BobAliceInATree

1) They're novelty collector's items.

2) Selling individual sheets has a lot more overhead per sheet/bill than selling fresh stacks of bills to banks.

apropos: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/01/magazine/worthless-pennie...

It's hard to make profits when you're underwater.

I frequent a night-club that doesn't allow photography, but doesn't put stickers. People (esp. non-regulars) will occasionally take a photo because they forgot and it's such a normal thing they do in their lives. Removing a sticker requires significant more intentionality.

Same! I watched a few on youtube and got bored quickly, but I find a bunch of these a least somewhat interesting. Though having it just automatically go to the next one, and a skip button, are a big help. Maybe youtube search is just bad.

There's literally propaganda on Fox News going on right now blaming or at least connecting this to undocumented migrants.

https://bsky.app/profile/justinbaragona.bsky.social/post/3lc...

For 1-gram of material, that's a lot, now that we just shattered 1.5ºC global temperate gain, especially for something pointless.

We're all left with the tab, that tab being the enormous amount of greenhouse gases it takes to lift even a gram of matter into space. Maybe there will be one day in the far future when we've reversed climate change and reached an equilibrium, we can safely bury people on the moon, but let's not start it now.

Government entities should post to their own Mastodon instance first, but then also syndicate to other social media sites.

That way they always maintain control of their main outlet (even if not many people actually access it there) and not have to worry about who controls other sites in the future.

Still exists, and I still use it. It isn’t always 100% up-to-date but it does get eventually updated.

If you’d rather not lick your finger, you can get one of those old-school sponge stamp/envelope moisteners.

Because no one likes to be told what to do, and it also limits the possibility of moving away in the future.

I know it won’t look great, but what if you run the studio upside down or on its side.

They switched a year earlier than mandated. There’s a very good chance it was actually already in the works.

Alcohol does not get a free pass in Singapore. Taxes for it are very high. For example the taxes for 700ml 40% liquor bottle is ~US$19

Given that it has a lithium ion battery and you’re very much not supposed to put it in a bin, i’m not surprised you ignored a low battery warning for weeks.

They also have to forge the found document, or be in cahoots with someone that can do it. And have access to surreptitiously insert it into the document collection it was found in.

The total fine is ~3x the apparent consumer loss, which seems reasonable.

There's also value in individualized dosing. I take tirzepatide, and 5mg is too intense for the first couple days, but 2.5 doesn't last long enough. Ideally I'd take 2.5 every 4 days, instead of 5.0 every 7 days, but that option doesn't exist, but is something that compounding could provide. But I'm not willing to risk the safety-murkiness of compounding, so just stick with the 5.0 and deal with it.

Paper straws are fighting plastic pollution not greenhouse gases, so comparing them makes no sense.

That being said, if you're reading this comment, you very likely in the top 20% of carbon emitters globally, so don't get all smug about it.

You literally listed all things that are funded by taxes (schools, FEMA, medicare/medicaid). Sigh.

He was 93 when he died. I think he knew his time was coming soon.

I've always thought based on the number of $10+MM condos in NYC that sit unoccupied (i.e. 2nd or 3rd or more homes), that there must be an order of magnitude more billionaires out there than we know about, and this certainly gives credence to that.

in 99 years, most of the island probably will be underwater due to climate change.

We don't have to think of elections as being just a single 'day', and then just guide our laws around that. For example, India's elections took place over 44 days this year.

If we consider voting to be a period of weeks rather than a day (absentee, early voting & election day), then any vote cast legally during that time is valid, and we don't have to have edge cases where a vote was initially valid, but then invalid, but yet have no way to actually remove them.

No, you should regulate driving so those 5% stop colliding with things all the time and the gambling 5% gamble a bit less.

Many states cap ABV of spirits.

Every state is supposed to be a "laboratory" of democracy, but we really screwed the pooch with cannabis legalization. At least one state should have gone the way with absolutely zero marketing allowed (like tobacco currently is), and all containers should be in standardized, sterile, black & white containers, with only the name & description of the product, and big warnings describing the dangers (like cigarette packs in Australia).

24 legalized states, and not one chose this approach which is a shame.

electricity is basically fungible (minus a distance factor). So if you're using up the cheap, renewable electricity for mining, guess what you're using for everyone else's day-to-day electricity? Yep, fossil fuels. (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/18/bitcoin-m...)

One major exception to this is geothermal electricity in places like iceland where there's abundant green electricity, but you can't transport it to any neighbors.

So just using renewable sources for electricity doesn't actually make mining renewable until we're in a society that's 100% renewable.

Rhodium is very expensive. It's used as a coating for white gold, but actual rhodium jewelry doesn't really exist.