I really recommend the whole series. It explains the origins of cop shows and their use as copaganda, as well as analyzing everything from Marvel movies to Paw Patrol in their depiction of law enforcement.
kattfisk
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Then you just pay the president for a pardon. No worries.
It's petty funny to see them rediscover why we have all these financial regulations
Being "fungible" means that something is functionally equivalent with something else.
For example even though every dollar bill is unique (they have unique serial numbers), they are all fungible. If you deposit $100 in the bank, then withdraw $100 later, you are not getting the same bills, maybe not even the same denominations, but you don't care because it doesn't matter.
In the digital world copies are cheap and perfect. There is literally no way to tell a copy of an image from "the original". So in the digital world all copies of something are fungible, and originals don't meaningfully exist.
NFTs try to introduce artificial scarcity to the digital space by creating a distinction between "the original" of something and the copies, by introducing a sort of chain of custody tracking system.
What if we took the art market, where prices can be whatever, so it's really easy to launder money. Then we let people easily set up multiple accounts for wash trading. And we supported currencies held in stupidly large amounts by people who can't legally use them for anything useful.
Why does the lock, faucet and shades run on batteries to begin with? They aren't portable devices, just spend a few minutes running a damn cable and you never have to care about power ever again.
The coolest thing about this IR laser is the very cyberpunk things a hacker might do with it.
Yeah, I realize now that I'd have to do that anyway, as PTM pads are not available in those thicknesses (if the material even works well at those thicknesses).
What I should do is get some thermal putty to replace the pads, so I don't have to bother with getting and cutting the right size of pads.
I also found a PTM pad from Cooler Master on the market called Cryonamics. But it seems like a very new product. I can find no one even as much as mentioning it online. It's half the price of the Thermal Grizzly so I'm tempted to try it.
Honestly must have been a manufacturing error. Which is no excuse, QC should have caught it.
You'd think that high prices would mean the ability to have higher quality manufacturing without affecting the margin much. But I think much of that money is going to TSMC, Nvidia and AMD, with third-party manufacturers getting squeezed as well. But idk.
Really interested in trying PTM on my graphics card, but it's still too expensive. You need several sheets to cool all the components and Thermal Grizzly is the only brand I can get a hold of.
It's cool (hehe) that it's even available at regular computer retailers though.
It's mind boggling how different the modern concept of work is from how it was for 99.9% of human existence.
I'm sure the hyper-optimization, hyper-specialization, the alienation, and the constant flux of modern work contributes greatly to the problems we are experiencing.
Even when there was no "adventurous alternative", work was a lot more grounded in society and had a lot more downtime at pretty much any point in history.