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> Later on Truth Social Mr Trump said the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) were "very much like a baseball card, but hopefully much more exciting".
> The "one-of-a-kind" assets in the digital world can be bought and sold like any other piece of property, but have no tangible form of their own.
> They can be thought of as certificates of ownership for virtual or physical assets.
> Advocates say NFTs are the digital answer to collectibles, but critics have warned about risks in the market, which emerged from the wider world of cryptocurrency. Activity in the space has dropped this year, alongside a plunge in cryptocurrencies.
As I understand it, the actual files of #NFTs tend to be hosted on #IPFS, but if someone doesn't "pin" the files, they can eventually be deleted. And some have been hosted on a regular website, which really stinks if and when the site shuts down or even rearranges and replaces its former content with something new.
> A report for the US Congress this year noted that NFT sales have been used to collect credit card and other financial information, and been subject to other scams.
Which isn't surprising. Every other sales channel has been abused that way, from restaurant purchases to retail stores, to mail order. This line makes it sound like those are unique threats to NFTs, but they are part of the danger when one uses a credit card to buy anything.
By the way, #Trump's #Truth_Social #socnet is supposedly a modified version of the #Mastodon software. As far as I know, it does not federate (so there's no need to get excited about #blockwars and push #fediblock).
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#Trump digital trading cards ( #NFTs ? ) sold out at $99 each, says website. https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/08/ftc_microsoft_activision/ [www theregister com]
I'm surprised. I figured that most prospective buyers would be like my neighbor: old and cranky, and in no way savvy enough to buy digital collectibles. I figured that his fans would eagerly buy physical trading cards (collectible quality, so archive quality materials, plastic sleeves, laser-engraved authenticity sticker) for that much or more, but not the digital version.
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#Trump Organization guilty of 17 charges including tax fraud. https://nu.federati.net/url/288823 [www yahoo com]
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#Truth_Social, #Trump's social site, appears to be heading for bankruptcy. https://www.salon.com/2022/08/28/truth-social-is-headed-for-bankruptcy_partner/ [www salon com]
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This guy next to me is listening to a #Trump interview about #RU_vs_UA and the economy.
I know that Trump produced better economic !econusa results for Black and Hispanic Americans than any previous president, but I think it was mostly accidental. I don't pretend that putting him back in office would produce similar results.
I am really not used to hearing this sort of stuff at work. These last few days in #NYC could get a little rough.
And please, please, #twin_parties, let us not have a rematch of the 2016 election. Let both of those candidates go home and walk on the beach, pondering where they went wrong.
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cnn-john-berman-qanon_n_618383b3e4b055e47d75ade1 [www huffpost com]
What? #JFK and JFK Jr (both deceased) were supposed to appear in Dallas and help #Trump reclaim the White House? Supposedly a #QAnon belief and hundreds of people gathered to see it.
This is the only article I’ve seen about it, but it portrays Q’s followers as completely deceived beyond all rational belief.
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According to a new book, #Trump's #COVID-19 infection was much worse than he let on--and his actions may have led others to avoid precautions which may have saved their lives. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/06/trump-covid-infection-much-worse-than-we-knew.html [www slate com]
#2019-nCoV | #coronavirus
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwqAInN9HWI
A lawyer examines #Trump's role in the events of 2021-01-06.
Worth viewing, even though there were 3-4 commercial breaks inserted by YouTube.
I'm sure he has other videos about impeachment. I'd like to hear his opinion of what happens beyond removal from office. I suppose I could just read the Constitution and try to interpret it for myself, but as shown in the above-linked video, there is a lot of Supreme Court (and other federal courts') case law, plus statutes.
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#Trump blasts "disgraceful" stimulus bill & federal budget extension combination. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/22/trump-stimulus-video-bill/ [www washingtonpost com]
But he didn't say he'd veto it, so the bundled oppressive copyright maximalization provisions could still take effect.
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@mangeurdenuage Well, most of the states have certified their results and most of the lawsuits are over. So, barring either a Supreme Court decision or faithless electors at the electoral college, we know #Biden will be the next President, taking over in January.
I'm still trying to avoid nearly all #politics / #USPol / #Election_2020 news and discussion, but it is time for #Trump and his supporters to face reality and accept defeat. A better focus is the upcoming runoff elections for two #GA Senate seats.
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https://www.foxnews.com/elections/2020/general-results
The pinkish color of most of the as yet unprojected states indicates that they believe those states are leaning red, voting to support #Trump. Interestingly, the undecided district in #NE is a very light blue, leaning to support #Biden, while the undecided district in #ME is pinkish.
#AK is still pure white, as little polling or exit polling occurs there.
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Also, according to Politico, #Trump won in #FL, #IA, #OH. #Biden won in #MN, #NH. Maine and Nebraska allocate electoral votes by congressional district. In #ME, one of the two districts went for Biden (the other is not yet projected). In #NE, two of three districts went for Trump.
No results yet for #GA, #NV, #PA, #MI, #TX, WI, #NC.
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#FL: #Trump leads 51.2% to #Biden's 47.7% in Florida with an estimated 94% of ballots counted.
#USPol #Politics #Election2020
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100 million early votes cast, majority for #Biden https://nu.federati.net/url/277435 [www nbcnews com]
Expectation is that #Trump will capture the majority of in-person voters. No information about 3rd party candidates
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https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/9468837/50-cent-endorses-trump-2020-election/ [www billboard com]
50 Cent endorses #Trump because he does not like #Biden tax plan
C’mon, dude. I don’t care which candidate you endorse, but at least have a reason other than “hurts my wallet”. How does the plan affect others? How does it affect the federal deficit and national debt?
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I remembered that #Biden ran long ago, so I searched and found this: a few months in 1987-1988, and again in 2008, before becoming the VP. His Senate career started with the 1972 election.
I’m not going to search to find when #Trump started in business, at least not tonight.
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#Trump nominates FCC commissioner that favors regulating Twitter and Facebook https://nu.federati.net/url/275359
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I did not read #T-rump's announcement about payroll taxes and withholding, so this is not directly a response to that. It is more of a response to someone who was talking about taxation in reaction to the President's proposal.
"Trump is going to eliminate payroll taxes"
I doubt that. There are years of statutes and constitutional law behind income taxes, and he is not going to be successful at dissolving those things. What he's likely to be doing is eliminating tax withholding from people's wages. While people will like that _now_, they will hate it come April, when they have to suddenly come up with 20% or more of their annual gross earnings in order to pay the IRS before the deadline. I assure you, the Internal Revenue Service is exactly the agency that you do not want to have getting angry at you. Remember, Al Capone was finally locked up for tax evasion, not any of his other activities.
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#Trump's #socnet regulation move now before #FCC https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/27/tech/fcc-social-media-petition/index.html
See https://mastodon.social/@theprivacyfoundation/104589096732295379
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I see a lot of trash-talking about the US response to the #COVID-19 pandemic. The truth is, our national response could have been quite a bit better—starting by being honest about masks (“Wearing masks is proven to provide some benefit during respiratory virus outbreaks, but they are not a perfect or complete solution. We also don’t even have enough N95 or surgical masks for the medical community, so non-medical people should make your own masks for now.”)—and by reacting more quickly to give emergency production orders for medicines, PPE, ventilator machines, etc. Foremost among federal failures is President #Trump’s refusal to wear a mask until very recently, and his encouragement of rebellion against health-related restrictions. We now have people saying mask-wearing is “stupid” and ineffective, and that it causes psychological problems, and I would guess that the overwhelming majority of those people are his supporters.
But having read the national emergency plan and portions of the Stafford Disaster Relief Act, I know that the primary responsibility is with the states. I even question whether the federal government is allowed to do some of the things that needed (and still need) doing. This is a large country, with around 330 million people in it. Most of the most effective measures need to be applied at the point of most need, not pushed down from the top.
Not that you want 50 states, the District of Columbia, and some territories competing for supplies in an emergency. But the states should have taken the lead early on with behavioral and business restrictions (the lockdowns, are but one example of how they might have handled it), instead of waiting until they had out-of-control outbreaks and then panicking.
And, yes, I agree with @guizzy ... the USA ?? has a huge number of deaths from #2019-nCoV ( the old name for the disease caused by the #coronavirus #SARS-CoV-2 ). But when you weight that by population (as one should), the US is not the worst-affected country. We’re not the best, either. That honor goes to the People’s Republic of China ??, with the world’s largest population and a few thousand reported deaths. (And their numbers are increasingly believed to have been manipulated; with reports that the outbreak ? started in November, and only in late December / early January did they take action ... and that they’ve had continuing smaller outbreaks since the time it was controlled in Hubei Province.)