The claw clutching a pearl is just one variant of countless others. We have furniture from ancient Egypt and Rome which has legs carved as animal feet, so it is not a tradition that stems from the British via China.

Oligarchy has existed in the US since its inception. Fascist oligarchy is what has arrived.

They should, but instead they are being promoted as the poster family for the official US government policy on the subject. It is pretty wild.

But of course wilder still that this is just one minor insane side story in the current news avalanche of shitty stories.

Which is even more suspicious, considering he does have a congress majority as well.

At some point all of the ignored court rulings will force him into a proper coup. Until then you are right.

Trump received 49.8% of the vote.

Even that is misleading, since this is just the percentage of the people who actually voted. More people didn’t vote at all than voted for him.

You should read up on what majority means, because the majority definitely did not vote Trump. A case could be made that the people who abstained from voting in effect voted for Trump, and then a majority did vote for him, but it is nowhere near a majority of people who actually voted Trump.

Is that what a chocolate malt is? I was wondering about that. Do they actually add malt to it?

To be fair Americans are incapable of eating any food which aren’t the texture of blended babyfood, so them being upset at a little texture in food isn’t really that surprising.

Because the pyramid scheme is still going strong with them, exactly because new victims are continually falling for them. NFTs lost their hype so quickly that the flow of new victims basically completely stopped, and so the bottom went out of them much faster.

Essentially, when you boil it down, you can turn this into “it’s provable that individual X has possession of NFT identifier x,y,z”. It’s kind of like how you can have the deed to a piece of property in your desk, but that doesn’t prevent 15 people from squatting on it.

It isn’t even that. It’s is identifying which drawer in your desk the deed is placed, but there is no guarantee that the drawer contains the deed.

The exact same thing would have happened with an NFT licensing service. They would still link to obsolete servers. The problem is not a problem which NFT would solve, the problem is the problem of obsolete servers, which are very easy for adobe to fix without any useless NFT technology, if they really wanted to (but of course they don’t)

There is nothing you mentioned which couldn’t already be done, and is in fact already being done, faster and more reliably by existing technology.

Also that was not even what NFTs was about, because you didn’t even buy the digital artwork and NFTs would never be able to include it. So it would be supremely useless for the thing you are talking about.

Those interesting topic people would have been better off in another setting.

Also Rogan is a right wing propagandist hack, nevermind his lack of comedy skills.

Trump officials deserve everything that is coming to them, and that includes dealing with an attention-seeking narcissistic billionaire who owns their boss.

At least he made all his billionaire backers a lot of extra money from all of this.

I think either Asimov or A.E. van Vogt wrote a short story with this premise already back in the late 1940s.

“What about?”

Funny how you are unable to cope with Trump doing it, but constantly need to bring up the person who isn’t currently the president.

Spoken like a very young person. The problem is not as much the dying as what comes before it. Most people don’t just drop dead. For most unhealthy people, it is years and years of suffering from various ailments as soon as you get to a certain age.

The thing is that he is the defacto ruler of the US right now. So his words are important, regardless of them all being nothing but gaslighting whiney bullshit.