Reboing!
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It’s the creepiest place on Earth 
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How much are they selling for? And are the utilities turned on?
Real estate scam of some kind? Are they just facades and someone dashed with the cash.
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King? Everyone will LARP as a princess!
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…Except I get the feeling that’s exactly how a lot of Americans see the world. 
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“…what should have been a dream development soon turned into a nightmare.”
The real nightmare is selfie stick camera work.
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The orange continent is a nice touch!
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A popular music video was filmed there.
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Crypto Loan Sharks and NFT Collateral
…the market for NFT loans only seems to be getting hotter.
According to NFTfi, the firm recently surpassed $100 million in loan volume since it launched in June 2020, with $70 million of that generated solely in 2022, as of April 14.
This is still an emerging market, however. The art lending business is currently valued at about $25 billion. Joe Charalambous, of the art financing firm TPC Art Finance, which provides traditional art-secured loans and has considered entering the NFT financing space, said that the demand for loans has been skyrocketing.
My young niece would say “sus” or “sketch”.
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Ok, that’s… pretty… surreal.
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Idea:
We take every wannabe dictator, every megalomaniac, every tyrant… and install them in these castles, each subsidized by the defense budget from their country of origin, and then hire very well-paid actors trained in cognitive behavioral therapy to “staff” the castles.
Cheaper than a war.
We could replace the windows in the villas with giant LCD monitors that display whatever vista the inhabitant believes they have dominion over.
I realize there may be some details to work out… but still… better than having these buildings stand empty.
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Then we seal the City in concrete.
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NASA has been ignoring Uranus. That may soon change.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/nasa-has-been-ignoring-uranus-that-may-soon-change
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ASML CEO: Industrial conglomerate buying washing machines to rip out semiconductors
A large industrial conglomerate is being forced to take increasingly desperate measures to satisfy their needs for chips, according to ASML, a manufacturer of chip-making equipment.
Talking on an earnings call this week with financial analysts, Peter Wennick, CEO at ASML, said that “width of demand” for chips was “significantly underestimated” by industry and: “I don’t think that is going away.”
“I met the executive of a very large industrial company, a conglomerate, last week, and actually they told me that they’re buying washing machines to rip out the semiconductors to put them in industrial modules. I mean, that’s happening these days,” he said.
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Maybe we shouldn’t put multiple computers in everything
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