good idea but remembering six-digit hex codes is not really easy compaired to seed phrases. is there a way to read the hex code from a painting? I know that there is a tool in photoshop.

^Okay, with all the discussion around AI generated content, I want to conduct a little test to see if you guys can discern AI from reality.  Obviously, this is an informal test but here goes.  (feel free to use one of those detection tools on it as well).  It's not necessary for everyone to respond to this post - I'll update this post with an edit at  ~2100 UST to let you know.  Oh, regardless of what comes after this, I still love you JJG

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I just wanted to bring up a point about JJG's forum postings. Don't get me wrong, the guy knows his stuff and has some really useful insights. But seriously, he uses way too many words to make a simple point! I mean, come on, who has the time to read through a novel every time he posts something? It's like he's trying to show off how smart he is by using a million unnecessary words. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate a well-thought-out argument, but sometimes brevity is key.

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#nohomo

Let me know what I need to do to join this cause I definitely could use more distractions in my life.

US judge rules Ripple $XRP is not a security

In a significant ruling a US judge has declared Ripple XRP as not a security ending a years long legal battle with the SEC. The judge denied the SEC motion against the digital asset and ruled against its claims of XRP being a security. This landmark decision could have far-reaching implications for the cryptocurrency industry as a whole.

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(Reuters) -U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres said Ripple Labs Inc’s institutional sales of its XRP digital token violated federal law because they constituted the unregistered offer and sale of investment contracts, according to a ruling on Thursday.

The SEC had accused the company and its current and former chief executives of conducting a $1.3 billion unregistered securities offering by selling XRP, which Ripple's founders created in 2012.

Torres, who is based in New York, said the company's $728.9 million of XRP sales to hedge funds and other institutional buyers amounted to unregistered sales of securities. However, Torres said the case must go to trial so a jury can decide other aspects of the SEC's claims.

 WTF?!  I thought conspiracy theories were exclusively under the purview of far-right, flag-waving, bigoted, xenophobic, misogynistic, racist, nazi extremists?
 

edit: Oh... never mind.  They still are.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/sheldon-whitehouse-senator-beach-club-b1870050.html

 Democrat senator refuses to leave all-white private beach club despite championing racial justice
The senator said he hoped the club would change but absolved himself of responsibility by saying it was not his place to challenge the club’s rules

 He's a lawyer AND a politician.  That's never a good thing.

nothing can beat 8 tracks switching tracks in the middle of a song

*ka-chunk*

 We used to have one of those at a store I worked in as a kid.  The only one tape we had was Mickey Gilley; luckily it had a radio as well.

..and auto reverse

buddy was closing in on me.

i got some room to breath now.

...OT: Gotcha...to me, it would be easier to build those using silicon than cells, but I could be totally wrong.

...
...but here we are, just 6 years later, and at least some aspects of human thinking were already emulated by a machine, it seems.
The question remains only on how deep this emulation goes.

interesting, but they are not doing anything, really, being just cells on a mesh substrate.
here is something more interesting...also not dangerous (at least not yet): xenobots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL64jqYn4CE

Before we would have any danger from those little clamps, imho, we would be in a real one from mechanical one's.
Totally unrelated (because it was not organic), but it made me think about Black mirror's "cookie".

well when i saw the original star wars in the theater back in the 70s it was pretty rockin. the rest of the series, along with that reissue they did of the original with more effects did stink though.

People with 2.75-4% mortgages are hanging on due to relatively low monthlies, unless their tax bill skyrocketed.

It already is doing something.

So many guys (and gal) want "stable" and we are kind of doing stable right now, even though we already should know and appreciate that overall we cannot expect bitcoin to be stable in longer time-frames, and BTC prices can move in either direction, and rapidly.. .. so shouldn't we be happy/content/accepting with any kind of "stable" that we are currently experiencing for however, long that such stable might last?

I did enjoy

Indiana Jones

1992  rate was 7.875% 30 years

We paid it off in 7 years. I quit smoking in 1996 so at that time 25 a week for smokes went to pay mortgage down. Homes were cheap in 1992 compared to now.

The mortgage was not too high. So 125 a month x 12 = 1500 a year extra for the mortgage. NJ lets you pay it down without penalty. Our house is over 500k now a nice jump from 144k in 1992.

Before I click on the source I'm like "well that's obviously ChatGPT blah blah blah." ... click, "yup, no surprise, lol."
Be interested to know your prompt though I know what words/names were obviously included in it.

Bitcoin over $30K ??

Oh no, the whales can't have that going on for long.

No no no.

Time to Bart smack it back down in 3...2...1...