work that everyone copied Disney which caused the gatekeeping. Nothing stopped artist from not copying Disney to create their own works like Pixar before they were bought by Disney. AI art comes from training on existing art. So its not expanding culture to cut and paste existing art. It’s a great time saver for home users to create art that is out of their ability. But its not a substitute for real artists.

    The cab company alternative was a taxi, which was a government granted monopoly known for having extortionate prices.

    Which existed because to prevent congestion, accountability against criminal acts, and maintained an employee/employer relationship. Despite its drawbacks, employees have more rights than gig economy workers.

    I guess what’s next is an app Airplane company that ignores all regulations and lands on parking lots because it will be cheaper than following the laws. So what if a few people die if tens of thousands save money and have more convenience.

    Using a public ledger that can be tied directly to a person

    Its far more easy to trace money in a bank account or made through a credit card than crypto. In most cases crypto is completely untraceable until turned into real money that’s deposited into a bank.






  • You sandwiched your admission that the photo showed blue tarnish on silver between a claim that the photo didn’t show blue and the false claim that the OP specifically asked why blue in particular.

    Your post started with “pictures of tungsten aren’t helpful”. This is proof you didn’t read the Wikipedia article where it shows a silver coin with tarnish.

    The OP didn’t say blue. They said colorful. You brought up blue to deflect from you not reading the article that showed colorful silver tarnish.










  • They are large and heavy. They are only useful for their virtually infinite life. If the military needed it for a few of their bases, they’d contract it out, a few hundred would be built and that’s it.

    For example a few thousand ISDN adapters were built for the government military. But it lacked corporate support because the Telcos didn’t want it cutting into their profits. So ISDN barely existed for consumers. Consumers suffered with 56k modems for 5-10 years until broadband- which telcos sold for more than a phone line, were immune from all the competition requirements of regular phone lines, plus got TV programming profit.