They already tried with Conservapedia. Go check it out! All the latest crowdsourced news from an alternate dimension.

Look how twitter got destroyed as a common medium for communication, with no replacement. X (right) and Bluesky (left) together are not a replacement for what twitter used to be. Now wikipedia as a store of knowledge goes the same route? Can't we just have one reality, but have different opinions about it?

Hey if Star Citizen has proven, people will pay $27,000 for items in a game that has never been finished.

Yep. Someone I casually knew a long time ago approached me about an, uh, opportunity. He fancied himself an "in-game asset arbitrager".

I immediately noped out.

Based on what I have seen from the current CEO, long term planning is not his focus as much as short term investor gains. After all the last CEO spent a lot of time and effort trying to get back Intel on solid engineering. But those efforts close too much and did not provide immediate returns so he was fired, I expect those CPU gains to run out next year and the CEO wonders why AMD and Apple are kicking Intel's butt again when it comes to processors.

Not directly but HIPAA requires everyone who has access to the data must be cleared first. When the data is in the cloud, a company has less control over the access of their cloud provider. Adding to that is complication of things like notices of breaches.

Sears and Montgomery Ward had large mail to order businesses but they dropped those when it looked that type of business would disappear. But in reality that business was just stagnant until the internet became available. The shipping infrastructure needed for mail to order would have been exactly what would be needed for online ordering. The only thing that changed would be how the customer ordered the items.

Some people make real money in this "market," or try to. Check this out:

I Spent 24 Hours with CS2 Millionaires

I'm not saying any of this is real, but I bet some sizable purchases have been driven by dreams of such.

Cockroaches!

Already 100 million years old when those johnny-come-lately dinosaurs came along.

I guess Pokeman cards were just too tangible.

https://geosciences.princeton....

Abstract: We test whether Hg in marine sediments over the last 550 m.y. of the Cretaceous is a reliable proxy linking Deccan Traps volcanic eruptions to late Maastrichtian global climate warming and the mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary (KPB).

From what I have seen and read about this, it is quite possible that the traps were emitting unimaginable amounts of gasses for tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of years. In this video essay from Kurzgesagt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjoQdz0nxf4) it is suggested that the traps emitted the equivalent of tens of thousands of our civilizations (!!!) for great many years. Gases that swung the climate like mad: sulfur-based "coolers" and carbon-based "warmers". Plus the mercury, where our current emissions will not even register on the scale back then (and also why the greatest source of Hg in the air today is coal and oil burning - we are re-emitting the poison that the Earth spewed in the past).

In the last several years though, there seems to be a concerted effort to bury the contribution of the traps and put all of it on the asteroid again. Could it be because the traps show that the greatest danger is beneath our feet and has nothing to do with our civilization? Compare the apocalyptic claims of irreversible this and catastrophic that, which will surely happen next year, or at the latest by 2030 or at the very, very latest by 2050 with evidence that tens of thousands of civilizations worth of emissions, going on for a lot longer than our singular civilization has existed didn't result in irreversible climate change and wholesale destruction of life. In fact, adding the asteroid as the cherry on the cake, KPB extinction event is, as far as I remember, the mildest extinction of the big 5(?). Only 75% of everything living perished...

Kurzgesagt goes on mentioning that all the big extinction events were caused by volcanic activity.

is probably intelligence. Anything that manages to build a technical society does it too quickly to learn how to manage it.

Apes with machine guns are frightening. Apes with refineries are terrifying.

That's only the first part of the grab.

"This change is part of our ongoing commitment to modernizing recurring revenue and feeding every document we can find to the robots"

Not even the regular MAGATrolls are trying to defend this one.

Good ones like at Nick's Boots are going to cost you a pretty penny...

But they'll last forever and can be resoled as needed....