He's destroying that which makes it actually scarce. He's putting it on the blockchain, which means that no one, even the owner, will have an authentic original. They'll just be able to say that they paid for it. And, nothing he's creating is custom made. The only positive thing you can say about him is that his art was shite in the first place, and he's doing a great job swindling morons.

I see single use plastic as being similar to if I gathered firewood, built a fire, carved a stick into a spoon, ate with the spoon, and then burned the spoon to stay warm. The only problem is that we aren't burning our plastic waste for energy.

I'm not sure, but I don't think my parents thought I would actually do it. Straight A's in school, and raising over a hundred dollars by myself at the age of 7. We lived in the woods, half way between a town and a village. Money making opportunities were not plentiful.

My first computer was a Commodore VIC-20. I wrote my Mom a program to store her recipes on cassette tapes, but she didn't want to use it. I was really upset. Switched to writing games. Hey, come play the game I wrote! This is taking forever to load off a cassette tape, my Atari loads the game instantly, this sucks, let's do something else.

I was so happy to get my first floppy drive. I had to get straight A's for my parents to cover half the cost, and I raised the rest of the money delivering newspapers, mowing lawns, raking leaves and shovelling snow.

My second computer was a Commodore 64.

I even taught myself assembly. Haven't used it since I was a child, though.

The program never should have existed in the first place. The leadership should have been fired and sued for implementing it at all. They violated the core values of the project as defined by the mission statement and used money donated for a specific and clearly articulated purpose to further their own personal political goals. They're thieves.

Blame the feminists and the transgender activists for that.

Seriously.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/...

They created the Outreach Program for Women in 2014, disregarded their responsibilities to act as stewards to the project and almost drove the Gnome Foundation into bankruptcy wasting money that was in short supply on "gender issues".

So, the death toll was 0.5% of the population. In a building housing 1000 people, the 5 oldest and sickest died.

That was worth the sacrifices made.

Ever heard of the Salem Witch Trials?

Read between the lines. They're laundering money. Crypto has been used by criminals since it's inception. Now it's being used as a hedge against government currency devaluation, which is just another way of avoiding being controlled by the government. You'd have to be thick in the head not to see that.

Still don't understand Minecraft.

That's sad. I loved Scratch. I used it to teach my kid, we built a pretty good game with it.

No. How do I get a job like that? Does it pay well?

I understand. You want Stalin to eliminate all local considerations, and place decision making as far away from the practical realities of the situation as possible. Because you want things to be fair.

Your position is not particularly unique. The people in China, Russia and Vietnam felt the same way you do.

So, if you're living in a city whose industry is gone, filled with crumbling infrastructure and poverty, and Amazon agrees to locate part of their operation in your city if certain compromises are made, but will go somewhere else if they are not, you don't want your elected officials to be permitted to negotiate with them?

You're all kinds of stupid, aren't you?

Do they still teach The Crucible in high school? The story of the hysteria of the Salem witch trials, and the horrors that ensue when suspects are persecuted before the justice system is given a chance to function? More relevant than ever before, I would say. If he's guilty, he'll be judged by a jury of his peers and incarcerated. If he's not, he shouldn't have his life destroyed by an angry mob purely because he was accused. This isn't right. These "activists" should spend a few months in prison and be given a criminal record. Mob justice being given social approval is not something we should accept.