I have a copy of that book. It’s great.
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And, apparently, it’s not even that… you basically own a URL link to the jpeg, on someone else’s server. And if that server ever goes away…
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Hey, I’ve got a file on my computer that says I own the Mona Lisa – and that is the first and only file that says I have a file on my computer that says I own the Mona Lisa. We’ll start the auction at 7.5 bazillion USD. OK, we’re asking 7.5 bazillion, 7.5 bazillion, anyone? No? 7.4 bazillion . . .
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Someone else may have posted about these events, but I can’t find it. This is one of the more complete recountings of the story that I’ve seen over the last week, though.
Deepfakes, fraudulent votes, the crime being discovered due to someone involved talking too much… this one has it all.
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When will it be on Netflix, I wonder?
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They do it because the stakes are so small.
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Boy, lots of candidates for this thread today.
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I’ll tell ya, reading “Team of Rivals” over again just shows me how history gets set on “Repeat” by humans.
And 600,000 died as the result of the Civil War - wondering why that number hasn’t come compared to COVID-19 deaths? I hope it doesn’t, really.
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The same variety of deplorables were responsible for both.
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This guy, who feels invincible:
“Shot like a rocket up into the sky
Nothing can stop me tonight
[…]
You make me feel invincible
Earthquake, powerful
Just like a tidal wave
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Fight song, raising up
Like a roar of victory in a stadium
Who can touch me”
Coincidentally, Hitler fired V-2 rockets, thought he was unstoppable, convinced Germans they were invincible, rolled across Europe like a tidal wave, got roaring applause in his big stadium speeches, and thought he was unstoppable.
And now I’m going to think of that whenever I see this video. I prefer not to dis art for the artists personal life and vice versa - let them be human, their art can stand on its own merit. But sometimes…
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Spike Jones would say otherwise:
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reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact but view them only as claims that await testing by the courts through the adversary process.
Uh… no, that’s not how it works. If you’re making a claim that will be tested by the court, that’s absolutely a statement of fact as you see it. Otherwise you are lying to the court and wasting everyone’s time.
Which, she was lying to the court and wasting everyone’s time, but I wouldn’t expect the court to accept that as something that proves no one would accept it as a statement of fact! If the court’s expected to treat the claims as testable statements of fact, why wouldn’t the general public?
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Wait, hasn’t Turmp been prez since March 4?
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