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Brazil’s federal police indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro and 36
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wait, you can charge a former president with an attempted coup to keep him in office that failed? I DIDN"T KNOW THAT
You should have learned it about two years ago.
you mean merrick garland should’ve learned that about two years ago
These kinds of comments are so odd.
People pay millions for a baseball because it was hit in some game. Millions for a Pokémon card because it was issued for some special event.
People are not paying for some intrinsic value of the thing. They are paying for the contextual historical value of the thing.
You sound like someone who has never had a banana. They’re really delicious.
*banana not included
they rot after a while, apparently
I wish I could have had a real banana before they went extinct and got replaced by fake bananas
Good news! These bananas are going extinct, too, so eat one now before they are replaced by the next imitation.
More often I think they’re investing in rarity/uniqueness, either as a flippable investment or, if they intend to never sell, for the personal thrill and bragging rights of owning a 1/1.
I think the visceral objection to the duct tape banana is the objects are so ordinary that it loses the feeling of rarity–which is exacerbated by the impermanence of the banana–then what you’re really buying is the ‘certificate of authenticity’ card with the name Banksy on it.
The impermanent nature is the point right. It’s like his painting that had a shredder installed in the frame so the moment it was purchased at auction he triggered the shredder and it passed through in shreds.
WTF, for $6.2 million I can’t even get an embalmed banana? And the duct tape and banana aren’t original? It’s a real world NFT!
I’m not an art aficionado, but yes, I’m sure it is. Still, to me, the difference between those two pieces is the shredded paper is still there (and didn’t it only shred half the picture?) At some point soon, the banana won’t be the original, and you’ll need to replace the duct tape if you keep peeling it from the wall to replace the banana.
TLDR: What Suzzer said.
well, it’s really and I mean really f’ing stupid
Shame should be brought upon all who acquire it.
comparing that to things with actual fans
well they’re idiots too but not quite as stupid
I’d buy it before I’d buy some random baseball that happens to be hit in some dumb game.
To each their own. 
Interesting Bloomberg article from Sep 2024 about bots and cheating in online poker. Is this well-known these days? Are games beatable?
