Reboing!
It’s the creepiest place on Earth
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.
King? Everyone will LARP as a princess!
…Except I get the feeling that’s exactly how a lot of Americans see the world.
“…what should have been a dream development soon turned into a nightmare.”
The real nightmare is selfie stick camera work.
The orange continent is a nice touch!
And @KathyPartdeux
A popular music video was filmed there.
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”.
Ok, that’s… pretty… surreal.
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.
Then we seal the City in concrete.
NASA has been ignoring Uranus. That may soon change.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/nasa-has-been-ignoring-uranus-that-may-soon-change
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