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With the Olympics on I wondered how much one would sell for given a lot of these events don’t have a lot of options of making a living unfortunately.

The article is from the 2021 Tokyo Olympics so pricing might not be exact but:

At today’s prices that means the gold medal would be worth around $800 if you melted it down, while the silver would be worth about $450 and the bronze around $5.

That’s just the worth of the metals, the fact that it’s an Olympic medal means it’ll sell more but it varies a lot based on the year and event which make sense.

Earlier this month a winner’s medal from the 1896 Athens Olympics sold for $180,000 at auction, Cuban shooter Leuris Pupo’s gold medal from the London 2012 Olympics fetched $73,200, and his compatriot Iván Pedroso’s long jump gold medal from Sydney 2000 went for $71,335. All three were sold by Boston-based RR Auction.

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The lineup for the holiday during the 2024-25 season, according to league sources, is as follows:

*San Antonio Spurs at New York Knicks

*Minnesota Timberwolves at Dallas Mavericks

*Philadelphia 76ers at Boston Celtics

*Los Angeles Lakers at Golden State Warriors

*Denver Nuggets at Phoenix Suns

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The Jazz can't trade Markkanen for six months after re-signing him thanks to the collective bargaining agreement. If he had signed on Tuesday, Utah could've moved him on the day of the 2025 trade deadline (Feb. 6 at 3 p.m. ET). Doing so from Wednesday means he's locked in for the entire 2024-25 season.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/18864505

Summary of events:

Bush was elected in 2020 when she beat former Rep. William Lacy Clay in the Democratic primary

In a phone call last summer her challenger Bell told her he would not run against her.

Bush was one of the first members of Congress to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, alongside Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., the only Palestinian American member of Congress.

This primary AIPAC spent $8.5 million supporting Bell including mailers which featured images with distortions made to Bush’s features. It is the fourth most expensive primary in House history.

This is now the 2nd Squad member AIPAC has removed through its campaign financing.

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Summary of events:

Bush was elected in 2020 when she beat former Rep. William Lacy Clay in the Democratic primary.

In a phone call last summer her challenger Bell told her he would not run against her.

Bush was one of the first members of Congress to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, alongside Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., the only Palestinian American member of Congress.

This primary AIPAC spent $8.5 million supporting Bell including mailers which featured images with distortions made to Bush’s features. It is the fourth most expensive primary in House history.

This is now the 2nd Squad member AIPAC has removed through its campaign financing.

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Sounds like they’ll follow through with his contract so he’ll stay.

If they don’t end up successful in suing the NBA for the Amazon package he’ll be on covering other things.

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The deal will come via a renegotiation-and-extend, using the Jazz’s $33 million of open salary-cap space. League sources said Markkanen’s deal is projected to be worth upwards of $200 million over five years.

For Markkanen and Utah, this is a landscape-altering deal, keeping him off the trade market for a full season and out of 2025 free agency where he currently would have been the No. 1 available player.

The Jazz held Markkanen trade conversations with several serious suitors over the last month, including the San Antonio SpursSacramento Kings and Golden State Warriors. The Warriors made the most aggressive offer, centered around Moses Moody, multiple first-round picks, pick swaps and second-rounders, team sources from both sides said. Utah wanted Brandin Podziemski in any theoretical deal. The Warriors were protective of Podziemski in the Markkanen conversation and a few other leaguewide trade proposals this summer, league sources said.

[-] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I wont disagree that there should be a ranking for using loaded language but combining it with the factuality ranking twists what the ranking means since to the average person they’re going to read that as how accurate the facts are.

It should be its own separate rating from factuality. Again if we’re going to have to have a bot like this put clear disclaimers and ideally find a better one than this.

[-] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 25 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Since other commenters aren’t bothering to look into it at all:

Cuba says it has disrupted a scheme in Russia to recruit Cuban citizens to fight in Ukraine.

In a statement, Cuba's Foreign Ministry called the alleged plan a human trafficking ring. It said Cubans, both in Russia and on the island, had been recruited to fight in Russia's war against Ukraine.

Cuba is actively trying to prevent this.

[-] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 27 points 4 weeks ago

Can’t remember the specifics but the Mali government was allowing free (or super cheap) use for awhile so that was the reason.

[-] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don’t really care if it’s legal in the constitution, it’s “legal” in China too. My point is that I want it changed so there’s no forced labor in a country that that corporations can profit from it since it’s going to inherently drive conflicts of interest and I feel it too often gets ignored in this country.

Also with minorities being incarcerated at a much higher rate than white citizens. I find that just saying it’s paying back a debt to society fails to recognize the law isn’t being applied equally.

Also in many cases they’re already having to pay for their incarceration.

[-] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 months ago

Yeah maybe it’s changed recently with the growth in popularity but as someone who’s gone to raves and festivals for well over a decade it’s always been one of the most welcoming cultures.

I know the more major festivals have gotten less so over the years but it’s more just generic assholes not Nazis.

[-] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Maybe not actively but there’s a lot of past presidents that should be charged if the world was fair. Most obvious example is Bush.

[-] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 29 points 4 months ago

If you’re able to please donate, people’s dispatch is matching all donations up to $100k.

[-] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 24 points 4 months ago

Wtf is the point of passing this bs watered down version? It’s basically a strongly worded letter if it’s not demanding an immediate ceasefire. It also has more bs like Israeli prisoners going free but no mention of any palestinians going free? It’s completely one sided.

[-] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 29 points 5 months ago

Lol not surprised this is the level of thought on a Ancap sub.

[-] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 23 points 8 months ago

The meme is that westerners care more that that the people that are seeing their kids murdered condemn the only (while very imperfect) group that is helping them instead of focusing on the fact that kids are being murdered.

[-] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 24 points 9 months ago

I mean clearly there’s systemic issues driving people to seek this stuff, just removing fenty without addressing those means they’ll just seek out other things. Realistically we should be legalizing the safer stuff (psychedelics, MDMA, etc) that isn’t as damaging or addicting and raising living standards to combat the harder stuff but in our current state where weed isn’t even legal federally and it’s all treated the same more or less addicts and ODs on hard drugs are going to be the outcome.

[-] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I mean under that same logic capitalism is always going to be corrupt because at its core it concentrates wealth and thus power at the top in the hands of a few. I’d rather at least try a way of organizing that puts the power in the hands of the people. No matter how much you try to regulate capitalism the rich will always try to gain more wealth and power.

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