As long as demand remains higher than supply they can practically ask whatever price they wish and people will pay it. Disgusting, but the businesses sinking dozens of millions into GPU’s just to keep their own AI’s from going on a 4chan racism bender will eventually run into that wall. It’s a technological dead end (at least in its current iteration) and the market is “winner take all” so there will only be a few big winners while others will be left holding the bags in the end.
V-coins and ma-shops are reputable and you won’t easily come across fakes there. Just stay away from Ebay and the like. Also, if you go for the affordable types (common denari or late roman bronzes) these are almost never faked since it’s not worth the effort. They cost like 5 bucks for decent pieces, maybe just a bit more if you want a nicer specimen.
So many innocents are going to die in the coming years. I wish I could warn them, but most of them seem to not care at all…
Ancient coins (2000-1700 years old) are surprisingly common and can be had very cheaply unless you want a specifically rare or perfect one.
I went through most of my life believing that anything older than say 200 years was automatically a museum piece or equivalent. But most museums of ancient history who display ancient coins have multitudes of the displayed coins sitting in storage. The Romans alone minted BILLIONS of coins over the span of the Republic and the Empire (that’s over 1000 years of history!) and if even 1% of them survive today, that’s still many, many dozens of millions.
Nothing will ever beat the C&c 1 DOS installer. Incidentally, that was my very first own pc game ever and the start of my gaming career. For some reason I expected that all other games in the future would have similarly impressive, artsy install procedures. That unfortunately never happened.
Then again I was spoiled for having c&c1 be my first ever pc game.
As long as Russia has bodies to throw at a conflict, it has no reason to stop. Russia fully switched to a wartime economy, not something you do if you’re not in it for the long haul. If the elections had turned out differently, things might have been differently as well. Alas…
I definitely hope I’m wrong about this. I claim no special insight or understanding other than simple pattern recognition and some decent knowledge of history.
WW3 is absolutely coming, make no mistake about it. The only thing that’s unclear at this point is the timing, and who will be on which side exactly when it happens. If you’re between 16 and 26 and live in Europe, this would be the time to get out. Conscription is unavoidable at this point.
Thanks for your answer! I was afraid I had posed the question wrong somehow but this is exactly what I was getting at.
Decent chance he’ll croak before the end of his term. Or maybe that’s just wishful thinking on my part.
It’s worse than that. If wages had kept pace with productivity (thanks Reagan), we would have been working 2-3 day workweeks at full wages for over twenty years by now.
They literally stole over half of our lives. That amounts to class genocide.
I try to take some solace in the knowledge that throughout history, this sentiment (“our leaders are hopelessly corrupt and there’s nothing we can do about it”) was probably the de facto default for almost anyone. Not that that makes things better now but it helps keep things in perspective.
Keep taking away reasons for people to live. I’m sure millions of desperate, voiceless victims with nothing left to lose will not backfire for the people in charge at all.
The war on the working class is over and decisively won by the oligarchs. They started it over 30 years ago and today we’re seeing the end stages of their plans.
Rising up to fight now is all but futile; they have their surveillance states and police apparati firmly in place. I fear the only way to change the situation is if people from within would stand with us… no idea how to pull that off however.
You know very well what you would find.
I hate the fact that there are no uncompromised politicians in this world (except maybe Bernie). But literally no one else…
You’re dead to us. Sorry.
She will never be allowed anywhere close to real power for the same reason they’ve kept Bernie from power for decades.
There must always be an “underclass” in capitalism for the upper echelons to threaten the middle echelons. No exceptions. Wether that’s the homeless, psychiatric patients, gay or trans people… doesn’t matter. There will be some regional differences in what constitutes this underclass but the end result is always the same. Capitalism CANNOT FUNCTION without this implicit threat of excommunication and starvation.
The only real difference with the recent past is that all of this has become much, much more explicit than it ever used to be before. But make no mistake, even with a Biden or Harris at the helm, this would still be the case, just much more muted.
This is a feature of the system, not a flaw, and will never change as long as capitalism in its current form dominates.
Wish I could help. I can commiserate though. 10 years in the same position without a promotion. Can’t get the benefits I’ve built up elsewhere, feel trapped in a gilded cage.
You are more than your job though, and if other people are assholes, knowingly or not, that doesn’t reflect on your worth in any way. It only underscores the fact you don’t jive with those kind of people. I’d consider that an accolade of sorts.
I hate that I read this and immediately went “yup, that’s how it’ll go” without a hint of irony.