WOW. I…I don’t even…
“Yo dawg! I heard you like to screw, so we…gave you a dildo screwdriver. So you can screw while you screw, ya dig?”
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I actually lifted that phrase directly from one of Cory’s works: “Other People’s Money”.
It struck me as ringing true. Even if nobody’s doing it consciously, that’s essentially the process that’s going on. Just guess-and-test for all possibly profitable plastic objects.
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If that blows your mind, get this: There are dildos with a bit in the base specifically designed to properly connect to a Sawzall.
Powertool-based toys are a big thing. Although there’ve been some really nasty accidents with home made ones.
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Oddly enough, those I understand. There is strange porn everywhere…
The part I don’t get, actually- why is it just a manual screwdriver. It would see to me
useless in an “industrial” sex show/pron. It seems like it’s just supposed to be used
practically as a screwdriver, as such. Which just makes it an awkward screwdriver,
and an awkward dildo, because no one is going to use it for either without a normal
handle, or a motor…
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That’s why it’s a “Novelty”?
In my own limited experience, the whole meaning of novelty means “useless shit apes like to buy for irrational reasons.”
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“Maker-themed bachelorette party” gift perhaps?
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There’s a place in Portland, east of the river, that is full of odd bargains like this. They mostly sell furniture, but also an amazing variety of odds and ends. This would fit right in.
The other place that might buy these and patiently wait until they’re all sold off is American Science & Surplus.
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Yup. Not only is it a great song, it’s pretty much an Ad, for some great moddable tools. Although I’d probably steer clear of pneumatic jackhammers, and hydraulic ground compactors. There is such a thing as too much horsepower.
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I’ve got around 300 toy rocket ships filled with a glowing substance and about 300 Dinky the T-Rex toys. Maybe this guy is willing to work out a trade.
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As mom once told me, “You haven’t screwed anyone until you’ve screwed Philip.”
Ten year old me was in no way made more comfortable by the fact she was wielding a screwdriver at the time…
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Well of course I’d buy these ironically, were I able to pay with ironic money.
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Well, of course it is. Dildo all the things!
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Fiat currencies are all monopoly money!
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Fiat should totally make a car called the Currency.
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That car should be inflatable.
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The Fiat 500 has 7 airbags. Is that enough?
You missed the bit about what credit really means. Fiat money only works because it is a representation of the value of the economy, and when it loses credit - in the believability sense - it rapidly inflates.
The only thing you can buy with monopoly money is little bits of paper and plastic, and only for the duration of the game. They really are not the same.
Fiat money had to be invented because otherwise the economy depended on what someone was digging out of the ground, usually in Africa or on the West Coast. Paradoxically, the gold standard only makes sense when most real trade is by barter - because it has no connection to the real value of the goods and services to be exchanged.
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Sure it does. It’s just a relative standard. What doesn’t have any connection to anything is stock prices and complex financial instruments.
Personal debt, in my opinion, is anathema to personal liberty. It’s gambling on the future value of the economy and I’ve already seen first hand what happens when the economy crashes. I’ll use cash for now, but I know that we apes will always value hard goods. If I ever get rich enough, my money will be invested in water. Its value can only go up, until we figure out mining comets.
There is a lot of water out there. The problem is purifying it and transporting it. I’d invest in membranes and energy.
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